Not to mention the grenade that fires out of a chamber that's clearly way too small to fit it in. And trailing smoke. I expect the desicion about its effectiveness was too keep the arsenal balanced. If they gave players an overpowered weapon, it would make the game too easy, or at least desuade them from using the other weapons available. They want you play the game using as versatile a range of techniques as possible, rather than falling back on the same gun all the time.
I do agree that it's not accurate enough; I wouldn't have minded that much if the overwatch rifle was more accurate instead, but having both automatic weapons useless at anything other than short range is simply annoying. Not to mention the grenade that fires out of a chamber that's clearly way too small to fit it in. And trailing smoke. I expect the desicion about its effectiveness was too keep the arsenal balanced.
If they gave players an overpowered weapon, it would make the game too easy, or at least desuade them from using the other weapons available. They want you play the game using as versatile a range of techniques as possible, rather than falling back on the same gun all the time. I do agree that it's not accurate enough; I wouldn't have minded that much if the overwatch rifle was more accurate instead, but having both automatic weapons useless at anything other than short range is simply annoying. Click to expand.The Overwatch Rifle is significantly more accurate than the SMG. Whilst granted it could be slightly more accurate, you can take out medium range targets with ease, and long range targets if you have the ammo to spare.The SMG on the otherhand is purely good at shortrange.
However it holds more ammo, and I do believe it is the easiest gun in the game to get ammo for. It's just a case of, as you say, using it effectively.My personal complaint is with the Magnum. It doesn't hold nearly enough shots to make it worth while - and it's become a lot less powered down from the first game also. I'd say it either needs more shots, or more power.
That's not to say I do not enjoy kicking arse with it when possible. SMG is a good weapon against standard Combine soldiers and against regular antlions.
At short range, especially when there are 2-3 enemies close together, the SMG is ideal. You can easily press the trigger and make short 'left-rights', guiding your bullets to all your enemies at once.SMG sucks big time against zombies and headcrabs. Do not try, ever, to kill headcrabs with the SMG, you will empty half of your magazine and you will loose hit points while he jumps several times on your face.
Zombies are tough, the shotgun deals with them perfectly. With that being said, enjoy your game, I do. And I love SMG when fighting Combine.Back in the original Half Life, the SMG was the best weapon in the game.
Since I played the demo on its time (almost 12 years ago) I loved the sound of firing and especially the sound of the empty bullet shells falling on the floor. It was amazing! Not even Half Life 2 SMG gives me that feeling. The original SMG fires more bluntly, it roughly shakes Gordon's arm when used. The SMG is the second gun in my 'top guns from all games' if I can so, the first being the asskicking Smartgun from AVP2. Click to expand.And when do you get the overwatch rifle huh????You got no weapon for medium range till the end levels since u get the overwatch very late in the game, the crossbow is good but slow reload time, the magnum is a bit good but very few bullets, only a sub machine gun should be accurate on medium range like in real life but for some reason its crap at medium range which gives you no good medium range weapon except the two I mentioned that have its own issues, funny I find it easyer to kill someone from medium range with a shotgun than a machine gun lol. Click to expand.Well.
I believe the Shotgun's awesomeness depends on what level difficulty you're playing on. Moderate, and Easy difficulty, and the shotgun is quite simply one of the best weapons in the game. On the Hard setting however, the enemies become too tough to make the shotgun worthwhile - it quite simply does not hold enough ammo, and is too slow on the pump action. Headcrabs, unless one is at point-blank range, take two shells to take down. When the shotgun only carries 36 shells, you find you can only target zombies with it - and even then only single zombies as opposed to groups of them.Though this isn't to say that the Shotgun should carry as many shells as it did on HL1. Even on the Difficult setting I find myself shooting windows, crates and whatever else with it due to the sheer excess of ammo.
However, ordinary Marines take so long to take down with the Shotgun even at close range (on Difficult setting) that it is only worth while for shooting down Xen creatures. Back in the original Half Life, the SMG was the best weapon in the game.
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Since I played the demo on its time (almost 12 years ago) I loved the sound of firing and especially the sound of the empty bullet shells falling on the floor. It was amazing! Not even Half Life 2 SMG gives me that feeling.
The original SMG fires more bluntly, it roughly shakes Gordon's arm when used. The SMG is the second gun in my 'top guns from all games' if I can so, the first being the asskicking Smartgun from AVP2. Click to expand.I am almost tempted to agree completely - if the Magnum in Half-Life were not the best gun. That aside the SMG is undoubtably a very useful weapon. There's more than enough ammo lying around for it, and even on the difficult setting it's quite easy to take down Marines. It's accurate, and hard hitting.
Fallout 4 launch trailer. I always found it quite amusing how Gordon was always pictured with his Shotgun, when the weapon of preference tended to be the SMG.The HL2 SMG was a huge dissappointment after the original game. But, as has been mentioned many times, it does have its uses. Partically on levels such as Highway 17 where ammo is in surplus thanks to the buggy. The Overwatch Rifle is significantly more accurate than the SMG. Whilst granted it could be slightly more accurate, you can take out medium range targets with ease, and long range targets if you have the ammo to spare.The SMG on the otherhand is purely good at shortrange. However it holds more ammo, and I do believe it is the easiest gun in the game to get ammo for. It's just a case of, as you say, using it effectively.My personal complaint is with the Magnum.
It doesn't hold nearly enough shots to make it worth while - and it's become a lot less powered down from the first game also. I'd say it either needs more shots, or more power.
That's not to say I do not enjoy kicking arse with it when possible.
Here are the Half-Life 2 System Requirements (Minimum). CPU: Info. CPU SPEED: 1.7 GHz. RAM: 512 MB. OS: Windows 98/ME/2000/XP (95 & NT not supported). VIDEO CARD: DirectX 8.1 level Graphics Card. TOTAL VIDEO RAM: 64 MB.
3D: Yes. DIRECTX VERSION: 7.0. SOUND CARD: Yes.
FREE DISK SPACE: 4.5 GBHalf-Life 2 Recommended Requirements. CPU: Pentium 4 or Athlon XP. CPU SPEED: 3.0 Ghz. RAM: 1 GB.
OS: Windows 2000/XP. VIDEO CARD: DirectX 9 level Graphics Card. TOTAL VIDEO RAM: 64 MB.
3D: Yes. PIXEL SHADER: 2.0. DIRECTX VERSION: 9.0. SOUND CARD: Yes. FREE DISK SPACE: 4.5 GB.
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