Halo Infinite Weapon Variants Ranked (Tier List)
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- čas přidán 9. 07. 2024
- Every weapon variant in Halo Infinite ranked in a tier list, used in both campaign and multiplayer. Do you agree with the list? Leave a comment below!
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0:00 Intro
0:33 Br breacher
1:09 Sentinel beam
2:14 S7 flexfire
3:13 Calcine disruptor
3:54 Longshot ar
4:22 Rapid-fire pulse carbine
4:58 Striker sidekick
5:40 Backdraft cindershot
6:35 Convergence bulldog
7:08 Impact commando
7:59 Duelist energy sword
8:13 Scatterbound heatwave
8:49 Purging shock rifle
9:11 M41 tracker
9:42 Volatile skewer
10:31 Unbound plasma pistol
11:33 Ravager rebound
11:56 Stalker rifle ultra
12:16 Pursuit hydra
12:50 Rushdown gravity hammer
13:06 Riven mangler
13:35 Pinpoint needler
14:06 Elite blood blade
14:39 Diminisher of hope
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Sorry about the wait everyone, I was very busy all last week with finals and Christmas stuff. Hope you enjoy the video and learn something from it, feel free to let me know what you think.
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"THE POWER OF THE SUN IN THE PALM OF MY HAND"
I hate u luv ur video
Remake this list
The Sun beam was my “aight I just wanna end this quickly” gun.
The only drawback was the low ammo, but that thing melts on any difficulty.
I have a hard time using the sentinel beams on controller tbh
The calipso disrupter gun is overpowered..if it had a higher ammo count
even it's standard version is nothing to scoff at
How do you get the variants in campaign
@@SirAlexanderr by killing targets of interest and their back up
I slept on the normal sentinel beam until late in the campaign. Only when I realized it was pretty good did I notice the arcane version was phenomenal.
yeah the normal one was really useful in the later missions. Ammo was abundant and actually just felt a little better than any of the human precision weapons against the sentinels.
Didn't touch it till the harbinger fight and was pleasantly surprised. Cleaned the room and melted the final cheiftan
yhea the normal sentinel beam is a lot useful vs the harbringer and sentinels
The arcane sentinel beam was the first special weapon I found and after that I tried to never touch another gun again
I just drive around with a van full of those guys carrying sentinel beams for the beacon missions lol they melted the tanks
This is the first place I’ve actually been able to find descriptions of the weapon variants. The UNSC ones have them thanks to the FOB menu but the ones taken from targets in game can be really annoying to try and figure out what makes them different. Not sure why 343 didn’t put even a couple of bullet points with each one just to let people know what makes them different but it seems like an oversight.
this
Agreed.
An important contribution to the Halo Infinite community!
I mean... how is it hard to tell? Each of the banished weapons is extremely easy to tell. It also tells you exactly what it does...
@@mavelll8103 some names don’t give much information, like the calcine disruptor, riven mangler, or purging shock rifle
Test it out then and find out!
You should've mentioned that when using the Duelist Energy Sword, your slide distance is increased dramatically, makes it super fun to use
I wish I knew! At the time I tried to look it up on the wiki and found no mention of the slide boost
imagine you're huddled up against a wall in Fiesta and some guy just slides over your head and melees you
hands down favorite weapon in super fiesta. combined with thruster it's lethal
Pretty sure it’s just a side effect of the enhanced movement and your movement velocity
On a second note, I REALLY wished the Plasma Pistol variant was like the one in H5 that creates a BLACK HOLE when charged. That stuff was awesome.
Void's tear was sick af
What does this one plasma pistol do
@@kidssnyder9680 *n o t h i n g*
@@kidssnyder9680 plasma shotgun when fully charged
Hopefully we get Voidś tear and the other H5 weapons in coming seasons :).
I wish they went the opposite route with the commando. Made the rate of fire slower or made it single fire and increase the mag size with maybe a slight boost to damage output. Easy A tier.
It already does more damage, but we all see where they were going with the idea
A sniper commando with a dmr scope on it woulda been sick
Something like the Halo Reach DMR
Sounds like a DMR. A weapon that should've already been included in the game.
@@reffa2858 ah but then you have the sandbox purists complaining that the BR and the DMR are too similar (even though they never complained about the beam rifle and the sniper rifle, but we don't talk about that)
The Stalker Rifle Ultra is kind of like a Covenant Carbine
Stalker rifle ultra feels insanely weak compared to the normal br :(
@@Ghost1170 It’s weaker but it has more of a zoom, the beam is instantaneous, and it does slightly more damage per bullet. So it’s good for long range sniping, not short/medium
@@charlesg7926nah it sucks lmao. BR has more ammo and more accurate
getting a razorback and giving all my marines arcane sentinel beams is some of the most fun ive had playing halo
I can't imagine they're very good at range though. I have the Arcane Sentinel Beam unlocked in my Legendary playthrough but I pretty much exclusively give them Volatile Skewers
@@darienwhite6223 no they are very good, i have tested, they shoot them very far with precision
they're extremely good with the Skewer variant too, since they are able to arc the shot like a mortar (which is something the player can't really do)
As soon as I realized how OP the arcane sentinel beam is, that's the only thing I give to the Marines when loading them into the razor now. It's just an instant delete button on every enemy 😂
Imagine rocking up to one of the targets in what could be described as a apocalyptic party bus and just watching as five lasers disintegrate an army in a matter of seconds
I don't need to imagine, because the more marines you save the more you get at FOBs until like 8 spawn at each FOB
@@Loading77777 I did. Cleared the entire camp in less than thirty seconds. Boss himself died in less than five.
When you said, “I don’t like the regular heat wave,” I questioned the validity of everything in this video
You see after like 80 hours of multiplayer i dont get the hype behind it, I try so hard to lile it but I'd rather take almost any other gun
The worst part of the variants in the campaign is the ammo exclusivity. I can understand why maybe the variant pistol might use different bullets than the standard pistol but... The needler variant? Does the duelist sword use different size batteries than the standard energy sword?
I dunno, pisses me off. I figure it's fine for MP balance but makes very little sense for campaign
Yeah its boring… we have to find those ammo boxes to refill
In fact this makes some variants totally unplayable especially when playing Legendary. The BR variant is cool but the low ammo is a deal breaker. Same with other weapons.
@@lorebirb idk, I held my variant BR all through the end phase of the campaign on legendary. There were one or two spots where I ran out of ammo for it for a little while, but it wasn't that bad.
The BR and Sidekick are the only viable variants because of the kinetic ammo stations. I hate how stingy the game is for the rest of the weapons, i wish they change it because I have so much fun and then all of a sudden it's it's out.
@@newaccountwhodis4536 yeah, energy refills are so damn rare, it was such a bother since i used the calcine for shield stripping and stunning for basically the entire game
Bit late to the party but something I feel the need to mention is with the Scatterbound Heatwave the "Pellets" actually have a much greater magnetism towards enemy players, meaning you can miss your shots but still hit them, place the weapon in atleast S imo
I like the variants, but I wish they were more chaotic like the ones in Halo 5.
Thank you for the video!
Some minor additions for the record:
The S7 flexfire also has **slightly** reduced accuracy.
The calcine disruptor (in my testing) will actually disable all vehicles in one shot, it just takes a couple seconds of letting the tazer err... taze lol.
The rapidfire pulse carbine also has increased projectile speed and tracking.
The duelist energy sword increases lunge range and jump height substantially. It also increases swing speed which means you'll always win *duels* with normal swords
The unbound plasma pistol has substantially increased charged projectile speed and tracking, and the regular shots seem to do much more damage. But it quickly loses these perks at range.
The rushdown gravity hammer increases jump height and damage substantially (I don't know if its intended, but it does a LOT more damage in my campaign testing. Also seems to have increased knockback? Like it'll send a warthog through slipspace).
The pinpoint needler also has substantially increased fire rate and projectile speed.
The diminisher of hope (in my testing) had a much greater area and much less fall-off than a normal hammer, however it did the same damage for me vs vehicles and bosses.
dang this is all super helpful wish i knew all this! Thanks!
The scatterbound heatwave's pellets also are homing once they have rebounded off of a surface
I just started the point of no return Command Spire on legendary, with the arcane beam in my back pocket for the bosses, mostly relying on the Striker. I nearly brought the Breacher, but changed my mind. The Striker melts in campaign, believe me.
funny I never actually used the striker. And I found the normal BR to be a better option since you still 1 shot unshielded enemies and you can carry like twice the ammo that the breacher can.
@@joshyaash yeah, I was reading comments about the Striker so gave it a go. Most of the open world stuff on legendary was done with the Breacher, and I was even making notes of the locations of kinetic ammo caches I hadnt used up. The linear levels, though, provide so much kinetic ammo it doesnt really matter. The Striker just seems better than the Breacher to me
@@senecauk8363 I never even got any of those weapons when I beat the campaign. I didn’t even have the wasp. It was so sad
You and me both my friend, you and me both
projectiles from the scatterbound heatwave also bounce toward the nearest enemy
Thanks I was just about to say this, the ricochet has insane tracking so all you have to do is aim at the ground in their general direction
1:09 Otto Octavius : The power of the sun, in the palm of my hand!
Fantastic video pal, gives me a really good idea what weapons to give a whirl on campaign.
Thanks! Glad you liked it!
This is the best tier list out. Took 30 seconds to jump right into it, love it!
Thanks! I'm glad you liked it!
That was a fun video thanks!
Cool vid my guy !
Thanks! Glad you liked it!
I wanna add something about the longshot ar, from some testing I did in campaign. It can get headshots, which was kinda surprising cuz it was already good.
Good job on the video btw, it was solid.
Thanks! I had no idea you could get headshots with the longshot ar, that's busted
you can get headshots with the normal AR
Nice tier list, this was really interesting. The skewer variant is absolutely hilarious when given to a razorback full of marines. Check out some of the videos - it is like artillery
Finally someone uploads something like this lol I've been wondering what the variants do. Part of me feels like they should have been "classic" variants but I assume they'll just add in those weapons overtime.
haha I tested some weapons with the marines myself and I was pretty sure the Arcane Beam was going to the top tier. It is legit broken on the campaign and even more so with the AI, they never run out of ammo and they actually have pretty good aim and they fire it all the time. Makes some encounters super easy.
Man I gave all my marines rockets and arcane beams and when a banished ship comes in the destroy it in 2 seconds lol
@@MrPawsPause yesterday I had a marine on a mongoose and he shot the rocket launcher a solid 5 times before reloading
This is some good content 🤟
Thanks! More is on the way
You forgot the best gun in campaign. The anti armor tank Foot rifle cannon :P. / easteregg tank gun.
I was looking for this! And hoping to find if there are more
Mmmmmmoooooooooooooorrrreeeeeee
Bruh, you forgot to mention or didn't know that the better energy sword (forgot the name) has double the lunge range of a normal sword and the rush down gravity hammer has the same aoe as the Diminisher of Hope. Also the Pursuit Hydra can lock on from way more lock on range. Also the better heat wave shotgun has stupidly insane tracking on projectiles once they bounce, so you shoot the floor at an opponents feet and all projectiles will hit them nearly 100% of the time and it two hits, so definitely in the S tier. Also the better needle can lock onto and attack two targets at once.
I knew about the heatwave but wow no idea on the other things. I checked the halo wiki and found no mention of some of those. Perhaps the community doesn't know yet
@@Nikos. all good. It's a new game so everyone is still learning all the new things. I've learnt all those things from many different sources both from my own experiences and others :)
I love the scatterbound heatwave. In campaign it's a lot of fun to just delete parts of vehicles, or other scenery/cover items.
The calcine disruptor is one of my go to weapons in campaign, but man I wish it had more ammo. It takes down elite brutes so fast.
ok listen a regular hydra can lock on to a dude halfway across behemoth that is not 20m
@@ghostintheknl583 well that's just what I heard, but yeah watching a few videos you're right. However, the pursuit hydra still has way more lock on range
I think if I got to choose a loadout for Fiesta I'd go with the Arcane and probably the Flexfire
btw great vid
Nice to see another sun laser fan
Loved the weapon and vehicle variants in halo 5 glad they’ve brought em back
I love the gravity hammer you get when you kill the final boss is so good and I also love the sniper and the brecher
LOVE THIS! More rankings please :)))
Glad ypu like it man, more is on the way 😀
Out of curiosity, would you be down to see other types of halo vids from me as well?
Have any of these variants been changed and is there a video explaining? Thanks?
The Duelist energy sword and the Rushdown hammer both make you run and jump significantly faster/higher.
Also the Calcine Disruptor gets an SSS tier rating from me simply because it causes grunt backpacks to violently explode about 95% of the time, launching them about 40 feet into the air.
The diminisher of hope i found to be very useful when combined with a sentinel beam on the harbinger
All of these in a fiesta game mode would be gorgeous
Looks like you got your wish
Tracker is S in your hands, SSS with marines. You can just sit back and watch 5 rockets home in on any enemy you’re fighting. I used a razorback full of tracker marines and wiped out like 5 mini bosses before one marine died on Heroic.
Pretty good list, personally I would only change a few weapons rank because of how I play and use them.
It would've been a better video if you told people where they can find each of the Variants in the Campaign but over-all.....Nice One !!
Thanks! glad you liked it, though it woulda been a good idea to show where to find them :D
I’m sorry but what game mode is this? I played Halo Infinite for a couple of hours some days ago, but I can’t seem to remember several of these weapons performing as shown in the video… Also it seems as you can choose your own kit almost in this game mode, and what’s overshield?
I love the Volitiale Skewer in Campaign. It was my go to weapon for hunting HTVs, especially because I played the campaign immediately on legendary. What especially was good for me was I got the weapon very early on, and didn't even mean to. I am so glad I did though. If you're on legendary and intend on completion, get the Skewer Asap
fun vid :)
Thanks 😀
The normal pulse carbine is phenomenal, you take your disrespect BACK
You said it's so good in ranked, I really want to see this thing in ranked lol
I love giving all the marines beams and watchin them delete everything🤣🤣
Side note, I just find it funny how fast I recognized the ftl soundtrack as soon as the Ricen mangler came up
10/10 soundtrack easily
By manipulating the heat wave, I thought it was dead space for a moment when it entered cross-section mode. LOL🤣
Loving the FTL music.
oh my GOD. YOUR AIM BRO. im lit holding back tears
I'm not even gonna defend myself here my PC aim was bad back then lol
"The power of the Sun in the palm of my hands"-Doc Ock probably
It would be nice if the plasma pistol variant stopped vehicles but the cooling takes longer it also would be cool if on the mini boss descriptions it talked about what the weapons did and cortana could tell you
You forgot about the third campaign exclusive, the scorpion head, you know the one that makes you a literal tank
oh shoot how could I forget lmao
around 13:40 I hear FTL music lol
Yeah!
Personally, I actually like the plasma pistol variant. It stuns most enemies on almost every other shot - which you can basically spam - and the charged shotgun is visually cool and helpful with enemy shields, if a bit underwhelming in damage for being a plasma shotgun. But it wreaks havoc as a close quarters weapon.
You also forgot to mention that the scatter bound shotgun homes onto targets after it bounces which is why it's so effective
The Diminisher of Hope also seems to have a slightly longer but more powerful bash animation for when you don’t want to use energy.
Also the only opponent I have seen survive a swing is The Harbinger but it staggers her, not sure if thats a mechanic exclusive to her. But she was one of the easiest boss fights in the game when I just went to an inlet and let her box herself in near me.
They should put the weapons on the wall for fiesta
The vatiants are on the wall weapon pads in fiesta, but only custom games and they are randomly generated
This video is super old but i wish i could show you some things, the heatwave for example should be way higher. Just shoot on horizontal on the ground in front of someone and it will two tap everyone with no aim required, across the map aswell. Also some other weapons i dont think you were using correctly or well (commando, flexfire, disruptor, etc) that I could have helped you understand. good video though
The power of the sun in the palm of my hands
The Breacher variant solves the issue i have with the BR, and thats its fire rate. it just feels unaturally clunky that i just cant get a proper handle on it. The Commando in single fire feels better then the default BR
The volatile skewer becomes a sss if you give it to a warthog full of marines, instant mobile artillary
1:09 i call it the blue centinel ray that was back in Halo 2, idk how it actually called but yeah
9:13 EXCUSE ME? ITS HALO 2 ROCKET LAUNCHER LIKE
this is my oversimplified descriptions for the weapon varients (if you want more just ask)
arcane sentinel beam: the power of the sun in the palm of my hand
flexfire sniper: budget DMR
calcine disruptor: hipity hoppity your life go stopity
longshot AR: I only used one bullet and my gun FLEW out of my hand then back in, I held the trigger and didn't move at all
Dude the RapidFire Carbine is insane in campaign. If you give a whole squad of marines this gun and put them on a razor back they will melt all enemies in your path
Playing on legendary as soon as I got the arcane sentinel beam I used it all the time, it cuts through absolutely everything.
1:09
The power of the sun, in the palm of my hand.
-Dr. Otto Octavius
You were definitely right about first place after the new update and now has 250 rounds instead
13:08 FTL music kicks in, along with some related PTSD
Flagship fight ptsd
Not sure if this is because of balance changes or what but I find the Purging Shock rifle to arc between more enemies and almost always stun them (even if the dude I shot was 2 enemies away).
Love the FTL music
How do you do the weapon varients in multiplayer
1:13 was perfect for Doc Ocks famous line
about the second g hammer: "this thing one shots", yeah so does a regular one against pretty much everything except high shield targets jkek
I found the breacher br super early on ky first legendary play through. Kept it the whole game literally, who doesnt want jackals down in 1 hand burst and legendary elites to feel like a halo reach heroic. Also the volatile skewer is comically strong. Nothin like skewer ammo at every fob early in tye game
Is this custom games? How are you finding all the variants in the walls?
10:07 I need a video talking about this. I’m intrigued
You forgot one small detail about the pinpoint needler, it can lock on to multiple targets and each needles fired will track down the locked on enemies in a cycled fashion, it's stupid cool
That's sick i had no idea. That just makes it better
It appears the arcane sentinel beam is Halo infinite's Spartan Laser. Vary naice.
13:15 yooo the FTL soundtrack
I slept on the sentinel beam in campaign until I had to use it. I regret that cause it is so good
I have a question can we use variants weapons in multiplayer? or just the campaign
You can only use them in custom games and campaign
Rapid-fire pusle carbine squad in the razorback is too op, especially when they fire at different times creating a river of plasma
How did you manage to create a custom game with the weapon varients? And even moreso, I can't figure out how to have random weapon spawns in a custom game either
Open a custom game match on fiesta, then edit the gametype to include weapon pads and power weapon pads. The weapon variants will randomly spawn on these pads. This doesn't seem to work on any other mode aside from fiesta.
@@Nikos. thanks for the quick reply! I went and played right away!
1:16 "Power of the sun in your own two hands" sounds like Doc Ock
"the power of the sun in the palm of my hands"..... ok Doc Oc
Wait doc oc said that?
I don't think you know this because you didn't mention it, but the Scatterbound Heatwave can even track your target if you purposely ricochet it off the ground near your target, which is completely undodgable because of how fast the projectiles fly as you already said. This makes the weapon an easily guaranteed 2 shot kill which should put it in SS Tier at least.
I've learned since! I made this video almost a year ago, and I wonder if the bandit rifle will get a variant.
A warthog full of volatile skewer marines is a mobile artillery battery. Its amazing
Duelist energy sword and rush down hammer also increase jump height. The duelist energy sword is faster, but less high than the hammer, and vice versa for the hammer
Love the striker
1:13 “The power of the sun, in the palm of my hand.” - Doctor Otto Octavius
You do not know fear until you've 1v1ed against an bottomless clip infinite ammo backdraft cindershot. It is horrifying to realize that you stand no chance against the weapon while you're being flashbanged by the nukes that it launches
12:05 … YOO THE COVENANT CARBINE IS BACK
The problem with the cindershot is that its fun to use, but if your enemy has one, your gonna want to defenestrate yourself into a cactus pit
I started watching the other weapons videos, wondered why you haven't done the other games in 9 months, and then I started this video and instantly felt bad. "Doing another tier list, cause that's all I'm good for these days." 🗿
Lmao, I have been working on a new one to finish the series soon, a different list of projects took my focus for the time being. It is in the works rn.
A few things that are wrong or not mentioned
The regular hydra does more damage when not locking on making it have a 2 shot kill potential instead of 4 the variant averages these numbers making it 3 for both
The pinpoint needles can lock onto multiple targets and can kill in 8 shot due to the convergence (when they explode)
The gravity hammer variant always does insta-kill despite having the same damage radius
How are you getting the alt weapon variants in multiplayer? Am I dumb?
start a custom fiesta match, turn on weapon pads and weapon racks, then start the match with friends and/or bots
When are *all* these variants coming to matchmaking? They are fantastic for the most part.
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Ayo have you tried the quintuple sun laser razorback? Most op thing I have ever seen.