HOW does gunslinger actually work?

[HURTN4ASQUIRTN]

Most runs I only get the pistol? Other runs i can get the epic machine gun, rifle, shotgun all in one run....it makes no sense. how the hell do i get the guns to come up consistently? its sooo boring and frustrating playing with just the pistol....

[Kotli]

You need a Pistol at level 5 to get the revolver (sniper tree), SMG (machine gun tree) and shotgun (shotgun tree) weapons lines. Note evolving a gun to rare tier banish the pistol so you need to pick up all 3 before then. Oh and you need 1 empty weapon slot per gun weapon on top of pistol.

[S'bass thulu]

Yeah, you need the pistol leveled first which will open up other categories... leveling up those will open the next tier all the way up. Only one gun can fire at a time. I tend to go with the auto fire weapons, turn on auto aim in settings and then work to get all the cards that add to my reload when I dash.

On a controller, I swap guns with a down click on the left thumbstick (I think) but... however it's assigned for your controller there's a button to swap between what guns you've got so far. It's fun once the guns are leveled up a bit, and auto aim makes a run a little less tedious while getting used to the rest of it.

Once the dash/reload gets high enough you can basically just dash through levels or whenever's needed and it gives auto reload vs having to wait, which is, super fun.

[S'bass thulu]

It's a decent community here, I've always found answers to questions over the years playing RG.

[HURTN4ASQUIRTN]

OH man, thanks guys, I was wondering why I couldn't get it consistently because i was avoiding upgrading the pistol, waiting, saving those upgrade levels for the guns that never came. its kinda sad that you have to do it like that, cant choose, and cant combine them.

[S'bass thulu]

Maybe in the future? It's all still in beta. Once I've leveled the big guns though, I've never found a need for more than the one gun. I've had some of my most successful runs with gunslinger too. Plexus and Fernanda (developers) have been real responsive to improvements in game play that add to the fun.

To me, it's better to have the single base level pistol to open the options for the run... then have all of the further choices later in the selection tree.... which let's us choose. Did you figure out how to select between the gun of your choice once you started getting more of them? You can have all the different categories and switch between any of them any time you want...