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[Pooky]

Getting hits in Halo 3 wasn't the problem. The problem is all the weapons are so finicky that even getting a solid hit doesn't always help you (SHOTGUN).

[t3h m00kz]

That and the fact that you can get killed before your shots register, which made shotgun fights bullshit. Host advantage was ridiculous until Reach. I'm glad they were smart enough to finally add two-way kills. Seems like it wouldn't have been hard to have coded in the first place, considering games like Quake 3 had shit like that which worked perfectly

[Kornman00]

That's what made it so addicting; knowing you were boss because you could do reliably what 80% of the players could not. And if you couldn't, learning how to so you could school that asshat who could was a great motivator.

Funny, the same could be said about bloom and timing your shots!

[=sw=warlord]

And Armor Lock.
Timing your usage based upon grenades and heavy weapons.

[Kornman00]

I would have mentioned armor lock too, but that's like shouting "whooooo, Obamamcare!" in a crowd full of Tea Partiers, and I didn't feel like watching a blood bath unfold.

[Tnnaas]

... but that's like shouting "whooooo, Obamamcare!" in a crowd full of Tea Partiers...

You've inspired me to do such an act.

Anyways, I have to bitch about vehicles for a minute.

I'm hating the way Sage set this shit up.
The Revenant shouldn't exist. It is extremely unbalanced and should have been replaced by the Spectre from Halo 2. Make it like the Warthog and have additional varients. You've got the plamsa cannon on the back and all you'd need is a fuel rod gun and some sort of high-heat weapon like the sentinel beam. I'd fund that.

Another thing: I have disliked the tanks since Halo 3. They should've done what they did with the Banshee in Reach and let the driver control both the main weapon and auxillery weapon seperately by pressing the 'Y' button. Making the primary rounds cycle a little longer (more like the Halo: CE Scorpion) would've also added to the balance. Overheating machine guns/plasma cannons could be kept.

The Falcon on the other hand is so unreliable during multiplayer. There is always that one idiot that uses it like an unlocked car and drives off with it for a joy-ride rather than using it as the damn bus it was meant to be. Five seats would've been helpful, but meh.

[Kornman00]

lmao, 5 seats = killing spree in one splaser! But I agree. I also wish they would have at least put the GL Falcon variant in the Forge palette...along with civie vehicles. For Customs and machinima.

For the tank tho, I prefer the separation (since the Wraith does the same thing). Plus, it makes it easier to creep up on that bitch when there's no gunner. It's easy to dodge tank fire (since it's a slower cadence), but FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFUUUU- when it comes to a stream of .50cal in your face.

[Pooky]

Funny, the same could be said about bloom and timing your shots!

Yeah, except timing your shots is easy, anyone can do it, and 'timing is hard' isn't why everyone hates the DMR.

GG.

[=sw=warlord]

Yeah, except timing your shots is easy, anyone can do it, and 'timing is hard' isn't why everyone hates the DMR.

GG.

And yet people still seem to have troubles timing their shots.
Everyone hates the DMR because it isn't their scalpel BR from Halo 2, the DMR was near perfect in the Beta and then the "competitive" crowd complained because it wasn't their all round use weapon.

[Arteen]

Reach really needs a BR/carbine-like weapon as the primary spawn weapon instead of the DMR. As in, a proper medium-range weapon. BTB is often so miserable because everyone spawns with a long-range gun. I can't image how terrible a map like Standoff would be in Reach.