Do you use 301 while playing as supporter?

[GullinKambi]

I've been researching own adorable suppoter builds, and I wonder if other supporters use 301. I tried AA12, but it seemed bit week, Doomstick needed such a technique. Do you guys use 301? I think it would be powerful using with M4.

[Lynfinity]

It's not worth it really. If there's no dedicated medic, you can buy medic pistol which costs less and have less weight. Damage is not good too.

AA12, Doomstick and Boomstick are the ones you should use no matter what.

[Lyon-CZ]

Tought choice. Sometimes i take it, when the team is not able to survive, but you sacrifice M4 for example, big damage dealer. Support is a great damage dealer, with 301, you are wasting your strong page, but...

[B Dawg]

Publicado originalmente por ChickenHoodie:

I tried AA12, but it seemed bit week,

- AA12
- weak

Pick one.

[Lyon-CZ]

Publicado originalmente por B Dawg:

Publicado originalmente por ChickenHoodie:

I tried AA12, but it seemed bit week,

- AA12
- weak

Pick one.

Yeah, AA is one of the best guns in the game.

[Littlefoot]

It's ok as a trash clearing weapon to complement the AA-12 or assist the Medic with healing, but not a must-have. You're often better off taking the cheaper Boomstick or equally priced M4 that deals higher raw damage and has super tight spread.

[DrunkBunny94]

The HZ12 pretty much replaced the 301.

The HZ12 is lighter and cheaper and has a larger ammo pool, larger mag and is also mag fed - you can carry a med pistol with it for the same weight as the 301.

The HZ12, T4 boomstick and T4 M4 is a pretty good combo (boomstick and M4 for larges and HZ for trash).

the AA12 is pretty strong though, especially in zed time, although it's kinda eh now since you can't really carry 3 shotguns with it anymore since the boomstick got nerfed to into oblivion

[B Dawg]

Publicado originalmente por DrunkBunny94:

The HZ12 is lighter and cheaper and has a larger ammo pool, larger mag and is also mag fed - you can carry a med pistol with it for the same weight as the 301.

The AA12 is pretty strong though, especially in zed time, although it's kinda eh now since you can't really carry 3 shotguns with it anymore

- 301 is Mag Fed too though;
- AA12 + HZ12 + Boomstick.

[Palumtra]

301 has the same base per pellet damage (20) as the support's starter shotgun, and fires one less pellet. This is obviusly offset by the greater magazine size, faster reload and fire rate. So you get a faster shooting starter shotgun that can also heal for 1100.

Question is: Why would you want to use it? If your team is short of a medic,then play as a medic. If you already have a medic, you don'nt need it.
As mentioned by others, if you really want to contribute some healing as an off perk, pick up the medic pistol.
You are already contributing just by playing as support because your presence mean free ammunition (and armor) which means spared dosh.

M4, AA12 , Double Barrel and Doomstick, they are the bread and butter of the support class, these can deal with everything.

[kFGunTheR]

AA12... weak.. 93hrs played..
Mate, let me tell you that AA12 is one of the most picked late game shotguns on the game since Doomstick is another alt.
As for 301, it is overly shadowed by vanilla support shotguns (dbs, m4, aa12, doomstick) and you're better off carrying a Hmtech 101 Pistol if you want to heal people as a support

[Bullett00th]

When there's no medic I try to always pick up the medic offperk for my class, meaning 401 for Commando, 301 for support and 201 for SWAT.

I used to pick AA12 and 301 for later waves or bosswave to have some healing capability, especially if there's no medic.

Problem is, TWI decided to nerf 301's fire rate for some reason and now it's a joke as a weapon, only ok as a backup, and even then it's a stretch.

[Littlefoot]

Publicado originalmente por Bullett00th:

When there's no medic I try to always pick up the medic offperk for my class, meaning 401 for Commando, 301 for support and 201 for SWAT.

I used to pick AA12 and 301 for later waves or bosswave to have some healing capability, especially if there's no medic.

Problem is, TWI decided to nerf 301's fire rate for some reason and now it's a joke as a weapon, only ok as a backup, and even then it's a stretch.

They reverted that nerf in the halloween update though.

[Bullett00th]

Publicado originalmente por Littlefoot:

Publicado originalmente por Bullett00th:

When there's no medic I try to always pick up the medic offperk for my class, meaning 401 for Commando, 301 for support and 201 for SWAT.

I used to pick AA12 and 301 for later waves or bosswave to have some healing capability, especially if there's no medic.

Problem is, TWI decided to nerf 301's fire rate for some reason and now it's a joke as a weapon, only ok as a backup, and even then it's a stretch.

They reverted that nerf in the halloween update though.

they did? great news, back to using it again!

what the hell is with TWI and these balance tweaks...

[GoroMajima]

if theirs no medic then yes

[Eze]

AA12 is weak, it strong point lies in how fast it fires and how fast you can reload it (cmag reloads all the mag). I personally prefer the current stats M4 shotgun.

[Hazmat☣]

Benelli M4 is my way to go every time, you can easily take down scrakes and you have virtually unlimited shells to shoot.