- M1911 / Duke's Golden Pistol

Duke Nukem Forever M1911 stats: damage, capacity, and headshot multipliers. Learn its advantages and drawbacks in campaign and multiplayer.

First Appearance: Campaign: The Duke Cave, DLC (downloadable content — extra missions or items released after launch): Rude Awakening

Stats:

• Damage (Campaign): Easy: 25, Normal: 20, Hard: 15, DiG: 10
• Headshot Damage (Campaign): Easy: 100, Normal: 80, Hard: 60, DiG: 40
• Damage (Multiplayer): 40 (no headshot bonus)
• Magazine Capacity: 8
• Maximum Ammo Carried: 64
• Rate of Fire (Avg.): 0.4 seconds (can be fired faster manually)
• Melee Cooldown Time (Avg.): 0.56 seconds
• Reload Time: 2.25 seconds
• Enemy Drop: Yes

Advantages:

• 4x damage when scoring a headshot.
• Good long-range capabilities.
• Fastest melee attacks of all weapons, including fists only.
• Lots are found during the campaign, making it a sustainable weapon.

Drawbacks:

• Low DPS on non-headshot hits.
• Only eight shots per clip.
• Can only be picked up from killed Dukes in multiplayer.

Campaign Walkthrough:

1. This weapon is often underestimated, especially on harder difficulties. The potential of it doing headshot damage means Pigcops can go down in as little as three shots, even on DiG difficulty.
2. The Pistol and Ripper are the only weapons in the game capable of scoring headshot bonus damage. The Pistol is far more accurate, in comparison. This ability is useful against humanoid enemies and robots. Some of the more 'alien' enemies (Pregnators and Octabrains, for example) do not have a headshot weakness, limiting the usefulness of the Pistol against them.
3. The Pistol tends to overlap to the role of a designated marksman rifle, as it has surprisingly good long-range accuracy, provided you limit how quickly you fire the weapon.
4. The Gold-plated Nukem Pistol has no advantage over a normal M1911 Pistol.
5. The "GUNSLINGER" achievement can be earned by carrying the Golden Pistol through the entire original campaign. This does not apply to the DLC add-on.

Multiplayer Tips:

• For a default weapon, it is still a very powerful one to use in regular multiplayer games. It is effective up-close and at greater range, but requires decent accuracy to hit an opponent three times to kill them.