Five styles, one trigger behavior each
The wiki is explicit: all guns fit into five different shooting styles which control how they behave. The style is the single most important thing to read on a gun before you commit a slot, because it tells you how the trigger works.
| Style | How it behaves |
|---|---|
| Automatic | Automatically fires bullets at a constant rate while the fire key is held. |
| Semi-Automatic | Fires bullets at a constant rate while the fire key is held — but tapping the fire key lets it fire faster. |
| Charged | Requires the fire button to be held for a time and released to fire a single volley. Some charged guns have multiple tiers of charge that change the projectile depending on how long the key was held. |
| Beam | Fires a continuous beam as long as the fire key is held. |
| Burst | Fires bullets while the fire key is held, but in set bursts of multiple projectiles, and consumes more than one unit of ammunition in a single trigger pull. |
What the style changes in practice
- Automatic is the safest default — hold and it keeps firing, so it rewards movement and rolling without trigger management.
- Semi-Automatic hides extra fire rate behind tapping. If you mash the fire key you out-DPS the same gun on Automatic; if you hold, you do not.
- Charged punishes panic firing. The volley only happens on release, and longer holds can change the projectile entirely — so a charged gun is a timing weapon.
- Beam gives continuous damage but usually ties your aim to a held beam; you cannot easily “burst” a window the way you can with hitscan taps.
- Burst spends multiple ammo per pull, so its effective ammo economy is worse than the per-shot count suggests — plan around the consumption.
Fit the style to the run
When you scan a new gun in the how to get good guns guide, read the style before the damage number. A high-damage Charged gun is dead weight if you panic-fire; a modest Automatic gun carries a run where you are rolling constantly. Quality tier (D–S) sets the ceiling, but style sets whether you can actually use the gun under pressure.