What do people use/think (of) the Orbital Gatling

[ganjou241]

I think it needs the duration and fire rate buffed, then have it behave like the orbital laser...

[☢ARMac☢]

It should be constant firing like the laser, only with ammo. Maybe stronger vs bots, weaker vs bugs and vice versa.

[brownie689]

The orbital gatling strike is amazing against Terminids on helldive difficulty. It kills everything underneath it and it keeps shooting for several seconds.

[Khloros]

Originally posted by doingwork:

It kind of fits the same purpose as the airburst strike, but its just less consistent. I like the idea of a more sustained orbital, like throw it right at a bug breach as it opens and have it pepper the area for awhile. I use the airburst or naplam for that purpose right now and they both feel alot better at it.

Originally posted by Khloros:

People sleep on it, its great even in high difficulty especially on those bug breaches where like 3 of them pop up right next to each other, just call it and toss it into the middle, you can rack up like 30+ kills.

The airbust does this but 10x better IMO.

TBH Airburst and gatling are side grades. I agree the air burst is better in terms of coverage, but the gattling has a much shorter CD.

[doingwork]

Originally posted by Khloros:

Originally posted by doingwork:

It kind of fits the same purpose as the airburst strike, but its just less consistent. I like the idea of a more sustained orbital, like throw it right at a bug breach as it opens and have it pepper the area for awhile. I use the airburst or naplam for that purpose right now and they both feel alot better at it.



The airbust does this but 10x better IMO.

TBH Airburst and gatling are side grades. I agree the air burst is better in terms of coverage, but the gattling has a much shorter CD.

Yea I like having a "toss at the breach and forget" kind of stratagem. After the fire damage buff I usually take Napalm Eagle over either gatling or airburst, but its kind of preference on all 3 of those. Gas strike could be used too but it feels weak at times. Since the gatling has a smaller area of effect it would be good if it had more armor pen, like maybe not outright kill chargers but inflict some damage on them.

[Botji]

I want to like it but thats about it.
Personally I rank it about as good as Gas, can be fun but if we are being honest its kind of a waste of a stratagem slot.

[Smellvin_Melvin]

I really like it for bug breaches

[hodnvogl]

Originally posted by doingwork:

Originally posted by Khloros:

TBH Airburst and gatling are side grades. I agree the air burst is better in terms of coverage, but the gattling has a much shorter CD.

Yea I like having a "toss at the breach and forget" kind of stratagem. After the fire damage buff I usually take Napalm Eagle over either gatling or airburst, but its kind of preference on all 3 of those. Gas strike could be used too but it feels weak at times. Since the gatling has a smaller area of effect it would be good if it had more armor pen, like maybe not outright kill chargers but inflict some damage on them.

It does actually damage chargers.
Not cause of armor penetration, direct hits will bounce, but if you're really lucky the explosions can finish of a charger.
Normally for me at least it damages part of their armor, and usually strips the armor of the hindlegs, and semi-regularly of the front legs.

[onewhofound]

Originally posted by Sokaku:

Tried it, but honestly Airburst is SO much better, and slept on. Airburst is a must take for nest clearing, also useful for clearing POI as well as covering a retreat. So quick and simple to call in, it's the only orbital strike I use beyond laser & rail.

Not gonna argue too hard against the outrageous insta-splatter damage and huge AoE of Airburst, but consider that OGatling spreads its damage out over time, and is still large enough an area to area-denial a pass between two cliffs or something.

[Khloros]

Originally posted by doingwork:

Originally posted by Khloros:

TBH Airburst and gatling are side grades. I agree the air burst is better in terms of coverage, but the gattling has a much shorter CD.

Yea I like having a "toss at the breach and forget" kind of stratagem. After the fire damage buff I usually take Napalm Eagle over either gatling or airburst, but its kind of preference on all 3 of those. Gas strike could be used too but it feels weak at times. Since the gatling has a smaller area of effect it would be good if it had more armor pen, like maybe not outright kill chargers but inflict some damage on them.

Well if the fire damage actually worked and was not a crap shoot at hte moment i would agree with the fire grenades lol. Gas definitely needs a buff.

[Ryzilynt]

Originally posted by Queltis:

I never even bothered to buy it. Far as I could tell from its showcase video it looked like a worse version of the cluster bomb that I already had.

Eventually I unlocked everything, because why not?

[LoboFH]

Very low cooldown, in a different queue than eagles, good duration, helps a lot with bug breaches and it's not too dangerous for team mates.

I like it a lot.

[The One True Git]

Haha big gun go brrrr...

[Reformed Automatan]

Its very good for bugs, drop it on a bug breach and it will kill a huge chunk of them

[Probitas]

It's exactly what it needs to be, a short term, cheap and quickly re-armed area effect strike.

[Moffin Bovin]

its pretty safe to use around other players. it trades power for safety.