Sec Equipment being overtuned

[le mon]

when you have options like stims and other drugs, and then insinuating that the person using them is merely "unskilled" leaves a bad taste in my mouth and reeks of bitterness.

I mean, even the moaning comes from a rightful place in my humble opinion. Syndie stimulants are locked behind a job specific uplink and cost 6 TC out of the preset 12 TC (that’s 50% of the whole uplink!). Not to mention, there are two sources of nullifying the effects of stimulants and if you don’t manage their dosage properly then it’s a confirmed slow death anyway.
Also afaik, there are no synthesizable chemicals that counter the disorient effect. All they do is help with stamina regeneration and increase your speed for a set amount of time. They require actual synthesis or traveling through Z-levels if all you want is meth/crank. Plus, they’re addictive, which sometimes goes away on its own or stays even after spending multiple minutes in the sleeper. On top of that, you have to manage the dosage to avoid post OD effects.
All this, compared to just running close and spam clicking with a taser shotgun or SMG in the general direction of a person for a guaranteed takedown, does feel unfair in my eyes.