Between the loadouts, ordinance drops and the way weapons spawn on maps, I find every weapon has a use. In the old games, half the weapons on the map were useless to me. The maps would be littered with untouched pistols, DMRs, BRs, SMGs, ARs, Spikers, Plasma Pistols and Needlers, and the only time I’d pick them up was out of desperation. I was extremely critical of loadouts and everyone seeing weapon spawns, but now I feel I owe 343 an apology. Very rarely will a weapon spawn now that I’m not interested in.
Too many of the weapons overlap. The DMR, the battle rifle, the carbine, and the light rifle are too similar to one another, and we in no way require four basic rifles; the boltshot is a plasma pistol combined with a magnum; the scattershot essentially is the shotgun; the suppressor is yet another machine gun variant; and the binary rifle is simply a more powerful sniper rifle. All in all, every one of the new weapons is a slight variation of an existing weapon. Even the Brutes had a more unique arsenal.
It would be nice if weapons were on the map because I run out of ammo. Then i have to die to choose one of these lame loads outs to get ammo again . Effing gay
Is the machine gun on the Warthog much less effective than is was in Reach? I’m having trouble killing much of anything with it.