Rolander on 19/9/2003 at 16:04

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Speaking of the Heavy Weapons Guy, my recent games have all been based on Pistol/LowTech/Heavy weapons group. I end up with 2 heavies(GEP + Plasma/Flame), Dragon, and SP/Crossbow. That was 22 out of 30 inventory slots; a inventory nightmare as I juggle the other essential items ...

Heard someone tried going 3 heavy weapons ... which will mean only 6 slots for EVERYTHING else.

Personally, I think GEP + Flame is better than GEP + Plasma. Plasma works against most anything pretty well, but overlaps too much with GEP. Flame compliments better and offsets the GEP's close range disadvantage, while Plasma will hurt the player as well if used at short range. I played a few games with GEP + Plasma and feels that the Plasma is only nice as a fallback; a new game with the flamethrower is quite different as the flamethrower is really useful against organic critter (except the greys).

BTW, you can sniper head-shot with the Plasma too! The problem is at long range, the plasma bolt takes so long to reach the target, which might move away.