Pistoleer Archive

Hey all,

This is just something I did that I thought was interesting. I am in the military and work with pistols every day. I am a certified small arms instructor and have to say that I consider my self a pretty decent shot. Rarely am I more than 5 points away from a perfect score when firing our courses for qauls. Now, I didn't post this just to brag or anything. I have been reading about dual wielding pistols and see some people saying that it should come with an accuracy penalty and some say not. So, i tested it at the range. I'll tell you right now, that with a pistol in each hand firing at a steady rate of fire,it is damned hard to hit what you are aiming at. Now I understand that this is all a game and so rl matters shouldn't really affect the game mechanics. It was just a huge surprise to me what a difference it really made trying to concentrate on both weapons at the same time. Anyways, I found it interesting and thought maybe some of you would also.

Darc

Oh, it was fun as hell of course.

What type of pistols? I know that I have trouble hitting stuff with a single 9mm. But if you let me use a rifle....kiss that can good-bye at 30 yards.

BTW what do you think about the rifleman profession having such horrible accuracy at close range since it is completely contradictory to reality? At 14 meters a rifleman should be +50 on anything. Not that I am complaining as a pistoleer since thats what pretty much makes them die when they face us in PvP.

Practice it for a year every day and report back.

At a gun exhibition they had a guy who could draw and hit an apple 30 meters away every time in about 1/4 of a second. Basically if you ever fought him your head would be gone before you even saw him reach for his pistol. He was an old guy with a big beer gut and this exhibition stuff is what he did for a living. It was f'ing cool.

-- YP

While dual pistols would be cool, since it would imply developer attention was sent in our direction, I'd rather have that attention fix our existing specials.

Having said that, I could see dual pistols function similarly to the 'sword and shield' vs. 'dual wield' arguments from various D&D related games. Balanced defense/offense vs. all offense.

However, I'd still prefer we get fixed before new stuff is added. =]

Ever try fighting a tiger with a sledge hammer? 2 pistols with no accuracy hit might be unrealistic but in this world it is balanced.

And...speaking of duel wielding, I'd like to say that if this ever gets implemented for us, I'd like to see the 1 handed swordsman get the same love since they're our melee parrallel...

Here's something to think about:

If they really push this to the game, they should take away specials (or reduce them to only a certain amount) and let us attack more than one thing at a time.

Kinda like the spin attacks that meleers get. We would be something like -20 accuracy at all of the current ones. Make things more interesting in PvP if you ask me.

(I can see it now. Anold fashionedwestern brawl in Anchorhead. Kinda like the old wild west movies)

We should gather all threads dealing with Dual Wield, it becomes hard to remind which one you replied and which one you didn't.

Like someone else said, train it for 1 year (should still be way less than our avatars, proportions kept) and report it again. I am writing for 25 years now (I'm 30) and I was forced to write with right hand and draw with left one for my studies, to be able to get all my courts written...useless to say I didn't made it at first try.

But now, I can make it with ease. Ask anybody that was in medicine school, you have no choice, you must make it.