Favorite Sniper Weapon

[SatanicBagels]

To put it simply... If you were in a match and you got to choose between the Sniper Rifle, the Beam Rifle, and the Binary Rifle in your ordinance drop, which one do you think you would pick?

 

For me it has to be the Binary Rifle. I love that it can kill in one-body shot instead of one head shot or two body shots. At the same time it is balanced by the beam that it produces when scoped in and a lower number of shots before needing to be reloaded.

 

This gun is perfect in that it allows you to trade the element of surprise and alerting enemies to your position in exchange for not needing to have as good of accuracy to kill someone.

 

[Iɴsɪɢɴɪᴀ]

None of the above. The turret on the gauss hog is my fave sniper weapon!

 

EDIT: Thanks for putting in my fave as an option!

Edited January 6, 2013 by Iɴsɪɢɴɪᴀ

[SykoWolf]

Beam Rifle, pure Excellence.......Great fun to use and feels sooo smooth and much better then the original Beam Rifle :3

Plus i PWN people with it

i know Azaxx likes it too, he's the one that got me to try it....

[TornadoFlame]

the DMR i mean Binary rifle it's something new and so insane.

[TRF BaDInTentZs]

Beam rifle, hands down

[Hater]

Beam Rifle, but I stopped when you called the Binary Rifle balanced.

[SatanicBagels]

Beam Rifle, but I stopped when you called the Binary Rifle balanced.

 

It literally spits the only information that you need to effectively counter it at your enemies face. It also doesn't have a large enough clip size to to deal with large swarms of people trying to attack one location at once. If you can't take out the Binary Rifle after expending all of your energy and resources to do so then it is your own fault.

 

There have been grossly OP weapons since the beginning of Halo with no really effective way to counter it (aside from letting the user run out of ammo)... The Binary Rifle is not one of them. Also it's hard to consider the Binary Rifle OP when after going through all of the hardships and giving away your position using it, it can only get 6 kills AT BEST... Though this number would more likely get 3-4 kills.

 

i.e --- Not even a killing spree.

[TheGodfatherS117]

My favorite sniper is from the UNSC

[Yoshi1176]

Sniper becuse i dont like the color of the beam rifle and i only use beam for snapshot.

[LiQuid BioniX]

Good 'ol UNSC Sniper Rifle, no question.

[Bloody Initiate]

Beam Rifle seems stealthier than sniper rifle so I chose it (Less audible report), but I totally prefer the Gauss Turret and think adding that option was a brilliant move. I'd Gauss fools all day long. The amount of pleasure that weapon gives me is borderline perverse.

[Caboose The Ace]

um the gauss hogs cannon it a legimate sniper it insta kill anything and is very effitve agaist veiclues as well so it my fav

[Bloody Initiate]

I think a Gauss cannon would be a legit heavy sniper in Halo 5. Make it 1sk like normal, shoulder mounted with a decent scope, and shots deplete shields as well as ammo. 1 shot depletes 1/2, so you get 2 shots like a binary rifle before you have to "reload" but your extra weakness for having a 1sk weapon is shield depletion rather than exposure. Could do more than copy binary rifle with it, but as I said my adoration for that gun is almost unhealthy.

[Forlorn Penguin]

I would pick the Binary Rifle because it's brain dead easy. If I were amazing at sniping though and made every shot a headshot, then I'd pick the Sniper Rifle because I'd be getting OSKs either way, but the Sniper Rifle has more ammo than the Binary Rifle.

 

I hate the Beam Rifle. For some reason, I can't hit anything with it. It feels like it doesn't have any aim assist or bullet magnetism.

[Mainbrid]

Gauss turret is the most op because it takes even less skill than the binary, I'd go with binary just cus it's better than the beam rifle and sniper; it's cheap but if you get it you use it. Beam rifle for ridiculously easy no scopes

[EliteSniper]

Beam Rifle, it was one of my favs on Halo 3 and it is so easy to get a snapshot with it.

[OMG Treason]

I still almost managed to get a killtastrophe with the Binary on the playdate but missed the last 2 guys. However, I am giving this one to the beam because I dont even have to scope in with it.

 

I would pick gauss cannon if it was an option lol.

[DoctorB77]

Beam rifle. it is so easy to get snap shots with it.

[Baeztoberfest]

Just call me one hour photo because I'm givin' out snapshots ALL DAY BABY! Lol. So yeah my vote goes to beam rifle.

 

To be honest though since you said sniper I snipe with binary. I never use the beam rifle to snipe with. I just hip fire it and go like that. It's good for roughly 5 to 10 kills for me when I get it.

[DiamondDayblade]

The Beam Rifle is my all time favorite Halo weapon. It was savage in Halo 2 when it was first introduced. It is still savage today. The Sniper Rifle has always been and still is good. But it is generic. The Binary Rifle in my opinion is in a word, OVERRATED. The Beam Rifle is sleeker, speedier and more lethal than the Sniper Rifle and the Binary Rifle. The Beam Rifle doesn't need to be reloaded after a couple of shots and it is easy to keep from overheating. It is superior in zooming in and snapshooting to the Sniper Rifle and Beam Rifle. Seriously, who needs a Gauss Turret when you can use a Beam Rifle?