Still going to watch gameplay of the game and withhold judgement until i actually get to try the game out, but so far it's kind of a big letdown. So far, in an immersive sim, it's doing the opposite and actually breaking immersion. There are ways to make it so the investigation can be an incredibly important, very difficult and time consuming and deadly if not done thoroughly, but not giving the player an option to have a gun to deal with criminals that 'are' carrying guns is a stupid decision.

It's a weak arguement to use, as for the immersion, you're a detective dude, you're going after serial killers, psychopaths with guns, possibly holding hostages or pursuing their next victim and you got nothing on you. Difficulty can be adjusted at any time by you devs, like for instance, you get shot 2 times and you're dead, you make 2 mistakes and it's over. This notion that a detective cannot carry a gun for self-defense because of difficulty is just laughable, i'm gonna be honest with you guys. If the idea is that it would be too easy and mess up with the main focus of the game, which is the investigation mechanic, make it so the investigation part takes more time and effort, make it difficult so the players absolutely 'have' to investigate individuals to be absolutely certain that they're the criminals, because if the player happens to use a gun and shoot an innocent civilian, it's game over or a strike-one or whatever you guys could come up with. It's also immersion breaking for a detective to 'not' have a gun when going after possibly armed criminals that could kill you at gun point. So far it's breaking immersion and messing with the Total Freedom part of the game. I agree with adding the ability to use guns, there's another thread that offered suggestions to add in limitations as well, so the player has to be careful on how to use them.

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