Thoughts on the Blitzer shotgun?

[黒人]

I love a good zap. And the gun can definitely zap!

Plus never runs out of ammo. Good against bugs. Although, not so much against the automatons because of the gun's close engagement range.

[Prinny]

Originally posted by Sin:

It needs one improvement. It can be one of many things... more range, more damage, faster reload, etc. It just needs one of those.. as it is, it just isn't quite enough imo.

Originally posted by Cas:

it needs higher fire rate. and an overall fix with the arc targeting

Originally posted by Beefcannon:

If they would make the arc more consistent (fork to 2-3 targets every time) and not target dead units, I think it would be in an okay spot.

I feel like if it shoots out 3-6 bolts per shot, and has a base damage per bolt, then there's no reason why if fired at one enemy then all the bolts should count as separate sources of damage and add up. Maybe it already does. I'm not sure.

[Key]

It's atrocious, probably the worst weapon in the game, and I'm not being hyperbolic.

Short range, lowest damage among the shotguns, low fire rate, can't tell if it hit half the time and can injure allies on top.

[Babyfaced Beauty]

I use it for bugs regularly, but since shreikers became a thing, no choice but to go with a longer ranged weapon. If the bloody mission setup indicated what types of subobjectives would spawn, I may be more inclined to pick it over sickle.

Otherwise, to not pick sickle is to gimp self severely when shrieker nests spawn.

[Wutever]

It would be fine if it did consistent damage and, more importantly, hit consistently. It does neither, and with that cripplingly slow fire rate it just feels awful to click the fire button and have (almost) nothing happen.

[Thumb]

Its range is too low if its going to remain at its fire rate, its spread of shock is too low if its going to stay at its range and fire rate, its fire rate is too low if its spread and range are to remain the same.

[Prinny]

Originally posted by Key:

It's atrocious, probably the worst weapon in the game, and I'm not being hyperbolic.

Sorry, but Las-7 Dagger has that honor.

[FAT WANZER]

bad, might as well use punisher instead

[shadain597]

As I said in another thread, before seeing this one, I got it tonight and it feels like it needs a little bit of a boost. While I've only tried it a bit against bots, I have doubts that it'll be much better against bugs. I know if it gets too good it'll just end up replacing the arc thrower, but right now I'm not sure that there's any reason to take it instead of other options.

[黒人]

Originally posted by Sin:

It needs one improvement. It can be one of many things... more range, more damage, faster reload, etc. It just needs one of those.. as it is, it just isn't quite enough imo.

More spread. It needs to connect to more targets.

[Sin]

Originally posted by Prinny:

Originally posted by Key:

It's atrocious, probably the worst weapon in the game, and I'm not being hyperbolic.

Sorry, but Las-7 Dagger has that honor.

I like the Dagger :( It looks like you have a ST:TNG phaser when you use it.

[Thumb]

The dagger is useful if you want an always up firing platform with some other energy weapon. I find it useful in that role.

[junimai233]

It's kinda decent if you use your support weapon like a primary and I use it probably more than half of the playerbase but there's the thing: I think the firerate is okay-ish, not really a death sentence on its own but the problem is it's an arc weapon. It's unreliable on its pattern, if it his any enemy at all and so if you miss that's straight up a dopamine sap. Just half the damage, double the firerate and it's good, no?

[Carcat]

Originally posted by 黒人:

I love a good zap. And the gun can definitely zap!

Plus never runs out of ammo. Good against bugs. Although, not so much against the automatons because of the gun's close engagement range.

a couple people have already said that it works best when you have a support that can more or less act as your primary. infinite ammo weapons are almost always strong. even the dagger has some good niche uses. i think a slight buff might be warranted for it, but maybe im just ♥♥♥♥ with it. the right build can probably make that gun shine

[shadain597]

Originally posted by Prinny:

I'd like to point out that it staggered Berserkers and Devastators before the recent updates, and I haven't checked to see if that's still the case.

It was "staggering" berserkers earlier tonight, but they were sliding forward while their model was stunned, so it wasn't nearly as helpful as it should have been. It actually felt like they were moving faster while stunned, but I might be wrong about that.