Range weapons pointless?

[Kocrachon]

Right now I have leveled up my Sabers and my Guns to all be the same level... Beam sabers just rip everything apart and guns seems to do nothing. In GB3 many of the beam rifles would get plenty of kills while you made your range in. This new format with less killing and higher health enemies really just made Range and Builder Parts pointless...

[Part-Time Prick]

Eh, not pointless, the long rifles and stuff are great for getting in extra damage as you approach, able to outright kill some things fine, juggle for combos
they have their uses.

[PewPew]

Range is still good I am on the hardest difficulty now, and I just chill with beam spam + op when they are reloading and ex every now and then.

Beams absolutely destroys the PG bosses cause it hits them multiple times, building your ex, and since you do it no matter where the bosses are it's super braindead.

Melee is strong for sure, but some enemies being immune to stagger, or or the jank boosting makes it balance imo. But ye once you get to end game and have nothing else to do I implore you to test full ranged build, it's very easy and strong.

When I get enough parts to level I'll try a nuke spam build next I think it will absolutely destroy lower level missions lol.

EDIT: Also range do not get any benefit from transam and the like, so sadly they will not be as strong as melee in terms of dps I think? But on the bright side they also do not rely on the buff so no need to maintain buff uptime.

[Hank]

I literally just have two Gatling (Joined Unicorn Gundam) guns to quickly build up combo meter to get the I think 70% damage boost. It gets the combo done in like seconds and then you just beat stick the opponent to death.

[LuwakWhiteCawfeeee]

Depends really. i use Twin MGs to build meter and/or heal, Gatling to stunlock before i close in for melee, Long rifles/Bazookas to help with juggling combos, Rifles (with Irradiation/Beam) For burst damage so it's not really useless since i use Ranged weapons to keep my combo count up in between kills

[LuwakWhiteCawfeeee]

Originally posted by Hank:

I literally just have two Gatling (Joined Unicorn Gundam) guns to quickly build up combo meter to get the I think 70% damage boost. It gets the combo done in like seconds and then you just beat stick the opponent to death.

its INSANE how fast it builds the meter since GB4 is generous enough to consider the quad gatling's as FOUR individual gatling shots therefore increasing the Bullets.

[Vadenveil]

Yeah beam rifles are kinda king for a melee build against the bosses, they rip through HP while you're dealing with their hit zones and they pair well with something like Gun Bits to get that long range pierce in and they have tap spam for juggling and closing.