It’s a topic that I’m interested in. Would you want duel wielding in Halo to return? Would you want it in an update or would you want it in the next game? It was taken out when Halo ODST and Halo Reach released. I would want it again as it was a classic feature, and holding two SMG’s is just awesome.
It wouldn’t be a simple thing to add into an update, because the weapon sandbox has to be balanced around it. Why do you think the Halo 2 SMG’s were pitifully weak? The game assumed you’d be dual-wielding them, so they were laughably useless on their own, and not all that much better when held together.
Dual Wielding ‘looked’ cool, yes. It looked very cool. But it drove a knife into the weapon balance and ruined many weapons, because the game had to assume a player might dual-wield them.
It looks cool but that’s about it. I wouldn’t want it to make a come back.
I wouldn’t mind seeing it return, but it always annoyed me that two times the weapons only yielded 1.5 times the damage. I’m sure they had their reasons for that, but I say if you’re gonna do it then do it. None of this half-arsing it in the name of “balance,” which in the end is just a fancy of way of saying “an arbitrary decision made to please the designers regardless of logic.”
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> It wouldn’t be a simple thing to add into an update, because the weapon sandbox has to be balanced around it. Why do you think the Halo 2 SMG’s were pitifully weak? The game assumed you’d be dual-wielding them, so they were laughably useless on their own, and not all that much better when held together.
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> Dual Wielding ‘looked’ cool, yes. It looked very cool. But it drove a knife into the weapon balance and ruined many weapons, because the game had to assume a player might dual-wield them.
Just because Bungie made duel wielding weak in the previous games doesn’t mean 343 has too for a new game. Just take a look at it from the multiplayer in H2A. Two SMG’s were better than one. As for it being unbalanced, if you had two SMG’s, you could still lose to someone with a BR, DMR, Carbine, Rocket Launcher, etc. Also, duel wielding was only usable for certain types of weapons, that were small, but not op. It was only limited to (once again) the SMG, Pistols, Plasma Pistols, Plasma Rifles, and other small weapons. This was to make it so that every player couldn’t just use two BR’s or a SMG with a BR.
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I love that clip by the way. But I get it, you don’t want it.
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> It’s a topic that I’m interested in. Would you want duel wielding in Halo to return? Would you want it in an update or would you want it in the next game? It was taken out when Halo ODST and Halo Reach released. I would want it again as it was a classic feature, and holding two SMG’s is just awesome.
Honestly, I’d rather not see it return, especially for Arena play. All I would do is walk around with a charged plasma pistol in one hand and a magnum in the other.
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> Why do you think the Halo 2 SMG’s were pitifully weak? The game assumed you’d be dual-wielding them, so they were laughably useless on their own, and not all that much better when held together.
You only mention the Halo 2 SMG’s, but not the SMG’s from Halo 3 or Halo 2 Anniversary. (Yes Halo 2 SMG’s and H2A SMG’s are completely different)
It would be ok if it did, but weapons would have to be significantly nerfed. Or dual wielding be a lvl 9 REQ armor mod or something.
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> > It’s a topic that I’m interested in. Would you want duel wielding in Halo to return? Would you want it in an update or would you want it in the next game? It was taken out when Halo ODST and Halo Reach released. I would want it again as it was a classic feature, and holding two SMG’s is just awesome.
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> Honestly, I’d rather not see it return, especially for Arena play. All I would do is walk around with a charged plasma pistol in one hand and a magnum in the other.
Would using a Plasma pistol and a Magnum always work though? All Spartans have new abilities and other players can use other power weapons.
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> It would be ok if it did, but weapons would have to be significantly nerfed. Or dual wielding be a lvl 9 REQ armor mod or something.
Remember that duel wielding is limited to a small amount of weapons. An armor mod for that sounds cool. I like the color combination for your Spartan by the way.
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> > > It’s a topic that I’m interested in. Would you want duel wielding in Halo to return? Would you want it in an update or would you want it in the next game? It was taken out when Halo ODST and Halo Reach released. I would want it again as it was a classic feature, and holding two SMG’s is just awesome.
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> > Honestly, I’d rather not see it return, especially for Arena play. All I would do is walk around with a charged plasma pistol in one hand and a magnum in the other.
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> Would using a Plasma pistol and a Magnum always work though? All Spartans have new abilities and other players can use other power weapons.
No, it wouldn’t work 100% of the time but to me dual wielding just gives incentives for that type of play; IMO Halo is just a more tactical game without it.
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> > It would be ok if it did, but weapons would have to be significantly nerfed. Or dual wielding be a lvl 9 REQ armor mod or something.
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> Remember that duel wielding is limited to a small amount of weapons. An armor mod for that sounds cool. I like the color combination for your Spartan by the way.
To be honest it’s some sort of glitch, I don’t know why it looks like that. My spartan colors isn’t even white .-.
But yeah, needlers are pretty strong by themselves a dual wield would be way op, so it would have to be nerfed.
Please no. I don’t want to play with more uber nerfed pistols anymore. You could kill someone faster with a handful of rocks than the H3 pistol
to be honest…no
don’t get me wrong, Duel wielding can be cool, and has its uses…but I found that reloading took forever and the whole idea to be cumbersome…
Dual-weilding was cool, but too difficult to balance. If I had to choose, I would rather it not come back.
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> Please no. I don’t want to play with more uber nerfed pistols anymore. You could kill someone faster with a handful of rocks than the H3 pistol
Oh man… I forgot just how bad the Halo 3 pistol was ><
perhaps only on the pve gamemodes and not in the pvp modes for balancing reasons while still getting interesting combinations in pve.