Whats your overall consensus best weapon?

[The Law]

imo its gotta be the m1000 classic. ♥♥♥♥ is just an absolute MONSTER, especially when you overclock to the thick boy bullet.

I also like the plasma weapon from scout level 21 but definitely a second place.

[Yasahi]

Depends on the class.

In general, M1000, Thunderhead, Cryo grenades and Warthog can all be beasts that carry you pretty much regardless of other weapons. Especially on lower Hazards.

Case in point, Cryo grenades on Haz5. Demolitionist Engineer has great synergy with grenades due to the class bonuses.

Picking up +Explosion Damage and +Explosion Radius make it into a beast. For the overclocks I had +30% Blast Radius, splitting into three and then the final one that pulls enemies into the blast.

I killed the Dreadnought by standing in a corner and just dodging in that small area. All the other enemies would freeze and die on the outskirts of the blasts, keeping the floor clean for me and my oversized dance partner Mr. Dready.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3168216314

[JustSmile]

In terms of damage output, Autocannon is unrivaled. Absurd DPS, knockback, pierces a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥, even does aoe. M1000 is close second.

For CC, Thumpers will let you go infinite if you manage to bug out the final boss and dodge all projectiles. Nothing will get close. Otherwise cryo grenades in second place.

[The Law]

interesting! Ive only really played scout, since i hate having to use the weapons for the other starters, machine gun thing is boring also dislike the ass gun. perhaps ill level engineer next though.

[Defektiv]

Plasma Carbine I think. I have burned a lot of gold making sure I get it in my Scout builds and wish I could just start with it.

[Flying Mage]

I'm trying to figure out my tier list, but it is very much work in progress. I didn't even unlocked some weapons yet.
https://tiermaker.com/list/video-games/deep-rock-galactic-survivor-drgs-weapons-15449369/3747747

[gumbogogo]

I'm a big fan of the TH-OR taser. I think it's the only good beam weapon, though

[PastLow]

I would argue that weapon combinations are a better point of comparison than individual weapons, because there are unique stats that only show up when you stack multiple of the same weapon type. Explosive radius for example is a game changer for grenades, it makes a single grenade fill up half the screen if you stack it. The same with construct duration for turrets.

[Hailspork]

FWIW, the highest DPS is the Lead Storm minigum (178), then Stubby Voltaic SMG (168), Thunderhead Autocannon (154), Subata (148), and Deepcore GK2 (100).
This only takes into account listed stats. So some guns with piercing, cones, good OCs, status effects, aoe, and beams with vague timing between ticks may be better than calculated.

[PastLow]

Originally posted by Hailspork:

FWIW, the highest DPS is the Lead Storm minigum (178), then Stubby Voltaic SMG (168), Thunderhead Autocannon (154), Subata (148), and Deepcore GK2 (100).
This only takes into account listed stats. So some guns with piercing, cones, good OCs, status effects, aoe, and beams with vague timing between ticks may be better than calculated.

Don't forget targeting type. Forward shooting weapons like the minigun lose a lot of dps since you spend 90% of the game either mining or running away.

[Metro]

Granted I'm still working on Haz 4 (level a 55 recon Scout) but the M1 and Nishanka are miles ahead of the Plasma Rifle (or anything else for the Scout, really).

[JustSmile]

What I tried of plasma carbine was pathetic. Tried to focus it on my recent H4 bough, got it to 19, by the time I died of not enough damage it had 1.2k DPS when the autocannon I barely got to 6 in the third slot was at 7.2k.

[Perplex]

Anything that is not an explosive. Explosives do way too little single target damage. Doing a full explosive run is almost impossible as the bosses just never dies.

The 3d Gunner starting weapon (don't know the name of any of the weapons yet) is probably the most powerful even if i had a boss on Hazard 4 die within 2-3s of spawning with a Turret build.

[Perplex]

Originally posted by PastLow:

Originally posted by Hailspork:

FWIW, the highest DPS is the Lead Storm minigum (178), then Stubby Voltaic SMG (168), Thunderhead Autocannon (154), Subata (148), and Deepcore GK2 (100).
This only takes into account listed stats. So some guns with piercing, cones, good OCs, status effects, aoe, and beams with vague timing between ticks may be better than calculated.

Don't forget targeting type. Forward shooting weapons like the minigun lose a lot of dps since you spend 90% of the game either mining or running away.

But it is amazing to actually kite with as it just clears the path to where you are going. I like the minigun as a 3d weapon for that reason.

[Hailspork]

Originally posted by PastLow:

Originally posted by Hailspork:

FWIW, the highest DPS is the Lead Storm minigum (178), then Stubby Voltaic SMG (168), Thunderhead Autocannon (154), Subata (148), and Deepcore GK2 (100).
This only takes into account listed stats. So some guns with piercing, cones, good OCs, status effects, aoe, and beams with vague timing between ticks may be better than calculated.

Don't forget targeting type. Forward shooting weapons like the minigun lose a lot of dps since you spend 90% of the game either mining or running away.

Yes, there are lots of reasons that the raw DPS numbers aren't reliable. They should be used to inform ratings, not dictate them.
For example LOK-I gun seems to have an extra lock-timer that makes its dps crap.

[tikiman572]

I do like the Leadburster Grenades. Overclocking them to turn them into a cluster of three and giving them piercing? Holy MOLY do they shred.