Best lethal weapons?

[Airu]

Having completed a stealth pacifist run and gotten most augs i'll need anyway,im now planning on starting a lethal run to (literally) kill some time until the next game is released (forced to play on PS3 due to the broken PC version which i would have gotten otherwise,hopefully the next game won't have the same issue). I've already planned what weapons to use,but i don't know if they're worth using;

1. Revolver against bosses,bots (when i don't have any EMP grenades) and heavies. Any other weapon able to take them out as easily (Rocket or Grenade Launcher and Sniper Rifle for example) takes up too much space,its ammo is too rare or is aquired too late to make a difference

2. Combat Rifle and later Heavy Rifle against anything else. Heavy Rifle is great when fully upgraded,but Combat Rifle is annoying because of how many shots it takes to kill anything with it and its too easy to accidentally empty the whole magazine on just one target if you're not careful not to mention its questionable at best against anything armored

3. Pistol for when using any other weapons would be too slow or wasteful,mainly for setting off mines, destroying cameras and killing targets when you can't afford to get spotted

Also,which weapons should get which upgrades first if several weapons require the same one,and are any of those weapons able to take on several enemies at once if needed (mainly for the last level)?

[SomeUnregPunk]

Typhoon is the only boss killer weapon you will ever need on every difficulty. So get some
battery bars depending on what difficulty setting you use.

Easy -> use it once per boss
medium -> twice.
etc.

But some people don't like easy boss fights so...
Revolver fully modded is fine for armored foes. Unmodded is fine too but you need more shots rather than one or two. Use the iron sights.
Pistol destroys everything if you fire it from the ironsights and aim for the head. The upgrades make this a weapon a beast.

If you are playing a silent run, then you can get a silenced sniper rifle in the first mission. It's on the path to the roof entrance. The crossbow is also silent without an mods... pistols need that silencer unless if you use the environment to your advantage.

Everyweapon can be used to kill quick if used by the ironsights. Some weapons are better at it than others though.

SMG and Combat rifle has some significant spread while pistols and revolvers have it reduced.
Shotguns are the fun weapons. The more futuristic weapons that come later can destroy the bosses if you don't have the typhoon.


Technically you can kill without silencers without being spotted if you use your enviroment to your advantage. As long as the rader doesn't turn red, they don't know where you are. So on yellow alert, they will quickly give up their search if they don't find you quick. AI is pretty easy to fool in this game.

[Airu]

Having finished a silent run,im looking for something noisy for a change. I don't think shotguns are very good past Detroit let alone late game due to lack of Sabot Shells in Human Revolution and everything from FEMA Camp onwards having armor,but i might be wrong and i hope i am ,as im not a big fan of SMG's and Assault Rifles for the reason i mentioned as that leaves just the shotguns

Should propably just get the pistol for stealth kills and something else for run and gun and be done with it

EDIT: Had to remove some duplicates,accidentally posted several due to steam lagging like crazy for some reason

[Lord Of Dorkness]

The laser and plasma rifle are quite fun. Pity you get both so late in the game, though.

Think my favorite 'workhorse' happens to be the dinky SMG, actually. I know it's rather weak, but I just like how it looks, sounds and handles when fully upgraded.

[Airu]

They really need to give crossbow tranq darts as alternate ammo the way Mini-Crossbow had them. Having Sabot Shells for shotguns would make them viable in endgame too. Hopefully they'll do so when they bring back different ammo types in Mankind Divided (or so i heard)

[Frosty]

Honestly I have found the Pistol/Combat Rifle combo to be one of my favorites with Heavy Rifle to provide some much needed "TF2 Heavy" fun.

I ended upgrading both pretty fast and was happy with the results. I have found the combat rifle works best with cover in terms of accuracy, mainly because you get a small zoom and stability bonus.

[Nostil]

I like the 10mm pistol with armor peircing and laser sights, that thing is a beast.

[Saint Pablo]

The pistol with armor piercing and laser sights makes it for one hell of a death machine like above user said.

[Tuku]

I use a silenced pistol with armor percing and as much damage increse as the game will allow...I take most people out...Typhoon for bosses
secondary is the combat rifle silenced with the same types of mods and laster site. Then I do cary a sniper rilfe because sometimes you want to rain down hell from on high .

[t850terminator]

Its the pistol. Just that, and you will kill everyone, one of the flaws of the game, the level design encourages lethal ranged stealth, yet tells me I should try nonlethal stealth.

[Airu]

Having started the run and made it up to Derelict Row,i've tried whatever weapons i have come across so far; Sniper Rifles take up too much space and i rarely use them, SMG's are great, it turns out shotguns are good afterall and Combat Rifle is...meh. Im upgrading it and gathering all ammo i can find in preparation for Highland Park, then we'll see if its any good. No idea about the pistol as im yet to find another laser sight for it (used one for Combat Rifle) let alone any silencers

[Vassago Rain]

The pistol.

It makes the game trivially easy.

[Airu]

Is pistol best only with headshots and is it any good if shooting anywhere else? If not,what is?

[Nostil]

Pistol is relly only good with head shots. But with a lasersight, you should be getting headshots everytime you come out of cover. For coverbased shooting I reccomend a laser rifle.

[Airu]

Any good weapons i can get before it that isn't pistol? Something that doesn't necessarily require you to use cover

[AlexMBrennan]

Pistol is relly only good with head shots.

EVERY weapon is better with head shots, so I don't see the point here.

To answer your question, the pistol - it's silenced, has decent range, and is very accurate. To make it even more ridiculous, it can one hit kill enemies wearing helmets with the armour piercing mod found in Adam's apartment whereas the silenced sniper rifle can't.

The only time I would have had to use a sniper rifle instead was the TYM ambush.

I also question the wisdom of using non-silenced weapons (it's easier to kill enemies one at a time than an entire base's worth of soldiers at once).
The heavy rifle in particular seems like a spectacularly bad weapon (it's huge, its ammo is huge, and it takes forever to spin up... so you have to be out of cover for 5s before you can fire a single shot). It's alright for bosses that don't move, I guess.