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Feeling helpless and having a weapon is not mutually exclusive, like the other guy said the weapon's usefulness mainly depends on timing and resource management essentially and ammunition/effectiveness can be a source of fear in it's own. There could be certain horrors would be immune to kinetic or explosives and we would simply need to hide from them. Not everything needs to be solved by bullet, but having that option is always a positive. A boast to confidence in a game where the majority of the time you spend doing menial tasks and getting pranked would certainly help egg players into trying different approaches. Or they could simply get used to the one dimensional horror we have now and no longer really feel afraid anymore. Especially since there's nothing to lose currently. Who knows, having weapons could open an entire avenue of protecting friendly aliens or having climatic showdowns with that one cryptid that keeps eating your food.

I've never been caught by any of the dangerous wisps, but the amount of times I've had the physics screw me over and murder me? I'd need at least ten more fingers and toes to count those occurrences out. There is no feeling of helplessness against the aliens because they're lacking in any danger, except maybe the golden wisp event, but that can be counteracted by Kerfur and keeping doors closed. They become an annoyance after an hour of dealing with them.

The game has worse problems than "guns would ruin the horror", and I kind of wish Nose would go back to understanding why people liked Signal Simulator in the first place.