Pipe Pistol Should be a Revolver (Or there should otherwise be an earlier makeshift gun with a mag)

[JokingJames2]

I've played up to the end of Early Access content and I absolutely love this game. The only thing I feel makes progression feel a bit off at the moment is the fact that the first makeshift gun with a magazine we get currently is the disc launcher.
We unlock the pipe pistol and the scattershot at around the same time, and I don't think there's much reason to use the pipe pistol over the scattershot currently. Now I understand that the pipe pistol is more accurate over long range and is one-handed to allow use of a shield with it, but I think the advantages of the scattershot are more obvious and tangible.
If the pipe pistol had a triangular cylinder, so only 3 shots loaded at a time, not a ridiculous buff I think, then it would offer something more tangible over the scattershot and would give us an earlier option for a gun that doesn't need a lengthy reload between every shot.

The main problem with this is it would require a pretty hefty overhaul of the pipe pistol's model which I wouldn't blame the devs for not wanting to do when that kind of model work could go toward making a whole new gun instead.

[NaCl]

That could be interesting. Would make the pipe pistol more useful.

[A kobold]

personally I think this should be an upgrade you can get once you find carbon plates.

upgrade the pipe pistol to be a 6 shot revolver with a near instant charge.

a similar upgrade for the scrap shot as well but it turns that into a 4 round revolving shotgun.

[Bonkers]

Originally posted by A kobold:

personally I think this should be an upgrade you can get once you find carbon plates.

upgrade the pipe pistol to be a 6 shot revolver with a near instant charge.

a similar upgrade for the scrap shot as well but it turns that into a 4 round revolving shotgun.

With how lacking the current 'scientific' arsenal is in scope currently, this, as well as a crossbow upgrade, is sorely needed. Though I don't think they'd have to make the pipe revolver any faster than the pistol version, since that one already received a hefty speed buff with the community update.

[NJM15642002]

The pipe pistol is something that's based on real life weapons. Coil guns. Making a revolver mechanism work with a weapon that uses magnets to fire would be almost impossible now. And they are supposed to be simi realistic.
If they do make a multy shot firing weapon it would probably not be a pipe pistol but be made with higher end technology later in the game. At the early stages it's supposed to be jank ass barely functional improvised weapons created by a lab geak. Not leet ass gear created by Rambo.
Though your technical abilities are improving as you go along. W
e start as Home Alone class jank (Crossbow),
then to Mc Guiver (Coil gun),
and going along from there through Girl Genius territory (Lightnning gun)
and only at the end the game should we expect to be looking like the bastard child of Gordon Freeman and the doom guy wherein golden power armor, dual welding double atomic laser Gatling in one hand and a power fist holding a flaming electrified diamond chain saw great sword in the other with a sholder mounted with mounted storm bolter on top of that while shouting All Hale the new Emperor Of Mankind.

[DuckieMcduck]

I find a lot of the guns being weird are to incentive you to be creative with your arsenal. Any such upgrade would be "great" in the sense that it would snuff out the need to use other recipes since the reload and trigger delay can be deadly if you're caught off guard.

Buffing the mag size would make it greatly overshadow melee weapons or even the scattershot itself by being much more responsive in such situations (once you stunlocked something with a pipe pistol headshot it would be very much over).