Any Gunslingers out there?

[Salem Graves]

I was thinking of making a second character and heading in the gunslinger direction, but everything I read tells me that it just isn't a "viable" playstyle. But nothing ever mentions going into battle with 10 revolvers and instead of reloading, just switching to the next one. Imagine 10 Gunther's, sounds pretty good to me! Well maybe not, but could still be fun right? Any gunslinger enjoyers out there got any tips on their playstyle?

[Vazzi]

yes of course. :) and gunslinger is way better than its reputation. after the AB nerf i'm using laser guns and it works great, good dmg, high attack speed, 30 bullets per mag and fast reload speed. i can show you how they perform if you want. have a good one.

[wulfrik656]

If you have it circuit breaker is always good too have to hand for clumped groups since it stuns then just shoot n pistol whip ya way to victory

[Traveler]

I don't use pistols because their buff are under Agility and there are way better uses for those 15 points.

[SerialGamer]

Here is my solo expedition with a two-shot gauss pistol that can one-shot most enemies in stealth:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4EVEz0Rwl0

[Admiral Hackett [N7]]

To be honest? I have a pistol build BUT... i never like pistols and or revolvers, they are weak and do NOT punch that hard. Do play the game from day 1 and did try a lot of pistol builds but every single time i hated it as well caus they are way to weak.

I still prefer a Bloodied, Commando build.

[Salem Graves]

Originally posted by Admiral Hackett N7:

To be honest? I have a pistol build BUT... i never like pistols and or revolvers, they are weak and do NOT punch that hard. Do play the game from day 1 and did try a lot of pistol builds but every single time i hated it as well caus they are way to weak.

I still prefer a Bloodied, Commando build.

Yeeeeah, I'm just getting bored of walking through the game in my sleep so want to bring back the challenge a little bit and RDR2 is my favorite game sooo I gots a soft spot for weak revolvers xD

[Admiral Hackett [N7]]

Originally posted by Unremarkable Rat:

Originally posted by Admiral Hackett N7:

To be honest? I have a pistol build BUT... i never like pistols and or revolvers, they are weak and do NOT punch that hard. Do play the game from day 1 and did try a lot of pistol builds but every single time i hated it as well caus they are way to weak.

I still prefer a Bloodied, Commando build.

Yeeeeah, I'm just getting bored of walking through the game in my sleep so want to bring back the challenge a little bit and RDR2 is my favorite game sooo I gots a soft spot for weak revolvers xD

Just play the game, build you want caus the best build is the one you like and have fun with it ;)

[Djozar]

I used pistol leveling up. Worked okay. Eventually I switched at around lvl 30-40 as the pistols I was using didn't have the "oomph" to get it done, which is mostly due to not finding an upgrade worthy of using or my perks weren't built up enough for them to be as effective. It worked well enough, though.

As to having "10 pistols" so you don' need to reload, well... at some point you WILL have to reload them, and then you'll have 10 pistols to reload to just get back to where you need to be. That is horribly inefficient. You just added 10 times the amount of work and possibliity of fatality. But I won't stop you. Your scissors, run as you see fit!

[Mooman]

Let's start by comparing a laser pistol and a laser rifle as it can be done easily. Similar comparisons can be done with ballistic weapons.

Each weapon with their 60% cards (rifleman and gunslinger) and science perks (30% to energy weapons) will have the same damage output.

Both classes can use the same modded weapons, pistols aren't restricted to short barrels so they have the same range characteristics. Rifles have more mods available however and can achieve a lower AP per shot cost.

Where they differ is in auxiliary perks. Rifles using perception special and pistols agility frees them up to use different perks for different specialities.

For starters the rifle has a reload perk in Ground Pounder. That makes it better in longer fights with higher sustained DPS. The pistol using agility frees up the perception stat to use Glow Sight and Exterminator perks for increased damage vs glowing and insects respectively. Situationally useful but more damage is good for how resistance works (the Earle fight is against glowing creatures for example).

Then the laser has another trick in the splitter mod. Splitters make on hit effects better and the best effect is crippling. Comparing the cripple perks of Modern Renegade in agility (pistol) to Tormentor in luck (rifle) the pistol has the advantage. Luck is often a stacked special if using crits, and you should. The pistol perk is also a hip fire spread perk which makes it better with the splitter and free aiming.

So you see pistol vs rifle is very similar with each class excelling at different things via auxiliary perks.

[zombygunner]

i agree pistols stink period. i use like most people ive seen PA, big ass gun and a killer smile to boot lol.

[zombygunner]

The smile has helped out a lot its legendary