The best handgun/pistol in Resident Evil 4 remake

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A good sidearm is important in the Resident Evil 4 remake. While there are fancier weapons to be had, pistol ammo is plentiful and requires relatively few resources to craft. Better yet, Resident Evil 4 features one of the best pistols ever fea🌌tured in a video 🐟game: the Red9.

You can find the Red9 in chapter 4. After getti🐬ng access to the boat, travel to the derelict ship in the center of the lake. In a chest near the bridge, you’ll discover this miraculous firearm.

The Red9 is the most powerཧful handgun in the game. Its might is offset by a slower firing rate and a lengthy reload. However, so long as you can hit your target with some regularity, it’s absolutely worth it.

Decked out to the max, the Red9 features a power level of 2.70. However, if you then upgrade everything and purchase the “exclusive” upgrade, its strength multiplies by 1.5. My calculator tells me that’s a whopping 4.05 on the power scale. If you purchase the stock from the merchant when it becomes available, you heighten the Red9’s accuracy, m✅aking it easier to put that power right into the face (or kneecap) of your foes.

The power scal♒e might be a little abstract, but I can tell you that the Red9 never stops being a usefu✅l companion. Even on the highest difficulty, it can easily stagger a ganados in one or two shots. With its stock, it can hit targets at considerable range. While you’ll still want to keep a rifle or shotgun with you to take down bigger targets, the Red9 is your friend for everyday use.

As a personal note, it amuses me that you can fire a single shot and have Leon “Supplybox” Kennedy push another clip straight into its magazine. While video game logic means that the bullets already in there just don’t exist anymore, I prefer to imagine that the gun is becoming more and more swollen as he loads it with additional rounds. That’s a beefy sℱidearm.