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WARDEN is a setting-neutral RPG based on Pathfinder 2e. I have been following its playtesting for a while. A few days ago, it was fully released.

https://ghost-spark.itch.io/warden

So naturally, I decided to run a few test fights. All of these combats had only a single PC, but that is fine, because WARDEN explicitly has an encounter type tailored to only one or two PCs. The three fights were:

• Flintlock musket vs. special forces. This resulted in the PC one-shotting both special forces enemies in quick succession despite the Reload 3 of a flintlock musket. Very impressive, considering that this was a 0th-level PC.

• Assault rifle vs. five non-natty halberdiers. The outcome here was the PC getting dropped by the mooks, while having taken down none of them. Scale armor is just too much for an assault rifle to overcome, even with the Sunder action, it seems.

• Holy sniper rifle vs. six non-natty halberdiers, in the same enclosed space as the previous battle. This was, very specifically, a showcase of just how important it is for an optimized combatant to add a Special Damage Types (e.g. Aether, Dark, Holy, Psychic) to their Strikes, because according to the author, doing so causes said Strikes to completely bypass Armor. Quite unlike the previous fight, the PC here trivially crushed the opponents, decisively proving that Special Damage Types make a humongous difference against Armor (and that, somehow, a sniper rifle is better than an assault rifle even in a tight space).

Goofy results, I know. You can read about the precise details of these fights here, in the following document:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1pxTxGFn1DaKARndEq3v4WKvcgBSO3qlJJhWBIn-Uqw8/edit