Range or Penetration

[SpidersInABirthdayCake]

I got the Deadeye pistol (Unique UDP Compact) and can't decide between 50% more penetration or Reduce damage drop-off by 30%. They both cost 800 coupons or I would go for the more expensive upgrade. Stalkers whats your pick?

[SpidersInABirthdayCake]

Can't even attach a silencer on it guess it's going in storage for now.

[johndoe987456]

things dont spawn far enough away for range to really matter, penetration 100%

[Altair1243]

Originally posted by johndoe987456:

things dont spawn far enough away for range to really matter, penetration 100%

I know this is necro, but that's just not true. Range stat matters significantly on AR's, for example, where you will likely be shooting at 50+ meters when in the open. It's especially noticeable on low-pen AR's, because the enemy armor will absorb a lot of the already reduced damage. Also, certain shotguns with low range you will notice that they're super deadly up close, but even just a little range out the damage is drastically reduced even if most of the buckshot collides due to low spread (We're talking 1-shot to 3+shot range, depending on range)

[Greymantle]

Range for sniping and penetration/handling for armor busting. I prefer penetration myself unless I'm sniping then range.

[StormhawkV]

The game doesn't explain what the range stat is about. There's four different upgrades that can influence it: damage drop-off, flatness, bullet velocity and bullet range. Only damage drop-off is an unconditionally good upgrade. Some weapons profit from more flatness like the S-14 and S-15 but most don't need it. Bullet velocity and bullet range don't do anything useful. For the former the distances aren't long enough to make it matter and for the latter you're not going to need more range in the meaning of 'the bullet exists longer after leaving the barrel'. Penetration is always better than those four although damage drop-off isn't far behind. The former simply increases damage more consistently.