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Going off of this, a lot of my issue goes with the follow up. While it is true as Melon said that you can react to the weapon being pointed at you, the subsequent adjustments of the weapon make that less viable as an option since they are much smaller movements and the effort to continue to avoid the weapon is far more significant than the required adjustments to the aim.
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Yeah, if you don't have cover at that point or you're not close enough to prevent them using their gun it's pretty much game over if you're locked into melee.

Which drags me back to my earliest point, that automatic weapons tend to be the sticking point for me in general combat. Single shots and low fire rate weapons can definitely be matched by a lot of fantasy characters, machine guns cannot. (most of the time)