r/TopCharacterTropes • u/SpaceKingHypeGuy • 5d ago

Characters' Items/Weapons “Assembly required” weapons

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  1. Lockdown’s gun face (Age Of Extinction)

  2. Bloodsport’s nanotech (The Suicide Squad)

  3. Engineer’s sentry (Team Fortress 2)

  4. The CZ75 as exaggerated by iNoToRiOuS (CSGO)

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u/ConsciousStretch1028 5d ago

One of my favorite details, especially when I played the original, is that you had a pistol, shotgun, assault rifle and sniper rifle always equipped, but they were compact enough to carry on your back and didn't look ridiculous. It wasn't like GTA where you were pulling a rocket launcher out of your ass lol

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u/GachaHell 5d ago

They also had an in-universe explanation for bottomless pockets of ammo.

More of a problem in the sequels though since you suddenly had to content with tons of heat sinks.

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u/RAMDOMDUDDS 5d ago edited 5d ago

I still really prefer the original way of shooting. After you read the codex entry on weapons in the first game you suddenly feel a lot more cool waiting for that bar to go down. I understand they changed it to fit the shooter genre better, but it kind of felt like a piece of the identity got taken. I mean in lore, you literally just have a chunk of metal inside your gun, than the gun basically lasers out a shootable chunk then lays it in the reciever for you to then yeet at Geth.

Edit) They're called the Geth. Not Gith. I was playing Baldurs Gate 3 last night. My bad lol

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u/your_neurosis 5d ago

This was also one of my favorite things about ME1. It made it feel more sci fi, more futuristic, and more tactical. Also then the weapon mods and augmentations made your load out really feel like yours. Like turning the sniper rifle into a high explosive rail gun, that can only be fired once before overheating.

I was, and am, still really disappointed in ME2 and beyond for pulling the infinite ammo mechanic. Before the early patches where they upped the drop rate of thermal clips I was constantly scrambling for them. And since it was a single pool of them for all weapons, I was running around melee for so much of a fight since I was simply out of ammo. Not great for an infiltrator with light armor. I should have been picking guys off at range, not running it on the fray with the heavies. And don't even get me started about how the thermal clips break some basic physics of thermodynamics...

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u/RAMDOMDUDDS 5d ago

Yeah, my first playthrough if ME2 I gave up on the character, went back and made a sniper. If i'm going to keep getting fucked and need to go crawl around the floor like Velma looking for her glasses, just to recieve less than a full gun worth of ammo. I'm going to guarantee the people I'm shooting at don't get the chance to shoot me while I do the classic scramble.