38 Special

38 Special

Statistics

Type:

Semiautomatic

Quality:

Magazine Size:

6

Max Ammo:

350

Reload Time:

0.78s

DPS:

26.5

Damage:

5

Fire Rate:

0.07

Shot Speed:

23

Range:

35

Force:

10

Spread:

5°

Class:

SHITTY

Damage Type:

None

Sell Creep Price:

16

Special Pools:

Blue Chest Break

Ammonomicon Entry

For The Inquisitive

The sidearm of choice for investigative efforts.

Meta Info

Item ID:

56

Int Name:

38 Special

Object Name:

38_special

Sprite Name:

38_special

38 Special is a gun in Enter the Gungeon.

Synergies^ETG

• Detective Magnum - If the player also has Magnum, the guns are dual-wielded.
• Detective Mode - If the player also has Badge, the gun's maximum ammo is increased, its reload time is halved, and its damage is increased by 20%. The police officer will also show the contents of nearby chests while 38 Special is held.
  • If the player has revealed the contents of a chest, the contents of that chest will be permanently locked in as that item. If a chest with a locked-in item attempts to drop a random item when broken, it will always drop the item that was locked in, overriding the usual quality reduction.
• Reload Roll - If the player also has Easy Reload Bullets, dodge rolling reloads six bullets.
  • This synergy does not function if obtained through the Lich's Eye Bullets.
• Sleuth Out - If the player also has Scope, while holding 38 Special, enemy bullets become slower, but its rate of fire is decreased by 20%.

Item Interactions

• Book of Chest Anatomy + Detective Mode - Because Book of Chest Anatomy raises the chance of broken chests dropping an item to 55%, all chests effectively have a 55% chance to drop the item they were predicted to contain when broken.

Unused and Cut Content

• Altered: Like Shooting Fish - This gun used to be able to synergize with Barrel for the synergy Like Shooting Fish.
• The 38 Special does not appear in Exit the Gungeon, however it still exists in the assets and text string database of the game. Like all real-world guns in Exit the Gungeon, the unused 38 Special has a different name in the Apple Arcade string database, where it is called the Detective Special.
• The unused Ninja Gungeoneer starts with the 38 Special.
• In pre-release versions of Enter the Gungeon, the 38 Special bore a different, much smaller appearance.

Notes

• Spamming the fire button while dodge rolling causes the gun to fire considerably faster for a brief time after the dodge roll has concluded.
• With a fire rate of 0.07, the 38 Special requires a minimum of ~14 clicks per second to fire at maximum DPS, meaning the player is likely to be unable to take full advantage of the high fire rate.
  • This can be mitigated on PC by temporarily binding the player's fire keys to ScrollUp and ScrollDown on the scroll wheel.
• The 38 Special is used by various detectives in a wide range of films and other media, hence the description.
• This may be a reference to the Max Payne series of games, where the protagonist, a detective, slows down time when dodging, allowing him to fire faster and more accurately.
• The Detective Mode synergy is a reference to the mechanic of the same name from the Batman Arkham games.

Gallery

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  The 38 Special's appearance with the Detective Mode synergy.
• 

  The 38 Specials appearance in pre-release versions of ETG

See also

• Guns