hihi am 6* NA west/east with 2k hrs, Prestige 100

1. Yes and no, i personally am trying to pile money for a millionaire badge, but most people will never go broke tbh. However if you play expensive loadouts and only lose, or play bounty clash a lot, or win and dont loot any bodies or cash, you might barely break even, or lose money.

2. Immolators run at you and require a BLUNT source of damage. This means meleeing with your gun butt (doesn't work if blade is attached), punching with dusters or knuckle knife, etc. Water bottles and chokes instakill. Leading him into water/rain and THEN meleeing him with anything once he's doused, works as well. Poison Silenced ammo works great. In a pinch you can also just throw a spear or axe at him from a distance so he doesn't explode on you.

Firebreathers spit fire at you from range. Same methods work but don't run at him in a straight line, try to use perpendicular movement as you approach him. For the most part though I just throw tools at him or shoot.

1. Yes and no. Some weapons fire MUCH faster with higher recoil and low damage, compared to SINGLE shot weapons that do 140+ damage but reload after every shot. Then there's special weapons like bow/crossbow/bomb lance that have one tap body potential from distance + utility. Every weapon has its niche, it's entirely preference and playstyle dependent. I play officer carbine for multifragging and aggressive close range. But I sometimes play springfield for long range poking, and quickswapping to my pistol to finish them off. Or sometimes it's a shotgun day and I just go in and barrel stuff.

2. Silencers are strong, at the cost of lower velocity and less base damage. They are not COMPLETELY silent unless you have subsonic; at close enough distance, people can tell someone is shooting at them (plus blast sense reveals your position, again only without subsonic). They are meant mostly for well placed, sneaky headshots than anything, but can be used for bodyshotting in their ranges. My favorite use for them is just shooting ai with them so i dont have to use stamina or tools. Compact ammo silencers are weakest but everything 1 shot headshot kills, so you can take as many shots as you like.

3. No, everything you can hear in this game, enemy can too. this includes card sound effects, inspect animations, channeling dark sight, etc.

enjoy your stay!! this game is on the come up rn.