Learning goals
- Understand pistols.
- Understand dual pistols.
- Understand machine pistols.
- Learn how fire rate, recoil, magazine size, reload, and accuracy affect sidearm feel.
- Learn when fast sidearms are useful.
Explanation
Pistols, dual pistols, and machine pistols are common Secondary weapon types. Pistols are single sidearms that may be semi-auto, automatic, burst-fire, precise, status-focused, or damage-focused. Dual pistols often trade precision or reload comfort for more fire pressure. Machine pistols fire quickly and can shred weak enemies or apply many hits, but they may burn ammo or require recoil control.
What should I do?
Choose based on need: a pistol for simple backup, dual pistols for fast pressure, machine pistols for emergency close-range firing, and a more accurate single pistol or hand cannon when you need precision.
How to avoid wasting time
Do not judge a fast sidearm only by damage per shot. Fire rate, reload, magazine size, status chance, and multishot can all affect real performance.
Common mistakes
Watch for these Secondary weapon habits while testing and investing.
- Thinking dual pistols are always better than single pistols.
- Ignoring recoil on fast sidearms.
- Running out of ammo by holding fire constantly.
- Using a machine pistol for long-range precision.
- Selling sidearms before ranking them.
Practical example
A machine pistol may look weak per bullet, but many hits can apply status quickly. A single pistol may fire slowly but land accurate headshots. Both can be good if used for the correct role.
Key Takeaways
- Basic sidearms are not all the same. Fire rate, control, reload, and role matter.
Practical task
Secondary weapons are often judged by feel.
- Equip a pistol, dual pistol, or machine pistol if available.
- Run a short mission.
- Watch recoil, reload speed, magazine size, and ammo usage.
- Try using it at close range.
- Try using it at medium range.
- Decide whether it feels like backup damage, precision, status, or Mastery leveling.
You can describe the weapon's handling in one sentence.