Can i get the minimalist achievement with handcannon?

[Igris]

Also can I switch to other handguns aswell or just need to use 1?

[FruitBat Man]

Good question. I haven't used it yet. Is it a magnum or handgun? Any handgun works (or knife).

[Dou B Jin]

Nope. They're considered magnum by the game and not a handgun.

You can swap between as many handgun as you want. I always kept the punisher on the side for shielded enemies.

[Player Zer01]

no as it can only be handguns. the handcannon is like the killer7 and broken butterfly as they are magnums.

[i ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ hate oni]

handguns and knifes only no grenades no flashbangs no magnums

[Igris]

Damn, that sucks, handguns kinda suck against bosses though.

[Soren]

Originally posted by Casey:

Also can I switch to other handguns aswell or just need to use 1?

You can use any handgun and any knives you want. Might want to have 3 or 4 handguns if you're planning on doing the challenge at a higher difficulty. But you also don't have to do minimalist at a high difficulty and I believe you can even do it in a NG+ run.

Some things to note about the run. You can check if you violated the run at any point by scrolling into challenges and seeing the "Minimalist progress: 0". If the number is higher than 0 the run is invalid. You can load older saves of the run and the progress is remembered on that save.

Throwing eggs, grenades, or shooting illegal guns increases the count. Scoping with the gun (like the bio sensor) does not invalidate the run. Using the mounted cannon, mounted machine gun, or rocket launcher special (against Saddler) does not invalidate the run.

[Player Zer01]

Originally posted by Casey:

Damn, that sucks, handguns kinda suck against bosses though.

you do the run on assisted which makes it a bit easier.

[Igris]

Originally posted by Player Zer01:

Originally posted by Casey:

Damn, that sucks, handguns kinda suck against bosses though.

you do the run on assisted which makes it a bit easier.

I forgot about matilda gun. Time to do ot then.

[Soren]

Originally posted by Player Zer01:

Originally posted by Casey:

Damn, that sucks, handguns kinda suck against bosses though.

you do the run on assisted which makes it a bit easier.

Personally, I did the minimalist run on hardcore as my first run in the game. None of the bosses were an issue for me, even on hardcore. Easy to learn their patterns and dodge most types of their attacks after a few loads.

The tricky thing was more so niche enemies. Regenerators being problematic, and shielded enemies/spider las plagas being a problem as well. The Punisher does well a better job against all those enemy types. Piercing helps against parasites in a regen body, wooden shields, and spider plagas resting on the back of their controlled foes. But even then the issue is the low damage on the Punisher means it doesn't help by as much as you'd want.