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Pre-Assembled Weapons? Good/bad idea?

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Sambojin:
I agree that it probably would make it somewhat easier to use the basic assemblies. Possibly too easy. To tell you the truth, I tend to see assemblies as just another part of character building.

If your going for a pistol build, you'll mod-up some nice pistols. There's also a nice assembly for them where WK isn't a necessity. There's also some "really nice" assemblies for them if you take WK and find the mods. With the rarity of these mods coming out as about the same chance of aquiring them as finding a nice unique pistol somewhere in your run.

The point being, the basic assembly works. You'll almost always get enough mods together to make one of the assembled weapons no matter what build-type you're going for. It's just a matter of saving the required mods for that particular weapon. Therefore, I don't think that having a couple of extra pre-assembled weapons in a run would drastically alter the difficulty as long as they were kept to the rareness of specials and uniques.

I've found that there's nothing rare or unique about a speedloader pistol. Or a tactical shotgun, a gatling gun or even an assault rifle or hyperblaster. If I want that weapon, there's a pretty good chance that by mid-game I will have built it. With the weapons getting a little better as I mod them up (an ag/ag modded chaingun is still a good weapon until it goes all rifle-y for me). Some of the other assemblies, I'll probably almost never make. Probably exactly never. So having a very occaisional demoltion-ammo'ed chaingun might not be such a bad thing. Not any more game changing than finding an assault shotgun early in my run followed by a Jackhammer a few levels later. Very lucky, game-changing finds, but this has happened a couple of times to me. It changed the difficulty enormously, but it won't happen every run (it's a fluke that it's happened as often as it has). A tactical shotgun tends to happen every shotgun run I do if all goes well. It's game changing, just not unique or special. Certainly not rare. And far more likely than a plasmatic shotgun or demolition ammo will ever be. Rare isn't the same as "probably won't ever happen", so a few higher end pre-assembled weapons or armour sounds attractive to me.

Although, I could be wrong. It's just my opinion. Thus the thread for discussion.

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