Well, the UNSC might have captured Covenant technology, such as weapons, and may have designed interfaces that allow the HUD to access the Covenant weapon, or something. If you look closely on the beam rifle, you can see two tiny dots on a little triangle, right above the trigger area. That can be a scope of some sort. Jackals also wear that eye thing to aim. The carbine's magazine may also act as a scope, the design looks like the design on the carbine. Fuel rod guns are a little harder to explain because it looks like it has no aiming aid at all. Maybe Covenant soldiers get neural/optical implants too. Plasma rifles, plasma pistols, and plasma cannons don't need iron sights. Their shots are like tracers.
Oh, I thought of something. You know on that mission...the Storm? THE HUMANS THERE HAZ PISTOLS. AND THEY FIRED THEM. WELL. Explain.
Iron sights, look closely at a pistol on the floor with a sniper or when you are holding one. It's only rear iron sights though, because they have a little laser pointer on top of the barrel, hence the little bump, the red dot and the button.. Really, have you read Halopedia's articles on human weapons? Are you insulting me? Are you insulting airsoft? Airsoft does hurt. When you play with a bunch of people who upgrade the rate of fire of their guns, and shoot upwards 400FPS, and bum rush you in speedball, you will realize that airsoft indeed hurts. If you are thinking of this crap guns you see at WalMart, then you are generalizing airsoft too much. Look up "airsoft injuries" and then look up "airsoft store" or something similar, and you'll see how much airsoft hurts, and how real airsoft guns look like. There are no real 'airsoft masks' because the masks out are exactly or similar to paintball masks. Mesh masks were designed for airsoft, but are unsafe at close ranges. You can't use goggles because you will get your face ****ed up. EDIT: I even fix'd your quote for you. I wasn't even trying to insult you, let alone anyone when I posted that, yet you insult me. You can even sense my "lollery" in that post. Hence the lol.
Rear iron sights. There is no way you can see down the barrel of the pistol because of the huge ****ing lump on the front. The Halo 2 pistol didn't have the lump, it had actual iron sights.
OK what I really don't get is the scopes. So if its all digital and neural chips and crap, how come I can only zoom in x2 on a BR? Why wouldn't a Spartan just be able to zoom in more, like with the sniper?
I mentioned a laser pointer in there somewhere. Maybe its a scope. IDK. Read the articles on the M6D and the M6G. The former is the pistol from Halo 1, which is almost identical to the latter pistol (Halo 3 pistol). I was thinking about that too. In the books, they can adjust their visors according to the lighting, ex. when it is super bright, they can filter out bright light or something. Maybe for gameplay balance reasons? I'm not so sure about this.
Probably to balance gameplay, or something of that nature. Besides, the spread of the Halo 3 BR is so terrible that the 2x scope is appropriate for the maximum effective range.
Well, Halo 3 is a fiction and there's so many possibilities. Covenant scopes are just there. Stop trying to figure them out.
No. You give me solid prove that a civilian can fire a Halo weapon accurately without neural implants, then I'll shut up.
I was under the impression that marines had some kind of HUD-like thing that let them see crosshairs just like a Spartan's HUD. I think it came up in one of the Halo books somewhere, maybe?
I really think the AR looks alien. It doesn't look like a gun I'd like to shoot. I think the reason why it doesn't have an iron sight is not because there is a "halo" reason, but because bungie wanted to stay true to the original AR which didn't have iron sights. The reason why they didn't put iron sights on the original AR is because it was too much detail.
I ****ing told you already. A laser pointer thing is that huge lump, what's why there is a red dot thing above the barrel. Read the ****ing Halopedia article.
I read the ****ing Halopedia article. However, ingame can you see a ****ing laser anywhere while using a magnum? NO. So despite the laser (that doesn't really exist), there is no way for a civilian to fire a magnum accurately, correct?
Maybe, it isn't used in game, because multiplayer would be screwed up with that tiny red laser dot. Maybe Bungie didn't want to put in such a small detail. Maybe civilians make one of those "feel" shots, that you know are gonna go somewhere. Take your pick. Better yet, take it to Bungie.net, lots of people there are more than willing to **** you over answer your question.
I did. They indeed ****ed me over. But I brought it here because I thought the community was more intelligent than the Bungie one. I was correct. But whatever, the main point of this thread was to DISCUSS about whether or not you thought iron sights would be a smart addition to the Halo series.
The civilians can fire a pistol well because they're not retards, they figured out that if they point the end of the gun that gors boom at the enemy and pull the trigger, it'll hurt the enemy. either that or the fact that they're AI and are programed to shoot well
Civilians use iron sights in Halo because they have nothing better to use. Marines, ODSTs and Spartans use helmet links to aim. Their gun smart links to their HUD and a reticule is displayed.
O rly? There are no iron sights. There is a GIGANTIC ****ING LUMP on the pistol. You cannot look down the barrel at your enemy because of that lump. But whatever. This picture supports your arguments. Lawl.