Chakker wrote:I was unaware that there were any scientists or guards you can confront after you are given control to roam the facility. I thought there were only the few guards in the intro before you would have the chance to have any weapon and then the Nine-Tailed Fox unit. Unless you mean what may be included in later releases. I am speaking only for what the game contains at this time and I didn't mean have guns scattered about. Just one with only a few bullets left on a fallen guard somewhere just to give the player a brief moment of thinking they found an answer to their solution only to find it's no good.

Steelpoint wrote:Still how will you explain all the MTF's/Guards and Scientists being immune to gun fire? I still think the DNA encoding is the best course and more logical considering the technological level of the foundation.

Chakker wrote:I understand why the plan is no usable firearms in the game. It would be a big detractor for the fear. Guns are often an item in games that end up making you feel aggressive and empowered. Sure there are plenty of games that are both scary and let you use guns, but that is a different style of fear mechanic.

However, everyone who is saying there should be some explanation to why you can't take one of their guns are correct. That for many people is something that really leave you questioning the logic because of course a prisoner in this situation would grab a gun the first chance they got.

Personally, I think rather than having some added (and potentially forced) explanation of why you can't grab a gun that there is another compromise that could be made.
Let the player grab a gun, only to find out it is completely ineffective against anything you face. The bullets would bounce off, pass through, or simply fail to do any serious damage to most of the SCPs; the soldiers are a highly trained MTF wearing body armor; and any gun you find off a dead soldier would almost certainly be a partially used clip with no extra ammo. So let the player grab a gun with no ammo UI or crosshair or anything. Then when they use it they will find out it only has 6 bullets left and isn't enough to kill anything they come up against. That short moment of bravado will sink into a whole new kind of desperate fear.

"EAT THIS YOU... oh... oh no..."

SCP 513 wrote:I vote for no guns in CB. Who's with me?

Steelpoint wrote:I am thinking this thread keeps going around in circles, someone suggests some kind of gun related feature or compromise, people point out it is still adding in a gun and reject the idea and/or an argument starts up, then back to square one.

InnocentSam wrote:

Steelpoint wrote:I am thinking this thread keeps going around in circles, someone suggests some kind of gun related feature or compromise, people point out it is still adding in a gun and reject the idea and/or an argument starts up, then back to square one.

As is every debate in history.