Autoguns vs Las rifles?

[Artimise Flare]

Out of curiosity, is there ever a reason to pick an autogun over a las rifle? The lack of ammunition is a huge liability I've found, even when used on a sharpshooter at lower levels. I've only ever played the Sharpshooter up to lvl 7 or 10 I think in the stress test beta, so I'm not sure if there are better ones that have a higher rarity.

So far, it feels like the las rifles are just superior in nearly every way (it makes sense lore wise though)

[Malthar]

Autoguns got better armor penetration afaik, better for armored enemies

[Seto]

Las rifles are more accurate, autoguns have more dps.

[Artimise Flare]

Originally posted by Seto:

Las rifles are more accurate, autoguns have more dps.

Wouldn't a las rifle be able to match the auto guns DPS by landing precision shots? I do like the muzzle report of auto guns and they do feel reasonably punchy on lower levels, but not having the reserve ammo to keep that DPS going seems to be a major mark against them compared to the las rifles better accuracy and reserve ammo stock. Maybe that changes when we get hot shot las rifles, which makes the auto guns even less attractive; unless there's more to them that I'm missing at higher tiers of quality.

[BigJ]

Autoguns are quite good for suppresion and don-t deal the terrible 2 damage vs carapace armor, on the flipside tho the recoil is not as bad and tend to be more ammo efficient, but as a vet u don-t care for that.

[SolusiRadikal]

High damage lasgun >>> auto gun. It has good damage, good stopping power, also better iron sight and recoil.

The only advantage from autogun is the torrent version. The rest is just as garbage as the versatile lasgun

[Catteus Of Mars]

if the autogun had more ammo maby it was somewhat decent but it does not....

[pRaX]

MK XII ftw and carapace enemies, shred with mit chainsword.

[pRaX]

Originally posted by ArtificialCutie69:

Originally posted by Catteus Of Mars:

if the autogun had more ammo maby it was somewhat decent but it does not....

That's that the Braced Autogun is for.

That's cool but what are the others for? (< rhetorical)

[Red_Theory]

I prefer lasguns. far more accurate and has superior capacity which is necessary for the amount of ranged mobs in the game. If you get swarmed, that's what your melee is for.

[Yoda]

I preffer autogun over lasgun. More snappy than lasgun, and quite versatile.

It has really good accuracy - Trick is to learn how to use single shots and hitting weakspots.
Try it in Psykarium.

Full-auto is usefull only in some situations (close quaters or bosses) .

[Seren]

Once you get to like 16 I think, you get the Recon Lasgun which is a full auto Lasgun with 0 recoil and 100+ ammo per mag :D

Although I still prefer the Boltgun, I just wish it didn't sway so hard and the recoil was insane to try and keep follow up shots going.

[Shura]

ShotGun is the best (30 lvl Sharpshooter). High range and top 2 dps even against armored targets(1st is lasgun), special option for mass weak targets, normal mod for solo targets. Good in all 3 mods of using.

[Mulqueeny]

I just love my pew pew, I love the sound it makes and the scorching holes it leave in heretics.

[MeGa]

Originally posted by Shura:

ShotGun is the best (30 lvl Sharpshooter). High range and top 2 dps even against armored targets(1st is lasgun), special option for mass weak targets, normal mod for solo targets. Good in all 3 mods of using.

Whats the special option?

[Stardustfire]

Las SEEMS to have more ammo, until you recognice that each shot eats several charges each, where the goodol slugthrowers only use 1 per shot.
also Las needs truckloads of shots to bring down carapaced/armored enemys compared to projectils