So yeah I was really wondering why we didnt see any of the covenant and promethean weapons in the videos ? (except for this horrible sword)
Im sure they will be there. You have to consider this is a very early Beta. Halo Reach’s was in May of its release year, while Halo 5’s Beta is almost a year before Halo 5’s release date.
A screenshot has shown what appears to be the lightrifle in-engine. So they’re not gone. As for Covenant weapons, most of them are pretty well known already and don’t need to be tested for balance, things like the Carbine only needing things like ROF and damage tweaks to be fixed. Most are just UNSC analogues anyway, so they don’t need testing.
The Lightrifle was shown in a screenshot. And this is the Halo sandbox, and 343 would never remove the Covenant presence from the game. And they intend to continue supporting the Promethean threat, which is why they created them in the first place. It’ll all come back. Few specific weapons may not make the return, but a good amount of them will.
The Promethean weapons need to be more distinct. I would enjoy seeing the binary rifle or light rifle becoming Reach’s Covenant pulse rifle replacement.
Product is not finished. Some of the weapons might not be modeled and programmed.
11 weapons in the beta. Most of them will be human, refering to what we saw in videos.
- Pistol
- Assault rifle
- BR
- DMR
- SMG
- Sniper rifle
- Prophet’s Bane
- New Rocket launcher
- ?
- ?
- ?
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> 11 weapons in the beta. Most of them will be human, refering to what we saw in videos.
>
> - Pistol
> - Assault rifle
> - BR
> - DMR
> - SMG
> - Sniper rifle
> - Prophet’s Bane
> - New Rocket launcher
> - ?
> - ?
> - ?
There was that new Hive-Grenade launcher weapon, and the Lightrifle shown as well. So we only know of one that is missing.
I really hope the plasma rifle comes back as a buffed semi-power weapon.
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> I really hope the plasma rifle comes back as a buffed semi-power weapon.
The plasma rifle? As a semi-power weapon? It’s the counter part of the MA5 assault rifle. No way are they making it that strong. That would completely defeat the purpose of it’s existence.
I hope they at include at least some Promethean weapons since I actually enjoyed them but there are some I won’t miss like the Storm rifle which was terrible and well rather see the plasma rifle return.
Really paranoid that they are getting rid of most of the covie sandbox…
I’m sure they’re just saving them for later. Except for the BoltShot. I hope that thing goes the way of Armor Lock.
yeah I was also thinking they’d save it for later but meh it’s odd, I wanted to see the new designs of covy and prometheans weapons, some covy designs in H4 were quite bad imo, especially the plasma rifle (the one from reach was better).