Afro Republican
Banned
So, "to be fair, the mission is not terrible mission design because you can cheese it"? I still maintain this is terrible design that should never have been allowed to stay in the game.
To be fair, you're supposed to know ahead of time to upgrade your gun so you can clear them out and take out those drop ships, but the game doesn't make that a priority until after the mission. They assumed you would have already done so by that point.
Not the best decision but it wasn't something that was just poorly designed without checking and thrown in like you believe, it's just they forgot to tell the player what to do, or guide the player in the direction of upgrading their weapons before that mission opens up.