E-Pulse 44 buff?

[Riggs]

So I am a huge fan of the E-Pulse, I absolutely adore it, but I feel it reallllly needs a small buff. Nothing too big. Just a slightly larger battery, like 40, and a slightly faster rate of fire. Nothing too fast, just a slight change. These would make it very very usable in my eyes. So please, give my E-Pulse a good shine!

[NiStein118]

I dont think it needs a buff, the range problem is hopefully a bug. The other pulse weapons suffer from the same issue.

[Riggs]

Originally posted by NiStein118:

I dont think it needs a buff, the range problem is hopefully a bug. The other pulse weapons suffer from the same issue.

The limited range is manageable, thats how it is in lore and every depiction of it, I just feel it also kinda sucks at close range and doesn't do enough damage or stagger like it's been shown to have.

[Halder]

Yes, i gave it up for my trustworthy Mark XXX. The range on the E44, is really bad. I am guessing that it is meant to be a sniper weapon, if not, then the range is what it is, but if it is exclusive to snipers, then range is a big issue.

[Riggs]

Originally posted by Halder:

Yes, i gave it up for my trustworthy Mark XXX. The range on the E44, is really bad. I am guessing that it is meant to be a sniper weapon, if not, then the range is what it is, but if it is exclusive to snipers, then range is a big issue.

It's not meant to be a sniper weapon, which is why I am VERY confused that they gave it to the sniper but not the other class with the booster

[KhanWolf95]

Pulse weapons need a bit of ammo and damage buff for its limited range tradeoff, right now it takes almost half the battery mag to kill a single warrior bug sometimes.

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Originally posted by KhanWolf95:

Pulse weapons need a bit of ammo and damage buff for its limited range tradeoff, right now it takes almost half the battery mag to kill a single warrior bug sometimes.

Yeah thats exactly why I want the buff, in Hero of the Federation they staggered the bugs like crazy, and in Terran Command they were a close range high damage unit, so I really feel like that should be reflected in Extermination

[Bovril Brigadier]

Only thing E Pulse is good for is tkilling honestly.

[Stein]

The only bad thing I find is the range, but I suppose it is compensated by its damage, it has quite decent damage, better than most automatic weapons.
and you can have more than 40 bullets if you use the extended mag.

PD: By the way it is supposed to have a x4 scope but not the range to use it, which makes no sense.

[RaptorSolutions]

Originally posted by Halder:

Yes, i gave it up for my trustworthy Mark XXX. The range on the E44, is really bad. I am guessing that it is meant to be a sniper weapon, if not, then the range is what it is, but if it is exclusive to snipers, then range is a big issue.

More of a medic weapon. Sniper and medic get's it. But for medic it's their only other weapon.
For sniper I just take it if I want to go hive crawling for whatever reason.

[kampfer91]

Need damage buff and fix the stagger.

[-Bl4ckH4wK-]

Sucks, makes no sense at all to a sniper and is worse compared with the first rifle, so, what is the point? Ridiculous, even the sound of it, looks like a 90's toy.

[<Caeris↝]

The only problems what i´ve got with it is the awful range and very low ammo.

[Spectre]

I want to like it, but I just waste all my ammo shooting at stuff too far away and it ends up being less than useless. I'd much prefer a reduced damage past a certain range than projectiles that just evaporate and do nothing. Maybe have it drop down to Morita damage at long range. With the amount of ammo it still wouldn't be as good as a Morita at long range. But it wouldn't be useless and piss me off either.

[Gorbage Meta Gaming]

The weapon looks so cool but lacks that UMFH that other weapons have, that and it's performance is awful

[BenShinobi]

Pulse rifle & pistol combo absolutely slaps for the Medic. the range is fine when you're used to it. I think most people want to engage bugs outside their weapon's effective range where they suffer from damage drop-off anyway and when you consider it penetrates targets, multiplying it's damage across every bug it hits, then it makes much more sense that it's range is limited. Using it as a Medic I can often get more combat score than my other squad mates even while rushing about healing.

In any kind of horde situation you basically make the whole horde much easier for the rest of your team to take down when you're dishing the damage out in a straight line across 4/5 warriors or more and you gets tons of xp coming in.

The issues it has are ammo amount, it sounds a bit bad and it should stagger more, but as Medic you get the bug repellant perk which makes you much less of a target if you have team mates around.

For it to make sense for the Sniper class I think it needs an alternative firing mode that can fire longer distance & that may be likely as they develop all weapons further, but I'm not sure if that fits lore-wise.