How to use Husk Cannon most efficiently?

[Revalopod]

It's my favourite weapon ever, so I'd like it if some pros could tell me how to make it is as good as possible.

First thing: Is it best to use it as demo or firebug?
2nd: What skills?
3rd: what other guns?

thanks :)

[Leon]

i tried it today, out of 70 shots, 50 missed xd i died. never again :P

if they fix it or not, im sticking with MWG :D

Best and safe for firebug. good on demo but wont be safe point blank.

for demo, full left skills all the time any weapon.

for firebug i use LRLLL sometimes LRLLR

[Revalopod]

Originally posted by Leon:

i tried it today, out of 70 shots, 50 missed xd i died. never again :P

if they fix it or not, im sticking with MWG :D

Best and safe for firebug. good on demo but wont be safe point blank.

for demo, full left skills all the time any weapon.

for firebug i use LRLLL sometimes LRLLR

thanks :)

[JimmyIowa]

Originally posted by Revalopod:

It's my favourite weapon ever, so I'd like it if some pros could tell me how to make it is as good as possible.

It works well on survivalist also with his explosives skill. Not as good as FB but still incredibly powerful. You have wide open leeway for choice of secondary weapons, because Husk Cannon pretty much does it all - big zeds, trash mobs, enough ammo to clear 2 or 3 waves. So pick whatever other weapon is fun.

[Revalopod]

Originally posted by JimmyIowa:

Originally posted by Revalopod:

It's my favourite weapon ever, so I'd like it if some pros could tell me how to make it is as good as possible.

It works well on survivalist also with his explosives skill. Not as good as FB but still incredibly powerful. You have wide open leeway for choice of secondary weapons, because Husk Cannon pretty much does it all - big zeds, trash mobs, enough ammo to clear 2 or 3 waves. So pick whatever other weapon is fun.

The only thing it can't get is a screaming siren !

[Ant Ra]

Best class is Firebug because of fire resistance. Melee with husk cannon no problems left even the loaded splash shot. Use it like a sniper use his rifle chasing a moving target, lead ...
You can aim for the head (default right mouse button) and body but ground shots are
usuable too.

[Fumo Bnnuy n Frends]

Originally posted by Revalopod:

It's my favourite weapon ever, so I'd like it if some pros could tell me how to make it is as good as possible.

First thing: Is it best to use it as demo or firebug?
2nd: What skills?
3rd: what other guns?

thanks :)

both are good but demo requires distance while firebug you can take about 20 shots before taking substantial damage at close range, even more so since demo boosts the explosive radius and power while firebug only boosts the fire and at lvl 25 you get 100% immunity to fire but not explosives
2 as demo all L as firebug all L too since it does more damage on contact than the blast radius
3 depends
as demo the c4 and hx25 are good for being a good versatile damage dealer and defense
or
m79 for dealing with hoardes
as firebug
flamethrower is a good 2nd weapon to have to clear hoardes and using the husk as your weapon for big zeds mostly, or gorefiends that block flamethower damage
mac-10 and dual flare revolvers are good for not need ammo ever
and
the CnB plus another extra weapon are good too

you're better off spamming than fully charging it since you do more dps and use less ammo with the unchraged than the charged (takes about 5 to charge fully then release dealing what was it like 1000 damage vs 250 per shot)

[HiTmAn]

all skills on left and use m1 most of time on big zeds i use first charged shot then spam m1 also mac perform best with all skills on left

[Revalopod]

Originally posted by HiTmAn:

all skills on left and use m1 most of time on big zeds i use first charged shot then spam m1 also mac perform best with all skills on left

alright thanks!

[FUBAR]

Charged shot =dead firebug.Spammy spammy= dead fleshpound gang.

[Revalopod]

Originally posted by noob:

Charged shot =dead firebug.Spammy spammy= dead fleshpound gang.

alright, so it's not worth charging? just full spray with my autoclick macro? cus that's what ive been doin :D

[Cathulhu]

Nope, not worth it as an uncharged shot is more efficient and deals more damage compared to the charged shot if you take ammo consumption into account.
4 shots = more damage than 1 charged shot.

So, just spam it.

[B Dawg]

Originally posted by Leon:

i tried it today, out of 70 shots, 50 missed xd i died. never again :P

if they fix it or not, im sticking with MWG :D

I guess that's why you use sissy flamethrowers, you can't aim XD

- Best on Firebug
- All Left Skills (Level 15 Right if you're holding tight chokepoints)
- On Solo/2 Player, carry a Mac-10 alongside it for Scrakes, with 3+ players, Dual Spitfires. On Boss Wave, use the empty 4 slots for a Double Barrel so that you can kite Hans/King Fleshpound if they decide to target you.

- Never charge shots, unless you're fighting a boss and want to apply highest possible Fire DoT.

[Leon]

Originally posted by B Dawg:

Originally posted by Leon:

i tried it today, out of 70 shots, 50 missed xd i died. never again :P

if they fix it or not, im sticking with MWG :D

I guess that's why you use sissy flamethrowers, you can't aim XD

- Best on Firebug
- All Left Skills (Level 15 Right if you're holding tight chokepoints)
- On Solo/2 Player, carry a Mac-10 alongside it for Scrakes, with 3+ players, Dual Spitfires. On Boss Wave, use the empty 4 slots for a Double Barrel so that you can kite Hans/King Fleshpound if they decide to target you.

- Never charge shots, unless you're fighting a boss and want to apply highest possible Fire DoT.

Oh be4 u judge and assume the miss was from my aim, u could ask what happened, it was the ammo consumption but no actual shots were fired.

People should be able to post on forum only if they bought the game
/s

[Revalopod]

Is this a known bug that the husk cannon shoots and uses ammo but nothing comes out? This happens a lot to me in zed time

[Leon]

Originally posted by Revalopod:

Is this a known bug that the husk cannon shoots and uses ammo but nothing comes out? This happens a lot to me in zed time

Its a bug that isnt fixed yet. Most likely it will be fixed along wuth nerf