Why pulse rifle is not good weapon

[Basco]

There is a fatal bug in the pulse rifle's primary fire.
If necromorph is hit by pulse rifle, they don't take damage for 0.2 seconds.

https://youtu.be/KCItpvh0Om4
https://youtu.be/dxK8i_MbYHE

These two videos are comparing for killing two enhanced slashers on hard difficuly.

Automatic fire (holding mouse button down)
= Time taken to kill 12 seconds / 75 ammo used

Fires at 0.2 second intervals (clicking mouse button at 0.2 second intervals with macro program)
= Time taken to kill 11 seconds / 42 ammo used


Since necromorph don't take damage for 0.2 seconds when they got hit, if you shoot faster than 0.2 seconds you use more ammo and deal less damage compared to used ammo.

If dev see this, fix it please.



How to double Pulse Rifle ammo efficiency - Pulse Rifle is completely viable at hard difficulty
https://steamcommunity.com/app/1693980/discussions/0/6208841892246147601/

[Basco]

Originally posted by 󠀡󠀡:

i can hear CEO's laugh at this

Lazy EA

[Hawk Tuah]

wtf

[dgresevfan]

Holy crap, WHAT?!

So the upgrades for fire rate are actually downgrades. Which you'd be forced to take in order to reach the damage upgrades.

[Basco]

Originally posted by dgresevfan:

Holy crap, WHAT?!

So the upgrades for fire rate are actually downgrades. Which you'd be forced to take in order to reach the damage upgrades.

Yes. Upgrading firing rate is completely useless.

[potato]

i only use plasma cutter anyway

[Ant Ra]

And it's precisely because of this bug that the plasma rifle initially seems very capable and as soon as you upgrade it with faster fire everything falls apart.

At first I thought that it had something to do with the rapid fire, that my ammo supplies melted away drastically, until I googled for help and found the bug. So if you want to use them, don't upgrade with rapid fire at all.

For certain enemies, like those monsters with glowing yellow tumors, mobile or stationary - mob or boss, the plasma rifle is still great.

[🪻🧋Sylvie💮🍃]

Never use pulse rifle. It's a not a viable weapon in-game. Hence, Plasma Cutter is a lot better than Pulse Rifle.

[meiam]

Meh, the only reason to use it is for the grenade/mine alt fire, the main fire was always pointless.