Pistols

A gunman has got to keep his cool and have the reflexes to take the best possible shot.

Truth.

The ability to use one-handed firearms in combat.

This skill affects how likely you are to hit someone with any kind of one-handed fired weapon -- revolvers, semi-automatic pistols, small crossbows, dart pistols, and the like.

Pistols are an interesting and viable weapon for a plethora of reasons:

• Using only one hand greatly helps healing in combat or any other auxiliary item.
• Pistols cannot be parried meaning a high hit percentage will be high no matter what the enemy is using as his/her weapon.
• Pistols use bullet damage which causes bleeding and is a tough damage to soak.
• It is a great secondary weapon for blades users.

Cons to Pistols:

• AMMO, it can be expensive or just hard to find, either way it can be a pain.
• You cannot parry an attack with a pistol.
• During combat you will have to reload, this can cost valuable time in a battle.

See Weaponry for more details.

Guide to Pistols

This is a guide to the more common pistols found throughout Hell. All pistols use brawn to determine attack speed.

You really can't shoot a thing

• AirSoft target pistol- This thing is useful for getting that first pistol raw of yours. Ammo for this can be found at Liddy Arms in the vending machine downstairs.

Starter Pistols

These guns have cheap ammo that can readily be bought in the automats in front of Ammu-Nation.

• .22 Revolver- Only useful for grinding from 1-3 raw, just about anything else is better than this.
• 6mm Defender- Much stronger than the .22 revolver, these can be obtained by shoving rent-a-cops down the stairs, these dudes are often found patrolling in NPC housing.
• Powersquirt- This gun does acid damage and is quite fast, however the ammo is more than three times as expensive as 6mm rounds. These can be bought at 77Jack's Gun Room, ask a corpmate to help you get one if you cant get it yourself.

Intermediate Pistols

These pistols are just a step above the starters in terms of skill and will help you increase your raws.

• Nail Gun- These are crafted and ammo is extremely cheap and is found at the hardware store, HH on the map. 50 shots a clip, these will be good from 2-4 raw. Again, ask a corpmate.
• Kel-tec P11 9mm- The cheaper 9mm pistol, also good from 2-4 raw if you cant get a corpmate to make a nail gun. Can be bought at Liddy Arms.
• 9mm Beretta- The alternative to the Kel-tec P11, this gun is more expensive but it does 2 more min and max damage. Also found at Liddy Arms and also at Ammu-Nations and 77Jack's.
• Sawn-Off Shotgun-This gun is great early on, it does, for early game a ton of damage and a bunch of different bullets for different effects.
• .44 Revolver- Don't ask why the next two revolvers in terms of skill shoot smaller bullets but this is the revolver option for 2-4 raw. Found at 77Jack's
• Snubnosed .38 Revolver- Good from 3-5 raw, the ammo for this and the next pistol are shared.
• .357 Revolver- Good from 4-6 raw, can use both .38 specials and .357s just like the .38 before it.

Late Game Pistols

You get the endgame pistols very early on in the game and there is very little variation, maybe this will change in the future.

• 12mm Hammerhead pistol- This is every gunslinger's bread and butter gun. You need to learn pistols past 6 from trainers/players so this is pretty much it. These can be found in just about every stocked corp store.
• 12mm Viper pistol- More accurate, slightly harder hitting, slower version of the Hammerhead.
• 12mm FlugHammer pistol- A pre-modified pistol, by the time you are able to get one of these on your own, you should know what you're doing.

Other Pistols

These are other pistols that can be found around Hell, often situational or weird. You can assume that ammo can be a hassle with these.

• Dart Pistol- These pistols do all of barely any damage and knock targets the fuck out.
• Needler- These things will more likely be used on you should you piss off Corpclave, they paralyze the fuck out of you.
• Needle Pistol- No relation to the above, they do slash, stab, and the coveted bleed damage and are fast. Ammo ISN'T a bitch with these, buy it at BlastArms in the Crater.
• Lizard Gun- It is a dinosaur that fires a bullet.
• TT-77- This pistol is sad. It cries for the day it can be happy.
• .71 Desert Hawk- If its rusty, it'll explode eventually. If not, have fun as it hits pretty hard, kinda slow though.
• Samaritan- Big Fucking Gun, it is slow and has a tendency to explode an enemy.
• Lasblaster- Pew Pew Pew, very few things soak Laser damage.
• Super Shorty-A Sawn-Off that went to the gym for a long time. It can shoot really fast, granted you are buff enough to do so.