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Desert Eagle
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Prominent Users
Vladimir Lem
Punchinello Crime Family
Squeaky Cleaning Company
The Desert Eagle is a large-framed gas-operated, semi-automatic handgun that appears in Max Payne , Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne and Max Payne 3. The Desert Eagle was first designed and manufactured by Israel Military Industries in 1982. It is a very powerful and popular pistol, wielded by various people.
In 2001 - 2003, this weapon was the personal handgun of the assassin Mona Sax. The NYPD detective and former DEA agent Max Payne also used this pistol in these years. He used it in 2012 as well. Other known wielders were Vladimir Lem, Vinnie Gognitti and B.B.
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Overview Edit
Deadlier than a Beretta. It has a greater damage ratio, but this is compensated with a slower firing rate. It also cannot be used in dual mode. The Desert Eagle is one of the most powerful weapons in the first game. It is useful for scoring headshots due to its decent accuracy. One thing to note is that the bullet always travels lower than where it is aimed, so when going for a headshot, aim around an inch above the head depending on distance. Headshots aside, it is a powerful weapon that can down any enemy fairly quickly.
In Max Payne 2, the Desert Eagle becomes dramatically more useful, having a higher firing rate and boasting pinpoint accuracy even along extreme distances, making it a good substitute for a sniper rifle should neither the sniper rifle nor the MP5 be present. In fact in many circumstances the Desert Eagle is preferable over the MP5 due to its higher damage. The Desert Eagle is dual-wieldable in Max Payne 2. Dual-wielded Desert Eagles have one of the highest damage per second ratings in the game along with dual Ingrams and the Striker; however, it comes at the price of some loss in accuracy. Desert Eagles are more suitable for clean headshots over a medium to long distance. The weapon can kill a weaker enemy with two shots.
The Desert Eagle returns in Max Payne 3, as the DE .50. It is very powerful, capable of killing an unarmored opponent with just one bullet. It's major downside is it's scarce in ammunition. This weapon can be dual wielded in multiplayer once weapon level 9 is obtained.
Social Club descriptionEdit
The DE is a gas-operated semi-automatic pistol with .50 caliber rounds that has an effective range of 50 meters. This is the third most powerful handgun in the arsenal and, along with the 608 Bull, it has the best range. The DE’s accuracy is fair and ammo capacity is average.
Behind the scenes Edit
- The Desert Eagle is the signature weapon of Mona Sax and Vladimir Lem.
- Although the gun is shown in numerous levels in many pre-release screenshots and trailers of Max Payne 3, it only appears in a few levels of the final game. Presumably for balancing reasons given the extensive damage capabilities it offers the player.
- It can be seen when zoomed in with a sniper that the Desert Eagle in Max Payne 1 & 2 is a Desert Eagle Mark XIX .50AE. However, the .50AE Desert Eagle only holds 7 rounds per magazine while in-game it holds 10. This was corrected in Max Payne 3.
- In Sun Tan Oil, Stale Margaritas and Greed , at the last part , one enemy is holding a DE.50. You can get it and its the first in Max Payne 3 single player that Max can find ammo or dual-wield it without any glitches.
- Max can also dual-wield the gun in Max Payne 3 in Alive if Not Exactly Well via a glitch. To do this you have to play from checkpoint 9 and get the DE.50 from a small room before you go and activate the bridge. Then activate the bridge and reload the checkpoint. Again go to the room and you can see the DE.50. Pick it up or get ammo from it.
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AppearancesEdit
- Max Payne 3 (as DE .50)
- Alive If Not Exactly Well (Can be duel-wielded through a glitch)
- A Hangover Sent Direct From Mother Nature (Not Usable)
- Sun Tan Oil, Stale Margaritas and Greed (Can be dual-wielded)
- Max Payne 3 comics
- 'After the Fall'
- 'Fight and Flight'
See also Edit
The meeting began with Jimmy Carter’s announcement: “Gentlemen, I want you to know that I am seriously considering an attempt to rescue the hostages.”
Hamilton Jordan, the White House chief of staff, knew immediately that the president had made a decision. Planning and practice for a rescue mission had been going on in secret for five months, but it had always been regarded as the last resort, and ever since the November 4 embassy takeover, the White House had made every effort to avoid it. As the president launched into a list of detailed questions about how it was to be done, his aides knew he had mentally crossed a line.
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Carter had met the takeover in Iran with tremendous restraint, equating the national interest with the well-being of the fifty-three hostages, and his measured response had elicited a great deal of admiration, both at home and abroad. His approval ratings had doubled in the first month of the crisis. But in the following months, restraint had begun to smell like weakness and indecision. Three times in the past five months, carefully negotiated secret settlements had been ditched by the inscrutable Iranian mullahs, and the administration had been made to look more foolish each time. Approval ratings had nose-dived, and even stalwart friends of the administration were demanding action. Jimmy Carter’s formidable patience was badly strained.
And the mission that had originally seemed so preposterous had gradually come to seem feasible. It was a two-day affair with a great many moving parts and very little room for error—one of the most daring thrusts in U.S. military history. It called for a nighttime rendezvous of helicopters and planes at a landing strip in the desert south of Tehran, where the choppers would refuel before carrying the raiding party to hiding places just outside the city. The whole force would then wait through the following day and assault the embassy compound on the second night, spiriting the hostages to a nearby soccer stadium from which the helicopters could take them to a seized airstrip outside the city, to the transport planes that would carry them to safety and freedom. With spring coming on, the hours of darkness, needed to get the first part of this done, were shrinking fast.