What are Pistols Good For?

[Keybordkiller]

Hand guns are good for collecting, repairing as many as you can to 100%, than Selling for HIGH caps... because personally, I find more than enough ammo around for the machine gun I use... (haven't plaied in a few 4 days, and can't remember just what one it is atm...)

[LordCaptainCommander]

I personally love using pistols, but admittedly I guess its more of an rp thing.

[LusifurTheSchnozzle]

As others have stated, I usually carry a pistol to conserve ammo and use as a backup. I usually will carry a rifle and a pistol; usually once I get a riot shotgun I will carry it along with the rifle and pistol. My favorite pistol is ALSID, because it can fire very quickly which helps me when something gets close and I start panicking.

[Roachbait]

Always liked the 9mm Semi-Auto Pistol, and use it as a Primary Weapon: Low ap cost, and, with extended mags you can literally fill the air with lead, the ammo is cheap, and fairly plentiful...so if you do miss here and there, it's not like missing with an Anti-Material Rifle ( "...well, THERE went way too many caps...sigh..." ), besides that, it looks good too...and, it aims a lot easier at lower exp levels, doesn't wave all over the sky as you take a bead...the +p ammo helps a lot, as does the hollow-points, given whatever situation you come across, and doesn't weigh all that much to have both types (in hardcore)...it may seem like a weak weapon at first glance, but, if used properly, you can get quite a bit of mileage out of it...even at half condition level, it will rarely even miss... :mellow:

[fetchfox]

The sound nice. I roleplay down to what guns I use as well. My character prefer a scoped hunting rifle for sniping and a good shotgun and/or handgun close up. The Ranger Sequoia holds that spot at the moment (Project Nevada and WME makes it pretty useful and powerful).

[Darkavior]

There are plenty of advantages for a pistol in this game.

 

*They can be hoarded in your inventory and if you have Jury-Riggin they're practicaly indestructible

 

*Modding some of the pistols in the game can give you the cheapest Sniper-Rifle-Like weapons with

way more ammo you may get for any sniper for that matter

 

*Ammo is cheap as well as AP cost

 

*There are many types of pistols meaning better tactics against different enemies

 

*They are plentiful in the wasteland and basically infinite

 

*Easy to smuggle into casinos

 

*If you combine the right perks you can become super efficent with pistols damage-wise

[Danny159]

Rifles can clip through enemies heads at point blanc range, where pistols don't seem to have that problem.

 

For enemies who like to close up on you like Legion troopers, you'd like a good pistol.

Very frustrating when you can't hit mobs while they are pounding away at you... XD

[Uragan907]

Pistols are used in closed space.Usually.But in the game they are completely useless.

Get your self an SMG and go home happy.

And if you are not happy with vanilla ones here's one for you.

Millenia really makes awesome guns:

 

http://www.nexusmods.com/newvegas/mods/48523/?

[MarchUntoTorment]

Mostly, pistols have much lower ammunition usage. Plus, in the base game, all magazine-fed pistols can be suppressed, the same of which is not true of rifles (although WME and WMX by and large change this, so it no longer really applies).

 

I generally found myself using pistols for the first quarter of the game - specifically, the starting 9mm with an extended magazine. After I got to New Vegas, though, I started picking up better guns and ignored pistols from then on.

[Uragan907]

There should be a special skill for them.