1. What's the best way to clear debris? Diggers don't seem to cut it when it comes to downed dropships.

2. Is there a way to place weapons in the hands of actors during the bunker build phase? I only seem to be able to drop them at their feet and then have to manually pick them up after the game is started.

1. Custom weapons.
2. No.

For no. 1, any halfway decent modder could make a gun that shoots high sharpness particles at a high rate of fire to dig through basically anything.

The challenge I always have is keeping the actor's feet firmly planted whilst digging with a super powerful weapon.

Isn't that recoil? And can't you adjust that?

The only way I know of to reduce recoil, besides actually toning down the weapon, is to set the mass of the particles it fires to -1. Which can also cause problems.

Psh, besides, that's practically cheating. A guy with a heavy digger works well for clean up, for me. Just don't use a skeleton, they weigh too little.