Post by SalMasRac on May 2, 2018 18:51:51 GMT
As an example, think of all the ways guns in mea could have been made unique:
- accurate when blind firing is part of why equalizer is a good gun. Why not expand that trait to say, eagle? Instead they just bump the damage per shot but it still falls short of rozerad/hurricane/silhesh. Accuracy when blindfiring is a huge benefit though that goes a long way to make an otherwise mediocre gun much better
- innate piercing: me3 had some guns that imparted a small bit of piercing cover/armor by default. In mea piercing was nerfed to remove the armor bonus, it only pierces cover now, so why not give innate piercing to some of the underpowered guns?!?
- firing on the run/out of cover: in general mea confers an accuracy penalty while moving, if some guns didn't have this problem but were not exactly top tier in dps it would go a long way to make them better for certain run and gun playstyles.
I could go on but ultimately gun design in mea boils down to a few guns having top marks in multiple categories like rof, damage, magazine size, accuracy and spare ammo while other guns are lower in one or more category without anything unique to make up for it.
Not to mention that variants should have just been a 3rd weapon mod slot instead of entirely new versions of each weapon..
Yeah, these are all excellent points. They could have gone that way too and had a dizzying array of interesting hidden bonus stats and that would have made things a lot better wrt this problem.
