Bolt on tech weapons

[Tazor]

Can we talk about this? Does anyone use it? It is so annoying. And almost impossible for me to do even when everything is fine. Let alone in a firefight when I'm dodging, healing, throwing grenades and hacking. Yes, I got the thing for a bigger timing window.

All of this for +30% damage.

[Mander]

And armor bypass.
It's not a small increment, all considered, especially at higher levels of difficulty.
It’s not easy to proc by any means, but I think it’s worthy: at least, my sandevistan sniper with a nekomata deals a lot of good damage with it. I would suggest using the sound of the charging weapon to learn the tempo of your shots. At least, it is what worked for me.

[Tazor]

Originally posted by Mander:

And armor bypass.
It's not a small increment, all considered, especially at higher levels of difficulty.
It’s not easy to proc by any means, but I think it’s worthy: at least, my sandevistan sniper with a nekomata deals a lot of good damage with it. I would suggest using the sound of the charging weapon to learn the tempo of your shots. At least, it is what worked for me.

I guess I need something that is slower firing. Only got tech pistol, revolver (with a lot of bullets) and SMG. Didn't find any high alpha damage tech weapons.

[shoopy]

The tech double barrel shotgun whatever it's called is easy to do.

[Tazor]

I found a hard hitting revolver. It has a charge speed of 0.25 seconds. WHAT???

So you're telling me I have to release LMB in a time frame of roughly 0.06 seconds? When the shot is almost fully charged. WHAT???

Who thought the bolt mechanic? How is this humanly possible?

[Tazor]

Originally posted by shoopy:

The tech double barrel shotgun whatever it's called is easy to do.

Don't have that either. No tech weapons with long charge time.

[Tokenn]

Originally posted by Tazor:

Originally posted by shoopy:

The tech double barrel shotgun whatever it's called is easy to do.

Don't have that either. No tech weapons with long charge time.

That's the Satara double-barrel shotgun. It's pretty powerful even without the Bolt capability. Many of the weapons in the game require some use and practice to learn to use to their best effectiveness.

[valium]

Bolt builds are great, fun, and easy to use once you get used to the rhythm of the charge timing window. It even has audio and graphical cues.

[MjKorz]

Originally posted by Tazor:

I found a hard hitting revolver. It has a charge speed of 0.25 seconds. WHAT???

So you're telling me I have to release LMB in a time frame of roughly 0.06 seconds? When the shot is almost fully charged. WHAT???

Who thought the bolt mechanic? How is this humanly possible?

The Burya revolver is extremely easy to use: just hold the button for the briefest moment and then release for a successful bolt shot. With the wallpuncher mod you'll be charging the gun to 200% power in the blink of an eye and dealing 3k+ headshots through walls with ease. It's easily the best non-stealth pistol in the game as long as you can aim.

Tech weapons, in general, are extremely powerful to the point that all other weapons become irrelevant. They ignore armor on bolt shots, deal damage to multiple enemies with chain lightning and can punch through walls, allowing you to use optical camo instead of grenades without losing the ability to effectively hit enemies hiding behind cover.

Combine tech weapons with "Stalker" or "Oracle" Kiroshis that allow you to see through walls, Cellular Adapter and Electromag Recycler cyberware for best effect. In terms of attributes, I advise to go max Cool and max Technical Ability and max out both the Pistol/Rifle and Tech weapons perk trees. For an efficient weapons loadout, I advise the Burya revolver or Omaha pistol for use in close quarters coupled with the Widowmaker precision rifle for close-medium range and the Nekomata sniper rifle for long range.

[MjKorz]

Originally posted by Mander:

And armor bypass.
It's not a small increment, all considered, especially at higher levels of difficulty.
It’s not easy to proc by any means, but I think it’s worthy: at least, my sandevistan sniper with a nekomata deals a lot of good damage with it. I would suggest using the sound of the charging weapon to learn the tempo of your shots. At least, it is what worked for me.

"Good" is an understatement. You can land 7k+ damage guaranteed headshot crits with the Nekomata charged to 200% with the wallpuncher mod on a bolt shot.

[Mander]

Originally posted by MjKorz:

Originally posted by Mander:

And armor bypass.
It's not a small increment, all considered, especially at higher levels of difficulty.
It’s not easy to proc by any means, but I think it’s worthy: at least, my sandevistan sniper with a nekomata deals a lot of good damage with it. I would suggest using the sound of the charging weapon to learn the tempo of your shots. At least, it is what worked for me.

"Good" is an understatement. You can land 7k+ damage guaranteed headshot crits with the Nekomata charged to 200% with the wallpuncher mod on a bolt shot.

I know! XD

Tech Sniper with a Sandevistan is one of my 3 Very Hard builds and the second fastest to clear the end boss. The damage output is very nice, especially with equalizer and wallpuncher mods, plus microgenerator cyberware in the hands. (but I didn't want to brag it).

[valium]

If you really want to trivialize bosses, other than smart smgs, is bolt Achilles or Omaha. Bolt Satara is stupidly good, but reload times slow it down when it comes to boss fights.

[Zero McDol]

I mean, it's a optional weapon or mod. You either use it or you don't.

[Mander]

Originally posted by valium:

If you really want to trivialize bosses, other than smart smgs, is bolt Achilles or Omaha. Bolt Satara is stupidly good, but reload times slow it down when it comes to boss fights.

Ehh... fastest clear on very hard for me was with a netrunner. Poor endboss melted with its brain fleeing its ears.
Most fun tho, was probably with a shotgunner: once heavies with HMG begun to gift me their weapons, we were 2 'borgs jumping around in bullet time, both trying to nuke the other. I won because of controlling hacks. XD

[valium]

You wont have the capacity to quickhack Smasher down as quickly as you can with weapons.

[Mander]

Originally posted by valium:

You wont have the capacity to quickhack Smasher down as quickly as you can with weapons.

Overclock… overclock is your deamons in a bottle.
Dual damaging standard combo, pop overclock, spam synapse burnout.
It literally melts in less than 10 seconds.