Ranged guns are useless?

[LotusBlade]

Something wrong with guns, seriously. You can't shoot up and down, cant crouch and shoot, can't shoot while jumping, can't aim. Starting Nightbane pistol is SOMEHOW stronger than BlackHall Menace (dual pistol) and Hexabarrel (machine gun). Mahine gun sometimes takes 1 bullet to shoot 2-3 times, but if it is last bullet, it shoots 6-7 times, why?

Why every newly found weapon is weaker than basic weapon, yet requires more Fate (or whatever that useless stat is called)?

Ammount of ammo you carry is tiny and getting it as drop is unlikely. Only after half way through game figured out we can actually stack more ammo than our max allows into hidden storage to refill our normal ammo magazine each time we visit teleport shrine. Still spending money for weak ranged attack is questionable, since we also need those money for lvl ups and buying upgrade stones and buying unique abilites AND buying potions AAAND upgrading weapons.

Next problem, many enemies are short (dogs) or crouching on floor, so you can't even shoot them cus bullet flies over their body.

Whoever designer of this game - WHY?

[Kknewkles]

I was pondering(and lamenting a bit) earlier today that you can't beat the game with ranged weapons only. Hence the "secondary weapon" I guess.

I'd love it if you could play with just ranged or just spells, but that's probably what I'll only be trying with the future addition of NG+. Though I don't think it would work without overhauling some things, like making the classes differ very strongly; giving a LOT of mana to a "mage" class and a colossal amount of bullets to carry to the "shooter" class. Then again, not sure that's the core design of the game.
Melee is always the best option.

[Tarkhani]

both magic and guns are only to support melee. they can do great damage in range but bullet always limit u to only use it

[Lightbearer]

I found using magic and certain weapon abilities a far better use of the secondary slots. Plus, you need to spend extra resources upgrading the gun of your choice, which is much more expensive than buying the super cheap MP refills.

That said if you're not investing in Mind I can see some of the later, upgraded guns doing major damage but it takes a massive amount of money and upgrade materials to get anything to +10. I'm talking at least 200,000.