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Originally Posted by Kalyx triaD
I'm sorry dude but the pistol was the go to weapon for everyone. Even noobies, once they're broken into the game, will get with the program and use the pistol. 3 shot kills aren't that impressive (me and my gang did them), especially once you find your ideal sensitivity and get accustomed to the general motion of the game.
H1 pistol was the go-2 weapon for all encounters in a game that was not built for this outcome, and not released in a time when post-release patching was normal. There was in using it in a meta-game sort of way - when you're playing against people using it and skill-gaps are discovered within players using them, but it was generally fairly easy.
And fucking LOL at the idea that we haven't actually played Halo 1 multiplayer because we believe it's not nearly as complicated as you're making it sound. I suppose this is where me or LoDown claim that we'll 'eat you alive' or whatever if we ever threw down in H1 to prove the point, but we can't - and it wouldn't prove shit anyway.
In summary; H1 pistol took some skill, but it wasn't difficult. Calling it H1's BR works only if you consider many people gravitated toward it, but there are factors between H1 and H2/3 that hurt such a comparison.
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None of that was meant to sound 'bragging' in any way. I am just saying that the people I played Halo with would put to shame any notion of 'skill' you think you had at that game, and I guarantee they would embarrass your pistoling skills. I'm speaking of people who could beat The Ogres in Halo 1. People who competed with Zyos and Walshy. (sorry.. namedrops mean nothing in this crowd probably, but those people were literally among the best in the competitive community in H1 and H2) Any 'ease of use' you had with the pistol, would mean absolutely nothing when faced against these people. You would go in thinking your l33t pistol skills were great.. no way there could be people who were better since it's such an easy weapon to use.. And then they would play you, and you would quit within 10 minutes.
Also, to clarify.. didn't mean you hadn't played the game. But I meant that you never PLAYED the shit out of it, with people who knew what they were doing. Because if you had, you wouldn't think the pistol was easy, because you obviously never had anyone wipe the floor with your face in that game. You never know how good you are at a game until someone better than you comes along. And when those people are so drastically better than you that several of them together could
toy with you in an objective game while still completing the objective... well, I hope you get the point by now.
And if you missed it... The point is that the pistol was easy to use. But there is a skill gap with it just the same as the BR had. People who were
good with it, were
godly with it.
I suppose the same will probably be said about the DMR eventually. But it just doesn't look like a fun weapon to
try to be good with. It looks like a very frustrating weapon. As do all of those weapons. They're far too focused on power. Hell, they've even tried to make everything seem beefier in this game. Just the sounds and the recoil from every shot a gun makes are very un-Halolike. They've changed the way weapons in the game feel completely.
I'll leave on this note - If what they showed in that video looks fun to you, then by all means.. play it. To me though, there looks to be far too much emphasis on power weapons, and the mere addition of a couple has me reminded of the tubefest known as Modern Warfare 2, and how much I loathe power weapons in shooters. The non-power weapons they showed look weak and easy to use. The needle rifle especially. Part of the greatness of the needler was the ability to dodge it.
I still say if you think that needle rifle is any different in essence than the DMR, you must be blind.