I think you're right... although I have a bad feeling that the accuracy on ranged weapons may be lacking. Maybe an uncanny ability to expend a lot of ammo AND miss 99.99% of the time in such a way to cause the mobs to run in fear and drop their loot?

Also, the engineering mount will be the first in game that allows you to give your party a lift. The plan is that it will hold a 5 man group and be remarkably resilient to bad driving.