Poll: To Halo 3 players
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Team SWAT. It's just so damn intense without your radar, and it's not just shooting randomly with an assault rifle.
That being said, I suck with the snipers, so Team Snipers is not a good idea for me.
That being said, I suck with the snipers, so Team Snipers is not a good idea for me.
Grifball because what more fun can you have bashing people with Gravity Hammers and blowing up with bombs in one big area.
I understand your point of view, but there are some issues with what you're saying. You view the BR as a quasi-power weapon already, but that three-round-burst actually keeps the firing rate lower. If you took those out and allowed the BR to fire three times more damaging shots faster, it would just become even more of a power weapon. Also, with what you said about "improvising" with the one handed weapons, when someone else has a longer ranged weapon, you're fucked. Straight up. Fucked. Even if you can get them close enough to melee it's somewhat up in the air, depending on how good they are.MR T3D said:
Moving on.
There is absolutely no point to "self controlled bursts" with the AR. It doesn't increase accuracy. It just makes you look like you wish you were playing CoD. And, by the time you've dropped to a range where the AR is actually effective, you're probably getting bullrushed by the other person; and you can turn it around on them in the melee stage if you're fast enough, but if you keep distance and it drops to your secondary, half the time they're going to win anyways because they saw you first or opened fire with the AR first.
Also, dual wielding pistols is not elite. I'm not sure where you got the notion, but I assure you, it isn't. Pistols are the most underpowered weapons in the game, and even dual wielded are pretty much a last line in most gametypes. I noticed you said you did it in SWAT, which is the only playlist where that would really be reliable. Now, don't get the wrong idea; I'm not saying that if you can't four-shot with a BR then "LOL GTFO MATCHMAKING N00B". No. Use what works. I'm just pointing it out that, from a purely powered standpoint, dual pistols is only elite in the sense that you're making it harder for yourself; which, frankly, isn't elite. Neither are Elites, for that matter. Or most people claiming to be "PRO MLG DOOD".
God I hate those guys who think four-shotting is the end all be all of Halo. Glad to see we can agree on something, eh?
Team rocket is one of my favorite. As it has got quite amazing to play. To put it mildly, awesome. But the problem inevitably became the idiots who didn't want to play it, sat in the middle of a map and shot rockets at everyone. It's fun.
No it's not invincible, but when you're always matched up exclusively with lvl 42-50 opponents, them having a BR and you not having one can make things difficult if you're caught in the open while trying to get your hands on one. My buddies and i team up for ranked matchmaking and since we're all above 42, the BR is a must (unless you got a sniper or any other power weapon, that and sticky skills...the latter of which i pride myself in ^_^ )Magic Hobo said:
minor comments in redMagic Hobo said:
with regards to the pistols and eliteness:
Its simply a matter of badassery in that I feel like, well, a badass, running around dropping people with the twin pistols, and that's just flat-out FUN, and reasonably doable from mid to mid-lon range against many guns other than the BR, which, and this being my quarrel with it, too good at that range for a starting gun.
and dude, I can 4-shot, no worries there, I don't LIKE it, but I can do it, and i usually play elite to give the opponent something different to shoot at, which makes me snicker when they get mad.
And that's why no-scoping is a must have skill to stay competitive in that game type. I'll admit though, it takes a lot of time and practice to get that one down, its much harder than some think it is. What i mean by that is, hitting someone while not scoped is not all that hard, but getting the head-shot while not scoped and under pressure is much, much harder to learn to do.Magic Hobo said:
Yeah, trying to get your hands on the most precious BR when you don't spawn with one can be a *****...and unfortunately sticky kills end up with you as a martyr half the time.FBPH said:
And that's when I'm able to land them. Damn grenades hate me, I swear...
I wasn't aware that the cone of fire for the AR changed, I will have to try that, always looking for new strategies. I'm curious why you'd want to make the one-shot BR (or DMR, derp) a five-shotter instead of four as usual, though, as long as it kept a lower rate of fire.MR T3D said:
Yeah, but even with no-scoping, you really don't have an efficient option is what I mean. Sometimes the power weapon isn't always the best weapon, demonstrated by how easy it can be to kill someone with even a rocket launcher in some circumstances.FBPH said:
Doesn't help that since I've started branching out into other games a lot more my no-scoping seems to be gone with the wind...
The magnum is not as weak as you make it out to be. It can still take a man down from almost the same range the BR can and it is practically as powerful as the one from Halo 1, 4 shot head-shot as well. Its just that since they've removed the scope, less people use and are less effective with it (also who the hell duals magnums? one is good enough and more accurate). Also the BR is not such an easy weapon to use effectively. Not everyone can perfect 4 shot, your average player takes up most of the clip on one guy. And as for the carbine, because it is semi-auto, it can actually take a guy down faster than the BR. Unlike the BR, the carbine does not have a delay between shots (aka burst) so long as you've got good aim and an equally good trigger finger you can take down a guy faster than a BR canMagic Hobo said:
Yeah I remember when a successful sticky was more "I take you down with me" than "Stuck!"Magic Hobo said:
Thankfully I've reached the point where I can stick with great accuracy in mid-range, while pressured, stick at close range and position myself to survive the blast, stick with good accuracy from mid-long range, get enemies-around-the-corner-I-can't-see-so-I-use-the-radar stickies, and can bounce a grenade off a wall very efficiently.
Man, this sounds like I'm gloating a bit...Oh well!
One would hope that years of playing since Halo 1 would have made me better.
P.S. Its really easy to learn to stick using spike grenades. They've got easy trajectory, are thrown a bit faster, and are bigger vertically when thrown, so your "sticky" zone is a bit bigger and more forgiving. Plus, seeing a guy stuck with a giant spike grenade on his face is hilarious! >_<
{EDIT} It just occurred to me i never said which was my favorite gametype. Snipers for sure, cause I rock at what I like to call "combat sniping" (both of you got snipers aimed at each other and you're fighting it out with intensity)
Hey, I'm an artist with frags; when we have customs, my friend calls bullshit on my bouncy-balls at least five times. It's the sticky ones that get me; I'm pretty sure it's a combo of letting my skills atrophy, trying to throw a plasma like a frag, and good ol' fashioned bullshit.FBPH said:
My friend and I were having a very intense 1v1 custom on Snowbound (I was too lazy to save Boundless, sue me) and it came down to 24-24; He got one shot off into me with the sniper rifle, and I managed to tail it back into one of the bases through the smaller doors. By the time he gets there, my shields have regenerated, and I'm ready to throw down- but then I realize, I had a lone plasma left on hand. I wait for him to come through, and -whosh!- sticky away. I see the blue aura of the plasma hit his foot, but not the body, and my hopes sink; but then, it bounces off the shield door! I try to maneuver myself into cover, when I see the most bullshit thing I've seen in quite a long time: almost as if he was psychic, he makes a slight strafe to the left and the grenade goes between his legs. I was stunned as he put some rounds through my helmet and we were returned to the lobby; I went back to theater and scrolled through thirteen minutes, speeded, until the end, just to see if it really happened.
But nowadays we sometimes just go into a modded custom game where there's only grenades and we try to stick each other. That helps to get better.
