They all are CQC styled weapons. I mean even my bolt pistol doesn't really do much to a target that is far enough away to make use of its zoom. To be honest, I never thought there was an issue with sidearms as a whole, just the flaylock was nerfed into the ground and the ion pistol like many things released in 1.8 seemed to be a bon voyage from the other devs. Not really play tested, just hastily thrown together before they ran away to work on Legion.

I think smgs are fine. I think what needs to be reviewed is the hasty fixes to ScP and flaylock pistols, along with the hastily incorporated ion pistol and bolt pistol. In my opionion, the flaylock pistol should be faster flying, people shouldn't be able to side step a rocket, that alone would make it useful if it didn't take 2 seconds for it to reach its maximum range. The ion pistol really just shouldn't have the overheat gimmic. If that was removed and you could spam fire it, the weapon as it is with the horrible dispersion would still be good enough to use. That charge shot is useless, it just should be scrapped as it was half assed implemented. The ScP in my opinion again, is alright where it is. With the huge head shot bonus it deserved a RoF nerf. Before that happened it was pretty easy to run, a pistoleer build as I would call it with the unique snowflake that I am, that could spam shot until it got dat head shot KO. The magsec counter to the opinions of many is my preferred smg. That thing can wreck targets once you get used to the recoil. My forge fit cannot count the amount of kills I've received via magsec. Nova Knives are Nova Knives and with the new adhesion are fine. Last but certainly not least (ho ho cliche!) The bolt pistol just needs a non asinine pistol fitting cost. The PG is stupidly high at 11. It should be 2 like the ScP and Ion pistol.