this hasn't really been talked about much, forgive me if it's a bit of a controversial topic as this is the first iteration I mainly rebel on
why is there an ooc vendetta on rebels getting AR2s? I've even seen some Combine players risk their char's life for the sole purpose of destroying a dropped AR2 script.
I'm genuinely curious and in no way am I trying to be snarky. It almost feels like that even if someone outside of the Combine faction got their hands on an AR2, it'd still be deemed useless anyway due to how scarce it is. I legit wish to know, as a clueless first-time rebel player, why is the safekeeping on the AR2 so strict?
No matter the side, Combine or Rebel, if someone drops a powerful weapon like a mosin, svd, m1014, etc. someone will always try to, as best as they can, get some cover near the body and pick up the weapon to have it for themselves or to stop it getting into enemy hands. For the rebels they have both reasons, for Combine its more for the latter. On one occasion I watched two rebels and a cop die trying to grab the same shotgun. The principles are universal to both groups.
That and dropped scripts cannot be destroyed. The only AR2 I've seen so far that wasn't picked up by an OTA were destroyed in a rebel-made explosion on top of it so was removed by an overseeing admin.
One of the biggest values in an AR2 isn't its use as a weapon, but a bartering / trading tool since ammo for it would be near-impossible to recover. You could easily swap it in for plentiful high-level gear and weaponry with some Traders that you couldn't get elsewhere due to it being such a luxury item.
