ARC-12 Blitzer is litteraly useless?

[Mad]

What's the point of that gun? It have no range and barely do any damage. The arc doesn't seems to work most of the time. It's like the worst gun I've ever seen.

Am I missing something or what.

[Gilmore]

What, you don’t like the tickle gun?

[Dakota]

It's in need of a buff to the rate of fire, all I can say at the moment is it is at least consistent due to not having to ever reload.

[Ryzilynt]

It takes getting used to. You need to get the cadence and distance right. Really best for bugs since the arcs will hit several targets , and if there is one medium or large they will all converge to hit the one target.

[kebabsoup]

It's still decent at killing teammates no?

[Dain_Ironfoot]

It's like holding a sparkler on the fourth of July when you could be having fun blowing stuff up. Of course, there's also several terrible guns that are like the black snakes and little poppers you throw. Just not much bang for your buck.

[That person]

Nothing better for quick spin shots on hunters trying to flank you.
Very specific use situation but in that example, blitzer has no equal

[GHDW]

It's great for people with no aim and have time to do things in between shots, like mowing the lawn, or grocery shopping.

[ModdyMop]

very good for quick AoE bursts against the light bugs, but not too good at much else

[Chezni]

The wiki article on it actually has some good tips for making it work in your favor:

https://helldivers.fandom.com/wiki/ARC-12_Blitzer

[Chaos]

I take it sometime for "fun", BUT only with the laser bot to clear out most of the chaffs and let this piece of ♥♥♥♥ clear some little bugs that get through, it's only saving grace was that it can stun bugs up to brood (but not spewer and not stalker) and that's it.

[Qua2ar]

It's a good gun, no ammo, no overheat, good damage and stagger.
It's slow but if you get some distance between you and your enemies it can arc to 3 or 4 at once and if all shots are concentrated on 1 target it can even kill a brood commander with 1 shot to the head.

[Mad]

Alright that's some very good feedback it makes sense. I was probably not trying to aim the head enough as well. Thanks guys.

What would be awesome is if you could leave small blob of flying energy, like Tesla claim that you could stock electricity in higher altitude, and they explode on impact. Very small radius again, only good against small units. But you can lay a few ones to protect your back while you mow down the battlefield with an auto cannon.

That's an awfully biased perspective if there ever one but it could be amazingly fun.

Or maybe activate an alien building that create some in defense, like a flying minefield. Anyway cheers.

[Mad]

ok it feels op now lol but I think it made my game crash

[VelxraTV]

Its not OP at all. But it is actually fun to use now. I think they increased the stun as well. The combo has really made it a good fallback weapon.

[quarz]

This must be nerfed in the next patch. I'm having way too much fun with the Blitzer right now 8)