A Glaring Flaw with Dual Pistols
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Posted on: 2010-04-19 17:34 in CoH and CoV General Discussions
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Points to whoever gets that... But really. When I first heard about ammo-swapping, silver bullets were one of the first things that came to mind. I suppose I can settle for toxic ammunition... for now.
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Mainly because the efficieny experts determined that Silver Bullets were too cost ineffecient. Why, the money spent on one silver bullet could be used to feed an entire african family for a year.
And I thought the glaring flaw with DP is that it looks so good that other powersets look dull in comparison. 
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Originally Posted by Myriad
And I thought the glaring flaw with DP is that it looks so good that other powersets look dull in comparison.
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Silver bullets wouldn't work on Council wolves anyway (well, no more than our regular bullets do)...Nictus bullets, though...
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Silver bullets just for Council wolves? Isn't that just a little bit too nitpicky? Who needs silver bullets when you got toxic rounds baby
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Originally Posted by Furio
Silver bullets wouldn't work on Council wolves anyway (well, no more than our regular bullets do)...Nictus bullets, though...
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Originally Posted by Heartbreaker
What's the point of having [Swap Ammo], if it doesnt let me switch to silver bullets for all these dang werwolves?
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The point is that Silver Bullets work on Werewolves made by a curse! Not the Science created Warwolves of the council/5th. Even if a Werewolf was made by Magic don't mean that the spell is the same that would be weakened by Wolves bane or killed by Silver Bullets.
Assuming all Werewolves can only be killed by silver bullets is a stereotype! Normal bullets should do the job!
I think it would be cool if they had a temp power or a buff that sets a flag to unlock special ammo types under Swap Ammo. Silver Bullets for wolves, or Redding type rounds from Vanguard. The downside to that is there could quickly be too may types to swap through, unless they came up with a way to include or exclude at will.
Too bad it will never happen, since it only matters for one set.
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Silver wouldn't work.
Nope, what you need are chocolate bullets. They're canine, aren't they?
personally I usually just set it to Cryo and forget it. I do not find the debuff from chem or the dot from Pyro nearly as useful as the Slow/Hold of Cryo.
YMMV
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Raisin bullets would be better. Grapeshot, as it were.|
Originally Posted by NightErrant
Nope, what you need are chocolate bullets. They're canine, aren't they?
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Give 'em a taste o' the ol' grape, me hearties!
Ok, no silver bullets is a let down, but I have to agree with Myriad. The real problem with Dual Pistols is that it looks so awesome. Not that I mind that, it just makes the looks of the other powers so ho hum. I do wish that incendiary bullets were red though and not green like the toxic bullets(or is my monitor screwed up?).
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That was horrible. I approve.
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Originally Posted by Tyrrano
Raisin bullets would be better. Grapeshot, as it were.
Give 'em a taste o' the ol' grape, me hearties! |
Forget silver bullets. I just wish they'd go back and tweak the obnoxious levels of resistance to all damage those things have.
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The phrase isn't nautical in origin, despite it being used in Napoleonic naval fiction; it comes from the writing of 19th century historian Thomas Carlyle, describing artillery lieutenant Napoleon Bonaparte's battery firing a "whiff of grapeshot" into the Royalist mobs on the streets of Paris on 13 Vendémiaire (October 5, 1795).
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Originally Posted by Tyrrano
Raisin bullets would be better. Grapeshot, as it were.
Give 'em a taste o' the ol' grape, me hearties! |
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Originally Posted by LiquidX
That was horrible. I approve.
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Granted, I considered not posting it. Lots of dogs die every year from eating grapes or raisins, and I hesitate to make light of it.
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Are you telling me that you think this phrase (or some reasonable facsimile) was *never* uttered by any sea captain? I'd find that rather hard to believe. My knowledge of naval history is pretty broad, but to be honest I've never read 'military fiction' and have never had the pleasure of reading Carlyle.|
Originally Posted by srmalloy
The phrase isn't nautical in origin, despite it being used in Napoleonic naval fiction; it comes from the writing of 19th century historian Thomas Carlyle, describing artillery lieutenant Napoleon Bonaparte's battery firing a "whiff of grapeshot" into the Royalist mobs on the streets of Paris on 13 Vendémiaire (October 5, 1795).
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It's just far too obvious a joke for me to believe it wasn't pretty widespread in all sailing navies of the period, especially English-speaking ones. I have to wonder, in fact, if the French even called it 'grapeshot'.
Besides, Carlyle was born in 1795. So it's not as though he was simply writing what Napoleon said. He was undoubtedly applying artistic license.
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Sounds like your monitor is screwed up. Incendiary ammo is an orangish-yellow, while chemical rounds are green.
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Originally Posted by GMan3
Ok, no silver bullets is a let down, but I have to agree with Myriad. The real problem with Dual Pistols is that it looks so awesome. Not that I mind that, it just makes the looks of the other powers so ho hum. I do wish that incendiary bullets were red though and not green like the toxic bullets(or is my monitor screwed up?).
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I skipped Swap Ammo on my DP/Devices (now level 42) partly on the grounds that it's just Stupid Trick Bullets. If I was carrying multiple ammo types in Paragon City I'd have silver bullets for (real) werewolves, armor piercing rounds, ghostslayer bullets for all the damn spirits, electromag rounds for robots....
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What's the point of having [Swap Ammo], if it doesnt let me switch to silver bullets for all these dang werwolves?