Aside from destroying MT's, what is the purpose of Machine Guns?

[Karak Sonen]

Low damage, low magazine size so they constantly need to reload and can't even sustain their damage all that well and rather short range where if you get a bit closer you might as well use a shotgun or a bazooka. As for MT's, Missiles and melee usually do the job just as well.

Am i missing something here, or what use do these weapons have?
And i don't mean the Gatling. I mean the starting assaullt rifle, or that SMG you get from training.

[REhorror]

It's just a trash starter weapon, which is weird because you are given the Assault rifle first.

Linear rifle is the best until you get plasma.

[Proper Skux]

It's a mental load thing: A rapid fire gun can keep stagger up with minimal thought.

In theory you could be the giga chad who perfectly balances stagger cooldown to always be hitting it with more effecient weapons but that's unlikely to be true.

[Karak Sonen]

Originally posted by Proper Skux:

It's a mental load thing: A rapid fire gun can keep stagger up with minimal thought.

In theory you could be the giga chad who perfectly balances stagger cooldown to always be hitting it with more effecient weapons but that's unlikely to be true.

It's what i imagined, but on enemy AC's the stagger meter would go down during reloads, so definitely not useful for that purpose.

[Midas]

Dealing with many soft targets and keeping pressure on faster targets.

[ImHelping]

many hits building up can do a good job on energy shields while your pulse gun designed to fight shields sprays around them. They reload faster than waiting on a chaingun cooldown. they weigh less.

You will not be doing "EZ mode stagger!" like people who can't think in any terms of OP or not OP claim. But they sure as ♥♥♥♥ were more useful to me on Balteus than pulse guns! (the twin laser cannons, also probably helped).

Rifles are better for sweeping a level of fodder from safer distances. But enemies that know how to dodge love evading rifle fire a lot "Please stop dodging my linear rifle. oh my god I am not even stopping to use charged shots."

[sudebu]

Originally posted by Karak Sonen:

Low damage, low magazine size so they constantly need to reload and can't even sustain their damage all that well and rather short range where if you get a bit closer you might as well use a shotgun or a bazooka. As for MT's, Missiles and melee usually do the job just as well.

Am i missing something here, or what use do these weapons have?
And i don't mean the Gatling. I mean the starting assaullt rifle, or that SMG you get from training.

both are good for building stagger/eating shields, especially when dual wielding.
os tune to turn on weapon hangers and you can swap for blade and something else heavy once enemy is staggered, shield is down, etc.