Is it just me or does the thunderhead gunner weapon really suck?

[Drillbo Baggins]

To be honest, I don't play gunner much at all, I haven't even promoted him yet but I modded the gun, tried it out a few times, and to me it just seems highly inaccurate, clunky, and very slow. Honestly think it needs a good rework. My main is driller and scout though so I'm most likely using it wrong.

[Cor.]

Thunderhead is for swarm AOE clearing. You can kinda set it up for single-ish but people usually dont.

Thunderhead shines in haz 4 and 5 missions where there are alot more targets.

[Drillbo Baggins]

Originally posted by Cor.:

Thunderhead is for swarm AOE clearing. You can kinda set it up for single-ish but people usually dont.

Thunderhead shines in haz 4 and 5 missions where there are alot more targets.

I guess that makes sense. When I used it against a boss I was very disappointed. The minigun seemed a lot better for a boss.

[Johnno]

Originally posted by Captain Skidmark:

I guess that makes sense. When I used it against a boss I was very disappointed. The minigun seemed a lot better for a boss.

So you've learned that weapons have distinct use cases. Kinda like saying a hyper propellant grenade launcher isn't good against swarmers, but is really good against dreadnoughts...

[GIRL]

Thunderhead can be decent against Dreadnaughts with a Big Bertha build, but it'll never outclass the Minigun or even Hurricane for that matter on Elimination.

[Archmage MC]

Originally posted by Captain Skidmark:

To be honest, I don't play gunner much at all, I haven't even promoted him yet but I modded the gun, tried it out a few times, and to me it just seems highly inaccurate, clunky, and very slow. Honestly think it needs a good rework. My main is driller and scout though so I'm most likely using it wrong.

Thunderhead is better than his other weapons with neurotoxin OC. Its his most ammo efficient weapon and its leaps and bounds above the other two in that department while still putting out great AoE damage which is a vast majority of the game.

The minigun is pretty average at everything which isn't bad for a starter weapon, although it could do with 300 more ammo imo. And the RL is just bad since it has so low damage AND low ammo. (Although the minelet OC is funny to use.)

[Revalopod]

Originally posted by Archmage MC:

The minigun is pretty average at everything which isn't bad for a starter weapon, although it could do with 300 more ammo imo. And the RL is just bad since it has so low damage AND low ammo. (Although the minelet OC is funny to use.)

I used to not like the minigun much (or even gunner for that matter), but then I tried out burning hell + volatile bullets and now that's by far my favourite build in the game.

[BIG E.]

Base weapon is worst gunner pirmary.

It has good OCs tho.

If you don't have OCs yet i recommend just playing minigun. Its the straight up best no OC primary in the game.

[elire01]

Originally posted by Captain Skidmark:

it just seems highly inaccurate, clunky, and very slow. Honestly think it needs a good rework.

That issue isn't exclusive to auto-cannon unfortunately, almost entirety of gunner's arsenal is unimpressive, slow and feels bad to use, I'm sure there are plenty of people with higher tolerance towards bad weapons but the general issue remains for those that can't stomach all the downsides of playing gunner.

Be it the endless waiting for minigun to: spin up, get accurate, kill something with max base damage on par with that of scout's unmodified assault rifle, lack of weakpoint modifiers and blatant stat lies or Auto-cannon's terrible accuracy regardless of weapon mods, slow fire rate ramp up and awful reload time.

The missile launcher is your best bet here although the projectile babysitting is not to everyone's taste.

[Cynimatic]

yes. it is unquestionably the worst gunner primary. all of its overclocks are meaningless stat swaps aside from neurotoxin payload, which is so ridiculously overpowered that many high level/modded difficulty players shun it because of how easy it makes the game.

[Nitro]

Driller main goat