Seriously is there any other use for it? I know it can incap a bunch of enemies with Cooked shot for up to two turns, but the chance to freeze for every individual enemy is ~0.5 at best. I've been trying to come up with a cryopistol build for a while now. Most of these ideas are pretty stupid and CLB pistol feels like a fifth wheel (which is also square). Like Temporal distortion build that also freezes enemies, even though acid pistol would definitely do better for that kind of build. Or a semi-pacifist build, probably knife+stealth+CLB, which is very dependent on having advanced catalysing belt just after completing Depot A. Clearly TC is a superior option for almost guaranteed incaps, and/or TM with slows, stasis and LTI can provide way more options for a pacifist playthrough.
There is no reason to use CLBp as a primary weapon on a pure chempistol build, when ABp does much more damage, that is also of an "exotic" kind, so very few enemies have a good resistance to it; while quite a few leather armor and tacvests in the wild have some resistance to cold. A few stacks of warmed up status pretty much kill both the damage and special effects of CLBp, and this status effects is relatively common, especially in populated areas. ABp + CLBp together don't make a lot of sense, because entanglement is generally better than chill and freeze; chill is basically useless when an enemy is very likely to be immobilised anyway. The one use for it is probably killing sea wyrms, and I'm not even sure about it.
Also there is no reliable source of crafting component for CLB pistol as far as I know. There is like 3 merchants that always have AB component, and one that always has incendiary component, but cryo? No one has it. Ok, Marty, Constantine, mechanics, Gort and firearm merchants SOMETIMES have it, but good luck getting at least one cryogenic collector of good quality in multiple merchant runs.
If I am missing something, please enlighten me.
