Xray perk garbage?

[zachjd]

I rarely see it used so I bought it for the first time. You can see through walls for items for a very very limited amount of time then that's it and you have to wait on the recharge. I looked through the upgrades and I don't know if it's even worth the investment.

[Jalir]

It absolutely is the one that isn't worth picking right now. Some say stun is 100% inferior to smoke, but I disagree, they both have use-cases depending on playstyle. I really haven't found a single reason to use xray over ANY of the other rigs, personally. It needs a full re-work.

[Realm]

I don't know the upgrades for it, but unless it has some kind of stun/disable attached, it'll have a hard time competing with the other 3 that all have some sort of stun attached to them. In theory pretty good for avoiding enemies, but some like the end of the first trial that's not really helpful since the enemy will come to you anyways - and x-ray isn't going to clutch you an escape at the end of a trial as the other 3 can.

[Platapoop]

xray makes some missions easier (cutting the power, finding gens) and can be used as a last resort to find specific items like health, lockpicks, batteries, etc.

That being said, if you are speedrunning this game, which seems like what the endgame is like, xray is mostly useless. Also knowing that an enemy is somewhere doesn't actually help you get past them. If you had a mine, you just plop it down and do whatever you want.

[Eudicots]

Its good for solo players and good for in co-op if you are trying to speedrun through. One person with it in co-op will allow the team to get all 5 posters quickly.

[Piss Queen]

It's the only one I use and I quite like it as I'll never need to panic search for items, I'll always know where the enemies are so I can plan accordingly and not make mistakes, if I'm in chase I can see which doors are trapped beforehand and I can plan to not go that way, not to mention the cooldown is like 30 seconds AND it marks all enemies nearby with a circle showing your team where they are as well AND I will never need batteries since it recharges my night vision. It gives you all the information you need to not make mistakes whereas the other rigs help to clean up your mistakes/give you a second chance when things get hairy

[zachjd]

Good takes on it. I gave it a second try and beat a tough game on solo where they can 1 hit kill you. It is nice when there's multiple enemies nearby but you're not exactly sure where they are or are heading.

[Rilgar55]

Its my favourite one, useful as hell to find things and pinpoint enemies. Only time i switch it is to use the blind because of how busted it is.

[Falmingkitter]

Looks like we got a Heal Rig user over here, boys.

[Vivianite]

it's good, it's how i can keep track of the wannabe sam-fisher squatting in a bush hiding on purpose or what hiding spots have a ex-pop in it, or items, except for mission critical items. for SOME REASON it doesn't spot those. also saves on lockpicks because you can scout locked containers to see if it's worth a pick or if it's just full of batteries for NVGs. communication is important to your teammates as all they see is, dots? idk i never been on the other end of xray.

sure it doesn't do anything to enemies by itself but itll help you not only find things you can use against them, but know exactly who it is and what they're doing without LoS

[Burdpal]

Originally posted by Realm:

I don't know the upgrades for it, but unless it has some kind of stun/disable attached, it'll have a hard time competing with the other 3 that all have some sort of stun attached to them. In theory pretty good for avoiding enemies, but some like the end of the first trial that's not really helpful since the enemy will come to you anyways - and x-ray isn't going to clutch you an escape at the end of a trial as the other 3 can.

I've been using the Xray rig since I've started and... I regret investing time into it. Heal, Stun or Blind is just superior in nearly every way. You are absolutely correct.

Being able to prevent an engagement is great, but there's downtime to Xray's effects and players will get caught in the crosshairs of enemies regardless of due diligence. Everyone makes mistakes, and Heal, Stun and Blind help in that inevitability.

I wish there was some respec function. I hate having so many points invested in something that's objectively inferior. It's making my time in this game largely unfun.

[Bread]

I started with Xray and I think it's a fine rig, although I'm almost done upgrading my last rig and have been using the mine after upgrading it second.

It shines especially in the beginning, where you don't have a lot of map awareness, aren't confident to move from place to place fast and need items to sustain injuries / recharge night vision, but as you gain experience on tougher trials, especially from Program X , it really gets outshined by other rigs such as heal or blind. Let me explain.

Whilst it's upgraded ability is good enough that you won't be needing batteries, it's not like you will find yourself in a situation where you wouldn't be able to find any, trapped doors are everywhere. And while it does help in finding items, you shouldn't really need them that much later in the game aside from bricks and bottles, and a heal rig is the equivalent of 4 large medicine bottles + antidotes. Not to mention how much the mine trivializes some of the final encounters, especially in kill the snitch.

TLDR: Good in the beginning to find your way but as you gain experience, awareness and confidence the others might prove more useful.

I think one way to improve it is to show where other required items are, such as gas canisters, the buttons to unlock the secret room, jugs of bleach for feeding, corpses for keys. This would help tremendously especially in later scenarios where you don't get much intel.

[󠁳]

X-ray only good for finding posters on certain maps.

[Für Deutschland]

It is useless cause it doesnt share the x-ray with your friends.
It shows a bunch of faint white dots for your team which are very useless since you dont know what are those.

[๋]

X-Ray is fantastic if you are playing coop, and being stealthy. Blind rig is what you'll end up using when you start speed running.