Scorcher Underwhelming??

[Kaczor24]

Does anyne feel like the last tier weapon "Plas-1 scorcher" feels really underwhelming? You need to spend at least around 1280 medals just to unlock it, and the gun just feels really weak, hell! even the dominator is much easier to get and is 3x better than it! What are your thoughts?

[Kaczor24]

Originally posted by aGothLizard:

The thing about the Scorcher is that I don't think it ricochets unlike normal bullets and that's the key when you're shooting something that's labeled explosive. So while the Dominator might look better on paper that soft stat alone is pretty powerful to consider.

I actually never noticed it that the scorcher never ricochets its bullets, i might give it another go, hopefully its just a matter of my skill issue with the weapon

[Buntkreuz]

Originally posted by Kaczor24:

Does anyne feel like the last tier weapon "Plas-1 scorcher" feels really underwhelming? You need to spend at least around 1280 medals just to unlock it, and the gun just feels really weak, hell! even the dominator is much easier to get and is 3x better than it! What are your thoughts?

Let me take a wild guess: You only play Bug mIssions. Right?

Because its going to become a meme that HD players constantly ramble on the forum about how this or that weapon isnt good, ignoring that they only play 50% of the game.


The Scorcher is possibly the strongest primary weapon in the game against Bots.
You can mitigate the ammo problem with a supply pack. It damages with AoE and kills every Bot in the game if you use it right.
It rips through armor, you can use it to kill Scout Striders, it cant be deflected because its an energy projectile weapon.
Its also garbage against bugs.

[Gabriel Angelos]

every weapon is Underwhelming

[Mini]

It’s my current main primary for sure. It deals with armored opponents quite well (Hive Guards, Striders, Devastators, Brood Commanders, even Chargers with enough shots). The ammo economy is definitely problematic, but its upsides outweigh the issues for sure.

Just make sure to pack a secondary or support weapon with lots of ammo xD

[Nero]

Its balanced in a weird way.

On the one hand it got underwhelming damage and ammo so it struggles with the trash but because of its damage type and permeation (not penetration) its actually good at killing beefier targets.

I personally prefer the diligence in the "less bullets, more oomph" role when I play against bots (or just use sickle because its a monster) as it can reliably kill normal bots with a single chest shot up to ~100 meters while scorcher needs 2 chest shots even on short range (I guess the bot health is somewhere between 101 and 111 if chest means 100% damage is dealt, scorcher 100 dmg & R63 at 112 dmg)

[Ledion]

it's the only primary that can kill walkers hitting them in the front, that's mostly it's use

[madshock]

i like the weapon quite alot.

[Eudicots]

Dominator deals more bullet damage, but Scorcher deals more explosive damage. Scorcher explosive damage seems to bypass armor better than any other primary. Because the AOE radius of the scorcher is fairly large you do not need to aim at weakspots. This makes the weapon more casual-friendly since accuracy is less important.