I’m surprised that there hasn’t been much talk about this yet. I haven’t seen any sign of it anywhere during the Warzone game plays. I guess its probably safe to assume its gone. Well what do you guys think, should it come back? Or have it be there but function differently from Halo 4?
The BiRi is the only chance I have of using a sniper successfully, but it was quite rage-inducing to be killed by it.
I think a good balance for it would be to make the weapon not hit-scan. So you may have to lead shots to get that sweet, sweet instakill.
I’m fin with it being gone unless it gets a complete redesign in function, ala the boltshot.
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> I’m fin with it being gone unless it gets a complete redesign in function, ala the boltshot.
What exactly was wrong about it before? It was completely different from the other rifles, unlike most Promethean weapons in H4. I don’t see a problem with the way it worked…
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There really wasn’t anything wrong with it in Halo 4. The fact that anyone on the map could see you using it the second you whip it out was a pretty good balancing mechanism.
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Agreed. Also with descoping returning it’ll be even more balanced.
Didn’t see a problem with it in Halo 4, I actually loved how powerful it was but it wasn’t extremely easy to use either snapshots with that baby were few and far between. I found it easier to get them with the sniper.
Outside of the Sniper Rifle, no other sniper rifle version has been shown yet. You could easily ask the same question about the Beam Rifle.
I’m pretty sure the Binary Rifle is in though. So far every other Halo 4-introduced Forerunner weapon is in Halo 5, and I don’t see why the Binary Rifle would suddenly be excluded/replaced.
I’d like to see it in warzone, but it might not work in arena too well if most of the maps are the same size as the beta
Binary Rifle is one of the few Forerunner weapons from Halo 4 that actually had a unique enough set of traits from other weapons in its class that I don’t think it needs a redesign to fit into Halo 5.
A One-Hit-Anywhere weapon with an extraordinarily obvious tell and practically zero accuracy from the hip is entirely unique in the Halo sandbox. It did not face the same ‘Generic Alien [Insert Weapon Type]’ issue that the Scattershot, LightRifle, Suppressor and Incineration Cannon faced where they didn’t do much but combine/parody traits of preexisting weapons.
The only other weapon I can say that about is the Boltshot and I’m somewhat sad that they totally rewrote the entire gun for H5; all it needed was to not be a spawn weapon and be viably usable as a single-fire pistol. However, I’ve digressed.
About the only thing I could see maaaaybe needing to be done to fit with the gameplay pacing change in Halo 5 is to possibly make it need reloading after each shot, albeit with a faster reloading speed to compensate. Truly, I’ll be somewhat saddened if it gets the total overhaul treatment that the Boltshot did.
I saw the binary rifle -sort of- i saw it as a secondary on someones’ hud in a pic I THINK