The Guard Dog (Machine Gun Variant) needs a buff/rework

[Everesu]

Unfortunately at the current moment, the Guard Dog is entirely eclipsed by the Guard Dog Rover in nearly all aspects. Arrowhead should rework the drone to either have more ammo or do insane damage at close range, since most of the shots tend to hit terrain when further out.

[Heroine Nisa]

The thing is, the laser rover is bugged. Its supposed to use ammo but currently the laser never overheats or runs out of energy.

[capybaras are cool]

Originally posted by Heroine Nisa:

The thing is, the laser rover is bugged. Its supposed to use ammo but currently the laser never overheats or runs out of energy.

yes it does. the rover goes back to the backpack and it sparks and smokes during it. it does have a large battery though

[Everesu]

Originally posted by Heroine Nisa:

The thing is, the laser rover is bugged. Its supposed to use ammo but currently the laser never overheats or runs out of energy.

The way it works now is completely fine IMO, since it has a tendency to do its job yet only focus on one bug if it cant die.

[Ice-Nine]

Originally posted by Everesu:

Unfortunately at the current moment, the Guard Dog is entirely eclipsed by the Guard Dog Rover in nearly all aspects.

This is true but also they're both garbage, so even if you buff the kinetic guard dog you still have two useless stratagems.

[Anticitizen 1]

Originally posted by Ice-Nine:

Originally posted by Everesu:

Unfortunately at the current moment, the Guard Dog is entirely eclipsed by the Guard Dog Rover in nearly all aspects.

This is true but also they're both garbage, so even if you buff the kinetic guard dog you still have two useless stratagems.

Once I unlocked the shield, I haven't used either dog even once.

[Zvampen]

The laser rover at least does it's job, the regular version is both weak and runs out of ammo instantly - then just hovers around doing nothing. It desperately needs some reason to exist, right now it is more than useless.

[uSIHitMan]

The mg rover is better against automatons. While the Laser one against Bugs i Figured. Thats how it currently works the most effective

[Vsolid]

I roll my eyes anytime I see either but mostly because I know they arent paying attention to the fact their drone can still friendly fire me. Usually people will run a drone because they arent paying attention to their surroundings in the first place.

As for the actual efficacy of the guard dogs, idk when I was farming flamethrower kills for a weapon certification reward I ran a liberty guard dog and it seemed to do fine (vs bugs). Just gotta mind its ammo.

Personally I dont run this since i'd rather have a personal shield (its too good rn to pass up if you play with randoms), autocannon backpack, ballistic shield with defender, or supply pack for whatever reason. The other backpack options are just kind of better in most cases other than running it with a flamethrower or maybe solo content.

[PlazmaBolt]

Originally posted by capybaras are cool:

Originally posted by Heroine Nisa:

The thing is, the laser rover is bugged. Its supposed to use ammo but currently the laser never overheats or runs out of energy.

yes it does. the rover goes back to the backpack and it sparks and smokes during it. it does have a large battery though

When it is overheated yes, but unlike the regular variant it doesn't run out of reserve ammo completely. I think that it's fine the way it works now because it's not horribly overpowered (maybe a VERY slight damage nerf either/or a scythe damage buff so they do the same). They really need to buff the regular guard dog so that it's ammo can be refilled by the ammo boxes scattered around the map and not exclusively the resupply ammo packs then they would be equally balanced.

[ZiggyDeath]

The regular Guard Dog has way better engagement range and DPS compared to the laser one, but really lacks the endurance.

If it could be resupplied via regular ammo pickups or have "infinite" reserve ammo, I'd totally run it.

I have only ever managed to get a laser guard dog to reload once, under effectively crazy fighting conditions. I have heard of other people managing to run out of spare heatsinks, one can only wonder what kind of situation that was.