Even in a game that decries depictions of guns in most media as Awesome, but Impractical for realistic use, amazing feats can still occur.
Unmarked spoilers ahead.
- Tipping over a turret or breaking a drone into pieces with one shot, especially noting how dangerous and annoying killdrones are.
- Surviving the Threat Echo. In fact, the achievement you earn the first time you do this is "You are Strong".
- Some offscreen examples of this sort also exist: there are many Receivers before and alongside you who know to stay away from firearms whenever the Threat tries hijacking their minds — and such precaution immensely pays off.
- Absorbing the last tape needed in a level. The music gives a feeling of respite as you're about to rank up.
- Finding the three insights at the highest rank, Awake, and becoming a fully realized Receiver.
- Not only identifying when a Stalker is about to try and get the drop on you, but either blowing it out of the air in one shot or hacking it to death, the latter of which actually leaves behind a body for you to lord over and gives you a trophy at the Compound to admire.
- Approaching a taser drone only to have your gun jam is a nightmare, but if you've drilled enough you can then identify and clear the jam with such speed that the drone doesn't reach you before you've releveled your sights on it and shot it out of the air. It's especially awesome if it's a double feed, the most difficult and slowest jam to clear.
