Dual Autopistols need a Buff

The fact that dual smgs are competitive with what was previously the defacto best gun in the entire game should say a lot.

If your argument is “dual autopistols need a buff because Infantry autogun is better” then you fail to understand the concept of powercreep

Dual autopistols are fine, they bring great value

Sure using vraks and aiming for constant headshots will defenitely be better than dual autopistols, but guess what? vraks takes a lot more skill to get that greater value than dual autopistols so

Okay, since people aren’t really getting the point of this;

Dual Autopistols literally have 0 advantage over IAG specifically on Hive Scum. This is unfortunate, because they are very cool, fun, and thematic weapons.

IAG deals significantly higher DPS both in an ideal and in a non-ideal (ie in gameplay) environment. The difference is stark, and I had noticed that in my own games, prior to seeing this (though if people watch it, Tanner goes fully in-depth on these things; incidentally, I disagree with him about dump stat on the Dual Autopistols being Collateral).

IAG deals better DPS against all targets, and can even kill Crushers better than Dual Autopistols (still not great, but better). It is just as good fired from the hip, reloads in a similar time (perhaps even faster? Not sure on that but it anecdotally felt like that to me), and yet can also reach out and kill enemies at a much further range. IAG also have a far better headshot and crit multiplier - like three times base damage. And when an IAG crits, three bullets actually deal crit damage. No, that’s not a mistake.

But when the Dual Autopistols crit/headshot, it is only a single bullet that doesn’t get anywhere near the same bonus; we’re talking like a 15% increase in base damage. And these are guns that are not even able to be aimed accurately.

The only advantage Dual Autopistols have is that you can fire while sprinting. This is cool, but not really important.

As it says in the video, some kind of change to make them have a niche alongside the IAG is needed. You could nerf the IAG, but it is already sub-par on all other classes. So the options are

-Leave Dual Autopistols as they are, meaning that in all effective scenarios they are worse than IAGs
-Nerf IAGs, which already underperform on all other classes.
-Buff Dual Autopistols so that they have some reason to be used besides flavor.

I do not see how the IAG takes anything but the most basic aiming skill. You don’t even have to fight the recoil because it simply moves your point of aim up and then stays pretty steady there; this is the only skill required, to slightly shift aim point. But most of the time, you’ll be hip-firing anyway, so it’s moot.

Tanner moment. Stop taking his clickbait titles as gospel PLEASE. They’re geared for mobility, which is not only “you can shoot while sprinting” but it’s also “you move faster” and “you lose less accuracy for moving” both of which are very relevant on the class concept. Using an IAG will often not let you kill stuff in the same situations where dual autos do (both autopistols and dual stubguns).
It’s a valuable tradeoff and it’s worth losing some raw power on certain targets for. The crit stuff is totally uninteresting btw and only matters because he’s not actually playing with the amount of crit a HS in game would have.

I had already formed this view before seeing his video. Full stop. Read that. No, bring those eyes off the rage reply you’re already writing.

I’m being a bit silly, but you clearly missed key information in my last comment in your raging hatred of Tanner.

The mobility differences that Dual Autopistols have are literally negligible compared to dealing simply +30% more DPS.

I encourage everyone to go play some games comparing both weapons. You will notice almost no difference in reload, swap speed, or mobility with the IAG, but you will kill every single target faster, on average. No real cons for major, substantive gains - including the ability to now target enemies at range more accurately.

So now that we went from “there are literally 0 advantages” to “ok there are mobility advantages that change how you play but it doesn’t make up for the disadvantages” we finally at least found a semblance of nuance that moved away from how dual autos are supposedly just “worse in literally every way and need a buff”

I personally find the mobility and handling advantages to be well worth it especially on a class as fragile as hive scum is when it comes to melee enemies. Even if you don’t find it worth it, you can’t deny it’s a niche that the weapon has, so why does it need to be buffed and take the IAG niche away too?

I mean I tried both

With IAG, if I want to kill something from afar, I have to aim and correctly adjust the weapon so I can hit without the need to stop firing

With dual autopistols, I just can’t do that due to its innate spread, so I don’t worry about it and get closer. That alongside the faster firerate just makes dual autopistols be “I’m not limited by skill, but rather by the weapon”

IAG defenitely has a higher skill ceiling than dual autopistols

If you’re going to be like that you can go jam it up where the sun doesn’t shine.

Can dish it out but can’t take it huh?

I never insulted you

But sure.
The people that hate Tanner for being toxic sure are alot more toxic than Tanner ever initially was.

You have zero respect and are posting in an inflammatory, disrespectful way, but when it’s done to you, you break down and cry. Pathetic

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Nice job taking things out of order and out of context well done

Not out of order and not out of context, but sure, play the victim.

Yeah ok.
God go back to reddit scum or even better the darktide discord

Funny how fast that switch flipped the moment you could tell the victim act wasn’t gonna work lol

Stay away from both of those places

Don’t worry I have no interest in those awful places.

anything that shoots bullets is a dream on scum. but not flying around while doing it is ruining the class fantasy for me. I didn’t go very far with the heavy braced auto here for that reason. you’re just so slow when shooting.