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I have long been posting when it is appropriate as to the sheer utility of the Plasma Pistol in CE, admitting that for the first year of my playing I avoided it like the plague.
This week, I have embarked on a quest to do something I have not done as of yet: complete the entire campaign using nothing more than melee, plasma pistol and grenades. I have finished Guilty Spark doing this over the weekend, not one shotty round fired (kept if for melee's, I like the animation). I have also paused my game today at the grav lift in T & R, finding it no problem to make it that far with only the PP being fired.
On levels where you start with weapons other than the PP you just have to find some grunty fool and take his, a nice grenade or melee will do the trick and you are ready to roll! Once they are dead it is not like they are arguing about who gets to hold their nice shiny green-spitting toy.
The only real concern I have is parts of the campaign where I find myself in the seat of a Banshee. I have a strategy to deal with Banshees from the ground using either plasma grenade tags or PP shots. The only real hassle is going to be during 2 Betrayals, around the tower with the Banshees that engage you while you are in the air around the top of the tower. I figure I will have to get them to chase me to the ground and exit the Banshee, then take them out with the aforementioned 'nades and PP shots. There are not alot of PP's in certain parts of the game, it should be a challenge! But, after all, isn't that what this type of game play is all about?