While the initiative bonus is better, having Crit 3 is very bad, compared to Crit 2.why should anyone use a grape rifle over a Sawn-off grape rifle?
I mean, they are explosives...A typical PC can have 9 dices in Ranged and then get 9 dice from the blast damage? That's 18 dice... With no real drawback!
Torpedoes cannot be used at all without first locking the target. Other weapon systems can be used without a lock, but suffer a -2 modifier.