Weapons are unbalanced.

[JackieTheDemon]

I know it doesn't matter because it's a single-player game, but having weapons that are significantly weaker than other weapons with no benefits is underwhelming.

The pulse rifle sucks, doesn't do enough damage, can't upgrade it to do enough damage or higher fire rate.

The ripper is bad if there is more than 1 enemy in the room.

The Contact Beam is OP, literally blasts groups of enemies with 1 alt-fire.

Line Gun is just a slightly stronger plasma cutter.

Flamethrower doesn't stun enemies so they just run right through the fire.

Force Gun is just the Contact Beam but it doesn't kill anything.

[JackieTheDemon]

Messaggio originale di coffeemm8:

Messaggio originale di JackieTheDemon:

Or you could just... Alt-Fire them with the contact beam and blow them all up instantly lmao.

You must be fun at parties.

I'm just pointing out how one weapon makes the others useless in terms of raw stopping power.

[JackieTheDemon]

Messaggio originale di FruitBat Man:

I might feel differently deeper into hard mode, But the ripper is my go to weapon due to breaking their advances.

The blackened version of the enemies are less staggered ive found. In normal, it felt incredibly overpowered

Early game I just stasis'd them, shot one of their claws off then impaled them with it.

[FruitBat Man]

Messaggio originale di JackieTheDemon:

Messaggio originale di FruitBat Man:

I might feel differently deeper into hard mode, But the ripper is my go to weapon due to breaking their advances.

The blackened version of the enemies are less staggered ive found. In normal, it felt incredibly overpowered

Early game I just stasis'd them, shot one of their claws off then impaled them with it.

For sure but in the middle and the end of the game I was using the ripper to stun lock multiple enemies at once, no stasis needed. In fact I don't think I used one stasis module other than an accidental press of the Y button.

There's even enough range to kill the Exploding ones without taking damage

[StingingVelvet]

The contact beam is amazing in this game. Was it that amazing in the original? I usually just used the plasma cutter only in the first game. Anyway... I agree the other weapons mostly suck.

Honestly they should have done a Control where there's one gun with different modes, because the plasma cutter IS Dead Space. People would have complained though.

[JackieTheDemon]

Messaggio originale di StingingVelvet:

The contact beam is amazing in this game. Was it that amazing in the original? I usually just used the plasma cutter only in the first game. Anyway... I agree the other weapons mostly suck.

Honestly they should have done a Control where there's one gun with different modes, because the plasma cutter IS Dead Space. People would have complained though.

Still kind of blows that the second weapon you pick up requires an entire mag to kill a guy.

[Kurteth]

Bruh with the ripper and stasis you can clear any room lmao. You just suck.

[JackieTheDemon]

Messaggio originale di Kurteth:

Bruh with the ripper and stasis you can clear any room lmao. You just suck.

Let me fully upgrade all weapons and try them out then. See which one stomps the most.

[coffeemm8]

Messaggio originale di StingingVelvet:

The contact beam is amazing in this game. Was it that amazing in the original? I usually just used the plasma cutter only in the first game. Anyway... I agree the other weapons mostly suck.

Honestly they should have done a Control where there's one gun with different modes, because the plasma cutter IS Dead Space. People would have complained though.

Well now I know never to play Control

[Taffer King]

The Pulse Rifle has always been a bit weak against standard necromorphs, but strong vs. Lurkers/Swarms. The alt fire is great, though - you can either use it as a direct grenade launcher or as a proximity mine.

I'm having so much fun with the Ripper. It took only two blades to kill the Brute on the bridge on Hard and he couldn't even stand up from the stunlocking. And you can just lure other enemies into the Line Gun alt and chew them up. Immensely fun.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehlLqIRfUHw

[morte]

Messaggio originale di JackieTheDemon:

I've seen multiple people use the flamethrower on a single enemy and it didn't stop walking, it just attacked through the fire.

The fire wall 100% stops enemies and roasts them for a while. This is the best weapon in the corridors and just when the enemies are gathered in a crowd. In addition, at this time you can shoot at them with other weapons.

[FruitBat Man]

Messaggio originale di Taffer King:

The Pulse Rifle has always been a bit weak against standard necromorphs, but strong vs. Lurkers/Swarms. The alt fire is great, though - you can either use it as a direct grenade launcher or as a proximity mine.

I'm having so much fun with the Ripper. It took only two blades to kill the Brute on the bridge on Hard and he couldn't even stand up from the stunlocking. And you can just lure other enemies into the Line Gun alt and chew them up. Immensely fun.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehlLqIRfUHw

It's the only way I can kill the wall tentacle ones.

Other than that I wouldn't use the pulse rifle

[Kastrand]

pulse rifle go brrrr

[PrediN@ter]

Flame thrower and ripper together tear through hordes and individuals great. Takes a little upgrade to damage and duration for both. One short blast of flame thrower to start melting, then the ripper to focus limbs and push them back. It even works on large groups as the ripper will stun lock groups if you keep them in front and look back and forth. For really large groups put up flame wall then use ripper from behind wall to kill everything.

[pcdeltalink]

Messaggio originale di JackieTheDemon:

I know it doesn't matter because it's a single-player game, but having weapons that are significantly weaker than other weapons with no benefits is underwhelming.

The pulse rifle sucks, doesn't do enough damage, can't upgrade it to do enough damage or higher fire rate.

The ripper is bad if there is more than 1 enemy in the room.

The Contact Beam is OP, literally blasts groups of enemies with 1 alt-fire.

Line Gun is just a slightly stronger plasma cutter.

Flamethrower doesn't stun enemies so they just run right through the fire.

Force Gun is just the Contact Beam but it doesn't kill anything.

Pulse rifle fires quick enough as it is. Frankly I wouldn't mind a way to slow it down a little to not eat ammo so quickly. At least it has its grenade launcher secondary rather than the god awful 360 spray it had in the original game.

Ripper is, and always has been, incredible. One of the most ammo efficient weapons in the game. Can easily use it as essentially a moving hitbox which does stagger and stall enemies. And if you can't handle more than 1 enemy with it then you're doing something wrong.

Never really used Contact Beam in old or remake game so can't comment.

Line Gun has pretty much always been just a big Plasma Cutter with multi target piercing and no vertical alignment for the cut, what's your point?

Flamethrower was causing hit stun for me. However, I have noticed that pretty much any enemy can sometimes ignore hits if they have already started an attack animation.

Haven't reached Force Gun yet in remake to compare.

[[OTS]EchoZenLogos]

Messaggio originale di JackieTheDemon:

I know it doesn't matter because it's a single-player game, but having weapons that are significantly weaker than other weapons with no benefits is underwhelming.

The pulse rifle sucks, doesn't do enough damage, can't upgrade it to do enough damage or higher fire rate.

The ripper is bad if there is more than 1 enemy in the room.

The Contact Beam is OP, literally blasts groups of enemies with 1 alt-fire.

Line Gun is just a slightly stronger plasma cutter.

Flamethrower doesn't stun enemies so they just run right through the fire.

Force Gun is just the Contact Beam but it doesn't kill anything.

The pulse rifle is quite great when used properly. It isn't the most effective for cutting limbs, but is the most efficient for hitting single targets (so you can use it to cheaply detonate things or take off weakened limbs from Necromorphs). Its grenade is very effective against groups or weakened Necromorphs, and its ammo is plentiful (especially when you get proper capacity upgrades).

The ripper can do well against multiple enemies if you properly move the blade back and forth across the weak points of enemies to stagger them in chokepoints, or if you use the bouncing alt fire in narrow corridors with proper aim. It's also fairly ammo efficient as against single enemies you basically just need to use the Force Gun or Flamethrower to soften them up (for stronger ones at least) for a moment before just stunlocking them to death and killing them with a single blade (usually).

Actually, the ripper is my favorite weapon overall because of it being so efficient and fun to use, but it has its weaknesses.

The contact beam is very strong, but ammunition will run out very quickly compared to other weapons, and when enemies are spread out it isn't as useful.

The line gun is a stronger plasma cutter, which its kinda its point. Its secondary fire however is very potent when used right, giving you an explosion that can clear groups of enemies cheaply.

Flamethrower does stun enemies, but isn't perfect for that. It softens up enemies however so they are easier to kill with other weapons, can deny movement with the flame wall, and is especially useful against groups of smaller enemies or those guys with multiple tentacles on walls who spawn small little tentacles throwing spikes.

Force gun knocks back enemies nearby instantaneously, giving you an easy way to stay safe when ambushed, and the alternate fire will give you tons of breathing room to take care of enemies by any means you wish. It also softens up enemies so they are easier to kill with other weapons by stripping their flesh. It also has basically nothing in common with the contact beam - the contact beam is a long ranged high power line attack, the force gun is a short ranged low damage spreadshot attack.

Frankly I disagree with your assessment of these weapons being weak, in short.

They all have their uses.