The L-89 Halberd

Pretty much this. Think about how happy everyone will be when they unlock it and add yet another crap UR to the weapon pool.

It should have been the Harrier instead.

Oh god just dont tell that to the Saber couse the gun will implode out of pity....
Sandstorm is such a sad sad weapon. If i have to fight on a gold mission i will probably try the Avenger first, then a rock and if that dont work i will try using the create that the SandStorm came in before i use the gun itself 

Did someone mention Matlock?

Except the Saber is actually capable of killing things. The Sandstorm may as well be a paintball gun, even at level 10.

Hoping for L89 Halberd to be an equivalent of the harrier is like asking for the M-55 Argus to have full auto and have decent range. All three of these weapons are modified versions of the M-96 Mattock ironically. Also I don't quite understand your reasoning for thinking the halberd was suppose to be an equivalent of the Harrier; I suppose since we knew so little about it(other than it was an assault rifle for the time) there was room for possibility.

Personally I prefer if they made the Halberd an equivalent of the original mattock from ME2 rather than have another mattock variation be like the harrier. The Halberd is rare, there is a much better uncommon alternative if your looking for a full auto "assault rifle", the Raptor.

Am I in for a surprise? Is the surprise that it does no more damage than the Mattock X?

Oh no,you will be very pleasantly surprised

Sandstorm sucks balls on insanity. I bet it sucks balls in MP, too.

Mattock was very good in ME2 becuz it in fact had the highest damage per shot outta the 6 AR we had access and you could always tap-fire it fast enough. I couldn't believe the AR variation was so tiny in ME2 after having drowned in the total of 19 different AR in ME3. But then again the balance of gameplay was never the same.