pistols are a joke in this game.
even pistols from 19th century can kill anybody easily if it hits head or vital organs, or at least seriously injur them.
Somethimes you need to pour half of the magazine to enemy with best pistol in campagin in order to kill him.
Why weak pistols ? for balance ?
You cant shoot long range target like bolt actions, you cant kill multiple enemies in a row like smgs, its not effective on medium range as semi autos anyway.
Why they designed pistols too weak really ?
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The damage of pistol is only slightly less than the smg which use the same bullet. It is not weak unless you consider damage of smg is weak.
It is because pistol is not a main weapon. If pistol is that good in real life why army don’t give them to every soldier to replace main weapon?
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The only weak pistol is Nagan revolver, because it doesn’t have self-cocking, while it has in reality.
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Pistol should be good for close combat.
But pistols are weak.
One or two hits on the body but the enemy is still not dead or down.
So I always go for headshots.
(off topic: would be nice if wounded soldiers actually were wounded, not only having a shortened health bar. So wounded means no running, walking slowly, not being able to use the wounded arm/leg…)
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Again, this is same for smg which use same bullet. Did you think the damage of smg is low?
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Yeah damage does needs to be buff, their dropoff is insane and super inaccurate
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That sounds like expecting a pistol to outperform full-size rifles in their respective areas for which they were designed.
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No, i mean if they buff it it will not create any balance issue
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Ah ok, than I misunderstood you. In that sense I would also approve some damage buff.
it is rather weak considering it fair share of time doesnt kill even with headshot.
Quite moot point since this game is comparable to real combat just as much as my little pony.
wish pistols and shotguns had the slight zoom in like other weapons
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Fine, if you want realism so much we must also buff smg since they use same bullet or else realism guy will come out and cry like last time they cry about why bolt action rifle have so much damage despite using same ammo as semi auto rifle. Then the smg will become super OP.
Not sure why you end up with such realism argument here since I didnt exactly bring it up in my comments.
Other than ofc pointing out comparing reality to this game is pretty silly.
Headshot is arguably more demanding than just shooting torso.
So idk why there aint reward for going for that headshot.
Well they already do more dmg and quite often 1shots from head.
Sure I dont mind if smg’s headshot dmg multiplier gets increased as well.
Does someone actually give a flying fk what some HA / Realism clown says ? No.
Not exactly sure how but what ever.
I mean OP is using realism as his point, so I assume you support his point.
But if you want 1 shot for head shot they can just increase the damage multiplier when hitting head.
The multiplier is universal for all weapons.
The head shot multiplier is 2.3 , so you need at least 5.9 damage to guarantee down a person(with vitality perk). It is not achievable by many smg unless upgraded.
Or else you need to hit the neck which multiplier is 2.5, you only need 5.4 damage to guarantee down a person(with vitality perk).
Pistols in Battlefield, and Call of Duty does way more damage at close range. Enlisted you have to shoot someone almost 5 shots to kill them. Which gives them way enough time to kill you.
As of now there is no reason to switch your primary weapon, you are better off just waiting for reload then kills the guy. Which is stupid, it should give more incentive for ppl to swap to Sidearm when they are stuck in reload and enemy is close
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You use your pistol when you run out of ammo, or miss your BA shot for a saving grace. That’s what pistols actually are for in military use - as the last resort saving grace unload whole clip from close range device.
If you reload for 2,4 seconds you’ll die, or you’ll switch to pistol 0,7s and have your extra dmg to hopefully save you from the pickle.
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it doesnt in this game, ur way better off using ur primary and wait for reload, the chance of u killing someone with smg/ assault rifle with ur pistol is extremely low.
other game u can swap to pistol for easy kill in close range if enemy close. here pistol are quite underwhelming. look on Hell Let Loose, pistol is quite decent and good there compared to here (trash)
I kill with pistol just fine. Maybe you’re having a skill issue? Just pop a lad twice to the head and be done with it.
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Was wondering that too. Using 1911, high power, p38 or even type something pistol works really well, under 10-15 meters, like they’re supposed to be used irl.
Pistols are sidearms, with SHORT barrels, which easily explains the damage drop over distance they have…
They’re not CoD desert eagles. You can’t expect their damage per bullet to be superior to smgs with longer barrels using identical cartridges (granted, with DF and their weird logic, anything goes it’s true…)
I use (spam) them with any bolt action soldiers and they work like a charm, often besting assaulters charging me in buildings when they believe I possess no cqc weapons 
Nagant revolver deserves dual action thought.
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