User blog comment:Legionwrex/Worst enemy in Mass Effect 2 EVER/@comment-781424-20110617193914/@comment-781424-20110623060944

1. Starting from my second playthrough, I never used them because in the time it -takes- for Shepard to draw a heavy weapon (freaking long), I could just pop another Adrenaline rush and annihilate extra enemies. 2. I had to open pause menu -constantly- to change weapons. I couldn't just scroll to the weapon I need because unlike in other games (e.g. GoW), Shepard goes through drawing and holstering every freaking weapon, especially painful long for heavies. The line goes: pistol-sniper-shotgun-assault-heavy. I used sniper/assault about 90% and geth shotgun about 10%, and every time I used a shotgun, I had to later open the tactical menu to switch from assault to sniper. 3. To add insult to the injury, there are no weapon keybinds in PC version (unlike ME1). The PC adaptation of ME2 is awful in the UI part. (Don't even start me on software mouse acceleration. I had to tweak the game before I could play it.) 4. Soldier with *four* weapons on the back, with heavy's model clipping into others a bit, looks unhealthy. I preferred the ME1 style.

As a result, I cut it down to three weapons, which allows to select the one I need without hassle. As a bonus, I got SMG as the third because in cutscenes, Soldier Shepard -constantly- uses SMGs instead of normally available weapons, and it sucks because it's freaking Shuriken.