SILENT HILL: Townfall Weapons & Locations — First Run and NG+

Quick overview

Weapon talk mixes four different categories — this page keeps them apart:

Category	Items	First appearance
Firearms (first run)	Pistol · Shotgun · Flare Gun	Part 4 onward
NG+ weapons	Axe · Pistol-3000	New Game Plus runs
Improvised melee	Plank · Pipe · wooden board and similar	From the opening chapters
Throwables	Bottle · Brick	From Part 2 onward

When a guide says “five weapons”, it is counting firearms + NG+ weapons only and excluding improviseds and throwables — that is a tally choice, not the game’s total object count. This page lists all four categories.

First-run weapons

Pistol: availability and location

• When: the story returns you to control of Simon.
• Where: Town Square — a box marked “Richard’s Gift”.
• Afterwards: usable by both Simon and Richard (per the roadmap’s weapon tracking).
• Kill economy is a guide-reported figure, not ours: ShowGamer counts two shots per standard enemy, so ammo conservation matters.

Shotgun: availability and location

• When/where: automatic — you cannot miss it; it is granted after entering CEG Tower (late Part 4, first held as Richard).
• The roadmap adds the usable-by detail: Richard late in the game, then Simon again in the final section.

Flare Gun: link to the existing guide

Found in CEG Locker 75 (pin 184) at the CEG Employee Lockers — Simon-only per the roadmap. The full route (barcode → scanner → locker) lives on its own page: Locker 75 Code & Flare Gun Location. Its trophy role is covered there and in Pinpoint Inaccuracy.

NG+ weapons: Axe and Pistol-3000

Weapon	Unlock gate	Dedicated page
Axe	Any first completion — spawns in the next NG+ (both routes)	Axe location
Pistol-3000	A banked Sci-fi ending, then the next NG+ run	Pistol-3000 guide

The Axe’s one-hit-melee and the Pistol-3000’s stats are guide-reported figures; this page does not republish damage tables because no verified numeric source exists.

Improvised weapons and throwables

• Improvised melee — planks, pipes and similar objects are regular world pickups (ShowGamer excludes them from its firearms tally for exactly that reason). The roadmap counts Plank and Pipe kills toward Creative Process. A wooden board behind the Peters Newsagent counter is an early example (Zoe’s house power).
• Throwables — bottles and bricks are both weapons-when-softened and the game’s distraction tools; their trophy roles are on the combat & stealth page and in Creative Process.

Character and progression restrictions

• Pistol — Simon picks it up; Simon and Richard use it afterwards.
• Shotgun — Richard first, Simon again in the final section.
• Flare Gun — Simon-only (roadmap).
• Axe — both Simon and Zoe (NG+).
• Pistol-3000 — Simon and Richard; needs the Sci-fi gate above.

Related trophy goals

• Creative Process — one kill with each of the seven standard weapons in a single run (the full route explanation lives on that page; this page is only the equipment map).
• Future Hardware and Here’s Simon! — the two NG+ pickup trophies.
• Pinpoint Inaccuracy — the Flare Gun’s skill shot.

What this page rests on

ShowGamer’s weapons guide (read in full, 2026-09-24) is the step-source for pickup locations; the roadmap (read in full, 2026-09-24) independently fixes the character/progression restrictions and the seven-weapon trophy list. Kill counts and one-shot claims are those guides’ figures, quoted per entry and not universalized. A second aggregator (bo3.gg) was paywalled/unreadable and is not used. No weapon was picked up on this site — source-checked.