it is no longer a mid-to-long range killing machine. It is an anti-long range weapon with a focus on mid-range combat that ends up being utilitarian and functional, but not optimal at close range Thats the best thing in there what a joke why the hell would you want that. making the Br worse isnt going to bring more people it is gonna make less people come. in 4 years of halo 2 there was about 60,000 online. In about 1 year when gow 2 comes out there will be 60,000 kids on halo 3.