QUOTE (HunterHerne @ Oct 30 2011, 04:37 PM)

and if some hitman with a knife comes up to you, you are stuck in melee with drone overwatch potentially blowing you away with said grenade launcher.
Oh, come on, what happened to old-fashioned negotiation? If the guy brings a knife to a gun fight you reason with him that if he sticks close to you then very soon both of you will be blown to a fine red mist, and he would be far better off just making peace.

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Just one? I usually try to have three: a holdout pistol for maximum conceal and just in case, a light pistol for decent conceal and use when I need people to think I'm unarmed, and a heavy pistol as a primary when I don't have to worry about being searched for weapons or when I need to hand over a weapon. If I were to go in Redmond it would be with my trusty M1A, top rifle damage and a 20 cartridge magazine. Doesn't everyone OC in the barrens if forced to go there?
I think somehow the idea of the "boot gun" somehow hasn't yet taken hold in our game group(s). People might have a secondary gun - usually an Hpist in addition to the rifle.

One more case for openly carrying the big guns is when the shit is actually going down: You CC a pistol during legwork, etc, but when the run goes down then usually the gloves come off and the chameleon coated assault rifle is carried openly - since after all, if you're obviously intruding, what's the point of concealing your gun? If someone finds you, then it obviously doesn't matter anymore. Obviously this doesn't happen during infiltration via impersonation runs.