Tanks and Wasps need to have their HP reduced. Warthogs, Ghosts, and Banshees are balanced really well in my opinion. But the Wasp and Tank are frustratingly difficult to destroy.
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It took... 5? I think, shots from the Skewer to start the destruction alarm on a Scorpion tank in a BTB match yesterday. If the Skewer is meant to be the sort of Spartan Lazer replacement, 5 shots is way too high.
I'd rather take 4 shots I know are going to hit versus one shot that is super unreliable and then at least one more shot to finish the job. In the time it takes the pulse carbine shot to travel when used at the "effective" distance you can at least get two BR shots in.
If the pulse carbine had Halo 2 PP levels of tracking this would be a very different discussion though.
I decided no to swap my terrible challenges this week. The weeks goal isn't important enough to me to use them.
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I agree. With damage to vehicles being more compartmentalized (eg. warthog tires being blown off), there might just be a sweet spot where skewers kill tanks in less hits, but I haven't played around with it enough to find out.
you don't have to wait for the pulse carbine to travel to start firing your BR.
at best, the person is dead in the time it take to pull the trigger twice. If you miss the plasma, then it's just a normal BR fight , but you have a 1 burst advantage.
And they likely have an effective back up and you don't. It's not rare for a BR fight to end with both players needing to relaod and one pulling out a pistol or whatever to finish off.
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Why are frag grenades so impotent in this game? Almost every time I use one it just makes me frustrated, doesn't do what I intend unless I get lucky. It was one of the most fun parts of classic Halo games. The blast radius, damage, sound are all wrong. One of Halo's defining features was making grenades as important as weapons, and a bad frag grenade hurts the game for me. Luckily the plasma grenade still feels good.
yeah, if I go through a whole BR clip, and don't kill a person that I had the drop on, then I deserve to die.. Pulse Carbine or not.
Anyone else killing themselves with rockets more than ever?
I sware self damage from rockets is more than enemy damage sometimes.
I sware self damage from rockets is more than enemy damage sometimes.
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Not necessarily, no, there's so many variables that could cause it to happen. They're great at strafing, their own good aim throws you and makes you concentrate on strafing more, terrain differences, etc...
Then there are other situations like another player popping up near you after you have spent half your BR to kill one, and you don't have time to reload, and all you have to switch to is you PC... which is a situation that will come up very often.
Literally everyone knows the Pulse Carbine sucks. It's the worst weapon in the game right now.
there have been a few people trying to make its case... but I have yet to see sustained footage of someone using it in a way that would be consistent enough to support the idea it is good.
Yea grenades feel so inconsistent and all over the place in this. Blasts right next to a person clearly and they walk away just fine and barely damaged? While sometimes it feels like it's an instant kill from far away
No that's the Ravager. The Pulse Carbine is not great but at least it melts people if you use it at the proper distance.
I've been using the drop wall as a lite repulser. It can really help defend against nade spam and block rockets and skewers.
Say you have oddball on streets, you can dump a wall by entrances in that corner room with the counter everyone likes to hide behind to safeguard an angle from spam.
I disagree a bit. The skewer feels a lot more available than the Spartan laser and is easier to aim and fire. A tank would never last if 1 or 2 skewers took it out.
Maybe it could be 4 rather than 5 IDK.
I got in a brand new tank and got killed by the opposing 4 spartans in like 30 seconds...although now I think back that was probably fiesta mode.
The design of the ''old'' carbine is such a classic. Weird but very sexy. I hope they bring it back.
and if you catch them unawares and they're not moving fast enough to passively negate the shitty tracking*
sometimes some player randomly take naps in the middle of a match, thats the best way to use it
I'd still say PC. Any other weapon does at least as good of a job in that homeopathic vibration zone it theoretically works. The ravager is at the least good support in objectives; you dump a good charged shot and it helps everyone in the engagement, and can be bounced off walls or out of range and such so it's not "competing" with other weapons in certain situations.
Tickling the enemy is technically help, I'll give you that.
I've actually got more kills with the Ravager than the Pulse Carbine. I couldn't even get two kills with the carbine on a 1/10 challenge but was able to get 5/5 Ravager kills.
I'm in a ghost that's about to explode, it kills me, but not the enemy standing on top of it. Seems pretty dumb.
The funny thing is, the new Stalker Rifle variant is essentially very similar to the old Carbine.
It's a pain having to play with people in both teams using the exact same skin. I died 3 times because it was difficult to distinguish between friend or foe in the heat of the combat
Wasps particularly seem to totally dominate games once they appear.
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does it take longer to ready rockets now?
I think I suicide more because it takes so long to ready, that the enemy closes distance when before I woulda killed them and kept moving.
probably me just getting old
the only time i do is when im already low on health and they are in my face
because if its one of those games where 1 kill matters and our team already in the lead. im okay with sacrificing myself.
all of these scenarios considered, if it takes me it takes me a whole BR clip to kill someone that I had the drop on, and I fail to kill them, that's on me, regardless of what my second weapon is. Especially if I could have completely stripped their shields before they knew I was their.
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Not if they are very good at strsfing after the initial hit, no.
And again.. the situation where more players appear as you finish off the first haopens /all the time/. If you have the PC you have nothing to fall back on if they are too close. If you have a better weapon, you do.
As a multiplayer weapon it really is lackluster. They should have brought back the plasma rifle.
I dont know how thats even possible with the current outlines. Maybe change them to a different color?
if they are THAT good at strafing then I've just gotten handily outplayed.
having a more versatile weapon as a backup could surely help salvage that situation… but the risk you take picking up niche weapons is that you'll execute when the time comes because you have no fall back.
like if you are in a mid-range fight and all you have is a sword or a shotgun your back pocket… well, you better land your BR shots
This week's prize isn't of interest to me either, so challenges mean very little. Which means I'm having a much happier time playing. When challenges actually matter the game becomes very frustrating.
Yes, but you would have had more of a chance vs someone like that with a better weapon, which is the point.
The fact is you will very regularly find yourself with other enemies near you after a kill, and while you might occasionally make the PC work it's going to put you in this common situation where you don't have a reliable back up to switch to and... you die because of it.
Yup. That's why I hope they keep that shit to nameplates and emoji stuff.
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