Railgun was never supposed to kill Armour

[Ewspne]

IMO, we have a lot of anti-armour weapons. Recoil-less is a sexy beast. That one shot rocket is also hella fun with the worlds shortest cooldown. Spear is ♥♥♥♥. and then you have all those orbital and eagle call-ins.

I think the rail gun succeeded as an anti-crowd penetrator. It went through like 5+ bugs in one shot if you took a whole second to aim it.
It is amazing at taking out those fat ♥♥♥♥ spewers with a shot to the face.

BUT, I do not think the main purpose of the railgun was ever supposed to be an armour melter. Just live every other support weapon, its a time and place. It should not be a blanket fix to being in a ♥♥♥♥♥♥ spot.
Notice the word? "Support". Not Primary.

If you want to run it in unsafe mode every now and then because you have to, that makes waaaay more sense then constantly taking down the hardest (as of now) enemies like its a typical Tuesday with the safe mode.

If your whole team is running railguns, and are now confused af how to kill a Bile Titan... You're getting skill diffed by people who don't want to constantly run a "meta" build and would rather play a game for fun.
Learn to play your way with your loadout and then learn to build loadouts around team needs.
"My team has no crowd control... hm. Maybe I could swap something out for a clusterbomb or airstrike I suppose."

"But chargers!"
Chargers already have a gapping weak spot. Dodge, Dip, Dive, Duck and Dodge and then pewpew.

Instead of complaining about nerfing 1 gun from being an all around god killer into a functional situational support weapon, maybe we should complain more about the crappy state of the spear or the majority of the rifles.
There's many other things that can be fixed and balanced. Lets put our energy there.

[Argon]

Stop assuming people who are complaining don't know anything about the game. Of course I know charger has weakened state when it finishes charge, I can two shot a charger with auto cannon easily, then what's the point of rail gun? I don't mind the damage nerf, but they need to find a new purpose for this weapon, like increased stun for control or increased ammo for med armor kills. Now it's just useless.

[Solvem Probler]

"An experimental weapon which prioritizes armor penetration. Must be charged between shots - so choose targets carefully."

What could this possibly mean?

[LeTamoule]

well med pen Ar do not pen armor so what the point xD

[LeTamoule]

Originally posted by Born2Dive:

"An experimental weapon which prioritizes armor penetration. Must be charged between shots - so choose targets carefully."

What could this possibly mean?

xD attleast someone read description..

[Frank Hardly]

It literally says it was made for armor penetration in its description. I swear to god is everyone just on ambien these days or something and their brains don't work?

[Madder Red]

Originally posted by Born2Dive:

"An experimental weapon which prioritizes armor penetration. Must be charged between shots - so choose targets carefully."

What could this possibly mean?

Asking the important questions

[Tanyon]

Bro the REASON why the Railgun was a necessity is because it had 20 rounds and shot pretty fast.. you know how many times you are dealing with 2..3..4 chargers at once? or how about the screenshot I have of SEVEN bile Titans on extract with a full minute still to go?? We did NOT need nerfs.. this is so stupid.. they should have made the buffs but kept the rest as is.. yes let me use my recoiless or anti tank with their one shot when we are on a Helldive and you are constantly running from 100 things at once.. ugh.. I swear people don't get it.

[Anndy578]

Originally posted by DarthTanyon:

Bro the REASON why the Railgun was a necessity is because it had 20 rounds and shot pretty fast.. you know how many times you are dealing with 2..3..4 chargers at once? or how about the screenshot I have of SEVEN bile Titans on extract with a full minute still to go?? We did NOT need nerfs.. this is so stupid.. they should have made the buffs but kept the rest as is.. yes let me use my recoiless or anti tank with their one shot when we are on a Helldive and you are constantly running from 100 things at once.. ugh.. I swear people don't get it.

It doesn't even need to shoot fast. They could slow the reload and it'd still be perfectly viable as long as it can actually punch through armor. Take it's ability to get through armor and it's effectively useless.

Hell they could have even added a backpack to it and it would have been fine but nope let's just nerf it into the fking ground