Best weapon for each role?

[Progeekzy]

As far as i can tell unless you need a sniper rifle you can use the special carbine for pretty much everything else.

 

Explosives, things that go boom, ya there nice. But are they needed?

 

Looking at my MANY hours of game i hardly use pistols or the SMGs unless im in a car. Shot guns, what are those?

 

Is there a use for any other gun or are they all fluff?

 

What are best in slot, piston, SMGS, shot gun, carbine, sniper, ect?

[Claptrap NL]

It's better to be a weapon than have a weapon.

[S1N0D3UTSCHT3K]

best time to use a silenced shotgun is where you're near the No County for Old Men -inspired event

 

 

 

handguns still make the most satisfying execution weapons

 

 

 

 

shotguns are really still by far the best interior weapons...

 

SMGs and handguns I mostly use out of 'roleplay'... when it makes sense that Franklin or Trevor would probably realistically just use an uzi or handgun for a shootout or a SMG for a gang raid

 

 

cuz, i mean.... in terms of gameplay balance, there's basically no reason to use anything but the rail gun, grenade launcher, and best assault rifle

 

 

 

so i usually pick a weapon based on what seems to fit the character, environment, etc in terms of believable... handguns for small shootouts or random encounters (cuz you wouldn't have a LMG on your back in a subway station)... SMGs for small gang night raids, my AK for a random desert cop shootout, maybe a serious silenced military grade rifle for a armored car heist

 

 

i will even try 'customize' my weapons based on this...

 

 

so, most of my basic weapons, like basic handgun, rifle, etc don't have many mods and are just black

 

but I will also pretend one of my SMGs, say, the MP5 one, was stolen from a military convoy. so, it has the Army green colour, silenced, etc

 

 

 

 

i never ever buy my weapons in most cases... i just earn them through the story if possible

 

so, Michael's LMG is from Blitz Play, Franklin gets his SMG from Hood Safari... etc

 

I got my minigun from the Fort Zancudo control tower... the rail gun from the Merryweather cargo jet crash site

 

 

 

i also 'roleplay' the DLC weapons... so 2 of the better DLC assault rifles, I also 'bought' them not until I went to the Merryweather cargo jet crash site, so I was roleplaying that I got them from there (and they came in Merryweather camo colours with silencers, etc)

 

and the other rocket launcher, assault shotgun and sniper rifle, proximity grenade, I roleplayed that I got those from Fort Zancudo (so I didn't buy until I successful raided the Fort Z armoury (just the control tower interior, one of the rooms)

 

 

stuff like that

 

 

so i'll in general try to use AND acquire all my weapons in a believable roleplay sense

 

and I'd say at least 95% of the time, I just use my trust assault rifle, uzi, or handgun

I try to never ever use explosives unless it's like 4+ Stars or I made a serious plan about it

 

tl;dr ver.: i liekz 2 roleplay