>>6178021You'll be fine agent - next time, think of it like this:
When you squeeze the trigger of a gun death comes out the barrel.
A standard attack is Profiency+Secret - Agents are trained in Firearms, but for heavy weaponry you might used Mounted Guns and for experimental e-shock systems you might be using High Yield Energetics. You could even "shoot" with TK modulation - bet you didn't know that - by "shooting" some debris at someone; a standard Prof+TK action.
A 'Snap Shot' is a single attack. No real notes there.
Burst Fire is a snap shot, but with more ammo. Weapons have a burst rating - spend that much ammo, get that much extra dice. Obviously, you can't benefit from more ammo assigned to 1 target and then split that out across multiple targets, unless they're very close together and such hacks. Bullets go one way and they don't split.
Full Auto is noted FA on weapons that can do it, and spends a flat amount of ammo to hit everything in a cone. Snap Shot is 1 attack 1 roll 1 target. FA is 1 large cone, 1 roll, but the roll hits multiple targets. You can add BURST to FA, naturally simply making it deadlier.
Suppress is like FA, but you're shooting into an area to make people keep their head down. Great for distractions, harassment, such-like.
You mostly wanted something like
>Get into position>Throw a grenade>Lockdown the group.A simple enough process that you potentially overthought a little? The basic training everyone has ensures options like that is entirely on the menu, because it often is how one uses grenades. You simply tried to do it via... burst firing fa suppress co processing close quarters mass fire?
Simplify, Agent. Simplify.
A *LOCKDOWN* reaction primes you to shoot people.
So next time, get into position, throw your grenade, say a snappy one-liner, then LOCKDOWN the area as a response.
If you want to combine that with active attacks - and you can - use a weapon with FA capability and do an FA attack burst. You can even make it conditional. Move in, throw grenade, say snappy oneliner, then if they don't I'll FA the lot.
Combo-ing the Attention Co-Processor with a gun is... hard? Bullets don't have attentional focus problems. They're very single minded entities.
It can work
>Snapshot the two people in front of me (3d10, Prof2Ballistics2-1CoProcess)but you don't often need to because of the fact that with the way the guns around here work, they sort of do it innately. FA lets you spray into an area, hitting multiple targets. LOCKDOWN as a response sets you up to do overwatch repeatedly against hostiles that don't comply with your shouted demands.
The ability to go
>3AL: SHOUT FOR HIM TO GET ON THE GROUND (Manipulate)>Response: LOCKDOWN direction 1is a core operational point of the mechanics - if you have a gun and get in someone's face and shout for them to quit fighting, a fair amount of people will tend to do that.
