Fast shooting

[EndsWithaBullet]

In some moments Lara shoots faster with pistols, in some moments slower. What's difference? How to shoot faster always?

[Sylvain]

Are you sure it's not that her two pistols go out of sync sometimes when she turns ? It's likely that she fires the same amount of bullets, just alternating hands :)

[ikkuzu]

that fast-shooting-mode exists. it seems to randomly trigger when lara is locked onto a target that keeps going in and out of sight every few seconds. but i've never seen her firing slower than usual as OP claims.

[EmzElf]

There's three types of shooting. Directly with both guns together, shooting only with 1 gun, or the cool bang bang dual pistols.

To dual pistol it just turn a bit then back forward towards your target again and it'll do it.

A bit harder to do with the modern controls though so i choose the right moment to do it. Takes a bit of practise to do it with Tank Controls too. I never usually start doing it until my reaction time on a level is much faster after practising it a couple times, then it's much easier.

[ikkuzu]

i'm fully aware of the off-sync-bang-bang shooting style :D
but there's some rare moments where she genuinely does rapid dual-fire. as i said, this seems to randomly occur whenever a locked-on target comes back into line-of-sight.

[EmzElf]

Originally posted by ikkuzu:

i'm fully aware of the off-sync-bang-bang shooting style :D
but there's some rare moments where she genuinely does rapid dual-fire. as i said, this seems to randomly occur whenever a locked-on target comes back into line-of-sight.

That sometimes happens when Lara very slightly catches her target slightly from the side in a certain way, and it goes into a half dual pistol which looks like she's firing even faster. I've seen that now and again too over the years playing mainly Tomb Raider 2.

I think it's a slight glitch because normally you have to turn more than that to get it to work, but while in full on combat Lara may do it on the rare occasion. It's not really firing faster it just weirdly glitches.

[Sylvain]

I do get the mechanics behind it, but just never witnessed it myself. I'll try to replicate it in the opera where there's always one or two Bartoli guys hiding behind the curtain :)

[ikkuzu]

one thing to add here: the rapid dual-fire wears off very quickly. it's never permanent, only 3 or 4 ticks. i think it's the result of unfinished attack-animations being "stacked" and then going off in very quick succession.

just again, to be clear: i'm not confusing this with the off-sync-shooting-style, which happens when one gun is in the air, while the other is shooting. this is genuine dual-wield rapid-fire i'm talking about, doing genuinely more DPS.

[Foxpup]

This bug happens when Lara loses and regains sight of an enemy very quickly; she will resume firing immediately, regardless of how little time has elapsed since her previous shot. If an enemy is stuck on a corner or otherwise has its movement impeded, this can happen many times in succession, resulting in extreme rapid fire.

[Powellinho.72]

This would be classed as a GOOD BUG. never remove it.