Gun safety rules

Liam obviously intends to shoot Scott in the ass because he's jealous that Scott is banging both Cora and Peebee.

Cora is about to turn just a little more to the left and get into a showdown with Drack.

PeeBee is just in the process of drawing her weapon is order to shoot Liam. She wants it to look like she's protecting her lover Scott, but she's actually intentionally being slow on the draw to give Liam just enough chance to finish off Scott before she finishes him off.

After Drack wins the duel with Cora, PeeBee and Drack will ultimately ride into the sunset together to find Vetra. Aliens unite!

They seem to have triggers, and said triggers seem to cause the guns to fire. Standard gun safety rules apply.  The guns seem to have a hole on the end were projectiles or particles fly out that hurt people, so standard gun safety rules apply.  In any military / security / police force one of the first things you have to learn, and learn very well, is safety rules when handling firearms. 

That may be unimportant for kids and toddlers, but we're speaking of highly trained special operators here, they should be able obey the gun safety rules. 



With that logic you can justify any blatant error or design mistake in a video game. 



As far as I can remember in Mass Effect 3 this was handled very well, I hope ME:A is not going to be a step back in this matter. 

And how do you account for the fact that they all have barriers that prevent a lone shot from killing them or even injuring them? Its likely gun safety would be more relaxed when everyone has some sort of protective armour with barriers or shields. Plus, the weapons could very well have safety measures that prevent accidental misfire.

Its not a good idea to push modern logic on a video game set in a future where a race of machines tried to grind us up into a smoothie.

You forgot keep your weapon on safe until you intend to fire.

This really does piss you off doesnt it? I dislike the phrase as much as the next guy but at some point you do need to realise its just a game. You cant pick and choose which things you're fine with and which ones you hate based off of logic. How do you explain that you never have to eat or drink? Or go to the toilet? Most of the technology in the game is based off of false logic and the fact that we technically never have to reload is also false since you need to replace the metal block inside the weapon at some point.

As far as unrealistic stuff goes, the weapon safety is really minor.

No. If you think that this pisses me off you have never seen me pissed off. I find it mildly annoying and distracting, like a rash.


Easy, thats not an integral part of the game, cutscenes and gun play totally are. If you focus on something you better get it right.  If this was the human life simulator 2020 I sure as hell would complain if there were no eating and shitting mechanics. 


You can still say the block lasts throughout the game because the projectiles are so small, thats part of the Mass Effect space magic. Its not great but oh well.  You can not however, hand wave unsafe weapons handling since this is an extremely basic thing for any person who received some sort of military and combat training. To allow the guns to magically avoid accidental discharges you'd have to go even more gung-ho on space magic, and that's not good. Especially since they got it mostly right, in ME3, so this means gun safety rules do apply in the ME universe. 

Pointing guns at people without the intention to shoot them will always be a no-go, for as long as guns will exist. 


I agree. But, it would be, or would have been very easy to get that right, and it hurts immersion. 

Get over myself? Why should I get over my own opinions?

It may be a minor detail but it does hurt immersion and it could have been easily avoided, especially since they knew how to do it back in Mass Effect 3, which was definitely not a military combat simulator. I see no reason not to be a little angry about this questionable lore breaking choice, since its also a step back from its predecessor.

Let me stop you right there before you'll say some ridiculous nonsense like I can't turn violent or sexist by playing video games.

Scott is obviously at least a few steps in front of Liam and Cora, according to their height and size difference. Liam is pointing his gun almost perfectly perpendicular to his body. His gun is not pointed at Scott at all.

Liara was scientist and she knew how to do it. The Ryders have received military training so they should know how to handle firearms. 


As I said numerous times, it is a minor problem, but minor problems must be addressed too.


No. You can make your own customized character, I can't do that with cutscenes - making the issue a permanent, recurring problem that cannot be fixed.


A handful of replies hardly gives useful data about how many people agree or disagree with me.