Pistols

Pistols are the only weapons you can use without expending extra resources in the form of ammunition or Crystallite.

As such they are essential to your advancement within the game.

Aimed Shot
From the beginning of the game, starting with the Stormbreaker pistol, your equipped pistol has the ability to do an Aimed Shot. Only the pistol has this ability.

The Aimed Shot can be used by selecting the icon to the left of your pistol icon (on the lower right of the battle screen). While doing an Aimed Shot, the screen switches to a closeup view of your target. Selecting the screen when the reticule is over the target's head to complete this special attack.

An Aimed Shot will increase the damage done by that one pistol shot by an additional eight times. You can increase the amount of additional damage by researching and upgrading the Enhanced Optics ability.

The Aimed Shot ability has an independent cool-down timer preventing it from being used for 30 seconds after use, and 30 seconds from the start of a battle.