THEY NERF'D THE ARC THROWER INTO THE GROUND!

[Quill]

They have made the Arc Thrower completely useless against all enemies in the latest update!

They decided to give it STAGGER against enemies! They also fixed its inconsistencies with electrical arcing

Completely unusable!

[TheAceOfSpodes]

... I can't decide if this is sarcasm or serious.

[Kashra Fall]

Originally posted by TheAceOfSpodes:

... I can't decide if this is sarcasm or serious.

Clearly sarcasm.

[Chocbomb]

• Arc Thrower: fixed charging inconsistencies; it will now always take 1s to charge a shot.
  
• Arc Thrower: reduced distance from 50m to 35m.
  
• Arc Thrower: increased stagger force.

I think they mostly just did what they could to get it to work properly.
We saw so many weird things it did before, it sometimes wouldnt even see enemies from range and you would be sparking the weapon without it even hitting anything.

[Æternum]

it was already a death sentence using the arc thrower on hulks, now its just suicide at the new range. i wont even waste good ammo on them anymore, i just use my pistol and let other people deal with hulks. its clear they think 35 meters is perfectly safe from a hulks flame thrower. lets not forget they also increased all damage from all fire sources 50%...just too add even more salt to the wound.

[TheAceOfSpodes]

Originally posted by Kashra Fall:

Originally posted by TheAceOfSpodes:

... I can't decide if this is sarcasm or serious.

Clearly sarcasm.

You never know where the bottom of the intelligence scale is for the steam forums. I'd like to think its sarcasm.

[Grimsdottir]

Bait thread. OP clearly can't read or refused to even look at the patch notes. Nothing to see here. Move along.

[Wutever]

I dunno. It still sometimes doesn't arc for ♥♥♥♥. Any sort of object between you and your target and it's a dice roll whether you will hit or not.

[Æternum]

Originally posted by Wutever:

I dunno. It still sometimes doesn't arc for ♥♥♥♥. Any sort of object between you and your target and it's a dice roll whether you will hit or not.

you may have already known, but friendly tip. aim a few feet above targets, it will help shoot over rocks and ♥♥♥♥. it will arc down too them.

[Mez]

Can i have all your stuff?

[Ziyadah]

Anyone who used the Thrower with any regularity already knew it wasn't even remotely reliable past 35m as it was. Really don't see any significant difference post-patch, it still hits first target at reasonable ranges and the chain can still go significantly farther out.

[Wutever]

Originally posted by ÆTERNUM:

Originally posted by Wutever:

I dunno. It still sometimes doesn't arc for ♥♥♥♥. Any sort of object between you and your target and it's a dice roll whether you will hit or not.

you may have already known, but friendly tip. aim a few feet above targets, it will help shoot over rocks and ♥♥♥♥. it will arc down too them.

Yeah, I'm doing that, but it's still not consistent even if it is better than before. It's the main reason I don't use arc weapons. A shot fizzling out just annoys me.

[Evono]

Originally posted by ÆTERNUM:

it was already a death sentence using the arc thrower on hulks, now its just suicide at the new range. i wont even waste good ammo on them anymore, i just use my pistol and let other people deal with hulks. its clear they think 35 meters is perfectly safe from a hulks flame thrower. lets not forget they also increased all damage from all fire sources 50%...just too add even more salt to the wound.

i mean its not a AT weapon , it can damage those but it isnt intended to kill hulks solely with.

[ZeronKzn]

Arc was great weapon, but it was boring to play with him for more than a couple of hours, and now it's boring to use it even for five minutes. This is not the way to balance the game making weapons unplayable

[Oh Heck]

This is absolutely a skill issue. Sorry to say it.

[ASRIEL]

Are you implying the Super Earth military officials made the incorrect decision? Might want to talk to the Democracy Officer.