> > Bullets - headshots bleed through shields
> > Needles - supercombine
> > Plasma - stun
> > Laser - vision distortion
> > Spike - knockback (moves the target back with each connecting shot)
> >
> > There could be 5 rifles with the exact same damage, rate of fire, reload time, etc but their secondary “effects” are what make them unique.
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> That would be too much fun, add too much variety, and multiply the sandbox . . . Like the Reach Beta. We can’t have that now. Nerf everything but the BR! Nerf nerf nerf!
The reason I suggest it is because alot of know-nothings claim that competitive players want to reduce the sandbox to one precision weapon when the fact is that we just don’t want to use garbage automatics. More precision rifles, more unique effects, more variety with skill-requiring weapons. Win.
Spikes are very slow projectiles, not very suitable for a long range rifle.
A spiker rifle would have to be automatic to make up for the slow projectiles (so you could actually hit a thing), but then what would separate the spiker rifle from the spiker, if there isn’t any duel wielding?
Or, we could make it a long range headshot rifle and make the spikes very fast (hit-scan). But then, what would separate this spike rifle from the DMR? Or the carbine?
There isn’t really a niche for another spike rifle imo. I feel as if the sandbox is already redundant enough, with, for example, both the AR and the ‘assault carbine’ (?) being in the game.
> Bullets - headshots bleed through shields
> Needles - supercombine
> Plasma - stun
> Laser - vision distortion
> Spike - knockback (moves the target back with each connecting shot)
>
> There could be 5 rifles with the exact same damage, rate of fire, reload time, etc but their secondary “effects” are what make them unique.
Halo 4 seems to have plenty precision weapons, but could always use a heavy
A LMG/HMG brute weapon would be perfect, an awesome gun used only by the best, limited accuracy but big ammo and plenty of fire rate/power, a born “shredder”. Can be used against infantry or vehicles, at close-mid range.
> > No, Halo reach had too many weapons that basically did the same thing as other weapons, spiker/plasma rifle/plasma reapter
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> This isn’t an automatic like all those, though. It’s a semi-automatic precision rifle.
this^ he is right even my concept was semi-auto. although its looking like halo 4 wont have many automatics
> > > No, Halo reach had too many weapons that basically did the same thing as other weapons, spiker/plasma rifle/plasma reapter
> >
> > This isn’t an automatic like all those, though. It’s a semi-automatic precision rifle.
>
> this^ he is right even my concept was semi-auto. although its looking like halo 4 wont have many automatics
as far as I know, we already have 4 precision weapons in H4, even though none of them are semi-auto, it doesn’t seem like we really need more precision weapons tbh…
> > > No, Halo reach had too many weapons that basically did the same thing as other weapons, spiker/plasma rifle/plasma reapter
> >
> > This isn’t an automatic like all those, though. It’s a semi-automatic precision rifle.
>
> this^ he is right even my concept was semi-auto. although its looking like halo 4 wont have many automatics
You guys, he just mention those guns as examples of “weapons that besicly did the same thing as other weapons”, the fact they’re automatics and not “semi-automatic precision rifles” is not the point.
DMR, light rifle, carbine, there you got some, the Br is not all that different either ^^
Halo needs more unique weapons (needler) not more precision weapon clones.
> You guys, he just mention those guns as examples of “weapons that besicly did the same thing as other weapons”, the fact they’re automatics and not “semi-automatic precision rifles” is not the point.
> DMR, light rifle, carbine, there you got some, the Br is not all that different either ^^
> Halo needs more unique weapons (needler) not more precision weapon clones.
looks hopeful