Talk:Paris Prime/@comment-112.200.202.193-20140211153152/@comment-24245085-20140213103339

"Sure, bows may deal a ridiculous amount of damage per shot now, but I think a lot of people overstate the effectiveness of the bow. Considering it's less than one shot per second (assuming charge), and the fact that enemies won't necessarily line up neatly, you'll still be hard pressed to stay alive when being swarmed. For this reason, automatic rifles (or shotguns like the Boar Prime) are pretty much a must in the end game. If the game were designed to have fewer, stronger enemies, bows would be in a much better place, but right now they exist mostly to support the team by quickly taking out prime targets."

I am almost in complete agreement with you in this. The only differences are that shotguns can't be real shotguns as they requite close range, and close range is suicide in late game. Having said that fewer and stronger enemies would benefit the usage of bows/sniper rifles/shotguns. I'm running usually with vectis(or PP if I need to stealth a mission) and the only reason I've got any kind of damage in a survival is because I snipe down heavy units like napalms/bombards/gunners/techs/fusion moa's. If only vectis would have an innate punch through...