Useless perks (and weapons)

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I love this game but holy hell wtf is with the useless perks? When I level up, sometimes i get 4 useless perks, but sometimes its worse... sometimes i get 4 HARMFUL perks. Whatever I choose can hurt me. Why have level up perks that can ♥♥♥♥ you up?

crappiest perks ever

Like...
Fatal Lottery... only 50k points for 50% chance of dying?? no thanks. That's a waste.

Highlander... 5% chance of insta dying from a hit... that's pretty pointless if the FIRST HIT kills you

Living Fortress Why have perks that encourage you to stand still?? Standing still = death


Stationary loader This one sucks because it's broken. It's supposed to sometimes freeze nearby enemies but when you stand still, your bullets/rockets hit an invisible frozen object so it's broken and sucks because it makes you stand still


FIRE COUGH ARE YOU KIDDING ME??? WTF DOES THIS DO??? 1 ♥♥♥♥ing fire bullet every 5 seconds? Wooo! It's so useful I almost forget I have it (IF I have to use it)


DEATH CLOCK AKA THE ♥♥♥♥ING ANTI PERK How is this a perk? This is like getting a bag of ♥♥♥♥ for christmas. Yay I leveled up! I survived and worked hard to get to this level! Now here's a perk that guarantees you die in 30 seconds


Ammunition within Even Stevie Wonder can see how harmful this perk is


Regression bullets Not helpful in survival/blitz when you're trying to get score


Final Revenge absolutely pointless. Might as well have an empty ♥♥♥♥ing space for a perk.


Grim Deal Why do these perks want to kill me so ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ bad?


Jinxed Yeah.. someone jinxed me and is forcing me to have USELESS perks. Wtf does this even do?


Perk master and expert What's the point of seeing 6 perks if I can choose one? Yeah yeah I know... less chance to get a CRAPPY perk.. and a lower level cap.. but still. Poopy

I WILL SAY THAT THE LATEST UPDATE REALLY BUFFED UP ALMOST ALL OF THE PERKS. A lot of them are sooo badass now. I love the new Pyromaniac. Its hilariously badass. The new Reflex perks are really cool too! Fastshot is actually useful now. Stacking Lean Mean XP machine is awesome.

Now for the best perks...

Health regen Awesome


My Favorite Weapon I love getting an Ion Cannon or Plasma shotgun and then seeing this perk come up. It's my favorite feeling in the game


Poison bullets ION + POISON = NO MORE SPIDEROIDS


Ion gun master Ion is the best


Infernal contract getting 3 perks for some health? Hell yeah. I get this everytime


LUCKY Lucky is THE MOST IMPORTANT PERK of ALL TIME. When I get it, I know I'll make atleast a million points... depending on my gun.


Dodger and Ninja Just good perks


Telekenisis This is pretty OP. It's VERY VERY OP with Lucky >:). I only get this when I have my favorite weapon because I ♥♥♥♥in hate when I have an Ion Cannon or something, kill some alien, and then my mouse automatically picks up some ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ BLOW TORCH1!! >:(


Speaking of which...

CRAPPIEST GUNS

Blow torch + any fire weapon ever Killing a monster point blank and having it drop a blow torch, forcing you to pick it up, is like getting back your AIDs results coming back positive. I ♥♥♥♥in hate this "gun".


Anything that shoots bullets I know there needs to be bad guns in this game, and these aren't TERRIBLE... they're just weak. Assault rifle is the worst. Submachine gun is pretty bad... fast reload tho. Shotguns are all poopy. Sawed off + fire bullets tho... that's OP.


Plasma rifle Wtf? Lol. This is just a rubber band gun.


Normal gauss gun Gauss guns always sucked in the old version. In this new Steam version, they added the gauss minigun and gauss shotgun. They both were SO awesome but i hated the gauss minigun because it only had 8... erm... guasses.. in a magazine. And the reload was ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥. Now its at 24, thus making it probably the best gun in the game. Gauss shotgun is ok. Gauss gun, however, is pointless compared to these guns.


Blade + splitter gun They're very very strong but their reloads are soooo long and the blade gun's blades are super tiny.

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Death Clock is extremely useful if you are about to be killed. However, you rarely can time it right, since you need to get the perk the exact moment when you are about to die. It was more useful in the classic Crimsonland where you could "stock up" on perks, use them later in the game.

Grim Deal was the same.

Final Revenge is okay, but definitely one of those "least worst" picks. Also the final explosion is very anticlimatic.

Fatal Lottery should indeed get a boost.

Highlander is pretty good if you combine it with Dodger and Ninja. If you are lucky, you can run around for very long without getting killed.

Regression Bullets is another late-game perk. In late game you cannot afford to stop reloading. Although with fast-firing weapons, it eats up your score too fast.

Ammunition Within worked better when it did the same as Regression IMO. You could offset it with regeneration, if you had Highlander then health counted as a secondary ammo pool. And when paired with a shield, it didn't drain health. But that has been changed to the crap slow firebullets (not as good as nonstop Plasma Cannon or Splitter gun barrage).

Jinxed randomly poisons, freezes, or kills some enemies. It can kill enemies in late game when your gun cannot touch them, allowing you to still spawn powerups (I agree that this use is marginal, but getting free random kills is good). It isn't that great, but supposedly got more hidden effects now.

Perk Expert and Master are super important, since it lowers your chances of getting useless perks. I think it should lower the perk cap a bit more though, since you do waste 1-2 perks on this.

Living Fortress was more useful before, since you also had more perks that encouraged standing still. In the classic Crimsonlend, you could combine Living Fortress, Angry Reloader, Man Bomb (used to spawn 8 ion shots if you stood still for a while), mr. melee, dodger, regen, Stationary Reloader, Fast Reload, Hot Temper, and telekinetic. Then get a uzi, and you were spawn nonstop shower of plasma rain, while being nearly untouchable. You could make it to the endgame like that. It was a powerful tactic.
In the current game, it used to give you 3x reload, which made some weapons like Plasma Cannon and Rocket Swarmer become super powerful in both early and late game.


Blow Torch is actually one of the better weapons. It does killer damage, has gigantic ammo clip, and low reloads.

Bullet weapons all suck, except the Minigun. Give it Uranium bullets, fastshot, and Bullet Greaser, and it can clear the screen completely on one reload.

Plasma Rifle is easily the worst gun in the game, I agree.

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Stationary loader, combined with some of the guns that fire and reload very quickly (mini rocket swarmers especially, with some work pulse gun) and a few well matched perks, can be quite awesome.

Stationary loader's freeze works whether you stand still or not. When the gun reloads and fires very quickly, you get enough cycles of freeze chances to pretty much get a ring of ice around you - moving or not.

With MRS, I try to combine fast loading, angry reloader, fire faster, and everything that gives me more bullets in the clip, plus radioactive. With pulse gun everything possible to increase damage as well as fast loading, angry reloader, and fire faster, plus radioactive.

With this sort of weapon and perk loadout, you actively avoid the pickups that prevent reloading; you score well through using that freeze. Stand still when convenient; move when you have a reason to move.