SILENT HILL: Townfall Pistol-3000 Location & Unlock Requirements

What is the Pistol-3000?

A New Game Plus special weapon — the strongest pistol variant, and the pickup for the Future Hardware trophy. Unlike the Axe, it is not tied to completing the game once: it has a harder gate.

Unlock requirements

The chain is two steps, and mixing them up is the number one reason the gun “never appears”:

1. Complete the Sci-fi ending. The Sci-fi route fires early in a New Game Plus run and skips the final boss; the door puzzle that triggers it is covered on the endings overview. (The input sequence itself is not republished on this page — see the endings page for what is and is not confirmed.)
2. Start the NEXT New Game Plus after that completion. The collectible guide labels the Pistol-3000 NG++ exclusive: it spawns in the playthrough after the one where you finished Sci-fi — not in the same run, and never on a first playthrough.

When it becomes available

From the very beginning of that qualifying run: the pickup sits in Chapter 1 (Cold Open) territory on Simon’s route, and in Richard’s boardroom later in the same run.

Simon’s location

The hidden storage area — the same one as the Axe:

1. From the start of the game, walk toward St. Amelia past the row of houses with “For Sale” signs along the railing.
2. Go through the white gate into the storage row.
3. The Pistol-3000 is on a table in the SECOND unit on the right, behind a door you can enter.

Richard’s location

In the boardroom, on the table right beside the Level 3/4 Access Card — the card the route requires anyway, so check the table before leaving the room.

Why is it not appearing?

• You finished Sci-fi this run, not a previous one. The spawn unlocks for the next New Game Plus after the Sci-fi completion. Finish Sci-fi, then start another run.
• You are looking in the Axe’s spot. The two units are neighbours but not the same: the Axe is in the second-LAST unit on the right; the Pistol-3000 is in the SECOND unit on the right. Check both doors.
• Wrong character expectation. On Simon’s route it is the storage row in Chapter 1; on Richard’s route it is the boardroom. Zoe does not have a pickup spot for it.
• No Sci-fi completion banked at all. An ordinary NG+ (any other ending first) does not spawn it — the requirement is specifically the Sci-fi ending.

How this fits the rest of NG+

The Pistol-3000 and the Axe are the two NG+ weapon unlocks; both are mapped on the trophies hub goal map under Future Hardware and Here’s Simon!. NG+ does not carry weapons into the next run, so the gun must be picked up again in every run that qualifies — see the New Game Plus guide for the reset rules.

What this page rests on

Both sources are PowerPyx (the NG+ collectible guide and the trophy roadmap), read in full on 2026-09-24 and 2026-09-24 — one publisher chain, so the page stays source_checked. No pickup was performed on this site, and the unit positions are quoted as the guides report them.