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I finally became a Novice Commando last night, so I bought a Launcher Pistol and headed out to see what kind of trouble I could get into.

I attacked a minor wort lair. They still con "white" to me. I've killed them often, and they're usually quite easy if you separate them. I attacked one with my pistol. Decent damage, 550ish. Then the wort and his 2 buddies charged me. Woah. The area-of-effect works I see. What I didn't see was any damage to his buddies.

My question is...the pistol obviously does some area-of-effect damage (the others charged), but is that damage sooo small that it doesn't register on their HAMs, or does the AOE damage just "awaken" others?


Phalx

its basically just like an AoE AGGRo not dammage.. just aggroes everything .. shoot it with your rifle/pistol first.. wait for it to get away form them a little than blast the hell out of it

This seems quite odd then. What good is AOE if it only causes AGGRO and not damage?

Is this a bug that is being looked into?


Phalx

its a bug, but i dont believe its being looked at

Sorry if this has already been asked. I know you can use pistol specials with the launcher pistol. But does the LP give pistol xp. And do pistol mods (speed and accuracy) effect the LP as well?

It gives dancing exp!

The LP gives heavy weapons xp, but also gives you some pistol xp if you use SOME of the pistol specials. I was hunting in a group and using supression fire to keep the explosions down to a minimum, and was getting both HW and pistol xp. When I hunt alone and use things like health and body shot, I only get heavy weapons xp.

-K.F.

i just wanted to add that the launcher pistol gives heavy weapons exp and uses all the pistol specials, plus it uses your pistol skill to detemine mission difficulty when using the LP, however as far as i know no one has conclusivly determined that the LP uses the pistol skill mods. There is a push to get the launcher pistol to use heavy weapon mods and add LP specials to the commando tree though.

Thx for answering. Much appriciated.

I wanna be a commando just so I can run around yelling SPACEBALLS THE FLAMETHROWER ! while lighting small animals on fire.

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pistol mods effect it. You get Heavy weapons experience when using it.

Yes.

And its got aneat effect that works with all pistoleer specials thatbrings the frame rate down to a near stop for the person using the LP(Lag Pistol) and everyone in the area. It's kinda like a time machine wrapped up into a handy little pistol. Once you start shooting, everything starts moving in slow motion.