Weapon tuning for Halo 3

Games Halo: The Master Chief Collection
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I know 343i are delivering their own take on Halo 2 as well as the original experience, and are being 100% faithful to Halo:CE and Halo 4 as well, I believe weapon balance is fine in those games (and Halo 4 has too many major design problems to be competitive imo, but the weapon balance isn’t where the problem lies with the game)…But what about Halo 3?

Anyone who played Halo 3 will remember that everyone vetoed for BRs, it even became a common phrase, and the Halo 3 AR and magnum are the worst iterations of their respective weapons in the entire Halo franchise, the magnum is pretty much useless, and the AR is instantly thrown away for a BR, it sounds like a popcorn gun and neither weapon really creates interesting gameplay or really feels like they have a place in the game’s sandbox. The worst part is that they are starter weapons that you must use when you don’t have the BR, it just really dampens the experience for me and I’m wondering if others agree.

So do you think 343i should alter this? Should they tune the AR and magnum in Halo 3? Reskin them? Or simply make it so most Halo 3 playlists have BR starts? As I said I know they’re meant to be delivering a faithful remake of each game, but Halo 3’s AR and magnum are sooo disappointing when compared to other versions of the weapons in other games, their inefficiency is the reason people considered Halo 3 a BR dominated game, when it was otherwise pretty well balanced.

Opinions?

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I sorta prefer it how it is… I loved that mad dash for another weapon. I didn’t feel that in Halo 4. My main issues with that game is that I didn’t need to find any more weapons, I had my BR, DMR, whatever, at spawn.

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I agree. I dreaded starting with the AR in Halo 3. Outside of 5-10’ it is beyond useless. I would be all for a damage boost to make the weapon more useful. The pistol on the other hand wasn’t as bad. If you are accurate it was pretty useful. Although wouldn’t mind a slight rate of fire increase on the pistol.

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Sense their bringing these games back they’ll have to maintain and [update] them and fix any problems/bugs.

So a title update in the future
could be possible. -Weapon Balancing-

Just look at H4, enough people complained about the weapon balancing and they pulled a 180 and modified it.

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No way, I love how Halo 3 is. Changing the weapon balancing would ruin how that game has played for years.

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And something to take into consideration is 343 is trying to keep it as original as possible to Halo 3 so as not to disturb the natural flow of the game.