Which weapons to use in Chapter 2?

[Pheex]

Any of you guys have tips on what weapons are good in chapter 2?
Stealthy and ranged preferred

I ran C1 with spirit bow and bone knife, but the bow and knife's viability seemingly take a nosedive in C2. I can oneshot about half the enemies with headshots, but a lot of enemies will tank stealth headshots.

Tried the repeater rifle, pistol, crossbow, same thing, most enemies will not die from a stealth headshot anymore.

Right now I'm running around literally shotgunning everyone in the face with the decapitator like I'm playing Quake and that's been by far the most viable... but it's not exactly fun

edit: I have maxed gotcha and the cowboy hat

[Chainsaw.Aardvark]

Around the sawmill is a new bow to try, that gets more powerful the more HP you have lost. The Cultist caverns have a magic tomahawk that can be thrown or used up close, though it can be tricky to find. With the retrieve arrows skill maxed out, gold/keen crossbow bolts are quite viable to use near infinity - and there is an artifact crossbow on the second map as well.

I'll admit that one of my few complaints about the game is that weapons become obsolete each chapter, so aside from the "Orb of Night" revolver few things from the first chapter are viable in the second much less third part of the game.

[Pheex]

Awesome thanks, I'll keep a look out for those items!

[Turncoat]

Originally posted by Pheex:

Any of you guys have tips on what weapons are good in chapter 2?
Stealthy and ranged preferred

I ran C1 with spirit bow and bone knife, but the bow and knife's viability seemingly take a nosedive in C2. I can oneshot about half the enemies with headshots, but a lot of enemies will tank stealth headshots.

Tried the repeater rifle, pistol, crossbow, same thing, most enemies will not die from a stealth headshot anymore.

Right now I'm running around literally shotgunning everyone in the face with the decapitator like I'm playing Quake and that's been by far the most viable... but it's not exactly fun

edit: I have maxed gotcha and the cowboy hat

Not sure how stealth headshots with a crossbow doesn't kill most enemies in Chapter 2, even a two-shot headshot with gold bolts from the Iron Thorn will drop a Death Stalker and Gunslinger. You sure you are actually getting headshots, sometimes I'm sure I get a hit only to see it hit just below the nape of the neck area on drowners or scallywags. Thorn has been a headshot machine for me and I just hit Chapter 3 and am still using it.

Btw, Iron Thorn is south-east of the swamp puppy farm, its guarded by several gunslingers but it's behind a rock so you should be able sneak around to it.

[Pheex]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3117334921

Shot the left guy square in the back of the head from stealth with thorn and cowboy hat, he shrugged, turned around, alerted his buddies and shot leeches at me. And this is one of the weakest act 2 enemies

I guess I need to upgrade to better bolts to 1hk enemies

[Og-the-Trog]

That looks like a bug.
I get OHK stealth headshots with the orb of night (30 dmg), but not with the drunken master (20dmg), so I started using it again.
This without any +dmg perks. (except invisible man, which might-- I think I might recall "stealth efficiency" increasing stealth damage, but I'm unsure about the veracity of that memory).

That bolt should have killed that guy. Try taking off the hat and see if it still works? I'm beginning to suspect some items do the opposite of what they claim..

Btw the cowboy hat is only supposed to buff *revolvers*, so there's no point to it if you aren't using one.

[Turncoat]

Originally posted by Pheex:

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3117334921

Shot the left guy square in the back of the head from stealth with thorn and cowboy hat, he shrugged, turned around, alerted his buddies and shot leeches at me. And this is one of the weakest act 2 enemies

I guess I need to upgrade to better bolts to 1hk enemies

That is a definite bug and not something I've ever come across, you might want to test and confirm if it is bug and forward that off to the Devs in the pinned thread. Drowners are some of the weakest enemy types to in CH2, I use standard bolts on them and everything else (even still in Ch3) with zero issue at all. Btw Well-Worn Hat only buffs revolvers, so you may want to exchange that for something tied to stealth if you are running bows imho.

[Pheex]

Thanks for the tips guys! And curious that it might be a bug. If this was supposed to kill the drowner I can see why my weapons feel weak and unviable. Didn't know the cowboy hat was so specific either! I'll give it a try tonight.