Is the Firing Range mission staged?

[Nautical Survivor]

The firing range mission in the apartment. Ive tried it 3 times now and EVERY TIME Rudy wins. I dont understand how though, the first time I got 28/100, the second 33/100, and the last was 41/100. I was literally snapping to nearly every target before it had a chance to fully come down. Is the rudy winning ending scripted?

[Graf Erik]

Its really not that hard.
The rules are
-You can shoot at any target
-Who lands the most hits on any target wins
-Only pistols allowed

So obviously, you'll want to take something that fires fast. Full auto. Yeah, Dying Night will do, that 'iconic super gun'. Thats your starter pistol. You get it for free when you start the game. Any other Lexington will also do.

Now you just wait for the targets, and the moment one shows up you start shooting at it. And you dont stop till you run out of ammo or the target disapears. 5 hits per target easily. 28 targets. Thats 140 hits, but some targets show up at the same time. The counter stops at 100.

[Tokenn]

I confirm that any Lexington pistol will win this competition. Lizzie pistol works very well too.

[Avy]

Last time i did 51/100 and won. So i think it's at least 50.

[craigsters]

the psycho firing mode from Simple Menu gave me 100/100 on the last playthrough

[ᑎ I ᖇ ᐯ ᗩ ᑎ O ᗩ]

How do you even get as low as 28 ?
I used a smart gun, rapîd fire, didn't even really try
& still got 52.

[Bogmore]

I always use an Omaha with a fast load mod and shoot every target and not just your own, I have only failed once at that mission, the first time I did it. Lizzie's gun is good for it.

Robert gives you the rules before it starts, listen carefully

I'm not sure but you can have a pistol in every slot and might be able to change.

[Bjørn]

Originally posted by grouchpotatodjb:

Originally posted by Porkhammer:

I always use Dying Night for that quest. Easy win every time.

always use Dying Night. I always score 70 odd, 50 is the minimum to win iirc.

Originally posted by Terran337:

The reward is decent too, an iconic Lexington X-MOD2 automatic pistol.

I looked up this mission since I was curious how to win it (after first getting on 2nd place), and saw a tip about using a fast gun and the Dying Night, and the reward looked nice since I'm a stealth guy (been using non-lethal thrown axe so far, though).

I reloaded the game, went to the apartment and dug out the old Dying Night and saw it was still lvl 1. So then I went on some missions to get low level materials to upgrade it to lvl 2, so I could use some lvl 2 stabilizers(?) and such I had in inventory, to increase the chance of winning the shooting contest. I wanted that Lexington MOD 2 gun!


Now here is the irony: The last job I did before I had enough materials to upgrade the gun, was a gig from Regina, called "Gig: Welcome to America, Comrade", the one where we're supposed to tag a car with a GPS tracker, preferably undetected.

Well I did finish the mission undetected (not sure if it's relevant for the reward), and when I went to collect my reward from her, this is what I got:

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3139501908

Isn't this basically the same gun as the reward for the shooting contest?!

I haven't done the contest yet (doing it next), but just found it very coincidental and ironic that I did a mission to get that MOD2 Lexington, and then I got another one very similar to it (with 2 mod slots) so that I could level up the other gun I was going to use to get it! *phew*

Anyway, I think I'll rather use my new reward gun for the contest now, come to think of it!

[Bjørn]

Originally posted by Bjørn:

Anyway, I think I'll rather use my new reward gun for the contest now, come to think of it!

Just wanted to say that it wouldn't let me use the Lexington for the shooting competition, so I used the Dying Night after all. Won it on the first attempt

And I realized that the reward gun (Lexington MOD 2) only had slot for 1 attachment, so I think I'll use the previous reward gun after all. Or likely just keep using the thrown axe...

[yahboi1988]

Originally posted by ImHelping:

Comedy/serious option: use an omaha (the tech pistol with the tri burst shots per trigger pull) because i am pretty sure it still counts as a multi hit for the targeting range. I was "only" in the 70s last time I did that mission with one.

That said, the fact the go to advice even now us "Basically cheat" or "Why didn't you use an iconic super gun for essentially a tutorial mission!?" instead of "Aim faster" is telling for how poorly designed what should be a very basic mission is.

If you still can't do it, but have the DLC, you might be able to take the extra lazy pay 2 win route with the black market vendor in dogtown that sells "Missed" iconic weapons. (Why go out and find Dex's body when I can have a DLC vendor apparently do that for me?)

I gotta say you are the least helpful person in these forums. It's not poorly designed, You just don't understand the rules clearly.

It is by design that you can land more then 1 shot on a target.
It is by design that you can land shots on other peoples targets.
It's by design that a faster gun will help.

People aren't asking for your 4d chess criticisms they just want advice.

[PanPan]

One of the 1st mission in the game makes you go to this shop to get Dying Night pistol...
Use that gun and shoot all targets multiple times.

[Solhaven]

Use the dying light handgun, any other weapon is a default lose.

[ImHelping]

Originally posted by yahboi1988:

Originally posted by ImHelping:

Comedy/serious option: use an omaha (the tech pistol with the tri burst shots per trigger pull) because i am pretty sure it still counts as a multi hit for the targeting range. I was "only" in the 70s last time I did that mission with one.
...

I gotta say you are the least helpful person in these forums. It's not poorly designed, You just don't understand the rules clearly.

Yahboi, Yaboi please, it is the year 2024 now and you are quoting things from Xmas just to get mad about videogame opinions like you have a quota to meet.

I know a lot of people are really, really in love with appearing as 'true fans' regardless of the facts involved. But you could have just waited for me to post a new thing for you to disagree with simply because I posted it. Instead of trolling through the forums for things almost a month old to scream at, soft necro style.

(Seriously how could I "Not understand the rules" if I am WINNING?)

Originally posted by Solhaven:

Use a Lexington handgun, any other weapon is a default lose.

What? That can't be right, the shooting gallery is perfectly designed and you should have used your psychic powers to know you needed to use the same kind of gun as the one you win as a prize! (Half the reason I suggest the Omaha really. some variety in my "♥♥♥♥ it basically cheat against the NPCs using single fire pistols" )

Originally posted by PanPan:

One of the 1st mission in the game makes you go to this shop to get Dying Night pistol...
Use that gun and shoot all targets multiple times.

They delay the shooting gallery mission for quite some time after that, where most players will have written off lexingtons as too weak, and have left the Dying Night sitting in their closet multiple color grades obsolete.

Sure you can use a white grade gun because damage does not matter. But that is like declaring "The game gave you a unity pistol in the tutorial! Why didn't you think to use a unity pistol!"

Hell, one of the escape shootouts with Saul they replaced my SMG with a white grade unity. Trusting the guns the game gives you by default.

You know, like how using the Nue pistol or whatever he has at the range for you in the shooting gallery, is the PROBLEM, not the solution. To suggest they use the dying night, is still admitting the shooting gallery is designed poorly. Because it means ignoring the gun the NPC himself wanted you to use.