what do you guys think of firearms?

[Woldy]

I personally dont like them that much. i tried so hard to use them, but they are just sooooo unreliable.
Slow stationary reload.
takes a while to get the shot off.
And can outright miss at point blank.

I get they are supposed to be innacurate but when im in melee range and the barrel is practically pressed against their belly, how can that miss!?

they do have the benefit of almost oneshotting a fully armored knight.
But its just a toss of a coin really.

(small spoiler)
What bugs me the most is the mission where you attack nebakov, they place enemies high up on cliffs who are aboslute sharpshooters with these things, leads to believe they are at least a little accurate. Nope :P

[Shy]

Low reload time, high dps.

They're only really useful if you have a particular hard target you want to take out (A castle or knight)

or

A bunch of targets at range. Simply line up a bunch of guys with handcannons and fire at the same time. Which is brutally effective as you've probably seen in a certain post-Trosky scene.

[Thbran]

I would not call firearms high DPS they just do one big damage hit

[Pappy Boyington]

this kind of things has no future

[Mr.Gold]

I mean, there are no schools in KCD 2 so I am not sure why they gave us firearms for.

[Vanzann]

I prefer crossbow with poisoned bolts - far more reliable.

[Vanguard]

honestly pretty useless.

[Lil Jim Bob]

♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ ass and unreliable, never used one in serious combat for 90 hours

[Vanzann]

I'm not sure if handcannons been available in 1403 yet. They were in use 20 years later for certain (vital element of Zizka's wagenburg tactics) but in 1403 it can be another licentia poetica made by devs.

[kth]

Useless things only collected by morons who are "too masculine" to collect funkopops.
Oh, you mean in game?

[freddebw2]

Oprindeligt skrevet af Razorblade:

Firearms can be pre-loaded, so I could see them being useful for rapidly killing a few enemies before switching into melee, if you could switch weapons faster.

However, with weapon switching being so slow, you can't reasonably unload your guns, then swap into melee to take out the last few guys in a horde. With guns only working well at point blank range, you're going to inevitably get hit if you're not fighting a 1v1. That is to say, guns are comparatively useless, as far as I've seen.

Yes, switching weapons is wonky and has been near impossible at times. and in the assault on the way to the fortress in map 1 i couldnt switch to bow no matter how long i tried