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The Battle Rifle is one of the most effective weapons in the Halo series, hands down. It has no glaring weak points and is just a great weapon all around. Except that I hate it, because my lack of marksmanship makes anything outside of a shotgun impossible to use. However, for the sake of my readers, I will put my terrible incompetency aside and for this week's edition of Weapon Wednesdays.

The Battle Rifle utilizes a 2x electronic scope to give it high accuracy at medium to long range. It also fires in three round bursts, improving the accuracy even more. In the Halo universe, it's also capable of semi-auto and automatic fire, but in the games it's simply used in burst fire mode.

The damage-per-hit falls between medium and high. Seasoned Halo multiplayer veterans will tell you that it takes three shots (anywhere on the body) to take out a player's shield and then one headshot to put them down for good.

In the campaign, the Battle Rifle can quickly kill a Flood Combat Form by shooting the infection form inside the chest cavity. Disgusting, I know.

There's a technique some use referred to as "twitch fire." What you do is fire a the chest are of your target and then gently flick the reticule upwards. The three bullets will separate, decreasing the overall accuracy but increasing the odds of landing a headshot.

The Battle Rifle is not perfect, as nothing ever is. When using it at long range, if you don't stand still while firing it can be hard to maintain decent accuracy. It also suffers at close range, where the rifle's small spread of fire can be easily dodged by attackers.

The Battle Rifle has been referred to as the M-16 of Halo, while the Assault Rifle is the AK-47 and the SMG is the sten gun.

Source: Halopedia

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