Pistols are underrated

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I hardly ever see people actually use pistols in game, which is a darn shame, because they are legitimately quite handy. Especially for lmgs which have some substantial movement penalties, long reloads, and poor accuracy when standing even at fairly low ranges, having access to a quick firing, low weight weapon with a speedy reload is great. Have to move a long distance? Pull out the pistol. Need to reload? Pull out the pistol.

They aren’t exactly crazy powerful, but for anyone who hasn’t really tried them out seriously, give them a go. Or, if you’ve tried them and been underwhelmed, try using some of the other types. The best be far in my experience are the semi autos with 5.2 or more damage per shot, since they reliably down in two shots and you can mash them at close range. Revolvers have more accuracy, but their painfully slow reloads and poor fire rate seriously hampers them, and pistols that have less than 5 damage start being too slow to actually down people before they can return fire.

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they are really underrated since you can use a pistol as your primary and get away with

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my problem with pistol is that when your main gun out of ammo and reloading animation start, if you switch to pistol, the reloading animation for pistol will start too.
It got me killed a lot in intense firefight.

it’d be cool to if the soldier just use one hand rather than 2

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There have been so many times my 1911 saved my ass. Fast rate of fire too. Definitely my go to until I gotta whip out the hatchet

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Good day my esteemed sir, may I take 10 minutes of your time to discuss about the clutch, reload moment saviour and the only true god of pistols : THE HOLY BHP ? (O.o)

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I use pistols from time to time and it’s basically “I have nothing to loose” solution. Not worth the effort, even the best ones. I may as well kamikadze with grenade and it will be probably better.

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i have that and it’s amazing lol

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was playing some high level moscow axis. ended up using my mauser more than the ZH 29 (buff the semi firerate plz darkflow, zh is dogshit)

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dude they fire faster than a semi atuo riffle

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I use my pistol quite frequently actually. Especially if I am running a TOZ-B or a rifle, because while the shotgun is fantastic indoors, it only has two shots before reloading, and generally squads are more than two enemies.
Indoors, the pistol to me is a better option than a rifle, so if I’m using a soldier with a rifle and I need to go inside to close ranges to take an objective, I’ll always pull my pistol to get the job done.

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There should be ability in Enlisted to visually inspect your weapon like it is in Counter Strike Global offensive, I have many iconic pistols like golden beretta but i can’t inspect them, having this ability would be great !

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I have my trusty Tokarev pistol on certain situations like I have no time to reload my SMG or rifle or have no more ammo. Sure in this game I cannot use it against noob commanders and troll teammates like I used to do in Red Orchestra 2 sometimes but the TT still has some use on my soldiers against the Germans.

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Yes especially with some magical force that help my soldier shoot semi-auto pistols as fast as i click while he somehow can’t with his semi-auto rifle.

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in Battle of Moscow (i’m playing as germans) im using my pistol at all of my soldiers that dont’t have the secondary weapon, in my opinion if you got secondary weapon slot pistol is really pretty uselles, but if you dont have slot for additional weapon pistols are extremely usefull

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i’m very disappointed by pistols to be honest.

even if someone is downed, it still requires two shots.

same with headshots.

mfs run with caps/hats, and yet they survive two ( or more ) shots at the head with a c97.

the only good pistol that i manged to use, is the p38, 1911, the russian ttk, and basically every engraved one.

all the others, my god.

not only they suck for the majority in close range, but even at mid range.

Perhaps it’s just me expecting a pistol to drop enemies like it would be in reality if we consider that is being used on targets without bullet proof vest…

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TT not good?And also mauser OP pistol,i remember you say it was only this was a good pistol.

Only revolvers.

Pistols should down enemy when hit in the head.And also the player should be able to use them when he is down

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I use them all the times.

C96, luguers p38s etc. They are powerfull and when I m bored by the enemy performance I just go for headshots with pistols I feel way better after it.

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Any weapon should be able to do that if it were like in IRL tho :smiley:

Yeah, that one is annoying. But for the most close range engagements, I just hit downed soldiers with pistol in melee… it looks good, it feels good.
In mid range they are not really great weapon, but most of them are good enough for emergency purposes (except nagant revolver, screw that garbage). In close range, I often switch to pistol if my main weaponry consist of ba, works just nicely.

But I agree pistols should have at least a bit more damage (or be standardized to damage of US Colt in Normandy.