Showdowns

Showdowns

This page is the outdated. View the PvP, Weapons, and Ability Cards pages for helpful tips during Showdowns.

• Never Without One protects you from 1 headshot (but not if you are shot in the face). Losing your hat makes you weaker. When you have a team color you always respawn with a hat.
• Joining a Permanent Posse and enabling Posse outfits then joining a Showdown will allow you to always respawn with your hat, despite the game mode.
• Shooting horses in the head will give you a Dead Eye boost.
• The Bow is a one-shot kill only in Tall Trees and Hostile Territory maps.
• If your hat is shot off as Posse leader, you can re-equip it through the Posse outfit settings. No respawn needed.
• In Showdowns, you lose Dead Eye when a Player knocks you. Not sure if this is a feature or a bug.
• Crouching in bushes or tall plants will help you stay hidden from people's eyes and their mini map. It also works as a cheap Slippery Bastard by preventing players from locking onto you.
• You don’t need to take cover in Tall Trees. Instead, move and crouch behind trees. This will make you faster and take out the cover animation.
• You can curve Tomahawks and other throwables if you tag your enemy with PIB and they move while you throw. Although rare, it is possible to curve weapon around your enemies' cover and hit them.
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• You can shoot through tents.
• If you are on a team and get Downed, don't choose to Give Up. There is a chance you will be revived but, more importantly, enemies can lock onto you so you have a chance of messing up their aim at teammates.
• If you're on PC with Mouse + Keyboard then be sure to turn on Free Aim in Settings > Controls > Controller Settings > Lock-On Mode (On-Foot). As well as Lock-On Mode (Mount / Vehicle). This will give you an additional 20 XP per kill during Showdowns. If you're using a Controller, it will put you in Free Aim Showdowns.
• While in combat, your weapons reload themselves if you holster them for as long as it takes for them to reload. So if your Revolver needs to be reloaded you can have your Repeater out while the Revolver auto reloads. A good queue for this "in combat" feature could be the background music during tense situations.
• Hostile Territory (Team)
• Starting spawn locations give a huge advantage. In Heartland Oilfields the Old Campaigners (Yellow) have a great starting location between two territories. For Blackwater it's The Coyote Pack (Orange) and Rhodes is fairly even but The Hooligans (Green) have more choices when running to a first territory.
• Take over a territory then crouch off the radar while you wait for more enemies.
• Name Your Weapon (Team/Solo)
• This game mode gives you a Double-Barreled Shotgun, Hatchet, Carbine Repeater, Knife, Melee with other weapons to pick-up.
• If you buy and customize one of those weapons, it will have the customization in this Showdown.
• Use the shotgun to steadily gain 3 points per kill. The Carbine is useless.