What is your favorite weapon?

[Sinxar]

I found myself leaning more toward a sniper role. The impact cannon is awesome mid game but I think my favorite has to be the gauss cannon.

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[PerfectPencil]

gauss is by far the most powerful gun ive found. i was heavily invested in energy when i found one. only thing i used until the end.

[Terrarius]

<thtas it...endgame is so boring:(
you just blow the enemys away before they can shot once....

[lyravega]

1- Arcpulse... It just blows Gauss off the sky.

2- Railgun

3- Plasmacaster? The T2 one which you can charge, that is.

[Entity]

Gauss Rifle seems to wreck things pretty hard (especially with 100% accuracy). The Railgun is cool too.

Shredders with high accuracy are surprisingly good sniper weapons too.

Haven't tried the arcthrower yet.

[Soot Leopard]

Arcpulse and Plasmacaster. No contest.

[Spootaloo]

Transpulse would be my favorite, but I can't say it in good faith because it's actually *TOO* good. The game becomes totally trivial if you go for one of these, as you can just shoot your weapon aimlessly into walls and still kill everything within a couple shots. Makes it really feel like I'm skipping out on most of the challenge.

I love the Gauss Cannon for its robust simplicity. Arcpulse is pretty strong without feeling entirely broken (mainly because the plasma cost is very high). Sniper-type weapons like the Impact Rifle and Railgun are pretty fun too. And the versatility of the Plasmacaster makes it a really great mid-game weapon.

Originally posted by lyravega:

1- Arcthrower... It just blows Gauss off the sky.

There something I'm missing about the arcthrower? I tried to use it for a couple minutes and felt like it was the worst weapon in the game (along with the other "melee" weapons, flamethrower + welder). Mediocre damage with incredibly short range - high risk, low reward. Almost certain the Gauss Cannon has higher DPS without the range restriction.

[lyravega]

Originally posted by Spootaloo:

Originally posted by lyravega:

1- Arcthrower... It just blows Gauss off the sky.

There something I'm missing about the arcthrower? I tried to use it for a couple minutes and felt like it was the worst weapon in the game (along with the other "melee" weapons, flamethrower + welder). Mediocre damage with incredibly short range - high risk, low reward. Almost certain the Gauss Cannon has higher DPS without the range restriction.

You are talking about welder, I think. Or flamethrower. What I meant was "Arcpulse", though flamethrower also has insane damage output. Arcpulse can clear a room with like 10 shots.

[Spootaloo]

Nah, I was talking about the Arcthrower - you get it from combining the welder and flak cannon. Fires short range lightning bolts and is kinda bad. Arcpulse, on the other hand, is legitimately a really good weapon and one of the best weapons for dealing with large groups of enemies, the biggest downside to it being a somewhat high ammo consumption rate.

Also, from my experience, it seemed like almost every other T1 weapon outclasses the flamethrower in terms of damage output. Hate it.

[ZephyrSB]

T1 - Impact Rifle hands down. High acc Shredders work well too.

T2 - Gotta get me some Flak Cannon goodness, although Railgun and Plasmacaster are definately great picks.

T3 - Well, I'm still unlocking these, but old-faithful Gauss Cannon has seen me through my runs so far (including completely turning around my bullet-only run). My opinion of Ion Beam would probably be better if I made one with more than 80 acc :p Not managed to make anything else yet.

Missiles - Never really bother with anything beyond Homing Swarmers and Grenades for room-clearing power. Magclusters are nice, but are expensive and take away my precious swarmers.

[Sinxar]

I didn't like the flamethrower at first but I realized I was getting too close with it. It has a decent range.

[lyravega]

Originally posted by Spootaloo:

Also, from my experience, it seemed like almost every other T1 weapon outclasses the flamethrower in terms of damage output. Hate it.

Flamethrower has real high DPS. But any other melee weapon is not worth it imo, FT has moderate range at least which makes it useful, but welder and others... bot explosions deal much more damage than what they normally hit for, so no thanks. Too risky. But yeah, as I've said, FT has a real good range on it.

[Sinxar]

Originally posted by lyravega:

Originally posted by Spootaloo:

Also, from my experience, it seemed like almost every other T1 weapon outclasses the flamethrower in terms of damage output. Hate it.

Flamethrower has real high DPS. But any other melee weapon is not worth it imo, FT has moderate range at least which makes it useful, but welder and others... bot explosions deal much more damage than what they normally hit for, so no thanks. Too risky. But yeah, as I've said, FT has a real good range on it.

Yeah I usually take Gung Ho when possible now. Even though it gives less armor it makes melee more viable if you don't get hit. Hell I like it just cause it makes you immune to those suicide orbs.

When I say melee, I mean close range, not ramming.

[Boosty]

I may get some names wrong.

T1
- Pulsar: Solid medium range weapon and you start with one.
- Shredder: Only if I'm going for the no crafting achievement otherwise it quickly gets crafted into the...

T2
- Spreadpulse: Good damage and fire rate, very ammo efficient.
- Railgun: Long range, can kill some of the annoying enemies in one shot, and it pierces.

T3
Only have made 2 of these so far Gauss Cannon and Arcpulse.
- Gauss Cannon: Ammo efficient (especially compared to other bullet weapons) and it works at long ranges.

Missles
T1
- Grenade: For the bounce.
- Homing Missile: If I haven't found a Grenade and/or can't craft it into the Swarmer

T2
- Swarmer for the "just shoot" moments.

T3 Why?


Overall I like the spread pulse because it is relavent over the whole game. (If i remeber right it's one of the parts for the arcpulse)

[Avder]

Gauss cannon best all around primary for me so far. The Flak cannon is a lot of fun tho when you need to shoot around a corner. I still haven't crafted an arc pulse, so I need to do that.

[LiberTea]

Primary: for me top tier is definatly Gauss Cannon. If you are lucky enough to get a bonus damage on bullet weapons carts it even one shots the lighter enemies.

Next up any Sniper weapon probably Impact > Rail > Plasmacaster (my reasonin here is that both impact and railgun can one shot most enemies (peek shoot peek shoot makes the game really easy) impact having much more ammo (at least for me it always appears like that)) (so many brakets o.O)

Then the "sniper" shotgun weapon Flak cannon.

T1 Starter definetly Pulse

And not to forget, my favorite for destroying cores the Ion Laser (horrible for anything else imho) together with the mag rockets even end the last level core really fast.

Hull I always aim for the strafer and leave it there.

Rockets: as i mentioned Mag if i have enoigh nanites otherwise HVRL and any AoE missile i can pick up.

Enigines: Havent found a reason to upgrade these yet.

On a sidenote, Haven't really found any of the close range weapons convincing, sure they are fun to use but they always feel weaker then their long range counterparts.

Imho stay aways from Smartgun. The idea is nice but the ammo to dammage ratio is really bad and the dps isnt overwhelming either. Have yet to use the transpulse.