Gun guide

To hunt you will need a gun. The gun will be your best pall from the day you buy it. You will nurse and care for it and probably bring it with you when you sleep. Guns come in three flavours, pistol, rifle and carbine. 

Gun basics
Guns you buy in Trade Terminals, in Auctions or from a person you meet on street. It’s also possible to get a gun when you loot, but it’s hard to loot without a gun so you need one to get one. A good gun to start with is Solomate Opalo. This is a rifle which uses 2 ammo cells for each shot; it will fire 1 shot each 2-3 seconds and do up to 5 points of damage. Speed and damage will increase with your skill. With this gun you can start hunt pray like Snablesnoots, Daikibas, Exosaurs etc. When you have bought the gun you like you have to buy ammo. Buy the right kind of ammo for the gun you did buy. Drag your gun from inventory to your quick bar to get easy access to it. Then when you meet something that in your opinion doesn’t deserve to live anymore, just press the function key you have assigned to your gun and it will be equipped and will use the ammo in your inventory. You can double-click the target or use other methods of aiming see hunt guide. When you have reached over 500 in your rifle or handgun skill I suggest that you buy an amplifier and start on bigger mobs. You can do so earlier if you like. Amplifiers will increase the power of your shot and also uses medium ammo cells. For example an Amp-103 will use 1 ammo cell and will add 12 damage to what your gun make. An amp can only add a maximum of 50% of the guns full damage potential.

How do I know how strong my gun is?
In your Inventory you can right click your weapon and get the statistics of it. You need to look at Damage Penetration and Damage burn, add these numbers and you see how much damage your gun can do in best case. How much it actually does depends on your, skill and luck. You may also look at the Hit Ability, HA, this tells how good you are at using the gun. The higher HA you got the more hits and damage you get. Take a look at Critical hit ability too, this tell how big your chances of doing a critical hit is. A critical hit will give the mob you fire at twice the damage. so if you are lucky your Solomato Opalo could make 16 damage.

How do I attach the amp to my gun?
To use the amp with your gun you open your inventory and press the weapon symbol to display your weapon items. Drag the amp on to your gun, the gun turns green. The amp is now attached. To de-attach the amp just double-click the gun.

When shall I change weapon?
When you have bought one type of weapon, stick to that type. With a handgun you will get handgun skills and with a rifle you get rifle skill. It makes no sense to switch from rifle to handgun in the beginning of your play. Maybe when you have over 2000 in skill you would like to start skilling on another weapon type.

Basic gun set

	Solomato Opalo, a good gun to start with, uses medium ammo cells. You will find it in TT.
	Medium ammo cells, this is the cells who fit your Opalo. You will find ammo cells in TT. Price 100 = 1 PED
	Omegaton A101, a  amplifier for your gun. You buy this in Auctions or from other person.

There are other guns and combinations but this is a good starter kit.

For more info on weapon attachments check the weapon attachment guide.

Good luck!