Quote from afsd:
huh? do different guns have different AT recharge speed?
OF COURSE THEY DO!!! I also didnt specify i meant to say g3 has slower AT recharge. In the game mechanics guide on gameFAQs it tells the delay between first shot, repeated shots and after delay which is time before AT starts to charge again.
From my own testing i can say this:
Clubs have the fastest AT fill rate.
MGs are 2nd fastest
Pistols third
and i assume shotguns and rifles are 4th but I will most likely only ever touch a rifle for m16 in day 2 as it greatly speeds up fight time and is good until the mp5k in day 3 at the police station.
My testing of day 2 concludes that the m16 is FASTER than the pistols you can use at that point. I clocked the first battle in central park at 26.22 seconds with a pistol and less than 15 with the m16 (it took 2 turns, 1 per snake) and each battle from there would also be faster due to damage output.
Current progress: start of day 4 with 1hr 49m on the clock. I totally screwed up some parts in day 3 (police station) because you have to talk to a few NPCs specifically to progress through to the next part, probably lost 5 minutes.
Probably going to stick with mp5 through hospital and then swap over to g23 that drops from the boss spider for day 5.