Magnum starts instead of AR starts?

No. The pistol is to short range, to small of clip, and just not the right feel for a starting weapon in a typical slayer or whatever match. The Assault rifle would be fine, but it is overpowered. I was messing around as I was testing range on my newest map I am working on, fearing the assault weapon will be too powerful on it. At a medium range battle, an assault rifle will kill someone faster that constant headshots with a BR. The bullets scatter, but that scatter is pretty consistent for a good medium range, but each shot does alot of damage.

On my map, I was on one end, and put a non active player on the other, and shot him. It took a clip and a half to kill him. However, if I aimed just off to one side, more of the scatter hit me, but still very little, and it killed him within a clip. And this is from one end of the map to the sniper spawn. So, I'm working on ways to fix this issue.

So, I suggest go back to SMG. People bitched about it in Halo 2, but lol, go figure, we get the assault rifle back and most people hate it. Anyway, the SMG is weak and reasonably short ranged, alone, with a good clip size. Dual wield it, and it is a little stronger than an assault rifle. I feel like that is a good balance, because superior weapons will be it at long range, but its firing speed wins in cqc.

 

This is all I have to say. Some people can think any weapon is "overpowered" or "overused". Think about that. Anything can be overused if you spawn with it. It's a freaking spawn weapon. You'll see it all the time. You see BRs all the time. You see swords all the time. You see rockets all the time, etc. Overpowered could be any weapon too. Even if we started with magnums, someone would find out how to do something uber with them and then people would complain about them. I just think people complain too much. We've got this great game, and all we do is complain about it.

Thats my two cents. Also, I'm not bashing any weapons. All the weapons are fair.

 

I couldn't agree more! +rep

Yeah I mean I don't want to start the whole BR/AR debate again, that got waaay out of hand. But juggernaut is right. People just need to learn to accept what they are given. Complaining about the game and arguing on what would 'fix' it just makes the game worse. This is the sole reason I switched back from COD4 to Halo 3. Everytime I killed anyone in COD4 it would be 'oh that weapons so cheap' or 'what a n00b weapon, that's so unfair'. Then I came back to Halo were I thought I was safe until I recently saw the BR/AR debate on FH. So please people let's not argue over what we can't change. Halo 3 is great, and it if ain't broke, don't fix it.

 

Probably just me, but I like this idea. But then everything else will be taken down a peg. Like, instead of BRs placed across the map, mostly ARs will take those and few BRs will be there. And so on with every other weapon. But I still support the Magnum as a primary weapon

 

I have no problem with AR starts as I just pick up a BR. But it would be alot better if it was Magnun and AR.

That would be pretty sick.

 

I guess using th SMG as a starting weapon will decrease melee and grenading, and there will be a slight chance that grenading and melee will almost never be used, but people might still pick up the assault rifle instead of the SMG.