Tactical Weapons

[Western Star]

Any Tactical experts out there, what are your top weapon choices for Lethal?

Started playing this Class and only maxed the regular Bolt Rifle so far. Working on the Auto Bolt Rifle next because I heard it got a good buff to damage.

[Chaos]

Heavy bolter is fun and effective, one of the few fun bolter weapon actually.
Then Stalker Bolter is also fairly effective if you want to be a "made in china" sniper.

But if you just want the BEST then GL (Bolt rifle with grenade launcher) and Melta are your strongest options.

Also someone swear by the plasma rifle but I didn't really click with it much, it does have good damage tho so check it out if you have time.

Everything else is still fairly meh.

As for my lethal pick, it's either Heavy bolter, GL or Melta.

[Sergalius]

lmao
tactical with bolters
just lmao

[Sloths]

Originally posted by Sergalius:

lmao
tactical with bolters
just lmao

You have tried the bolt rifle with grenade launcher right? It's probably the most powerful option tactical has for lethal. That with the perk unlimited grenades.

[XIII]

With the buff boltgun are not so bad compared to before. But, they just do the job. And it still orient us all to the grenade launcher on T4-5. Still need a little buff again to have an effective boltgun (coz they still useless vs majoris and +)
I would like to be free about the arsenal solutions in t4-5 for tactical but atm it s not possible. Also, since last heavy update, plasma gun is useless.

[Goat]

If you are like me, you will get bored to death of the grenade launcher and melta rifle very quickly and won't want to use them, if that is ever the case then I definitely recommend Stalker Bolt Rifle & the Plasma Incinerator.

Also, the Bolt Carbine Marksman variant is also pretty solid and fun to use. Just land those headshots.

Regular Bolt Rifle is also fairly decent.

[Silverquick]

Generally I play either Plasma or Melta depending on which situation is needed.

Plasma for longer range charged shots on Majoris, Melta for short range horde control.

[L O]

Striker bolt, or Plasma. Melta if or when needed. (the end of inferno etc)

Playing with Bolt Carbine Marksman at the moment fun to use. (not on lethal tho..yet)

[XIII]

Originally posted by Goat:

If you are like me, you will get bored to death of the grenade launcher and melta rifle very quickly and won't want to use them, if that is ever the case then I definitely recommend Stalker Bolt Rifle & the Plasma Incinerator.

Also, the Bolt Carbine Marksman variant is also pretty solid and fun to use. Just land those headshots.

Regular Bolt Rifle is also fairly decent.

I am bored to death about powerfull AE system when single targets are broken, would like to see single targets more powerfull and team kill option when you set up your map to stop stupid ae spam and develop teamplay in a new difficult way.

[A Mongoose]

Grenade Launcher.

There is no other choice. If you're on Lethal and you have anything other than the Grenade Launcher as a Tactical, you are actively griefing your team.

Went through each mission on Lethal once with the GL, got my cosmetics, and promptly returned to Ruthless where other weapons are actually viable.

[uSIHitMan]

Originally posted by Sloths:

Originally posted by Sergalius:

lmao
tactical with bolters
just lmao

You have tried the bolt rifle with grenade launcher right? It's probably the most powerful option tactical has for lethal. That with the perk unlimited grenades.

Its the nades what makes it good. Without its just garbage

[Raven]

I went through all missions with the melta rifle. still a good weapon. the bolt rifle with grenade launcher is better though.

[Zacharius Sneed]

use the bolt rifle with grenade launcher, you can delete extremis enemy spams with scan+GL firing. Make sure you look out for weapon caches and ammo boxes (small ones) to reload the GL, don't bypass the weapon cache pods if you find them, they'll reload GLs reselecting the loadout.

[DanaramaPyjama]

Personally I like heavy bolt rifle and standard bolt rifle.

If you want to annoy everyone you're playing with, use the GL equipped standard bolt rifle.

In regards to the plasma incinerator, I leveled it to purple but it's just not for me. I'm not a fan of charging shots. But it's definitely worth a try if you can get passed that.

[Lord Cornelius Orion IV]

Originally posted by Sergalius:

lmao
tactical with bolters
just lmao

I have completed every operation on lethal. It was with my tactical and heavy bolter set up.

[Roan Shiran]

Melta and GL if you want baby care mode.
Marksman, Plasma, Stalker if you are big boi.
The rest if you really want a challenge.