♥♥♥♥ the Concussion Rifle and ♥♥♥♥ Concussion Rifles on Phantoms

[Evoxrus XV]

That thing has no business doing so much ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ damage and causing so much repelling force for how fast and small it is. The most annoying gun on reach that seems to do a ♥♥♥♥ ton of damage to you but not to enemies.

[Mr.Xavier]

*laughs in jackal snipers in halo 2 legendary*

[Jebus]

are we talking firefight? i mean i imagine we must be.
I didnt really see phantoms being a problem in campaign.

it is pretty annoying that the phantom turret is so powerful you're pretty much required to take cover, unless you feel like wasting 2 plasma grenades. ( you do get sticky medals for it doe )

A good tip for dealing with it is using the grenade launcher. ez pz solution. No wasted nades.

But yeah. concussion rifle AI are just OP. gotta just deal with that one.
Get in close if you can without dying to things around it.
Just like fuel rod elites, being in melee range is the best way to deal with them.

[Evoxrus XV]

The thing fires like a machine gun, hits like a fully charged plasma pistol, almost as fast as a spiker and the explosion radius of a grenade launcher. What bullshittery is this?! Worse, enemy Ais have unlimited number of ammo so get spammed anyways.

[Evoxrus XV]

Originally posted by Jebus™:

are we talking firefight? i mean i imagine we must be.
I didnt really see phantoms being a problem in campaign.

it is pretty annoying that the phantom turret is so powerful you're pretty much required to take cover, unless you feel like wasting 2 plasma grenades. ( you do get sticky medals for it doe )

A good tip for dealing with it is using the grenade launcher. ez pz solution. No wasted nades.

But yeah. concussion rifle AI are just OP. gotta just deal with that one.
Get in close if you can without dying to things around it.
Just like fuel rod elites, being in melee range is the best way to deal with them.

Legendary campaign.

[r3d_belmont456]

I think someone forgot to turn the cowbell skull off...

[Evoxrus XV]

Originally posted by r3d_belmont456:

I think someone forgot to turn the cowbell skull off...

?

[Corpulent Swine]

Laughs in rocket flood*

[Magicktech]

Its a Sniper Rifle, it is suppose to be powerful.

[Evoxrus XV]

Originally posted by Phantasm:

Its a Sniper Rifle, it is suppose to be powerful.

I don't think you know what a Sniper Rifle is...

[Magicktech]

Originally posted by ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ Scout:

Originally posted by Phantasm:

Its a Sniper Rifle, it is suppose to be powerful.

I don't think you know what a Sniper Rifle is...

You just don't understand the game. It is the Covenant version of the Sniper Rifle. Those are the alien enemies you are shooting. They use something called energy weapons. You know... like real life.

[Pyrocitor]

Originally posted by Phantasm:

Originally posted by ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ Scout:

I don't think you know what a Sniper Rifle is...

You just don't understand the game. It is the Covenant version of the Sniper Rifle. Those are the alien enemies you are shooting. They use something called energy weapons. You know... like real life.

You're mixing up the names. You're talking about the focus rifle
The concussion rifle is the lumpy red weapon, the one that's a sort of explosive plasma rifle.

[Magicktech]

Originally posted by Pyrocitor:

Originally posted by Phantasm:

You just don't understand the game. It is the Covenant version of the Sniper Rifle. Those are the alien enemies you are shooting. They use something called energy weapons. You know... like real life.

You're mixing up the names. You're talking about the focus rifle
The concussion rifle is the lumpy red weapon, the one that's a sort of explosive plasma rifle.

oh ♥♥♥♥... you're right. Thats the Reach version of the Brute Shot basically. Not sure why I thought he meant Focus Rifle.

[Jebus]

Daily Fun Facts:

The focus rifle in halo reach is a sentinel beam reverse engineered by the covenant.
How did they do this before finding halo?.... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Beam rifle is superior though. to needler rifle aswell. Fite me.

Whilst often seen in brute hands, the Concussion Rifle is actually an elite weapon.
It fires plasma. Not propelled grenades.
I suppose the game just had no need of two covenant grenade launchers with essentially the same function.

Come back next week for another daily fun fact.

[Pyrocitor]

Originally posted by Jebus™:

Daily Fun Facts:
The focus rifle in halo reach is a sentinel beam reverse engineered by the covenant.
How did they do this before finding halo?.... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

The covenant had found forerunner structures and defenses before.
IIRC a whole lot of their tech was just copied forerunner tech that they didn't understand too much.

[GhostyGG]

i can't deny the redesign of the phantom and spirit turrets was a horrible idea.

I've died a number of times due to lag in firefight (sometimes it can just straight up 1 shot you I think, it's happened to me several times). I don't have a problem with it's power, actually I just really hate the splash damage it does because in Reach, getting behind cover doesn't do much. If the splash radius is big enough it can literally kill through walls (similar to the wraith killing you through a wall if you're too close to the wall).

I don't remember any of this happening on the console version, might be tied to framerate.