So I really like leveling my Operative, but throughout the story I have noticed something that has been bothering me. Anytime you kill someone you always rock your pistol, but there are not any abilities that use it. So I thought why not change the overload shot ability to a drawn pistol shot. It would give us a chance to use that pistol that we seem to be packing around for no other reason except story sequences. Love!

So I really like leveling my Operative, but throughout the story I have noticed something that has been bothering me. Anytime you kill someone you always rock your pistol, but there are not any abilities that use it. So I thought why not change the overload shot ability to a drawn pistol shot. It would give us a chance to use that pistol that we seem to be packing around for no other reason except story sequences. Love!

 

Love the idea! It would finally fix the phantom-pistol problem, and give overload shot a classier look!

Yes, I would guess there are plenty of pistol animations already in game from other classes. They should be able to just use one of those instead of making a new one.

This would actually be bad ***. You bust out your pistol and shoot them point blank in the head.

I will love to see this, even having an option to show pistol on the character outside of cut scenes would be great.

I think this would kind of be interesting.

But either way: I'd like to make one other suggestion on a change to Overload Shot:

Can the beam it fires coordinate with the color crystal in the gun, please?

Overload Shot and Carbine Burst are the only two I can recall that use their own colors. (Orange and yellow respectively)

 

Its not a terribly large issue; just a minor quirk that bothers me a bit.

I dig it, way to up the epicness of the op a bit, I use OS a lot and with this I think I'd like it even more.

Just personal preference but I would rather see te cutscene animations modified to use the techblade instead of the imaginary pistol. Most of the cutscene kills are within point-blank range and the phantom pistol doesn't make sense so why not use the blade you've always had? Similarly have the Smugglers use the shotgun.

If overload shot was worth using it might matter.

allow overload shot to be talented to proc TA, bam it's useful.

Agreed!!! We always blast people with it in the cutscenes. But our actual offhand (knife), gets no love.

Yes it would be grate to have either a pistol animation (uses blaster rifle stats) or use the knife in the cut scenes

On a random note, I had a glitch in a cutscene where I was SUPPOSED to use my pistol, and my Sniper pulled out his sniper rifle, held it with one hand and capped the chick in the head with it. Was pretty funny.

Yes, the vibroblade in the cut scenes would be a nice touch. As an leveling OP I use overload in PvP often when chasing people, would love to see that pistol put to good use!

I wanted to get some fresh eyes on this.