Finally Sharpshooter 5

[brick_top1982]

It took me about a week playing for 2 hours each night to finally achieve sharpshooter level 5. I love mowing down the clots with two bloody hand fulls with 50% more damage!!

Now to work on support.

I find that sharpshooter was the toughest to level up thus far.

 

[Punkster]

what about commando perk? must take ages to kill so many stalkers with the bullpup.

 

[brick_top1982]

yea ur right never thought of that. With sharp shooter u can just kill anything as long as its in the head

 

[Temstar]

with two bloody hand fulls with 50% more damage

dual handcannons are not affected by sharpshooter perk

 

[Griever]

dual handcannons are not affected by sharpshooter perk

Huh?

 

[Kogitsune]

Huh?

Unless if was ninja fixed, they still count as shotgun damage and also do not progress the headshot count last I heard.

 

[Epyonske]

Actually they do count towards the sharpshooter perk, I'm pretty sure they did release an update to fix this (not too sure though) but I did try this out and the count for headshots do go up

 

[eamonn]

I can tell you that dual handcannon headshots definitely count toward your sharpshooter perk, but I don't know whether it affects your shotgun damage counter or whether it benefits from the sharpshooter damage bonuses.

 

[thrash242]

Huh?

Is English not your native language? It seemed pretty clear to me.

 

[Epyonske]

Dual Handcannons do count towards the sharpshooter perk. I tested it out one day and my headshots increased

 

[Nanostrike]

Yup. That's what made my Sharpshooter 5 so anti-climatic, really. I got all the way to 5 and discovered that my 'bonus' weapon didn't even benefit from my perk...

I either spawn with 'em and switch perks then sell 'em after the first round (The discount applies to the sale price, meaning you SELL them for less!), or I toss one to a teammate. Unless you're at stupidly close range or shooting things you don't really NEED to headshot (Crawlers), the Dual Handcannons tend to just waste ammo. Especially since the Single handcannon reloads faster and each shot does 50% more damage...

 

[Benjamin]

Especially since the Single handcannon reloads faster and each shot does 50% more damage...

True but when you're in trouble in can be helpful to be able to fire twice as many bullets, twice as fast. Especially considering the second handcannon doesn't weigh anything.

 

[thrash242]

Dual handcannons are decent backup weapons at close range, but as a sharpshooter, I would only use the single one since using two handguns and sharpshooting, ie: shooting accurately, are mutually exclusive.

 

[Nanostrike]

True but when you're in trouble in can be helpful to be able to fire twice as many bullets, twice as fast. Especially considering the second handcannon doesn't weigh anything.

Yes, but due to the Sharpshooter perk not effecting the Dual Handcannons as it does the normal ones, it's usually better to use the single for a variety of reasons:

-Damage Bonus
-Reload Bonus (+30% reload speed for single handcannon on top of the normal faster speed!)
-Ease of "Sniping"
-Less tendency to 'Spam bullets' in a jam

Honestly, there are SOME times when spamming out 16 Handcannon shots is the answer, but I'd say that about 90% of the time, you can do more with 8 well-placed shots than 16 shots spammed out in a panic...

 

[Flamma]

Where did you guys saw that dual handcannons dont count??