The Pulse Rifle is trash

[Ghost1447]

This gun is horrid, garbage, drivel, hogwash, poppycock, crap, cobblers, malarkey, bull's wool, junk, dross, and rubbish

[Kitt 🌟 Stargazer]

Publicado originalmente por thorin.hannahs:

The Pulse Rifle is great. The issue is the flesh mechanic makes it less viable in primary fire mode. The Alt-fire makes it a pocket grenade launcher. Early on alt fire can be used to delete a necro or to knock them back/down. I prioritized capacity since the alt-fire is expensive but I imagine upgrading damage helps the pocket grenade even more. I hope the last special upgrade is worth it.

Unless Damage upgrades don't make a meaningful impact on how well a weapon preforms, I almost always prioritize damage first just so I get more bang for my buck on weapons. It helps with killing enemies quicker, which is better for number advantages ( kill enemies quick makes situations easier to manage ) as well as helping keep ammo high since I now require less bullets to down enemies. From which if I do good enough, I can sell in order to get more nodes to upgrade my weapons and equipment even quicker.

[JefferyNothing]

I find it a good go between for when you want to start conserving your ammo for the plasma cutter. You use the rifle for a bit, wear down the ammo on that, swap back to plasma cutter and by then you should have more ammo from looted enemies. It works quite well im finding.

[thorin.hannahs]

Publicado originalmente por Blue Flame Charizard:

Publicado originalmente por thorin.hannahs:

The Pulse Rifle is great. The issue is the flesh mechanic makes it less viable in primary fire mode. The Alt-fire makes it a pocket grenade launcher. Early on alt fire can be used to delete a necro or to knock them back/down. I prioritized capacity since the alt-fire is expensive but I imagine upgrading damage helps the pocket grenade even more. I hope the last special upgrade is worth it.

Unless Damage upgrades don't make a meaningful impact on how well a weapon preforms, I almost always prioritize damage first just so I get more bang for my buck on weapons. It helps with killing enemies quicker, which is better for number advantages ( kill enemies quick makes situations easier to manage ) as well as helping keep ammo high since I now require less bullets to down enemies. From which if I do good enough, I can sell in order to get more nodes to upgrade my weapons and equipment even quicker.

Yeah that is the RE4/DS way.

[DreamPod9]

Only time the pulse rifle shines is literally at the end when you want to curb stomp the final boss. You recycle all your upgrades, max out your health, max out the pulse rifle and just blow it away in a matter of seconds.

Speaking from a guy who's played the original consistently for the last decade. But who knows, maybe the devs of the remake thought "naw, the final boss won't be THAT easy in our game"

I've yet to find out.

[Vanta]

It's mostly a single target weapon. Best for bosses, brutes or anything big and angry.
It lacks burst damage to kill multiple necromorphs or atleast cripple them rapidly, but it's capacity for sustained rapid fire without reloading makes it superior against targets which require you to fire as sustained as you can.

[Soren]

Publicado originalmente por thorin.hannahs:

Publicado originalmente por Blue Flame Charizard:

Unless Damage upgrades don't make a meaningful impact on how well a weapon preforms, I almost always prioritize damage first just so I get more bang for my buck on weapons. It helps with killing enemies quicker, which is better for number advantages ( kill enemies quick makes situations easier to manage ) as well as helping keep ammo high since I now require less bullets to down enemies. From which if I do good enough, I can sell in order to get more nodes to upgrade my weapons and equipment even quicker.

Yeah that is the RE4/DS way.

Except I don't know if I'd ever sell ammo. Hoarding it inside the bank always seems the way to go. Especially if you're playing on Impossible. Don't want to run out of resources.

[AirRevenant]

Publicado originalmente por Soren:

Publicado originalmente por thorin.hannahs:

Yeah that is the RE4/DS way.

Except I don't know if I'd ever sell ammo. Hoarding it inside the bank always seems the way to go. Especially if you're playing on Impossible. Don't want to run out of resources.

I'm having faith in the intensity director --- i sold ammo early in to upgrade my suit at first opportunity.

[mie001]

I think the PR in remake is much worse than in original. It's lacks the staggering power to stop necs closing on you, and it's damage is very...unreliable

[Kitt 🌟 Stargazer]

Publicado originalmente por Soren:

Publicado originalmente por thorin.hannahs:

Yeah that is the RE4/DS way.

Except I don't know if I'd ever sell ammo. Hoarding it inside the bank always seems the way to go. Especially if you're playing on Impossible. Don't want to run out of resources.

If I know I can get away with it I don't mind selling ammo. If it just sits in your inventory or storage box and never gets used then your not making good use out of it at all.

I'm also not saying sell everything, just sell what you feel you can do without and still be well enough equipped for what lies ahead. If you sell some stuff to upgrade your rig, you now get more armor, more inventory space to hold more items, access to more upgrades, all of which will help with inventory management. If you upgrade guns to be more powerful, you won't be using as much ammo going forward because your guns will down enemies quicker and use less ammo in the long run.

It's like in RPG's where you horde items, then after you beat the game you realize you did absolutely nothing with them the entire time.

I just got the rig from the captain, and I sold like 2 full plasma cutter ammo reserves because I had like 5 full ones altogether and plenty of Pulse Ammo that I hadn't even touched yet. I believe that gets me 5000 credits that I used to pick up an extra node ( already had level 2 rig thanks to money from Chapter 1 ).

[Traumaturgy]

It was always trash.

[_MaZ_TeR_]

Enemies don't even flinch anymore so it's even worse

[Gracey Face]

Publicado originalmente por Ghost1447:

This gun is horrid, trash, drivel, hogwash, poppycock, crap, cobblers, malarkey, bull's wool, junk, dross, and rubbish

It's meant to be trash. Deadspace had a whole gimmick when it first released of "OH HEY LOOK, NORMAL SHOOTERS MAKE YOU SHOOT THE HEAD BUT WE'RE DIFFERENT AND YOU HAVE TO SHOOT THE LIMBS!!!!!"

The pulse rifle is intended as a trap to make people buy an auto weapon and shoot for the torso head and then find it ineffectual which is supposed to then reinforce the "shoot for the limbs" idea into them.

[Iorveth]

Publicado originalmente por Computer Vibes:

plasma cutter will forever be the best weapon in the game

I did my 1st run on Impossible, with only the Plasma cutter equipped, maxed it and finished without too much hassle; on top of that, having only 1 weapon equipped (just keep the other in your inventory if you want to use them) makes, the game drop a lot more ammo for it, and it goes without saying that you can max both the Suit & the Plasma cutter during your 1st run, if you explore and backtrack.
Now I'm having fun with the 2 special items, gained from Impossible mode, the Gun it's IMBA, and the Ng+ Suit looks badass too; plus I'm investing nodes into the Force Gun and the Line Gun for the Black Hole+Line Trap combo, during quaratine events when a room might be full of Necros, throw in a Stasis bullet on top of the black hole, and all you need to do, is eat popcorns, while you watch evertyhing been shredded to pieces.

[𝔐𝔢𝔱𝔞𝔪𝔬𝔯𝔭𝔥𝔢𝔯™]

Well, I tend to agree with the thread starter. Rifle is not good enough. Only one is usefull, it's Plasma Cutter, but it's more like Laser Pistol, because Plasma Cutter must cut something and not shoot. I like weapons from Dead Space 3. But here in this game they are really bad. After upgrading more times, this Rifle don't do much damage. It doesn't matter where to shoot, in the head, in the limbs or in the body, it’s always the same, you need to shoot more than a half magazine to achieve anything.
They changed a lot ingame, adding "other" characters, changed advertising on the posters, NPC behavior and many more. They changed so much ingame, but they couldn't implement the weapons system from Dead Space 3.

Anything that can possibly go wrong, does.

[Soren]

Publicado originalmente por Emrys:

Publicado originalmente por Computer Vibes:

plasma cutter will forever be the best weapon in the game

I did my 1st run on Impossible, with only the Plasma cutter equipped, maxed it and finished without too much hassle; on top of that, having only 1 weapon equipped (just keep the other in your inventory if you want to use them) makes, the game drop a lot more ammo for it, and it goes without saying that you can max both the Suit & the Plasma cutter during your 1st run, if you explore and backtrack.

Nice. I lost my impossible run to the centrifuge in chapter 3. Necromorphs, no problem. Insta-kill obstacles and forgetting which direction to go. A bit more dangerous.

Funny part is a plasma cutter only run isn't actually that bad. I thought it was kind of tough as a teenager. But as a teenager I never used kinesis that much. And honestly it's just super strong. Pipes and rods everywhere that one shot enemies. Dagger shaped limbs that knockdown enemies like no one's business. Kinesis is way better at crowd control than I remember.