Am I missing something regarding "gauntlet" weapons?

[Jork]

I feel like I'm missing something when it comes to the gauntlet weapons. No matter what I do to mod them out, they don't do anything past merely tickling enemies.

I love how the new Medusa Ray looks so I tried giving it a whirl to see if it'd be viable to use, but this one seems to be most guilty of being useless (the awful arc of the beam doesn't help either)

I've tried pure damage, I've tried stacking crits and their respective elements with enemy vulnerability, and none of it seems to matter much. It's like I'm throwing grapes at an angry elephant.

The only gauntlet/beam weapon I've had coming close to feasible was the Feuerfaust. Are these weapons inheirently inferior to all others or what?

[[DisZeLegend]]

Yeah ive been playing for a bit today as well with the new Medusa weapon and it made me try to see if the gauntlet weapons were actually any good......After slapping every mod type I could to try to make them work, I could not find a single set up that makes the weapons go on par with any of the other classes/types.

Plus the beam arcs on the weapons seem to be a real pain to aim and only land 50% of the time and its a little hard in my opinion to follow most of the targets with it. In the end theres way better weapons to use then the gauntlets...

A real shame cause the weapons look so badass too! :/

[Jork]

I'm glad it's not just me.

I don't understand why they had their art team put so much love into the models and visual effects of these weapons only for them to be completely useless. Even SMGs outperform beam weapons.

[abugaj]

Buffs are prob in the future for these weapons they are so useless atm.

[It's Dunk]

Before the game was released the devs talked about how they wanted to go wild with the weapon ideas, and throw everything they had in to the game without worrying about balancing.

So while some of the weapons won't do max damage, they can still be fun to use and it's nice to to have the insane level of variety. On lower difficulites every weapon is viable.

[Jork]

Originally posted by don't give up!:

Before the game was released the devs talked about how they wanted to go wild with the weapon ideas, and throw everything they had in to the game without worrying about balancing.

So while some of the weapons won't do max damage, they can still be fun to use and it's nice to to have the insane level of variety. On lower difficulites every weapon is viable.

The game's been out for several months now - it's about time they buff these weapons.

Especially when a free DLC adds a new ray gun that's even worse than the others. There's nothing fun about using a gun that tickles foes.

It's not about doing max damage that bogs these weapons down for me, it's how they're straight up unviable except for easy and normal, and every other weapon type still outperforms beams by miles on those difficulties anyway.

Every weapon type in the game except gauntlets are viable on every difficulty. There's no reason they can't or shouldn't buff beam weaponry to offer something useful.

[SeriousCCIE]

The gauntlets are pretty great. Try using them against swarms of small animals.

I have an emperors fist--think of return of the jedi -- and put on double ammo and something that made a bigger ammo pack and more crits, and it is fantastic in zillas city--the flying probes are very vulernable to it.

the fire gauntlet is good in the more wilderness areas and for the things there... they are not one weapon kills all, but you can certainly use them for crowd control of trash mobs.

[Mister Torgue Flexington]

good thing I stuck with my Toxic Shredders, since they're OP as hell (from the 2 very high-level Crit gems I slapped on it)

[Jork]

Originally posted by Mister Torgue Flexington:

good thing I stuck with my Toxic Shredders, since they're OP as hell (from the 2 very high-level Crit gems I slapped on it)

I don't mean the melee gauntlet weapons, I'm talking about the gauntlets that shoot beams.

Originally posted by SeriousCCIE:

The gauntlets are pretty great. Try using them against swarms of small animals.

I have an emperors fist--think of return of the jedi -- and put on double ammo and something that made a bigger ammo pack and more crits, and it is fantastic in zillas city--the flying probes are very vulernable to it.

the fire gauntlet is good in the more wilderness areas and for the things there... they are not one weapon kills all, but you can certainly use them for crowd control of trash mobs.

Small animals are the least threatening enemies in the game and beam weapons are unviable against even the trashiest of mobs past a certain difficulty.

They're cool weapons, but they're inferior in every regard compared to other weapon types and need a serious buff.

[SeriousCCIE]

Well.. that's what I did. Seriously buffed the emperor gauntlet. I did not really do too much to the fire gauntlet; I liked the style of the emporer one. He even plays a little song on it if you go to reload it when it's already at full.

[Jork]

Originally posted by SeriousCCIE:

Well.. that's what I did. Seriously buffed the emperor gauntlet. I did not really do too much to the fire gauntlet; I liked the style of the emporer one. He even plays a little song on it if you go to reload it when it's already at full.

What difficulty do you play?

Insanity 3 is what I stay on (I can do higher but it's the most comfy for me)

Anything I do, even meta-modding on insanity 3, beam weapons are completely unviable and it's illogical for me to use a weapon that kills as slowly as these do. They offer nothing to the table unlike every other weapon type in the game which is why they need a buff.