Talk:M45 shotgun

Counterpart

The Covenant counterpart is the Energy Sword? Seriously? Especially considering that the UNSC forces actually HAVE close quarters melee weapons such as machetes? It seems a little like comparing a Spartan laser to a Beam rifle because they both fire a linear of energy... AlexB1001 12:49, 7 December 2010 (EST)

Article Name

Should the name of the article be M45 Tactical Shotgun? Seeing as the M90 article isn't named M90 CAWS. Bottletopman 09:54, June 21, 2010 (UTC)

The M90 article is named that way because it is about all of the variants of the M90, instead of a single weapon like this article.--FluffyEmoPenguin 05:09, June 28, 2010 (UTC)

Article Info

Does anyone know which Game Informer interview it was that stated the M45 being more powerful than the M90. If so, could you put it in as a reference, becuase currently it just makes the article look messy. --Turn out the Lights, on your way Out 22:11, July 26, 2010 (UTC)

Reloads

In Halo: CE all of the weapons had an empty and a mid-magazine reload, while in Halo 2 and 3, well, not so much. In Halo: Reach Bungie decided to bring back the old, and realistic, reloads from Halo: CE for all the weapons... except this one. The shotgun is the only weapon in Reach that doesn't have proper empty and mid-mag reloads: it pumps at the end every reload no matter what. Though I admit it's better than never pumping (H2), and at least it doesn't pump every time you take it out (H3), but it's weird that they didn't fix it, as the SRS99 (Sniper Rifle) only had a mid-mag reload in the beta, but they later fixed it for the final game. I just find it really odd, any thoughts? Alex T Snow 08:50, September 8, 2010 (UTC)

Most likely, it's done because it looks cooler. Smoke^{Sound off!} 22:45, 31 December 2010 (EST)

Yeah... probably :( Oh well, I've gotten used to shotguns always pumping in every game anyway. Alex T Snow 02:25, 1 January 2011 (EST)

just a note

It looks to me like the M45 has a picatinny rail in-between the iron sights. A.O.A., Administrator of Ace Combat Fanon 11:06, 11 January 2011 (EST)

It is, or some future version of it. The DMR has one too, and it looks like the AR does under the ammo counter. And all over the grenade launcher. Alex T Snow 02:36, 12 January 2011 (EST)

Article Image

The article's main image is the shotgun form the Beta (not sure, but with those blue iron sights...), can someone a render of the final game's shotgun? —S331 08:59, 28 March 2011 (EDT)

Elites

Why is the Elite's not operating the weapon correctly worth mentioning? Alex T Snow 18:22, 5 July 2011 (EDT)

It is a piece of Trivia that perfectly suits the trivia section, some pageking is removing it and refusing to tell me why. 24.60.143.195 11:00, 13 July 2011 (EDT)

I agree. I think this is a worthy piece of information.--The All-knowing Sith'ari 11:52, 13 July 2011 (EDT)

I agree as well. Other articles feature far less noteworthy information. --Courage never dies. 18:39, 13 July 2011 (EDT)

Replacing the M90 In Anniversary?

In the new video from Halo Waypoint comparing weapon sounds in Anniversary, the M90 is laballed the M45 Tactical Shotgun. It also has the same body it just has blue lights, so it looks pretty much exactly like the Beta shotgun. Is the M45 replacing the M90?Fairfieldfencer FFF 05:51, 8 October 2011 (EDT)

*No, they're just using the models of the Halo: Reach version of the weapon for now, originally the MA5B and the M6D used the MA37 and M6G models respectively. BushWookieCamper 10:38, 8 October 2011 (EDT)