best weapon is the cutter

[GW901]

just try it and find out

[The Nameless]

In the early game yeah. Maybe mid-game, if level 20 or so counts as mid. If you put perks in Lasers and Heavy Weapons you can keep it relevant until about then, but it caps off. Other weapons seem to spawn with higher base damages the higher your level is, but the cutter's base damage is always 4, and perks top it off at 7.

With its fire rate, that's some awesome DPS for the early game, but later on, enemies just have too much health for it to keep up.

I plan to change that when the creation kit comes out. lol

[Deamo]

Originally posted by GW901:

just try it and find out

We are sorta forced to at the beginning

[The Nameless]

Originally posted by Deamo:

Originally posted by GW901:

just try it and find out

We are sorta forced to at the beginning

And I think most players already know this come to think of it, unless they absolutely refuse to use it for fighting and only use the pistol you're pointed to when the first pirates come. Which is a much worse weapon than the cutter, but it is a Weapon, so there must be some players that actually use it in that fight.

[Velish]

says a lot for the game doesnt it.

[GW901]

i found a bug with it on very hard and can kill just about any thing with one burst and it very fun

[The Nameless]

Originally posted by GW901:

i found a bug with it on very hard and can kill just about any thing with one burst and it very fun

Only on very hard? What's the bug? How does it work?

[Daywalker]

yes the cutter seems bugged it does only 4dmg on paper but it has a huge ROF so you can nearly instakill even lboss enemies

[The Nameless]

Originally posted by Velish:

says a lot for the game doesnt it.

I guess, if you just knee-jerk your reaction without putting any thought into it.

[HellSlayer]

Its ~70dps with lots of perks but the dps mostly doesnt calculate the right click.. so the dps is probably ~ 150 at best with all perks.. and you get run out of energy. So dont expect to kill lvl 40 pirates... you might kill one barely and run out of energy... higher enemies wont be fun at all.

[The Nameless]

Originally posted by Daywalker:

yes the cutter seems bugged it does only 4dmg on paper but it has a huge ROF so you can nearly instakill even lboss enemies

Well first that's not a bug; it's treated as a fully automatic weapon because it's a continuous beam. The basic Maelstrom weapons the pirates drop have a higher rof with the same base damage, and to say that either one can instakill a boss enemy is simply not true, even if you right-click the cutter.

It *is* very usable and efficient in the early game, but as we've discussed, as enemies are scaled with your level the cutter isn't. It quickly becomes mediocre and by level 30 or so, no matter your build, it will be dangerous to try to use it.

[Mexicola9302]

There are magazines called "Mining Monthly Issue" that further increase the dmg. "Permanently increases tool-grip weapon damage by 2%."
There are 10 of them that means you can add another 20% dmg to all "tool-grip" weapons. I think that "Auto-Rivet" also counts as a "tool-grip" weapon, so you also get more dmg on that. https://starfield.wiki.fextralife.com/Auto-Rivet

And don't forget to use "Hellers Cutter" instead of the regular one. That one does 20% more dmg to robots.

[The Nameless]

Originally posted by Mexicola9302:

There are magazines called "Mining Monthly Issue" that further increase the dmg. "Permanently increases tool-grip weapon damage by 2%."
There are 10 of them that means you can add another 20% dmg to all "tool-grip" weapons. I think that "Auto-Rivet" also counts as a "tool-grip" weapon, so you also get more dmg on that. https://starfield.wiki.fextralife.com/Auto-Rivet

And don't forget to use "Hellers Cutter" instead of the regular one. That one does 20% more dmg to robots.

Even with that boost, and even though I'm still low enough level to keep using the cutter, robots are too tough for the cutter to beat in a short enough time. I do happen to have Heller's cutter but it doesn't matter, because I wind up using a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ on robots. Shotgun? Oh. I made a typo.

More importantly, I didn't notice a difference after I got a copy of miner's monthly, so I'm not sure the cutter counts as a tool-grip weapon. I think that may be only meelee weapons like the hammer and rescue axe.

[BLKCandy]

It fell off quite a lot late game. I'm running level 79. The cutter is still my go to weapon for exploration. But xenofauna are much, much tougher at that level. I could empty a whole charge and not kill one tough alien.

It is still fine against human, the limited range just make them not worth it.

[𝐒𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐤𝐨𝐍]

nope, it's not Dead Space.

[Heu, Iterum Id Feci]

Yeah, wanna see you one shot level 50+ elites from outside their aggro range with a cutter...
I do it regularly with my fully kitted-out sniper doing 350dmg*3.5 sneak damage, not even taking the risk of getting hit back :P