Pistols are hilariously awesome. My main sharpshooter and her hand cannon has the highest kill rate of the entire game (As I approach what I suspect is the endgame, she's got over a hundred kills). This includes entire squads taken out by crit hits and her 'shoot everything in sight' power, and one especially memorable case where she soloed a Sectopod.

And as a side bonus, the mass effect camo pattern mod I got means her plasma pistol has fancy Quarian scrollwork on it too.

>It's a toss-up, in my current play so far, which has been the most
>satisfying single moment: that one, the one where the Stun Lancer learned
>too late that maybe charging a man with a chaingun wasn't a great plan,

I remember a Stun Lancer that charged at my main Ranger. Who auto-attacks anyone that gets in melee range. That went very differently to what the ADVENT mook was expecting :)

Matrix Dragon, J. Random Nutter