I agree there. The whole point was to use the saber. The guns were supposed to be kind of lame.

I only used the lightsaber when I was forced too.

I always prefered the blasters in those games.
Now worst weapon ever?
The fists in JK.

the shrapnel gun in JO/JA was great for multiplayer. It fired fairly quickly and was effective at midrange and lethal at close range because it was impossible to fully block it. Those round exploding things that secondary fire shot were good too.

The rapid-fire mode of the stormtrooper rifle was good for quick-n-dirty close-range kills (assuming that the target didn't have a lightsaber out at the moment)


The repeater didn't seem as powerful in JO/JA as it did in JK for some reason, and I miss the 3-bolt spread.

So you never completed the game?

It sucked quite hard in Elite Force 2, as well.

The Elite Force series would have been insanely awesome if you did more than shoot bugs the entire game. The little bits where you fought borg and especially romulans were amazingly fun.

The first was better. The second was just a bug hunt.

The pea shooter from Tribes 2. What was that there for?

I enjoy using all of the weapons available in JK MP, except the bryar. I can even be fairly effective with the dets.

The blaster? Get an energy pack and that thing is pretty good. I don't find any weapons in Tribes useless >_>

You fail.

JO CTF was awesome. Detty will agree.

And the Bryar was insanely awesome. It does lots of damage, can knock people off ledges, cheap on ammo, and has insane accuracy. It's the poor man's disruptor.

As for sabers, they can be effective, but they need force powers to get you up close and personal. The best tactic is dodge fire as much as possible, get up in their face, kick them to the ground (or off a ledge if possible! :D) and slice the hell out of them.

Of course, a good flechette to their face while on the ground works too. :p

Whaaaat? You're the only person I've heard say that. Unless you're talking about DoD:Source, which I've never played. Just about every server I've been on locks them, and servers that give you powerups usually give you one with unlimited ammo. Even though they seriously toned in down in later releases, it's still a very useful gun.

No, the blaster was wicked lame. Lower DPS than any other weapon in the game, and it made it way harder to make a getaway if you ended up outgunned (which, since you're using the blaster, is wicked easy). Only thing I ever used it for was taking out exposed solar panels.

The laser rifle was pretty awful too, since moving after a shot is an important sniping tactic, and bloody necessary if that shot is a giant red line pointing to your exact position. Even with an energy pack it was tough to move with it, and trying to take on heavies with it was suicide. Plus the 'instantaneous' bit only helped LPBs. Those of us with >100 ping still had to lead.

Tribes was usually about quick, highly mobile strikes, which made having your most basic weapon steal power from your jetpack kind of lame. Although the shocklance in T2 still ended up being awesome, mostly because you could make a stupidly quick kill and still have enough juice to get away (provided you were smarter than the average bot... which some people never were).

I'd have to say the worst I've ever been stuck with was the fists in Dark Forces. I remember at the start of one level being stripped of all my weapons and dropped in a pit with I think 2 kell dragons and my fists. That's no kind of fair. They were especially disappointing after I'd gotten a few tastes of Doom. I had seen the chainsaw... and there could be no comparison.

After that, maybe the knife from Op For. I mean, you got the pipe wrench... which was no crowbar, but still pretty sweet... and then the combat knife. Sure it was fast... but the pipe wrench. Come on, 1-hit-kill on virtually anything you can reach with it, vs. the paper-cut machine.

The bizarre flip side of course, was that I ended up using the combat knife to open boxes and the pipe wrench for combat. Based on Op For, our government should re-equip all of our ground with $15 wrenches, because the $50 combat knives just don't get the job done. And then the barnacle gun? Ok, so I know it ended up useful as a game mechanic with the grapple, but I still ended up disappointed by its weakness as a weapon.

In elite force the phaser helped me a bit in the earlier levels, since the alternate fire was pretty effective in short bursts.