- Hylebos
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Actualy, the "accuracy" of the weapon is dimmished when you dual wield, and the dual wieldable weapons work fine on their own. I single wield spikers all the time and do as fine as I would with an AR.
I explain a bit more in detail about this in my guide to close ranged combat, but when you fire an AR, obviously all your bullets don't go in a straight line, they spread outwards in a cone. Aiming the cone so that the gun is as efficient as possible is one of the key skills of close ranged combat, something that many do not realize. Each of the major rapid fire close ranged weapon has a different size of a spread cone, which makes you focus on a different aspect of aiming:
Spiker > Small > Leading your shots (because the spikes move slowly, but narry a spread cone)
AR > Medium > Leading your shots / Aiming the spread cone (its the middle ground)
SMG > Large > Aiming the spread cone (Bullets are constantly flying so leading shots is not a problem, but aiming the spread cone is paramount with this weapon)
Plasma Rifle > Variable > (As you begin firing, its more like a spiker, as it is about to overheat, it is more like an SMG)
By dual wielding a weapon, several things happen:
>Power drops by 25% for each gun (but since you have two weapons, 75% + 75% = 150%)
>Can no longer use grenades
>Need to drop the offhand weapon before you change weapons
>The size of the spread cone for each weapon increases
>Reloading takes longer
So although your guns are "more powerful", they are less efficient (Its not exactly accuracy, but its the close range analogue of it), so it roughly balances out when you also consider the loss of mobillity, inabillity to quickly switch weapons should you get jumped at medium range, and the loss of grenades is major in the close range world.
So to answer your suggestion: This has already been done in effect. Only weapon that this doesn't really apply to is the mauler, which is kinda messed up and is hopefully fixed in the next game.
Hopefully that makes sense, like I said, most of this is off the top of my head, my official version is in My close quarter combat guide
[Edited on 06.27.2009 4:18 PM PDT]