What weapon would you've kept for the final game?

[yabosylin]

Personally I'd keep the OICW.

[Витой]

Tau cannon was most likely the last weapon to be cut from the game, and I'd prefer if it still was there. I miss something as futuristic and powerfull at the same time as this thing and Highway 17 was just not enough for it.

[Cvoxalury]

Somehow the options aren't even 1/4 of the list of all cut weaponry.

I'd say the Tau doesn't even fully count because it's still in the game. Yeah it's for a couple chapters but that's like the gluon gun from HL1, it's also just for a few chapters, doesn't make it less of a present weapon.

Don't care at all about the AK. It's in every shooter already and it's always the same. It was the most deserving to be cut weapon because it was just what it always is.

Kinda torn between the two remaining choices.

The flaregun is very specialised but it may have had a big enough role in the game. The CPs use those, so you could logically be given it as early as the canals, and use it in the canals; find ammo in CP stations, in abandoned camps, survivalist locations; soldiers use them as well in HL2, so it would fit there.

It could've been useful against the zombies of course, maybe against antlions, there's quite enough dark places in HL2, Nova Prospekt for example. So flaregun would definitely not be useless. And it would feel natural to be finding its ammo in the coastal settlements and such. And even more so in Ep1 and Ep2.

Now, the OICW.
It has some redundant parts (grenade launcher already in the SMG) and its viewmodel is quite bulky.
Also if I choose to keep OICW does that mean the OSIPR goes away? I don't want it away, it's awesome.
Ehh I'd probably trade the OICW away to keep the flaregun.

Of choices not present here:
- physgun, in particular its ability to weld items together. The lack of ability to create proper barricades is, well, just bad. I want that. It can be hella useful. I promise I won't misuse it into any map breaking things, ever!

- Combine Guard Gun because we simply don't have enough alien weapons and not enough of 'big hitters'.

- And my cop-out answer is 'anything we don't know much about', such as the pulse shield. Come on, it's a sci fi shooter. It should have shields.