Pistol or LMG?
Acidophilus
Join Date: 2004-10-17 Member: 32307Members
<div class="IPBDescription">The pistol.. or the light machine gun... decisions, decisions..</div>When you run around, knowing that your kharaa fodder, what weapond do you prefer to have out as your primary? Your pistol for those quick shots, or just a plain light machine gun for the spray and pray?
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But since you'll rarely play a 1v1 game in NS, using the LMG primary is better than the pistol.
When a skulk ambush comes, 50 bullets, that's enough to kill 5 one hive skulks without carapace. If you only miss a shot or two that is.
But the pistol can only kill two skulks per clip, making it really bad for situations where skulks ambush you.
Only time you'd genuinely need to run about with your pistol is at the start of the game- when you know where skulks will be peeking out from to parasite you.
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I only tend to switch to pistols when my clip's empty and I have to take down an approaching skulk before they it gets in bitin' range.
If you hold the button and shoot with the LMG at stuff, some shots may miss since you're firing at a rate of 10 bullets per second. But that doesn't mean the LMG is harder to aim with than the pistol. The missed shots can be solved by aiming at the target, shooting a bit. Then aiming at it again (assuming the target moves) then shooting again.
if I'm just running around deaf dump and blind it's the LMG then the pistol to pollish them off
or if If I'm being a smug ******* it's pistol out then 2 shots then a knife swipe.
I only use the Pistol when I'm being attacked and my lmg runs out of ammo, or I have to snipe a skulk from a wall <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tounge.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":p" border="0" alt="tounge.gif" />
Well, not over the HMG, but that's a different story <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":D" border="0" alt="biggrin-fix.gif" />
edit: wth, ###### time isnt ok to say?
Pistols have a better Rate Of Damage while LMG's have more damage per clip.
As a primary weapon id prefer lmgs due to the fact you can kill anything but fade and onos in one clip. Although with pistol you can kill things faster its not as good for killing multiple aliens.
LMG > pistol
although with a script a pistol is great weapon even in close range.
It never plays the animation or sounds on the "-attack" shot. And I press it too fast for the -attack shot to register, anyway- so it acts like normal.
However, catalyst + pistol script = mucho fun.
Ìf youre really pro, you shoot 3 pistol bullets and knive the alien. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/marine.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="::marine::" border="0" alt="marine.gif" /> <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":D" border="0" alt="biggrin-fix.gif" />
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Not possible with innate regen <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tounge.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":p" border="0" alt="tounge.gif" />
Pistol on combat
Probably should be the other way around, but i don't care <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/confused-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="???" border="0" alt="confused-fix.gif" />