Halo 4 Multiplayer Tuning – June 3rd, 2013

Halo 4 will be receiving a huge number of changes on June 3rd which includes multiple weapons, vehicles and other elements about the game being changed to improve the gameplay, a full list of these changes were revealed in The Halo Bulletin – May 29th edition.
It should be noted that all of the below changes do not apply to Grifball, Team Snipers or Rock ‘N’ Rails from Action Sack.


Weapon Changes
Battle Rifle
The Battle Rifle damage has been increased. The Battle Rifle is now capable of killing in four bursts.
The Battle Rifle rate of fire has been slightly decreased.
The Battle Rifle red reticle range (range at which auto-aim benefits kick in) has been decreased.
Two bursts from a Battle Rifle followed by a melee will now kill an opponent (2-shot melee).

Covenant Carbine
The Carbine damage has been increased. The Carbine is now capable of killing in seven rounds.
The Carbine accuracy has been increased (projectile spread decrease).
The Carbine red reticle range has been decreased.

LightRifle
The LightRifle zoomed rate of fire has been increased.
The LightRifle un-zoomed rate of fire has been slightly decreased.
The LightRifle red reticle range has been increased to match the updated DMR range.

DMR
The DMR red reticle range has been slightly decreased.

Assault Rifle, Storm Rifle and Suppressor
The Assault Rifle, Storm Rifle and Suppressor’s damage has been slightly increased. The Assault Rifle, Storm Rifle and Suppressor now kills in three less rounds.
The Assault Rifle, Storm Rifle and Suppressor’s auto-aim angle has been reduced.
The Assault Rifle, Storm Rifle and Suppressor’s projectile spread has been decreased.
SAW
The damage has been increased to maintain double the damage-per-second of the Assault Rifle.

Magnum
The damage has been slightly increased. The Magnum is still capable of killing in six rounds.

Vehicle Changes
Warthog & Mantis
The damage has been increased on both the Mantis and Warthog Chain Gun.

General Changes
Movement Speed
The movement speed has been increased from 100% to 110% across all gametypes in Matchmaking.

Overshield
The Overshield is now double layered across all gametypes in Matchmaking.