Yeah it was just non optimal. The funnier part about this whole episode was me falling down one of those pits about a minute in so I didn’t have a support weapon for about another 8 minutes either.
Had that happen yesterday, though I didn't fall into the hole, I was blowed up and somehow my stuff all fell into a hole, even though I didn't think I was all that close to it...
Had just spent the better part of the previous several minutes without it, too, since I got cut off from my first one, so I was like "guess I'm just not getting a support weapon this time..."
I finally picked up the double barrel shotgun that’s lying around. And found out it only comes with 2 rounds loaded, which I guess makes sense. Not a great time to find out though.