Started playing Rimworld and was actually legit angered by the combat mechanics.
Pawns with a low shooting stat are hilariously inaccurate, to the point of missing with a shotgun at point-blank range. Melee hits can interrupt
any ranged attack. If an enemy is stabbing one of your pawns with a knife, they can’t shoot back, even if they have a sidearm or something relatively maneuverable in close combat.
This is completely moronic. Have the devs never seen cop body cams? You absolutely
can shoot someone who is stabbing and bludgeoning you. Rifle-butt or elbow-strike to make distance, backpedal, bang bang bang, they’re done. What’s so hard about that? Instead, you’re just permanently stun-locked. That’s not how guns work.
It isn’t like the enemies in Rimworld ambush you, either. You get advance warning of every raid, which means that your guys should all be in Cooper’s friggin’ Condition Red, which means that when knife or axe-wielding attackers come at you, your guys are already drawing a bead on them the whole goddamn time. It’s not like some lunatic unexpectedly leaping through a doorway, knife in hand, trying to clobber a cop who doesn’t even see it coming. Your pawns are literally manning barricades with their guns out and dickheads are casually walking at them with melee weapons and hacking and stabbing them. Combat involving firearms does not work this way. At all.