Benchimus

If I remember correctly, in the books they did. They intentionally let a NOVA nuke (that they had rigged to explode when an engineer messed with it) get captured. I think the planet it went off on was a staging base for the covenant. IIRC, the planet was rendered uninhabitable.

Wasnt sure where to post this but the topic says it all. I dont think any kind of weapons of war ban would matter when it comes to fighting aliens bent on your total annihilation. Over the decades that the war went on, why didnt some scientist of Halsey's caliber (although more in the field of biology and such) create some kind of bio weapon tailored to the Elites? Surely they came across enough dead bodies and possibly captured enough live ones to experiment on to come up with some kind highly contagious and deadly disease or something. Idk, just a thought.

So long as when he wears sunglasses you can set the background to look like its night time.

The infamous lag switch...

For the most part, I think using the new stances looks toolish (is that a word?). However, if there was a stance where my spartan could be facing left with his right arm flexed....

Same. AAs and Ordinance annoy the **** out of me. But I like to have radar... :/

Hmmm... Ive read this several times now in various threads. If you were able to wreck the other team by yourself, then you were playing people far below yourself and the 1-50 wasnt doing a very good job.

Kids dont get spanked enough these days.

Everyone else has pretty well summed it up. I liked Valhalla in 3 but didnt love it. But now, compared to the rest of 4s maps, I LOVE Ragnarok. I just think the rest are awful. Meltdown and Vortex especially. Those 2 maps are such garbage. Playing on Meltdown makes me want to strangle strangers on the street. And to whoever said that Certain Affinity made one of the map packs from Halo 2, if they did, they certainly have lost their touch. I loved most all of 2s maps. I hate most of 4s.

THIS!!!! Not sure the name of it but there was a map pack in Reach that had maps I thought were just downright beautiful. Unfortunately, apparently nobody bought them because they never came up for me in normal playlists and I didnt want to play them in the DLC list because I just wanted to play slayer 24/7. :/

I def like for one reason: Its slayer without ordinance. No more worrying whether or not the other team has rockets, a saw, etc. Only loadouts and map weapons!

Anybody who cheats and anybody who buys accounts (stupidest ******* thing I have ever heard of) deserves to have their boxes set on fire and their hands beat repeatedly with a ball-peen hammer. And I would love to be the one doing the beating.

I want to see a 1-50 put in but idc whether its visible or not. I care about how high I can get and dont care if other people can see it. The only people I am interested in besting are my friends and they will tell me what they are anyway. And no, its not because I couldnt get to 50. I got to 44 on my first account and I believe 42 on my 2nd. Better than any of my friends so it was good enough for me!

So the DMR is OP... Average DMR uses has 200+ lead over their kills... You have been killed plenty of times by "2009 kid" using a DMR... yet feel confident that you will drop the next DMR user you meet... You talking points seem conflicting. Is the DMR so OP that you get killed by it constantly or are you only now going to start dropping 2009 kids?

Only thing I have to say is I love starting with pp and p.nades in btb. I have no interest in getting into vehicles but I certainly enjoy ruining someones fun when they are using them.

So people want the feel of an older Halo yet dont want radar? Correct me if Im wrong (and Im not) but Havent ALL Halos had radar? Lack of Radar is the sole reason I have never liked Slayer pro.

Unless your cheating in some way, neither of those weapons are 4 shot.

Finished 4 on legendary last week. Honestly felt it was the easiest one of them all. Clearing the area for the pelican on the level "Infinity" was the only slightly hard part as I had a lack of useful weaponry. Other than that it really wasnt that hard. Barely harder than Reaches Heroic.

I was implying that making the BR 4 shot as you want it to be would lead to what I said in my last post. The problem with bringing the BR up to the DMRs level rather than slightly nerfing the DMRs RoF is that the carbine would then need a buff. Now the automatic weapons and magnum are useless so then they would need a buff as well. Now all the weapons are more powerful and engagements are even shorter (depending on your viewpoint, this may be bad or good). Giving the DMR a slight RoF nerf gives the carbine and BR the slight close/mid-range advantage over the DMR that they are supposed to have without affecting any other weapons relationship to the them. This also falls in line with the automatic weapons now having an extra small advantage over the DMR at close range. Which makes sense as this would make the DMR even less favorable on smaller maps. The effects of this on the DMRs long range kill times would be minuscule. Now, as for your point about this doing nothing to make the BR less crappy: I view the BRs crappiness as being its redundancy and lack of purpose rather than some inherent quantity of "suck". Other than for that nostalgic feeling, there is no point in picking the BR outside of SWAT (I use the DMR there as well anyway tho) as the DMR matches it at close to mid and beats it in long range. Correct me if I am wrong but what I took away from your last comment was basically that as of now, it takes too many bullets to kill given how many a magazine has. Assuming perfect accuracy, the BR gives 2 kills and leaves you with 2 full bursts before a reload while the DMR gives 2 kills and leaves you with 4 bullets. In my opinion, I dont see this as a big deal and chalk it up to "different weapons are different". Perhaps you have many an instance where you take on several opponents at once and would have emerged victorious if not for a necessary reload. In my experience, this only happens if I happen to take several people by surprise at once or the other team is just plain bad. In either case, I feel a slight RoF nerf for DMR would stop the DMR from being > the BR in every way without upsetting the BRs balance against any other weapon and would actually better place the DMR where it should be in relation to other weapons as well. The BRs hidden quantity of ****-suckery not withstanding.

But the parents never knew their kids went missing. They were replaced with clones that were designed to die after a set amount of time.

While my feelings towards Haven are luke warm at best, I wouldnt mind 24/7 Ragnarok. Exile is so so, long bow is good, vortex sucks and, to me, meltdown brings me feelings similar to what Paradiso did in Reach. Anger, frustration, boredom, and a general desire to strangle someone.

So you would like for the BR to not only be closer in performance to the DMR and better than the carbine in all instances but for it to further destroy all the other weapons? Buffing the BR to 4 shot would definitely make it the choice on all 4v4 maps while leaving some reason to pick the DMR in BTB but your only further weakening every other non power weapon, limiting viable options. And isnt making a certain weapon more of an option the purpose of this thread? Slight RoF nerf on DMR is the only way. And when I say slight, I mean ever so slight. As I said, just enough that only when both are fired with perfect accuracy at their maximum fire rate will the BR win. This makes the BR more viable (tho not dominant) in slayer maps while leaving the DMR/light rifle the go to choices in BTB.

All circular maps with no good places to hole up in. What happened to the Guardian, Lockout, construct, etc. type maps?

If anything, (slight) RoF nerf on the DMR. An ever so slight one tho. Just enough that only when both are fired with perfect accuracy at their maximum fire rate will the BR win. This will tip engagements in favor of the BR but only on smaller maps but only slightly as most players do not have perfect accuracy. To those suggesting making the BR 4 shot... no. Not only would it be better than the other precision rifles at anything other than sniper range but it would begin destroying all the other weapons worse than it already does. AR/storm rifle/suppressor/ etc. would all become useless at anything beyond sword range. Not that I use any of those enough to care but arent they their to complete the sandbox and help out lesser players? And I am not a BR fan by any means. This is all coming from someone who uses the DMR on all maps, in all modes.

Would that be a supercharged 5.4 or 6.2?