Man of Honour
Fenrir?
If you haven't got Fenrir, you'll probably find it suits you very well. If it is Fenrir, you might like to know you can upgrade it. A lot. You get all the crafting plans with Fenrir automatically, so you can upgrade it one rarity step at a time all the way to legendary. Legendary will also add more mod slots. Crunch is a particularly handy mod for SMGs because it adds a flat damage per bullet so it's very well suited to guns with a higher rate of fire and lower damage per bullet, e.g. if the damage per bullet is 20 then adding 5 to it increases the DPS by 25%. Common crunch is 5, so you will get at least that. I think legendary crunch is 10, but I'm not sure. You can also upgrade the level of Fenrir (like most items), but that has a much smaller effect and gets very expensive in terms of components required.
Fenrir is very easy to get, even at low level:
In Watson, in the docks in the north, there's a small market area. Up against a wall in the market there's a shrine and a monk is there. Very unusually for a monk, he's chromed up. A lot. Worth looking into and listening to him. It turns out that it wasn't his choice - he and his brother were taken by Maelstrom freaks and forcibly modified because it amused the Maelstrom freaks. He was first. When they dumped him out, they were still arguing about how to modify his brother. He asks you to rescue his brother, preferably without violence. But you don't have to go along with that particular preference of his. The Maelstrom lair is a very short distance away and it's an indoor area with thick walls and no innocents. Bullets ahoy, IMO. But you can stealth in and out if you want to. Fenrir is just lying on a surface close to the brother monk, yours to pick up. Maybe stealth in, pick up Fenrir, stealth out to get the monk free and then go back in to shoot all the Maelstrom freaks with their own gun.
My Fenrir, which I have upgraded to legendary and modded with Crunches and Countermass, has a DPS of about 580. I think that countermass is more useful than another crunch because Fenrir has extreme vertical recoil and countermass offsets that. That's with no level upgrading and only rare and uncommon level crunches. It could go higher.
I've never had any ammo worries because I make my own. The only issue I've had with ammo is the bad UI. Ammo crafted past the limit is just wasted components and you can't see how much ammo you have when crafting. That's irritating.
Another incompetent aspect of the UI. That sort of thing shouldn't be possible.
On the plus side, there is a buyback feature so you should still be OK if you notice you've sold it before you leave the merchant. I also take care to sort by price when selling or looking at my inventory. Mainly because I scrap lower value stuff for parts, but it also helps a bit when your equipment is higher rarity as it tends to sort towards the top of a list by price.
I frequently encounter what are labelled as dead bodies and are lootable as dead bodies and which can be picked up as dead bodies...but are alive and moving, apparently conscious. It's useful for the cyberpsycho missions, where it's optimal to keep them alive. But it's yet another issue, either a bug or an undocumented and unexplained feature.
