what is the point of musket exactly?

[SotvānZander]

I been using Bow lately so I figured give musket a try and it is absolutely ass compared to bow, slow fire rate, half of the times I am not sure where my shot even goes? tried it in PVE it kinda sucks not enough damage, I was not accepted to do any mutations due to having musket?? and to be fair it sucks in PVP I can do so much better with bow in OPR, I think I will go back to bow, but what are your thoughts on this weapon?

[Zachmark571]

I never see musket in mutations. It has low mobility and damage. The musket just isn't a weapon for group content that needs damage. In mutations especially ranged weapons like bow have less damage than melee, there are sometimes anti-ranged mechanics and you won't get heals since you are away from the group. You can still do high mutations with bow, but a bad ranged dps is worse than a bad melee dps and **people don't like risks**.

Also I sometimes see people using weapons they haven't used, as if they want to level their weapons in mutations, which is a ♥♥♥♥ move.

[Tzunny]

Shooting rabbits

[Wolfe Beckhaver]

Shooting cats

And rolling the dice.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2964993948

[CirceTheSiren]

just another nice looking weapon cursed to not getting pve buffs because in the given opr map was exploited too much in the past.
very unsatisfaying to use against pve elite mobs with a lot of hitponts just learned for achievement and skipped for bunderbluss.
actually best used as a hunting weapon if you already have enough points in int for better reasons but have some nice skins and animations.

[SotvānZander]

Damn thank you everyone for response, I will skip this weapon for sure thanks for heads up!

[Crunktanium]

Musket was good once upon a time then people complained about it's overuse in OPR and the devs changed it to the point of uselessness to shut everyone up.

[Wolfe Beckhaver]

And the reason people complained about musket in OPR was due to damage exploiting, and aimbots. Legit players were doing very little in OPR with the musket,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQ1X73mvCmI&t

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-8ptBID_g4&t

[The Daily Tomato]

I'm a staunch defender of the musket and my defense is this. I wanna roleplay as a pirate or a musketeer so i need my pretty musket.

It's garbage though there is no denying ;)

I don't personally mind the slow fire rate if they would just do more damage.

[Kilsubub]

I love the zoom. Its great for hunting. No its not the PvP weapon it used to be, but its still great for shooting critters from far away. Rabbits, elk, sheep, goats, and turkeys. LoL. Fun.

[Machika]

Maybe Amazon needs to lessen the distance from a target to do maximum damage and still be in range of heals?

[Hanging Jester]

Combined with rapier it lets those of us who don't do group, or PvP, content to get our Dumas fantasy on.

[Enforcer]

Originally posted by Servo: A Machine Robo:

And the reason people complained about musket in OPR was due to damage exploiting, and aimbots. Legit players were doing very little in OPR with the musket,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQ1X73mvCmI&t

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-8ptBID_g4&t

This could have been so easily solved by giving bullets some travel time.

[Wolfe Beckhaver]

Originally posted by Enforcer:

Originally posted by Servo: A Machine Robo:

And the reason people complained about musket in OPR was due to damage exploiting, and aimbots. Legit players were doing very little in OPR with the musket,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQ1X73mvCmI&t

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-8ptBID_g4&t

This could have been so easily solved by giving bullets some travel time.

No, because the aimbots made for new world work for all weapons, including bow and fire staff. Bullet drop would solve nothing.

The devs already said that the amount of calculations for bullet drop were to great for performance. Its why they went with hit scan in the first place.

But hitscan is not the issue, its aimbots and damage exploits. It's actually very hard to hit moving targets at a great range, especially if they are engaged in combat due to all the melee teleporting that happens.

[dahlical]

Muskets were overpowered in my opinion and needed a little 'dial back' but in true fashion of the developers they looked at all the options, put the worse ones into a hat and randomly picked on.

But to just be sure they choose the absolute worse way to make changes they double down on their just randomly selected bad idea. They have no concept of how to make mild changes, monitor said changes and do further adjustments later if needed.

In my opinion just a damage output reduction would have done more to fix the issues than the revamp that they did.

[Wolfe Beckhaver]

Originally posted by dahlical:

Muskets were overpowered in my opinion and needed a little 'dial back' but in true fashion of the developers they looked at all the options, put the worse ones into a hat and randomly picked on.

But to just be sure they choose the absolute worse way to make changes they double down on their just randomly selected bad idea. They have no concept of how to make mild changes, monitor said changes and do further adjustments later if needed.

In my opinion just a damage output reduction would have done more to fix the issues than the revamp that they did.

the musket was never overpowered. Watch the two videos I linked above. Most of what you saw in OPR from "over powered" muskets were not legit players.

I had one today aimbot me and 3 shot me with 5x resilience, thrust resist and 160+ con. I also had a heal bot on me. I was about 60 yards away and it was BAM BAM BAM back to back, except the musket cant do that. I went into the next match with my musket and it was amazing how much the gun missed at that range in a rapid fire situation. And mine has the accuracy perk on it.