Its like when I play a regular game, the pistol can eat right through my shields and kill me in 3 shots. Whats up with that?
The only time I see my shields do their job is when I'm in a vehicle, or by being hit by a plasma pistol.

Headshots :)

Where have you been for the last ~6 years? The pistol has always been like that.

lol at new guy who hasnt ever seen the halo 1 god machine!

Halo is the only game where your sidearm is also the strongest superweapon

Maybe he's a troll.

Trolls don't type like that lol.

The trolls are evolving!!

Jk.. Look sir, the pistol in Halo CE is incredibly rigged, and rips through anything with headshots. Your best bet is to play a custom map without the pistol if you get incredibly annoyed.

Best way to take it is to get good and destroy some scrubs with the irony of the pistol.

First, I am not a troll.
I don't see how I am trying to get someone angry.
Second, I just realized the games I played were messed up.
I was experiencing times when not just the pistol (which was only an example) would ignore shields and go right through my health (my shields would stay full), but I only experienced this in custom maps.

Theres a setting in the weapon that allows it to skip shields :V

Doesnt matter, a pistol kills you in 3 shots to the head. If it had the "skip shield" flag checked off in the projectile damage effect tag, then it would be a 1 shot kill anywhere.

The shield effect doesn't sync.

Players and projectiles sync.

So? I'm not saying that shields don't sync. I'm saying that the EFFECT doesn't sync.

The pistol shoots 12.7x40mm M225 Semi-Armor-Piercing High-Explosive rounds its really pwerfull compaired to the assault rifles 7.62mm None-Armor-Piercing Non-Explosive round.


You learn something new every day.

Yep yep yep , you can have a bullet which "Explodes" , and rockets which move so slow that in reality , they should fall to the ground as soon as it left the launcher.

Pistol in CE does 25 damage per shot, spartans have 75 shields and 75 health. Once the 75 damage goes through, the shields pop and a headshot will kill.

So, the pistol kills in 3 shots

^ If the last one is aimed at the head.

it'd be cool if you could make the damage numbers dealt appear above the enemies like in rpgs and rps's

but yeah the pistol is and always will be the godly death machine in halo 1 because bungie was too lazy to figure out they should put battle rifles in like they did in halo 2 - owai

The pistol and the sniper are probably the only weapons worth having with you.
The rest are either cheap or totally useless.

Naw, it's rocket/pistol/sniper. Restriction of spawn of pistol and its ammo should fix that problem.

You really can.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-explosive_incendiary

The pistol isn't over powered. It's just that most of the other weapons are under powered.

Which makes the pistol overpowered in comparison.

Regardless of their nicknames guns and objects tend to be asexual.

Well , I see it that way because I used to play with 300 ping and that takes skill.

I used to completely agree with that opinion. I hated snipers. But then I realized that although the sniper has the potential to be extremely powerful, it's balanced out by the fact that you need very good skill at aiming to use it.

After all, if you think about it, it's without a doubt the hardest human weapon in the classic set to use. Possibly the hardest period. Considering the lead due to latency, consistently being able to nail two body shots let alone a head shot on a moving target is tough for the average player with only 4 shots per clip.

So, like you said, 'if someone good is using it.' Exactly. Only somebody good can use the sniper to its full potential. Frankly, if someone sucks at sniping, the sniper weapon becomes nothing but a harmless waste of ammo. And so for those who are good enough to harness its potential, they deserve it.

Then you have no right to complain about how the pistol and sniper are overpowered.
If you kill as easily as you claim , you should be singing the pistol's praises.

It's easy to kill aimbotters.

Yes, if the enemy team is bad enough to let one sniper 'ruin' their game. Every weapon has a weakness. The sniper's biggest weakness is other snipers. If the enemy team is bad enough not to be able to take one annoying little sniper down, then they deserve to get held back.



That doesn't count. You're arguing that those weapons are annoying purely because they can be abused by a hack which was never meant to affect the game. They are most definitely not always abused by the hack since only a minority of players aimbot, so you can't call that a bad characteristic of the weapon. It has nothing to do with the weapon, but rather with the player using the weapon while botting.

Yeah , you should , anything that gets you a kill should be praiseworthy , although others may disgress , it's your kill ultimately.
If you take all of those reasons into account , you're using the pistol all the time.

I find it hard to believe that an entire team can have their game ruined because of a really good player , even with him three shot killing everyone and headshotting everyone with the sniper and pistol , at most he'd last for 28 sniper kills and 44 pistol kills , which means he'd have to go back to base (Leave his camping spot) or advance without any ammunition , which means they would be able to kill him. They can also use heavy weapons or vehicles.
If under any of these circumstances you are STILL unable to shoot him or kill him once , you should think about uninstalling the game.

Yeah you'll get berserk.