/vr/ - Retro Games

>>4884867
to be honest, with the FEAR 3-weapon system, I always carried some rapid-fire gun, the shotgun (of course), and then one of the more beefy weapons like the beam gun or rocket launcher. The pistols just kind of fell out of use once you had more weaponry at your disposal.

Which is kind of the point of a sidearm, a backup gun in case you're totally shit out of luck and have no other gun.

I think a better way to punish players for carrying nothing but heavy weapons rather than a speed penalty could just be an ammo penalty. Ammo for those guns would just be less common than rifles and shotguns, obviously.