Any Pistol...why bother

I used to think that, then I looked at the crit multiplier....

I have a pistol on 2 of my load outs now

Pistols work perfectly fine for nearly any encounter as long as the user knows how to use the damn thing.

For people whining about weapons and their falloff damage and oh noes its a **** weapon...Duh ******, your trying to shoot it from 20m out.

Iv seen people top coop scoreboards damage/kill wise with pistol / smg loadouts. Hell iv done it with pistol/shotgun loadouts more than once.

So, heres how it stands.

LEARN
TO
PLAY

before you bash a weapon type.

There's a stat special to purple and orange items:
'10% refresh of your EGO puwer on full reload'

And there's a perk called 'Pumped Up':
'15% refresh of your EGO puwer on full reload'

These two things added the very simple mathematical fact that Ground Pounder is broken and has the highest DPS against any armored target and Wolfhound and VBI Auto pistols have easily the highest DPS against every target that can be hit for critical damage ... make me not really care whether or not you stick to your SAW for every target no matter if it's a good idea or not, when Dekuso and Motherload are two of the rare examples of when it's actually an outstanding choice.

Play the game the way you want, the co-ops are so ridiculously easy it doesn't matter whether you're at 100% and it gives me the opportunity to get continue to severely outperform the rest of pretty much every group I met.


ps: I added Autopistol to the Wolfhound - yes, the raw DPS are not as high but application of nano effects is more frequent due to weapon mechanics and it seems like nano effect chance is dependent on weapon type, with pistol being higher than SMGs or ARs for example.

pps: The SMG ripoff that is VOT Blaster makes ARs and SMGs pale in DPS as well, but is well balanced since you cannot use it as a primary weapon because of the ammo limitations.

ppps: I'm done testing FRC Bull Rush and it's really not bad, but the handling ... I might just not be skilled enough for that kind of recoil. -.-

I get pistol kills all the time from far away. Just land head shots. Anything other than a headshot is a waste. Pistols get some craaaazy high critical modifiers, so headshots do a lot more damage than on other guns.