A love letter to Dual Pistols

Dear Dual Pistols

I think you’re great. No, really, I do. Ever since the game began I have wanted a set like you. I don’t care what others say about your mad acrobatics, I was crazy about your cousin Dual Blades and now I’m crazy about you. But like all good relationships, we need to talk. Things aren’t easy between us and I think you know why.

I sometimes feel that you’re not really trying. Yes I know about your great AoE and I love the gracefulness of your crashless nuke but sometimes it feels like you don’t really want to hurt people. I have to caress your curvy triggers too many times to make a bad guy fall over and I think it’s all a ploy by you to make me pull your trigger as many times as possible. If only you made more effort, you know I would take you out so much more often. We could do the Storm Palace or Striga Isle, see the sights of Grandville or run laughing after Resistance in Neutropolis. But if only you could find just a little more penetration power sweetheart.

I love your adaptability, I love how you can choose to dress your bullets in pretty hues of blue, green or orange to match with my costume. It’s that kind of care and attention that you don’t see in other powersets my love. I have lost count of the amount of times I have dragged Dark Armour down to the Tailor only for them to continually obscure my clothes. You don’t do those things, you’re pretty. I’m sure that the change of colours is meant to do something but I consider it part of your quaintness that I can’t tell what it is. I’m not sure that our foes fully understand it either. They still punch me in the face just as hard, regardless of what colour bullets you use. But I can take it, there have to be sacrifices in all relationships.

And then there is the twirling. My dear, you know how I have come to love your bizarre grasp of the laws of nature. How I have learnt to suspend my disbelief of even comic book physics during Piercing Rounds and how I can now ignore the sound of Newton’s corpse hitting 400rpm in his grave whenever I trigger Bullet Rain. But do you have to twirl around my fingers every time I redraw? Is it vengeance? Jealousy? Because I chose to dally with your neighbour Mental Manipulation? Or because I flirted with that hussy Pool Power Air Superiority? Do you feel the need to spin around my fingers while that Behemoth looms down on us, all because I used someone other than you? Why can you not come cleanly out of your invisible holsters? I always wanted to be quick on the draw but with you I tend to be quick or be dead, usually the latter.

My dear Dual Pistols, I so want you to be the best you can be. And so I will suffer the snide looks from Fire Blast or the sniggering contempt from Energy and I will even put up with the surreptitious giggling from Electrical Blast who all the others used to pick on up until your arrival because my dear, I love you. I just want you to live up to the potential I know you have.

Yours in the Stetson and the worn leather holsters,


Dante



((Seriously, love the set, just wish it could have a few tweaks, specifically to draw animations, secondary effects and damage. Twas fun to write though. ))

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@Dante EU - Union Roleplayer and Altisis Victim
The Militia: Union RP Supergroup - www.themilitia.org.uk

Awesome post. And /signed.

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Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

"I was just the one with the most unsolicited sombrero." - Traegus

Very cool post, and signed in every sense of the word. Since you love dual pistols so, you may be interested in this.

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/Signed. It's apparent 'worth' in Ammo Swap doesn't carry over in practice and, while it may not be so noticeable on Defenders and Corrs, it really shows on Blasters, which is annoying.

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@Dante EU - Union Roleplayer and Altisis Victim
The Militia: Union RP Supergroup - www.themilitia.org.uk

/signed.
This awesome set needs 3 things:

Serious buffs (+damage would be great, also a buff for different ammo types)
Alternate animations (I love the flashy moves, just for other players)
Resistance pistols for weapon customization ( I just need them badly)

NAO please!

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Dual Pistols is actually probably the quintessential reasons I gave up Blasters, and not because I don't like the set. Quite on the contrary, I LOVE the set thematically, but I hate the set mechanically. It's slow as a snail towing a turtle uphill with a strong head wind, and for a Blaster, that equals an early grave. Over and over.

I really don't know what can be fixed on the set to make it faster, since faster animations would just ruin the coolness of it.

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Agreed. That is all.

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I can't be bothered to think of something amazingly wise or witty to show how much of a genius I am, just take my word for it.

I love Dual Pistols. It's the neighbors I can't stand! *glares at Mental Manipulation and waits for Ninjitsu, Willpower, or even Widow's or Soldiers Secondary to movie in*

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BrandX Future Staff Fighter
The BrandX Collection

My biggest beef with Dual pistols, really, is bullet rain. They took the dumbest thing from Wanted and made it into a power, and to make it worse, YOU CAN'T EVEN FIRE AROUND CORNERS OR PILLARS LIKE CURVING THE SHOT WAS DESIGNED TO DO!

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I love Bullet Rain! Two or three DP toons pulling the Bullet Rain train on a mob end the fight all by themselves!

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BrandX Future Staff Fighter
The BrandX Collection

/signed

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