Low-tier gun in initial inventory

how about it?
it would be a nice addition for those who don't want to use swords from the very beginning of the game

 

i dig it

 

Can the gun please not suck? Literally every gun I've ever found or bought in Starbound sucks all kinds of suck.

 

well, I wouldn't want the gun to be more powerful than the very first sword you start with
maybe it would be fine with the same attack damage as the sword or even slightly weaker than it?

I'm yet to even find a gun in Starbound

 

The best guns I've ever found are less useful than even the crappiest weapons I've seen with a decent special.

 

huh, and I thought that guns are kinda OP, since the prisoners from penal colonies almost always kill me with one-two shots (which also go through walls for some reason)

 

I might think that if I was able to pick up any of the guns they had, but when I have a gun, I find myself at much lower combat efficiency than with the swords I own.

Also also: Jumping around like a crazy person helps avoid gunfire, I've found.

 

that it does, but they'll get you sooner or later, since they shoot in quick bursts
you could use the hunting bow that you craft during a tutorial quest, if you ever run into these guys on your first planet
but I don't think that it's gonna end well, since they shoot so fast, and this is another reason why I came up with the idea of having a decent (but not overpowered) gun from the very beginning of your game

 

The iron bow is infinitely better, and actually I find to be better than guns, if you can get past the firing arc and long prefire time.

 

Try a shield and a one handed weapon. They make enemy guns hilariously pointless. (So long as the shield is a high enough tier, which is currently impossible to tell without experimentation.)

 

okay, I'll check that out, thanks!
as of the topic, what's your opinion?

 

I don't think that a low-tier gun should be in the initial inventory, it kind of defeats the purpose of crafting the hunting bow.

However, I do think tier appropriate guns should drop every once in a while from NPCs in the same way the "Useless Prodder" and other weapons do.

 

Guns are useless, thus I don't care if I get a comparatively useless one to start with. I'd rather be handed a hunting knife from the get go.