So many useless weapons

[Not John Malkovich]

Is there something I'm missing here? The game has 23-ish weapons and it feels like all but 2 or 3 are utterly useless, with garbage range and nonexistent DPS.

I have most, if not all, of the damage and range upgrades.

[Codejinn]

Yea, once you get most of the upgrades some weapon begin the decline in value. There are only a few high DPS weapons such as flame thrower, tethered charge, and kilver. Then long rang you have ion beam and axiom disrupter. Everything else seems to have a dps drop off and also rate of fire too.

[Not John Malkovich]

Flame thrower seemed to be the go to weapon all the way to the final boss.

[lPaladinl]

Depends on the order you get them in. The hidden weapons almost all outclass the normal weapons.

Flamethrower is just one of the best there is in general.

[I88I]

Nothing disarms the mines like Fat Beam does!

And all those «too many weapons» make me think that if you give someone more options than they want to use [and master any one of them!], they will complain about it. Don't get me wrong, at first I though something similar to what you wrote.

Then I started finding weapon/tool/drone power upgrades, and it increased the DPS of everything.
Moreover, when you replay the game again and again. you find for most weapons where each one of them shines better and where it certainly does not.