This is what is supposed to basically be a swat simulation whoever it is such a pain in the A$$. The best way to play in my experience is put the game on easy leave your whole team in the starting area then play this game like its Doom. Use the pistol and crouch alot. Pro tip save your grenades for civilans I know sounds insane. Whoever they wil often refuse to surrender and each mission depends on you saving them. I get at the time this would have been a cool game. I beleive even back then i would have felt the same way. In the end this game is just really aggrevating. I wish it had a ton of mods that mix the terrible freindly and enemy AI would make it more fun. The AR's have insane bloom even using them crouched they just aren't as good as the pistol. Best way to use them is on either single fire or burst depending on the gun. I use the AR's like i normally use a pistol as backup. Playing this than lethal is pretty good. The main pepperball gun has pretty much zero range making it hard at times to use. On specific missions you will run into enemies with gas masks. You have to use a taser to get them to put the gun down. Unfortunately giving your teammates a tazer doesn't help because for some reason they can't use them. So if your team goes in a room alone and runs into one of these masked enemies they will all get picked off one by one. So I guess to sum it up it can be a fun game but ultimately is frustrating and can't be enjoyed as a swat game but rather a boomer shooter. Get it for $5 like me and it will be worth it $10 probably not