gamegod25 said:
What I found amusing is not just that heavily armed guards would surrender rather than simply opening fire but that they would kindly not yell out for help to their pals a mere ten feet away. At any point they could call out and bring the whole room down on you, but nope they are too polite to do that. XD
That got on my nerves so much. The armed, hardened killers respond to being arrested better than over half of the people real cops hand out speeding tickets to. They have their guns out, often times much larger and more effective guns than the protagonist, but they still drop them even after they're aiming right at you like a kid caught with their hand in the cookie jar. And if it's not already stupid enough that they're complying politely to arrest despite being hired, heavily armed mercs, they're not even being arrested by an actual cop! You can arrest these guys after you've been discharged! What is that?! As long as you've got a badge you can force people into submission? Maybe I can get a badge, go down to my local bank, begin to rob it, and as soon as the cops show up I just hold it up and shout "Freeze!" and then arrest them. All of them. At once.
Also, in the game, their legs aren't bound at all. Coupled with the aforementioned possibility of just screaming for help, they could also slip away when you turn your back and show up a few minutes later with their friends after they got one of their blokes to cut the cuffs off. Not that the protagonist doesn't have an infinite supply of handcuffs to arrest them all with. And arresting an armed guard would probably be way more hard than pulling a basic maneuver used on drunks. It would probably be a life-and-death struggle when the guard pulls out their knife or something and starts wrestling with you, probably while calling for help.
The arrest mechanic is as stupid as it could be. Realistically, at best, you'd incapacitate a single guy while getting yourself discovered by his buddies and later having to deal with that same guy when he runs away and gets free, and at worst, you'd be killed by that single guy who pulled out a pistol on you while you were trying to arrest him or get killed by his entire gang shortly after they're alerted. Either way, you're actually making your situation WORSE by trying to arrest someone.