@PeacelessMasurao IS a better gear though. It's Bill who's the weak joint. Bill mentioned IN CHARACTER that he shouldn't have been able to so easily overwhelm the enemy machine. He's not some main protagonist character he is a highly specialized character in the realm of close range, AND has tunnel vision. Unless you're telling me to purposely keep throwing Bill under the bus just because Masurao is a generally superior machine to the others (no one else wanted to be rich, or have some sort of pro support) then I don't know what to tell you. What Bill does, and what he intends to do are two very different things. His ONLY form of ranged combat is a small rapid fire pistol. That's literally it. He can't retaliate against range attacks, he can't deal with brawlers without abusing his speed privileges. In a straight up fight against the other characters Ian has a legitimate chance of beating Bill if he times him, if ogre could manage to hit Bill Masurao wouldn't last long, if Sarah played her cards right she'd also have a legit chance. Fighting Bill in close range is pure suicide plain and simple. The reason I'm a bit mad over this is because I never try to purposely overpower my characters. I don't give people advantages over other characters that they couldn't do themselves. If someone wanted some fancy powerful machine they simply needed too include reasons why in their bio.
As it stands I intend to post later today I forgot yesterday while playing Clannad.
Hey it's all good, as long as your character's successes are a good measure of ours.