damage penalty on beam emitter aug...

Ah thanks for the term! But leading the target with the modified plasma seeking aug is necessary, since the projectiles are much slower than normally and missed most of the time when I tried shooting straight at the targets.

I thought Gears of War was the most obvious influence for ME2... Overtly grimdark atmosphere, waist-high covers everywhere and standard clips...
The in-game reason for thermal clips was kinda wonky: supposedly higher rate of fire, but at the expense of unlimited ammo and all because the geth used it first. And they do this after, as far as the general populace knows, the geth have been defeated. I could see that military personnel would find it more appealing, but that EVERYONE IN THE KNOWN GALAXY decides to roll with is kinda stretching it.

Voice of Reason: "Hey since we're going to this new galaxy that we know basically nothing about, maybe take some of those guns with unlimited ammo with us? You know, just in case?"
Everyone else: "Lalalalalalalalaaaa not listening, let's go already!!!"

Gotcha. We're finally on the same page it seems hah.

In general I'd love to hear more about people's crafting experiments!!

N7 crusader with VHS works like a charm for vanguard (now if only they did not nerf it it would be better)

Next up N7 Eagle

I kinda dont like the seeking plasma augment. One its slow as hell and secondly it kinda kills the fun of playing a shooting based game. I like to actually aim and fire my weapons because without that its just not fun anymore.