Pistoleer Archive

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Pvt wrote:

I don't understand how people can keep saying that at 30m your too far away for a pistol and that it's not a rifle?I have no clue where you get your info from but you don't normally shoot stuff with a high powered rifle if it's only 30m away. How about this. Your at 60m you use your pistol. Your at 350m You use your rifle. How Rifles have only a 64m max range on them is beyond me. Think about it honestly before you ever say again that it's a pistol not a rifle at 30m. Of course point blank with almost any weapon should be more accurate than 30m away. But that doesn't mean the pistoleer's weapon of choice should be incaccurate at 30m away.

Seriously this is driving me crazy. You usea high powered rifle at a point target with some accuracy at 550m. You can hit an area target at 800m with a rifle. You can jam on one at 300m. But 30m with a rifle lol you have to be kidding me. That's over kill you don't need to be that close 30m is pistol range. You should shoot well with a pistol at 30m. If your a good shot you should really well at 30m and well at 50 or 60m.

Hell your a master pistoleer, a gunslinger, a trickshot, a dead-eye, 60m with a pistol should be nothing and you should always hit because when your shooting a gun your not just shooting a gun. Your firing your pistol, which you live by and will eventually die by. The pistol is your life and a pistoleer without a pistol is useless just as a pistol without someone to fire it is useless. The master pistoleer shoots his guns everyday and should not miss because he knows what weapons to use, how fast to fire, where to target, how to target, and with that great muscle memory that the master pistoleer has obtained through many years of practice he can hit everything anything within the point target range of the pistol.

I'm not saying that a master pistoleer should never missbecause being in a firefight is completely different from showing off at the range but what I am saying is that the DX2 being the "pistoleers" weapon should be better than it is plain and simple.

The damage is okay but could be much better. They should be able to hit over 300 Max damage stock without using 5 Exceptional Krayt Tissues.

The accuracy really sucks the pistoleers weapon of choice should be a solid consistent weapons that doesn't jam up and deals the most damage possible while still being accurate. Sticks and stones you don't chose a gun because it hits hard or because it is accurate, you chose a weapon because it BOTH of those things and has the exact combination of each. If it's accurate but doesn't deal much damage then why use it? You will hit but you won't do muchto thetarget.If it's inaccurate and deals a ton of damage why use it?If you hit you will do much damage to the target but that's only if you hit. An eliteclass does notdepend upon luck they depend upon their skill.

The thing is horrible looking. Iwant something flashy thatI can twirl around my finger perfectly. As it is the thing would beso tail heavy you would have to be a master pistoleerknow how much lower to shootat initially because as soon asyou pull the triggerwith all that weight in the back andguns kick you will shoot high everytime.The FWG5 is gorgeous compared to the DX2. It's chrome, very thin making it easily concealable, it's accurate, balanced, and deals good damage. But Iuse my DX2 more often simply for the AP1.

You can write essays and you can talk and type for days about how much you love your DX2 and how it is suitable forthe pistoleer and blah blah blah blah blah. The truth is this...... I'm not happy overall with the Dx2 and I am not alone and no matter what you say or how many times you type in that it's the greatest gun ever and that han solo was a chump for using a DL44 I and those who agree with me will still not be happy with the DX2's performance.

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hmm, interesting point about the ranges of weapons.....I would agree except that in this game everything is scaled down a lot compared to real life. Anyway, in this game, at 350m objects aren't even rendered yet on your screen....well unless you have a uber pc.....mine isn't uber and I need to at least get into about 200m before I start seeing a silhouette of objects and that's with flat ground in front of me. Imagine how bad it would be to shoot someone from 350m when you can't even see that far........

Yup, it's a game with real life comparisons....but that's all.....and I don't care what the gun looks like, as long as it does what it's supposed to do.....Kill my target.

However, I am very curious to see how the added range mod to the dx2 changes the gun......so I'm off to have our guild WS make me one.......

Last night I figured how to make my DX2 accurate all the time! Run towards your target and stop when your character and your target look like they are siamese twins. Then you are accurate, any further than that and forget it.

Guess where this is from =)

Also should mention I love this weapon. I used it way back when i was a Pistoleer/Creature Handler(Now i'm a gimp holo grinder =/) though I still love this weapon and think its one of the best pistols... I don't like the Republic Blaster but thats just my humble opinion...

Message Edited by Arconis_Runicblade on 02-12-2004 06:10 PM