So I was considering adding this to the compilation thread of suggestions I just made, as I think a unique pistol that has an Aimed Shot alt-fire that extends visibility while targeting is interesting, which can be especially handy as lategame Pistol builds will frequently knockback enemies out of their vision. My concern however is with how you described it, it'll just completely outclass all other pistols. You didn't give a number on damage, but I'm assuming you're thinking of something as strong as the Trigun's 3d6, or at least no weaker than 3d5, yet has a clip twice the size of the Trigun and Jackal, while also having the aforementioned sniping ability that would be very powerful on just the base Pistol. If it's to have that sort of power, I think it'll have to have a 1.5 second firing speed at base (which will come down to .15 second firing speed with SoG5), in addition to still having the half speed penalty when aim shooting, so that it isn't just the best pistol at everything and broken out of the box (at least not without also having heavy Finesse investment too to hit that minimum firing speed with it). I never played Halo, so I don't know if that slower firing speed is faithful, but some compromise would have to be made and the power + sniping are the defining parts of the weapon, so slow firing speed seems to the best place to compromise on (also reading the Wikipedia page, the pistol even got changed in Halo 3 to fire slower, so there's precedent for that balancing).
Not sure how I missed this, but the firing speed is a fairly integral part of the pistol in Halo CE. You
could reduce the firing speed to be more like the Halo 3 pistol, but then it wouldn't be the specific M6D pistol that has its on Wikipedia page. I will probably post more about this in the compilation thread.
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