Why does everyone prefer the stingray?

[Dank Sidious]

Granted I'm not out of the castle yet (just began chapter 9)

But so far I have never felt like, man stingray would have saved me here instead of the bolt action.

Bolt action is cheaper to upgrade, and more ammo efficient. It also gives you 31.8 damage to weak points it is also far cheaper to have at full power than stingray is even without exclusives.

[ice]

Originally posted by Draescan:

Because of the iron maiden's bugged hitbox on the head parasite.

that is an ez shot what are you talking about

[Uzi Master]

Originally posted by (N☆G) Jackal ★JJ★:

I disagree there.
The original bolt action was also even stronger than it is here.

It still fills the same role here as it did in the original.
- A big target killer -

The semi auto is by no means bad but it will waste a lot of ammo doing what the rifle can do. The difference was never small, if you are using it for crowd crowd or to rapidly dispatch regens yeah it's better but if you are using it to kill chainsaws, el gigante, garradors, or jj then the bolt action will save more ammo by far.

Hell, in the remake on professional salazar only took 10 bolt action rifle shots allowing me to save the rare as hell and expensive to craft magnum rounds for saddler and verdugo.

Not like running out of rifle ammo was a serious concern though, and semi-auto was much better for stun-locking or not getting hit against those mini-bosses. (Also chainsaw ganado had a weird max-damage mechanic; they couldn't take more than 8 or so damage per shot)

[Dou B Jin]

Personally I love bolt action's look but every time you shoot with it you are taken out of your aim for a second to load up another shot.

Regenerators are more or less why I use it. If I had the choice of putting bioscope on my punisher I would.

[Ronin Gamer]

Stingray once it's fully upgraded has stupid fast fire rate. For a long range weapon that's pretty great.

[AgentFlea]

Bolt action all the way.

Sometimes I take off the scope and use it as a mini-magnum to kill plagas and kill heavies quickly.

[Peelsepuuppi]

Originally posted by Ronin Gamer:

Stingray once it's fully upgraded has stupid fast fire rate. For a long range weapon that's pretty great.

If we are talking fully upgraded then stingray loses to the CQBR in every way. CQBR with it's exclusive does more damage than stingray and is naturally faster than stingray before any upgrades due to being full auto. And while it's full auto it's actually pretty easy to just one tap for a single shot, so you don't have to spray all your ammo if you don't want to.

Stingray is IMO better if you don't intend to get an exclusive upgrade for your rifle, but again when talking fully upgraded then stingray is the worst Rifle as it has no unique advantage over either of the other two rifles. Bolt action has over double the fire power which with 3X weakspot multiplier is a massive difference and CQBR is just better overall than stingray.

[ModernSamurai]

The bolt-action SR M1903 is the best one for me. Smaller size and better damage per shot. It lacks in other areas but for me that's all that matters. It's more ammo efficient this way. Also, without the scope, it looks and feels cool as hell to shoot it.

[Plank]

Honestly, I just like it. Never saw that rifle in a game before RE4, and haven't again until now. It is sadly rather nerfed compared to OG, as are a number of weapons. Even with firepower upgrades the Stingray won't always one shot decap, especially through shields which was one of it's primary uses for me in OG.

I hate to admit it but the bolt action is just plain better. You couldn't upgrade the fire rate before, it takes up half the space and the semi auto was way more powerful than it is now. But I'll always switch to the Stingray because it was/is one of my favourite weapons.

[Zero Hour 17]

Because that second where he's pulling the bolt back is ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ annoying and I'd gladly do less damage to not have that.

[Peelsepuuppi]

Originally posted by Zero Hour 17:

Because that second where he's pulling the bolt back is ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ annoying and I'd gladly do less damage to not have that.

I don't know why but I find the bolt action part of bolt-action rifles really satisfying. Just somehow makes the weapon feel even more powerful every shot takes manual action like that. Admittedly that's purely aesthetic.

[Arndell]

They are too different to really compare so directly.

They both use rifle ammo, so of course you must pick, but it depends if you want to use your rifle for tough standard enemies and mob groups, Bullheads, Salvador, and standard enemy hordes.
In this case the Stingray is just objectively "better" for that scenario, the extra damage per bullet of the bolt action is just overkill on those things, so going for rate of fire and clip size is better.

However, you can treat the bolt action as a kind of "budget magnum" as someone said earlier they killed Salazar on pro in 10 bolt action rifle shots. and even though that extra damage I overkill for standard enemies, 1 bullet is still 1 bullet, so it makes no difference when it comes to ammo use.



Im using the stingray atm just to see how it feels but i was actually trying for a hard mode run, I would probably pick the bolt action and just count on a handgun / sub machine gun for standard groups.

So I guess my vote goes for bolt action, but it's not a complete black and white choice where one is the obvious winner for all scenarios.

[Peelsepuuppi]

Originally posted by Arndell:

They are too different to really compare so directly.

They both use rifle ammo, so of course you must pick, but it depends if you want to use your rifle for tough standard enemies and mob groups, Bullheads, Salvador, and standard enemy hordes.
In this case the Stingray is just objectively "better" for that scenario, the extra damage per bullet of the bolt action is just overkill on those things, so going for rate of fire and clip size is better.

However, you can treat the bolt action as a kind of "budget magnum" as someone said earlier they killed Salazar on pro in 10 bolt action rifle shots. and even though that extra damage I overkill for standard enemies, 1 bullet is still 1 bullet, so it makes no difference when it comes to ammo use.



Im using the stingray atm just to see how it feels but i was actually trying for a hard mode run, I would probably pick the bolt action and just count on a handgun / sub machine gun for standard groups.

So I guess my vote goes for bolt action, but it's not a complete black and white choice where one is the obvious winner for all scenarios.

I use the rifle as plaga clearer when I don't want to use a flashbang and Stingray even at full power doesn't always kill a plaga head in one shot. At full power BAR doesn't have such issues.