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*One inspiration for the MA5B Assault Rifle was the "MA–75B Assault Rifle" from the [[Marathon (Video Game Series)|''Marathon'']] series.

*[[Robert McLees]] at Bungie has gone on record comparing the basic design of the MA5B to that of the [[Wikipedia:FN F2000|Fabrique-Nationale, FN F2000]]. According to ''[[The Art of Halo]]'', McLees didn't know of the F2000 until after the game was even finished; "I don't know when the images of the FN F2000 appeared, but I didn't see them until three or four months after the game shipped, and I thought 'Oh great. Now everyone's going to think I swiped the design from Fabrique National.' It was surreal to see how close the Halo assault rifle was to its real-life counterpart... and it was all totally by accident."

*The Assault Rifle seems to be John-117's favored weapon, since in Halo: Combat Evolved and Halo 3's cutscenes, this is the weapon he always holds.

*There is a second melee animation for the Assault Rifle, in which the user holds the weapon vertically and clubs anyone in front of them with the back end of the weapon. This animation is used in a few ''[[Halo Custom Edition]]'' maps, but was taken out of the official game.

*In ''[[Halo: Combat Evolved]]'', the compass on the Assault Rifle points "north" to [[Threshold]], seen in the sky. However, this is inaccurate, as the compass would have been obsolete anywhere too far from Threshold, unless Threshold possessed a strong magnetic field.

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 *One inspiration for the MA5B Assault Rifle was the "MA–75B Assault Rifle" from the [[Marathon (Video Game Series)|''Marathon'']] series.
 *[[Robert McLees]] at Bungie has gone on record comparing the basic design of the MA5B to that of the [[Wikipedia:FN F2000|Fabrique-Nationale, FN F2000]]. According to ''[[The Art of Halo]]'', McLees didn't know of the F2000 until after the game was even finished; "I don't know when the images of the FN F2000 appeared, but I didn't see them until three or four months after the game shipped, and I thought 'Oh great. Now everyone's going to think I swiped the design from Fabrique National.' It was surreal to see how close the Halo assault rifle was to its real-life counterpart... and it was all totally by accident."
+*The Assault Rifle seems to be John-117's favored weapon, since in Halo: Combat Evolved and Halo 3's cutscenes, this is the weapon he always holds.
 *There is a second melee animation for the Assault Rifle, in which the user holds the weapon vertically and clubs anyone in front of them with the back end of the weapon. This animation is used in a few ''[[Halo Custom Edition]]'' maps, but was taken out of the official game.
 *In ''[[Halo: Combat Evolved]]'', the compass on the Assault Rifle points "north" to [[Threshold]], seen in the sky. However, this is inaccurate, as the compass would have been obsolete anywhere too far from Threshold, unless Threshold possessed a strong magnetic field.