was there ever a halo lmg?

If not, can someone send me a link to a good lmg gun i can skin and edit so that there will be a halo lmg!!

.. just testing

The mg turret in halo 2 was just an lmg on a tripod. I'm actually working on remaking that as a portable weapon for the map I'm working on.

oh yeah i have that nvm (nevermind!)
Edited by spiral on May 18, 2011 at 07:38 PM

CMT had a portable version of the LMG from Halo 2 (M247 general purpose machine gun), and there's another version floating around somewhere. CMT's is black with a more detailed skin and a box magazine, while the other is green, a bit less detailed, but has the high-capacity drum mag. They're both pretty cool, so I suppose it's a matter of personal preference.

yeah! never mind

One on right looks better. Imo they both look like MG3's.

I always wondered why there wasn't a LMG in game I mean MC is a super strong killing machine I would make sure to give him like a 50 cal machine gun so he could just tear through covies like they were paper lol.

A .50 Caliber is a heavy machine gun. Light machine guns are like the M1919 Browning.

M1919 is a .30 and I "think" is still considered a medium mg. LMG's are generally 7.62 or 5.56.
Unless you were referring to the M1918 BAR.
Edited by rerout343 on May 20, 2011 at 04:49 PM

True, Rerout.

@Tiel: No, the assault rifle is exactly what it says - an assault rifle, which is below LMG in firearm classification.

http://halo.wikia.com/wiki/.30_Caliber_Light_Machine_Gun .30 caliber
http://halo.wikia.com/wiki/M247_General_Purpose_Machine_Gun 7.62x51mm NATO standard

With that in thought, then I guess that the Halo Era LMGs are equal to modern day Miniguns then?

An LMG and a minigun are two different types of weapon.

You can't really compare it to anything other than an LMG, because regardless of any advancements, it's still firing a 7.62x51mm NATO round. A round that we use today. So things really haven't changed much in five hundred years.

Oh god not an LMG in multiplayer cause noobs will pick it up and spray the crap out of people and randomly hitting people and killing them."I hate noobs the spray and pray"

That actually wouldn't be as bad as you'd think cause of the bad netcode. I would probably just kill them with the pistol in the time it would take them to randomly spray me to death.

Also from the previous posts, yeah I know a .50 cal machine gun is a heavy machine gun. My point is that its strange why they wouldn't give a spartan like MC a heavy machine gun cause I mean seriously imagine MC with a heavy machine gun, the covies would just turn and run.

Pretty sure the AR uses 7.62, so then wouldn't that make it an LMG?
fake edit:
http://halo.wikia.com/wiki/MA5B
yeah, 7.62x51 FMJ
Edited by UnevenElefant5 on May 21, 2011 at 11:10 AM

Assault Rifle = skirmishes/assaults (duh)

LMG = defense/mobile offence

I don't know if you did your research, but a LOT of modern-day weapons use the 7.62x51mm NATO standard - assaults, snipers and MGs. It just so happens that MGs are classed by the type of round that they fire - and they obviously have a large capacity for that type of round, hence the MG classification.

LMG = 7.62x51mm NATO
*These two may have been merged in 500 years*
MMG = .30 caliber

HMG = .50 caliber
(The Barrett M107 [a sniper rifle] fires this round, would you call it a HMG too? Or a better example, the M4A1 modded to fire the Beowulf rounds [.50 cal], would that be a HMG?)
Edited by UBE Chief on May 21, 2011 at 01:26 PM