Hunter Weapons rather Underwhelming

[Robert]

I have just started my second play of X2 with hunters and so far, the only new weapon that is useful is the frost bomb
The blaster gun constantly has no ammo and cannot be reloaded, so is useless
The axes do no damage
The pistol misses more often than not

Frost bomb is the only good weapon and i always wish i was able to deploy more than one

The game and Hunters is good, but the weapons are not
Anyone else encountering this problem?

[NotsoevilDM]

Sounds like your install is broken:

Boltcaster is single shot but can be reloaded and has higher chance to hit, does more damage than normal rifle and has low chance to stun.
Axes do same damage as sword and throw axe is a free action (highly useful vs rulers)
Pistol has same damage and to hit as normal pistol plus one time/mission guaranteed hit

[Cahos Rahne Veloza]

Bolt Caster NEEDS to be reloaded after each shot, sucks I know but it has a small chance to stun the Ruler Aliens.

The Axes gives you a FREE move, the axe throw, and FREE moves are especially useful against Rulers as they don't get a move on FREE moves.

The Pistol's Special ability lets your pistol user go into concealment IF it kills his/her target, and attacking while in concealment also grants a "no Ruler move" turn.

Frost nades maybe cool... but they don't do any damage.

[deathmaster snikch]

Why complain about trivial stuff that you can easily change to your liking so easily IMO thats why I love this game and TW:warhammer I just go to game.inis and change what i dont like to my liking /profit

[drake_hound]

Axe are awesome just sadly 1 time use a battle. but that free axe throw is quite good.
He it beats having a sword with no free attack.

The pistol well just use it for the aim bonus stacks with your sniper rifle also good.

Boltcaster is rubbishe :P (my personal opnion. I just love the looks of it)

The freeze bomb is ok. no complaints about that one.

[GramboStorm]

Hunter's Axe - Put this on a RAGE Suit Sword Ranger and you can do an insane action combo in one turn, especially with the help of an Inspire Psi-Op, since RAGE Strike and Axe Throw are both free actions.

Shadowkeeper - Love this weapon, especially since I only ever use Sharpshooters as Pistoleers. The slight damage bonus over normal pistols is pretty cool, but the ability to get a guaranteed hit on a critically-wounded target, not only killing it but also getting concealement from it is awesome.

Boltcaster - Ah, this weapon is a fickle creature that you should pray to for an hour before each time you fire it, otherwise it'll miss even those 90% shots (because you didn't pray to it). If one hour of praying doesn't suffice, sacrifice one rookie per shot, that should work.

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In all seriousness though, give it Talon rounds and it's a high-damage weapon that ignores armour, has an aim bonus and can stun (especially Rulers). GIve it to a specialist with Icarus armour (supposing you can beat that damnable Archon King) and they can instantly fly to the high ground and get a near-guaranteed shot.

And don't forget the sacrifices...

Frost Bomb - Not the most spectacular weapon ever, but it's nice if the Bolt Caster fails to stun a Ruler, if it even hits (why didn't you sacrifice a rookie?!). Just remember that Sectopods and Gatekeepers only loose one action when frozen.

[Foxador]

Originally posted by Burst Fire:

Why complain about trivial stuff that you can easily change to your liking so easily IMO thats why I love this game and TW:warhammer I just go to game.inis and change what i dont like to my liking /profit

You cannot change the INI file of the hunter weapons without breaking the DLC. If you even touch the file it will disable all the DLC weapons and prevent you from using them

[Robert]

Originally posted by Foxador:

You cannot change the INI file of the hunter weapons without breaking the DLC. If you even touch the file it will disable all the DLC weapons and prevent you from using them

I have found that myself
It is a real burn that we cannot alter the DLC weapon stats without breaking it
Still, at least the frostbomb is unaffected
If i want to have a high powered weapon, i will have to mod the shotgun
and give all soldiers assault rifles as standard
Thanks for the help regardless and good hunting

[Tenebris]

I'm super sorry for necroing the heck out of this topic, but the problem seems to be that there are special characters in that specific ini file so you just have to use a specialized program (like notepad++) to open and edit it