Pulse rifle needs to be buff

[Sprawl]

My fav weapon in dead space is pulse rifle. But the damage of pulse rifle is tooooo weak in ds remake. tbh, this is the weakest weapon in ds remake. pls buff pulse rifle's damage.

[Khanjima]

Max modifications and the thing packs a wallop

[Ghostvenger92]

only you can buff it with finding all its upgrades and leveling it up with nodes

[Knarral]

The pulse rifle is pretty much strictly better than the plasma cutter at full upgrades. It's more efficient per ammo pickup and higher DPS due to the higher fire rate and the projectile is larger than the plasma cutter's so it's more likely to hit what you want it to, and it's more versatile due to the secondary fire grenade launcher. It's just super wimpy early on, but balanced by the fact that you get a bunch of capacity upgrades and capacity upgrades refill the ammo in the gun, so really I see them as pretty balanced. Once you get all of the upgrades before unlocking any of the special upgrade paths, the pulse rifle and the plasma cutter are pretty even, and beyond that the pulse rifle just scales better.

[Nangi]

Originally posted by Knarral:

The pulse rifle is pretty much strictly better than the plasma cutter at full upgrades. It's more efficient per ammo pickup and higher DPS due to the higher fire rate and the projectile is larger than the plasma cutter's so it's more likely to hit what you want it to, and it's more versatile due to the secondary fire grenade launcher. It's just super wimpy early on, but balanced by the fact that you get a bunch of capacity upgrades and capacity upgrades refill the ammo in the gun, so really I see them as pretty balanced. Once you get all of the upgrades before unlocking any of the special upgrade paths, the pulse rifle and the plasma cutter are pretty even, and beyond that the pulse rifle just scales better.

Dude... no.

Even at max upgrade, the plasma cutter always kills necromorphs faster, even if it's very slightly. There will never be any weapon more OP in the franchise than the Plasma Cutter lol.

[Watermelons]

Originally posted by Nangi:

There will never be any weapon more OP in the franchise than the Plasma Cutter lol.

Dead Space 3 and the Telemetry Spike Railgun would like a word with you. Seriously tho, the Plasma Cutter, even the Planet Cracker tip, is underwhelming in that game unfortunately.

[V I D A L]

Not at all. Pulse rifle is great. It needs some upgrades, but it was one of my mail weapons in my Impossible playthrough.

[Nangi]

Originally posted by Something about Watermelons:

Originally posted by Nangi:

There will never be any weapon more OP in the franchise than the Plasma Cutter lol.

Dead Space 3 and the Telemetry Spike Railgun would like a word with you. Seriously tho, the Plasma Cutter, even the Planet Cracker tip, is underwhelming in that game unfortunately.

Dead Space 3? what is that? is it edible?

[Player Zer01]

Originally posted by Knarral:

The pulse rifle is pretty much strictly better than the plasma cutter at full upgrades. It's more efficient per ammo pickup and higher DPS due to the higher fire rate and the projectile is larger than the plasma cutter's so it's more likely to hit what you want it to, and it's more versatile due to the secondary fire grenade launcher. It's just super wimpy early on, but balanced by the fact that you get a bunch of capacity upgrades and capacity upgrades refill the ammo in the gun, so really I see them as pretty balanced. Once you get all of the upgrades before unlocking any of the special upgrade paths, the pulse rifle and the plasma cutter are pretty even, and beyond that the pulse rifle just scales better.

this is beyond false. the pulse rifle maxed literally takes a great deal of ammo to bring down necros even on normal. the cutter 2 shots nearly everything at max. there is a reason the cutter is king as OP weapon in the series. the only gun in this game that outshines it is the handcannon.

[Watermelons]

Originally posted by Nangi:

Originally posted by Something about Watermelons:

Dead Space 3 and the Telemetry Spike Railgun would like a word with you. Seriously tho, the Plasma Cutter, even the Planet Cracker tip, is underwhelming in that game unfortunately.

Dead Space 3? what is that? is it edible?

Was a little hard to chew in some places, yeah. Pretty edible though.

[Herp McDerperson]

Originally posted by Something about Watermelons:

Originally posted by Nangi:

Dead Space 3? what is that? is it edible?

Was a little hard to chew in some places, yeah. Pretty edible though.

... is it tho?

[Watermelons]

Originally posted by Herp McDerperson:

Originally posted by Something about Watermelons:

Was a little hard to chew in some places, yeah. Pretty edible though.

... is it tho?

Yes. Did you play it and develop your own opinion on it? I did. It's edible. Flaws and good stuff about it either direction.

[Explodium]

Combine it with the flamethrower and you've got yourself an insanely ammo efficient duo.

[mello]

Originally posted by Knarral:

The pulse rifle is pretty much strictly better than the plasma cutter at full upgrades. It's more efficient per ammo pickup and higher DPS due to the higher fire rate and the projectile is larger than the plasma cutter's so it's more likely to hit what you want it to, and it's more versatile due to the secondary fire grenade launcher. It's just super wimpy early on, but balanced by the fact that you get a bunch of capacity upgrades and capacity upgrades refill the ammo in the gun, so really I see them as pretty balanced. Once you get all of the upgrades before unlocking any of the special upgrade paths, the pulse rifle and the plasma cutter are pretty even, and beyond that the pulse rifle just scales better.

If you say so... sounds like I need to revisit the Pulse Rifle again, perhaps do a full playthrough with just it next to see how it really is vs the Plasma Cutter.

[Knarral]

Originally posted by Player Zer01:

Originally posted by Knarral:

The pulse rifle is pretty much strictly better than the plasma cutter at full upgrades. It's more efficient per ammo pickup and higher DPS due to the higher fire rate and the projectile is larger than the plasma cutter's so it's more likely to hit what you want it to, and it's more versatile due to the secondary fire grenade launcher. It's just super wimpy early on, but balanced by the fact that you get a bunch of capacity upgrades and capacity upgrades refill the ammo in the gun, so really I see them as pretty balanced. Once you get all of the upgrades before unlocking any of the special upgrade paths, the pulse rifle and the plasma cutter are pretty even, and beyond that the pulse rifle just scales better.

this is beyond false. the pulse rifle maxed literally takes a great deal of ammo to bring down necros even on normal. the cutter 2 shots nearly everything at max. there is a reason the cutter is king as OP weapon in the series. the only gun in this game that outshines it is the handcannon.

Really? 2 shots to kill the green necromorphs? Does it really? Or is it more like 6, perhaps more if you miss? See, the thing with the pulse rifle is that, if you do the math, the ammo pickups of the pulse rifle contain about 150% the damage potential of the plasma cutter, that's just the raw numbers, then also the pulse rifle can burn 25 rounds for a grenade that guaranteed stuns an entire area and also does a large amount of damage in that area.

Either way, both are inferior on their own to the flamethrower/force gun + literally any other weapon combo. The flamethrower is the most ammo efficient weapon in the game, especially if you combo it with a pulse rifle or plasma cutter. With a single tank (granted, fully upgraded) in NG+ on hard I used the flamethrower + force gun/pulse rifle/line gun (whatever I happened to feel best fit the situation), I literally did not need to reload the flamethrower at all until chapter 3, while only using a single shot (or small burst from the pulse rifle) from my combo'd gun to kill every enemy (though I did save ammo when possible with kinesis).

Originally posted by mello:

Originally posted by Knarral:

The pulse rifle is pretty much strictly better than the plasma cutter at full upgrades. It's more efficient per ammo pickup and higher DPS due to the higher fire rate and the projectile is larger than the plasma cutter's so it's more likely to hit what you want it to, and it's more versatile due to the secondary fire grenade launcher. It's just super wimpy early on, but balanced by the fact that you get a bunch of capacity upgrades and capacity upgrades refill the ammo in the gun, so really I see them as pretty balanced. Once you get all of the upgrades before unlocking any of the special upgrade paths, the pulse rifle and the plasma cutter are pretty even, and beyond that the pulse rifle just scales better.

If you say so... sounds like I need to revisit the Pulse Rifle again, perhaps do a full playthrough with just it next to see how it really is vs the Plasma Cutter.

The pulse rifle is super wimpy at the start, which I imagine is likely why people think it's bad. It scales really hard, though. There's also an exploit that lets you get infinite ammo with the pulse rifle where you fire mines at the floor, pick them back up, upgrade pulse rifle capacity, fire mines at the floor (since the gun's magazine was filled when you upgraded capacity), pick them back up, repeat until out of capacity upgrades, then reset the nodes and repeat as much as you like. After the 4th capacity upgrade (I think), you're credit positive, in that you can sell the ammo you generate for more credits than it costs to reset, and after the 7th or 8th, you're more getting back more than triple what you spent to reset.