Talk:Yang Xiao Long/@comment-25518589-20150324232354/@comment-25555436-20150325010023

....Dude, have you played the games at all? The Sniper Rifle is way too useful in pure damage alone, especially the Black Widow. And the areas have more than enough space to make Sniping viable. Hell, as an Infiltrator the whole game, even the fight with the Thresher Maw, was almost a cake-walk.

The heavy-pistol is inferior in damage a lot, and it's rate-of-fire is not good enough to make it much better than the Sniper at taking down armor and health. For every 3 shots with the heavy pistol, 1 sniper shot deals more damage, especially if playing as an Infiltrator, and has much more range and precision so you don't have to practically be in their face to be effective. And the other pistol is too weak and umprecise to be any good.

And considering how pretty useless the Sniper was in ME1 because headshots caused no extra damage, that's great. Combat in ME1 was basically "walk around, 2-4 enemies appear, won't appear again". ME2 had less combat situations, but had more combat in comparison.