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1 shot every other roundNo. This never happens on pistol build. You calculated AP cost wrong, probably missed gunslinger. 14 Dex = 15AP cost per shot, with Point Shot being 7 AP and Rapid Fire costing 22 AP. You get LTI to reduce their (already very short) cooldowns. Also, reducing your turn to 35AP requires many stars to align and can only happen late in fight anyway, after everything is dead (rapid reloader not triggering, not being able to cast Contrraction after spamming LTI and Stasis, using Norwegian Snuff instead of Adrenaline). Pistol build do not shoot once per turn, ever.
There is a reason, people bemoan the 1x4 damage spread of .44 Hammerer's.The reason being not understanding probabilities, game mechanics and historical record of pistols being bad. Every melee/range weapon deals between 0 (due to misses or low damage roll vs DT + shield) to bazillion damage per AP. Damage spread ratio is infinite. What matters is how likely you are to kill the enemy (and how many APs you are wasting). For pistols this probability is very high due to massive upper damage, high hit and crit chance.
And the build you posted has no mobility, apart from gearThis one I can agree with, what was he thinking... Seriosuly though, Shoggoth's build is solid and clearly contains some thing for fun (like cutthraat) but pistol build can have highest mobility in this game due to Hit and Run.
Why do you rank Pistol so high? Just because of .44 Hammerer and Bullet Time + Stasis?
Yes
In my experience they are quite bad vs. enemies with Pseudo-spatial Projection
Yes, prioritise psi targets, projections are pistol's weakness.
and damage range is horrid - only becoming somewhat reliable late game.
'Somewhat' is unnecessary but yea, they become OP late game and damage range is much less disadvantage than it seems.
I can get 9(!) 300+ damage crits with a single burst from 8.6mm Muzzled Rapid Steelcat from a single unconditional burst at similar cost to a single .44 Hammerer shot.
No, you can't. Pistols are for Bullet Time and it costs between 7 to 5 AP per shot compared to 14AP SMG burst. And they waste less ammo so less AP is spent on reloading (not to mention the logistics of crafting and carrying it around). Each shot can kill an enemy, allowing to immidiately move to another target thanks to Hit and Run.
With anti personel ammo I could crit up to 2800 dmg in my playthrough. Compared to SMGs pistols have up to 95% hit chance that doesn't decrease with distance when target is well lit, SMG burst have only up to 80% which rapidly decline with range, also lower range. Speaking of hit chance, pistols ignore huge chunk of evasion on close enemies. You definitely don't get 9 crits per bursts unless RNG gods smile upon you.
Speaking of crit, crafted pistols have higher crit chance and crit damage.
Damage is important but remember that enemies have set hit points. If enemy has 400 HP, why do you need 9 300+ crits? For pistols it's different, overkill damage increases probablility of 1 shotting an enemy so you stack it as high as possible and watch everything dying after 1 bullet.
SMG's cut through PSP like its not there and burst down crowds easily. With new refurbished Tommy Gun and Better crits, you can reach 210% crit damage. SMG damage output is honestly insane and not reliant on a small window of action or Special Attacks as Pistols are.
Pistol special attacks are bonkers. But yea, pistols need Bullet Time and special attacks to be good
Do you use the TM PSI at all during early levels?Yes, A LOT, and I recommend taking premeditation as soon as lvl 6 for this reason while keeping TM maxed until reaching 70 hard skill points. Main use cases:
Another question I have is concerning the Premeditation skill. When you use that, are you able to perform multiple TM casts with no AP cost? Is that how that works?No. Your next one cast costs 0 AP and less mana. That's it. Practically it's one free cast every fight. Which makes huge difference.
Plus one of the things that really made guns in general and sniper rifles in particular really shine, W2C ammo, got nerfed so deep it emerged on the other side of the planet. Guns in general are now only slightly more effective against bots, especially nagas, than crossbows, and each caliber can only shoot one specific type of elemental ammo, unlike crossbows that can shoot all sorts of trick bolts from the same bow.This is not true. Crossbows are not better against armored enemies than guns with W2C post nerf and I have no idea what led you to this conclussion. High calliber guns, which could mow through most armoured enemies (Nagas) without any issue completely ignoring vast majority of their over the top armor, lost around 25% damage post nerf. They are still doing great and idea that nerf moved them to the other side of the planet is ridiculous.
