Whats the use for silenced pistol ?

[The Last Unicorn]

I thought since its silenced, headshots from stealth would one shot enemies, but they dont ? Am I doing something wrong ? what is the use for it ?

[Doom]

To one-shot enemies from stealth you'd need a silenced gun that deals enough damage. Silencer makes it deal increased damage when shot from stealth, but does not mean you'll be able to kill anyone in one hit with the weakest gun. So, get a better gun.

[Sin317]

I am using a silenced nova and I one shot everything, aslong as I am not detected. Headshots obviously. It has a base damage of like 60 to 100 and I hit for up to 10k. Remember, silencer gives a damage multiplier, but only when stealth. When detected, you have a damage malus. Better have a non silenced pistol as backup. PS this is on very hard.

[Dondu]

you need stealth dmg perk to negate the silencer dmg nerf

[['w']]

look at the head damage, get a gun with at least *2 or even *4 multiplier

get a blue silencer

[trippint82]

They do get better with perks and some mods like all guns. The sniper rifle from panam quest line gives you the best one its the only one with silencer. I do have a good silence revolver that one shots but it took me forever to get. You have to look at the white numbers below the dps cause that is how much damage one shot does. Also find the silencer with the 15% reduced damage. So far the revolvers where the best guns for snipe handguns that i found. Not even sure this helps.

[Blackwolfe]

I felt that headshotting with pistols was always really powerful. Going around headshotting people in stealth is almost too easy, especially if you have the slowdown when someone is about to detect you.

[Brother PaciFist]

tech revolver with high single shot damage kill everyting except cyberpsychos and bosses in one shot from stealth. Without perks. I use a comrade handcannon that does 60k headshot crits.

[The Last Unicorn]

I normlay dont do stealth stuff I was just doing this one mission for Panam and she was beeing a pain in the ass about it so I thought OK ;p I got the blue silincer with 15% reduction, its a legendary gun 200 dmg(ill look again at the damage under dps like you said just to make sure) I got some gun perks for heashsots and stealth shots unless there is one in the cool section i havent notice(cause I didnt look there ;p), it does one shot with crit but thats alot of reloading and cant down two tangos at once ;p

I'll check everything again next time I play, thanks for the answers guys I just wanted to make sure its me doing something wrong no the game beeing EA ;p

[Rob'sEvilTwin]

You want something with a decent Headshot multiplier, like the Dying Night, with a Blue sliencer. There are others, I mention that one specifically as it is available in the very first gun shop.

[Graf Erik]

Silenced pistols are extremly powerfull, if used correctly

First, you want to have a pistol with high damage per shot, not neccessarily high DPS.

Then, look for something with a high headshot multiplier.

The Overture is as good as it gets.

Now, take a good look at your perks. There are stealth perks that increase damage when not detected, and headshot perks that increase damage when, well..., shoting in the head.

Combine it all, and you can one-shot pretty much anyone, as long as you are hidden when you pull the trigger.

Additional benefits:
- Other npc's won't hear the shot if they are far away enough
- Even if they hear the shot, they'll have a hard time locating you

[mblurch1990]

theres a few perks and if you go into a ripperdoc above the cyberware menu youll see trade where they sell mods that give head shot dmg almost 50% increase. pop that into your eyeball. Put +dmg mods on your gun then upgrade it. Christ i got so bored with stealth being so OP. Cool in my opinion is the most OP stat. With stealth one shotting & cold blood turning you into a tank +100% armor. add blade moving 30% armor. if you want even more get a berserk implant. for 15%. You can get almost another 15% from more cyberware mods. thats 160% armor increase of say 3000. 7800 armor youll eat adam smashers fist to your face and keep smilin. I got so bored with one shotting everyone id clear about half then use my dildo bat to give the NPCs a fighting chance. haha just kidding i got two hearts + legendary 100% hp recovery when i drop belove 30% hp or what ever the npcs never ever stood a chance.

[Rumpelcrutchskin]

When you have iconic Crash Overture revolver with 5.5x headshot damage multiplier, Kiroshi optics with legendary headshot multiplier mod and couple of headshot multiplier perks it will blow the head clean off from pretty much anything with single shot.

[talemore]

Silenced assault rifle is a question

[Shift]

It does multiplied damage, so there's a high chance you'll be able to one shot enemies with a head shot. Also with enough perks on cool, you'll be going for headshots at enough digits to be able to 1hit kill even Adam Smasher.

[The Last Unicorn]

Originally posted by Shift:

It does multiplied damage, so there's a high chance you'll be able to one shot enemies with a head shot. Also with enough perks on cool, you'll be going for headshots at enough digits to be able to 1hit kill even Adam Smasher.

Lieteralry ?