Quote Originally Posted by p0lar_bear View Post
The thing is, Halo 1 can't handle weapon swapping correctly. AI actor variants are made to wield one weapon and fire it as such. If you went up to an AR marine and gave him a pistol, he'd attempt to aim it and use firing patterns as if it were an assault rifle.
Kill it and spawn a new one of the desired variant, mb? This is SP, we can do a ton of convoluted and seemingly random things to get the job done.