According to what I’ve read regarding the DMR’s history, I thought in Halo Reach it was supposed to be the prototype version of the Battle Rifle and after the fall of Reach they were lost, and now in Halo 4 the UNSC are using the weapon even though it’s supposed to be “lost” and never appeared in CE, 2, 3, ODST or Wars until now. So…did 343 just not care about continuity? Sorry if this question has already been asked, it’s just bugged me ever since the DMR was confirmed to be in 4.
Aren’t private companies making everything now, or is that just for the gen2 armor?
Because the troops like having a weapon that can drop baddies from 3 football fields away. All in one versatile balanced package.
Because they could have been redeveloping it over the time that Halo CE-3 took place.
It wasn’t a prototype,was just out of production after Reach. Guessing production was restarted after the war.
> Aren’t private companies making everything now, or is that just for the gen2 armor?
They are making everything,Misriah Armory produces DMRs.
The DMR was never the prototype version of the BR, though the BR was its successor in every branch asides from the army. However, a newer version of the DMR was created between Halo 3 and Halo 4, and it was put into service alongside the new BR.
> It wasn’t a prototype,was just out of production after Reach. Guessing production was restarted after the war.
That was probably the case.
Chances are that the majority of weaponry were made by private contractors and companies even during the Covenant war, just like modern governments hire private companies to make their weapons and vehicles. The only reason the Mjolnir and Spartan projects where not created in the private sector is because Halsey was part of ONI’s R&D department.
Also, the DMR? Seems more like 343i put it in to keep Reach fans happy. Personally I didn’t want the DMR in Halo 4.
Why isn’t the UNSC running around with SAWS and Railguns or portable Gauss Cannons as standard issues. Why are we even playing nice with the enemy by carrying guns that take two clips just to drop an Elite Shield? When you can kill an a genocidal race bent on your genocide you don’t pull punches and go I want balance and a gun I have to be two feet away with to do anything other than tickle them with it.
The DMR is used by the UNSC Army, while the Battle Rifle is used by the Marines. Halo Reach was the first time we fought along side the Army rather than the Marines, which is why the DMR is there instead of the Battle Rifle.
Dude, have you seen the number of “Overpowered DMR!!” threads? The marines would probably be using the boltshot if there were enough to go round.
> Why isn’t the UNSC running around with SAWS and Railguns or portable Gauss Cannons as standard issues. Why are we even playing nice with the enemy by carrying guns that take two clips just to drop an Elite Shield? When you can kill an a genocidal race bent on your genocide you don’t pull punches and go I want balance and a gun I have to be two feet away with to do anything other than tickle them with it.
SAWs and Railguns are far more expensive than Assault Rifles and Battle Rifles. Money still exists in the future!
Genocide! What three worlds glassed and Earth nearly half glassed then some Alien Flynn shows up to take everyone into TRON land . I’m pretty sure the funding could be pulled from the Mantis production lines for some trusty SAWS.
I’d like to point out that data spread is more than likely to have occured. Furthermore, in your scenario, marines were using said rifles, and many who were evacuated will have still been carrying their designated weapons. Which means that they would have left the planet for a weapon engineer to examine them and modify them.
And as for the reason that they need a DMR, because they have no DMR. They have a standard-issue assault rifle, a Battle Rifle and an anti-materiel sniper rifle, but they lack a Designated Marksman Rifle, as such, they have a Designated Marksman Rifle at their disposal.
DMR: Designated Marksman Rifle. Marksmen can be both Marine/Army or Spartans.
The DMR is considered the predecessor to the Battle Rifle, but in the Lore I’m guessing that they though of it as a success so much that they re-instated it as a default UNSC weapon.
> > Aren’t private companies making everything now, or is that just for the gen2 armor?
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> They are making everything,Misriah Armory produces DMRs.
Brb disowning Misriah Armory.
Actually, to correct your history, the DMR is still in service by the UNSC, just not he Marines. It’s being used by the UNSC Army. The Marines ditched the weapon for the Battle Rifle (smart jarheads). Now that’s where I draw the confusion line. The human AI that aren’t Spartans are Marines, and they’re using DMRs. No me gusta. -_- DMR needs to go in the next game.
It wasn’t a prototype. It was the primary marksman weapon of the UNSC for all branches pre-covenant war but by 2552 it was mostly replaced by the BR except in the Army which made up the majority of friendly units encountered in Halo Reach. Which is why you saw a lot of it instead of the BR.
As for why it is back in Halo 4 it is not unusual for older weapons to be reintroduced into modern armies with new purpose. The M14 which only saw a limited life as the US military’s primary rifle came back in a big way as a marksman rifle.
> Genocide! What three worlds glassed and Earth nearly half glassed then some Alien Flynn shows up to take everyone into TRON land . I’m pretty sure the funding could be pulled from the Mantis production lines for some trusty SAWS.
Dude, when the Covenant turned up at Earth, Earth was all humanity had left besides a few lucky worlds that escaped the Covenants onslaught. Humanity lost all their outer colonies and most of their inner colonies. Most of the funding was being spent o build new warships to replace the losses against the Covenant. To beat Covenant fleets, the UNSC had to outnumber them 3:1 and even then they lost most of their ships. Plus rehoming refuges from glassed planets, include all the lost revenue from businesses on those worlds and all the weaponry expended against the Covenant, I’m honestly surprised the UNSC didn’t go bankrupt during their war with the Covenant. Remember that they were in a war that they were losing badly for over a quarter of a century.