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Madmonkey68 Mar 25, 2024 @ 3:23am
PLAS1-1 Scorcher worst endgame weapon
cant believe I grinded through the whole warbond for this ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ trash weapon

***UPDATE

it's my go to weapon now since every other gun is straight trash.
Last edited by Madmonkey68; Jun 7, 2024 @ 12:36pm
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Originally posted by ImHelping:
The real worst thing about the scorcher is how it is great 2/3 of the time. But you just can't trust it not to ♥♥♥♥ you.

So you get used to it killing rocket devastators in 6 shots to the anything and 4 tapping scout walkers... and then suddenly every form of devastator and scout walker front plates are now taking a full scorcher mag even trying to aim for the face because ♥♥♥♥ you.

Scorcher seems to only want to unleash it's full power when it does not matter. Then once it does? even basic robot troopers that normally die in 1 hit even to the arm will tank a shot to the center of the chest and just lightly smoke.

"One shot one shot one shot one shot one shot bot firing the actual flare lived one shot-wait hold on ♥♥♥♥"

Still better than the plasma shotgun. "sometimes they don't die because ???" beats watching the shotty plasma grenade zip between legs uselessly, or over heads with the robot constant habit of skyrim animation skipping straight down from the top of a rock to ground level as you wrestle with that slow toddler softball pitch of a shot.

You are also less likely to accidentally kill yourself with the scorcher than that "I for one hate meta slaves" hipster garbage plasma shotgun. Hell with fortified you can even survive the sorta close grazes.

EDIT: also once again reminded, scorcher is thwarted by chain link fences the enemy can shoot you through. ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥. So close to actually great, but held back from a combination of jank and "No see, that being ♥♥♥♥ is working as intended". Send help I keep using it because so many more primaries are worse than "flip a coin if it is support weapon strong of less reliable than a pistol."
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Khloros Mar 25, 2024 @ 7:26am 
Plas 1 is THE premo bot killing weapon, it takes on everything the bots throw at you.
The only down side is you need to feed it ammo which honestly with a supply pack problem solved. Its got really consistent damage as well.

The slugger is a good contender as well and IMO is a side grade to the scortcher against bots.
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Hunter Biden's 3rd Laptop Mar 25, 2024 @ 8:05am 
Being able to kill the menial robots easily doesn't make it a good gun. Pretty much all weapons against bots are trash, including support weapons since railgun nerf, which makes the game pretty boring.
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519B. Mar 25, 2024 @ 8:06am 
Originally posted by Rilgar55:
Its great vs bots dont know what problem you have with it
he's using it on bugs swarming him and dying imo
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Metro Gnome Holding Metronome Mar 25, 2024 @ 8:07am 
Originally posted by BLOCKBUSTER MANAGER RANDY:
Being able to kill the menial robots easily doesn't make it a good gun. Pretty much all weapons against bots are trash, including support weapons since railgun nerf, which makes the game pretty boring.
It kills literally every single bot besides hulks and tanks.
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519B. Mar 25, 2024 @ 8:13am 
Originally posted by BLOCKBUSTER MANAGER RANDY:
Being able to kill the menial robots easily doesn't make it a good gun. Pretty much all weapons against bots are trash, including support weapons since railgun nerf, which makes the game pretty boring.
wrong, kills striders on 2 shots and the aoe goes through their mech. just 1 example
Last edited by 519B.; Mar 25, 2024 @ 8:13am
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Botji Mar 25, 2024 @ 8:29am 
Originally posted by 519B.:
Originally posted by BLOCKBUSTER MANAGER RANDY:
Being able to kill the menial robots easily doesn't make it a good gun. Pretty much all weapons against bots are trash, including support weapons since railgun nerf, which makes the game pretty boring.
wrong, kills striders on 2 shots and the aoe goes through their mech. just 1 example
Slugger can do it with 4 if you shoot one of their legs off.

Unlike the Scorcher its also able to 1 hit kill everything up to Hulk/Tank/Turrets, with the previous exception of the Striders ofc + it heavily staggers anything even if you do 'miss' the headshot while Scorcher only does a light stagger.
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Hunter Biden's 3rd Laptop Mar 25, 2024 @ 8:36am 
Originally posted by Khloros:
Plas 1 is THE premo bot killing weapon, it takes on everything the bots throw at you.
The only down side is you need to feed it ammo which honestly with a supply pack problem solved. Its got really consistent damage as well.

The slugger is a good contender as well and IMO is a side grade to the scortcher against bots.


What game are you playing? D7 and up plasma takes almost an entire mag to kill devastators and berserkers. Does nothing to hulks and tanks.

This is also not factoring in the aiming learning curve between plas and slugger which apparently loves to go between bots arms and legs and has a significant projectile arc.
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Hunter Biden's 3rd Laptop Mar 25, 2024 @ 8:38am 
Originally posted by Pilfering Gnome:
Originally posted by BLOCKBUSTER MANAGER RANDY:
Being able to kill the menial robots easily doesn't make it a good gun. Pretty much all weapons against bots are trash, including support weapons since railgun nerf, which makes the game pretty boring.
It kills literally every single bot besides hulks and tanks.

So does the Sickle, with no ammo issues.
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Metro Gnome Holding Metronome Mar 25, 2024 @ 8:48am 
Originally posted by BLOCKBUSTER MANAGER RANDY:
Originally posted by Pilfering Gnome:
It kills literally every single bot besides hulks and tanks.

So does the Sickle, with no ammo issues.
Slower.
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Sanglaine Mar 25, 2024 @ 8:53am 
While I do like it, I agree with the answer poster. It's too inconsistent. I'm pretty sure this has to do with how its AOE functions. I still like to use it though because it's not a boring shotgun or rifle.
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Hand's Hermit Permit Mar 25, 2024 @ 9:03am 
This is the most wrong thread I've seen on this entire board.

Scorcher is borderline OP for bots. When I'm tired of bots stomping a group I'm in I just take scorcher and it's almost better than a support weapon. Massive damage, ability to take care of small things as well as heavily damage big things. You can even hit scout walkers and the splash reaches the pilot and kills the whole thing. Very busted.
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Hand's Hermit Permit Mar 25, 2024 @ 9:05am 
Originally posted by BLOCKBUSTER MANAGER RANDY:
Being able to kill the menial robots easily doesn't make it a good gun. Pretty much all weapons against bots are trash, including support weapons since railgun nerf, which makes the game pretty boring.

Brooooo. Shows exactly what you've been crutching on. Skill issue. Scorcher is busted against bots, and there's lots of good weapons. Autocannon shreds bots and recoilles/EAT drop the dropships.

I've never seen a bunch of gamers that needed to git gud more than people here.
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DaRep Mar 25, 2024 @ 9:06am 
The only times I've regretted having the Scorcher equipped is when I go from bots back to bugs and forget to switch. And even then, not by much as long as I remember to switch to secondary for close stuff. Sickle's a better choice for bugs.

Sadly, the point to unlocking all of the weapons is waiting to see if a rebalance pass helps make ones you already have more useful.
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𝒞𝒶𝓈𝓊𝒶𝓁 Sinner Mar 25, 2024 @ 9:10am 
Originally posted by DaRep:
The only times I've regretted having the Scorcher equipped is when I go from bots back to bugs and forget to switch. And even then, not by much as long as I remember to switch to secondary for close stuff. Sickle's a better choice for bugs.

Sadly, the point to unlocking all of the weapons is waiting to see if a rebalance pass helps make ones you already have more useful.

I dunno, I love it on both fronts. It's good for killing bots, probably the only primary that can frontally kill striders, and I love the splash damage. It feels good to have a consistent weapon to kill devastators that isn't the slugger, and it can melt the rear exhaust of hulks relatively fast.

Against bugs it's pretty good too, two shots hunters and the splash damage helps do crowd control. I use it to consistently destroy titan sacks so they can't spit on us anymore, the only thing it really can't do is kill chargers without shooting its ass with a mag or two.
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Hand's Hermit Permit Mar 25, 2024 @ 9:11am 
Originally posted by DaRep:
Sadly, the point to unlocking all of the weapons is waiting to see if a rebalance pass helps make ones you already have more useful.

Medals cap at 250. There's no reason not to unlock tbh.
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