Scythe needs a scope and/or damage buff

[Koushik Ayame]

A lot of people feel like the Scythe is lacking, especially since the introduction of the Sickle. It's not the most effective weapon to use. However, I feel like a scope is the single thing it needs to become a better weapon. I for one do not understand why the Sickle was give a scope and the Scythe was not. It's basically the laser marksman rifle. Doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me. I personally would enjoy the Scythe so much more if it just had a scope. It's like using the anti material rifle but if it only had iron sights. That's what it feels like to use it.

Again, it's pretty much what we got for a laser marksman rifle. Marksman rifles need scopes. Unless of course they are planning on adding an actual laser marksman rifle in the future but even then that'd still leave the Scythe in a grey area of not being all that amazing to use.

If no scope, then it needs a buff to like 350 damage per second. It's a little lackluster in it's current state. Especially against bugs.

[Puni$her]

Agree, scope would be a very nice buff for this weapon. Damage would be even better.

[Qua2ar]

Dagger Ftw

[Zeromentor]

I think that the Scythe and Dagger should either deal more damage over time while hitting the same spot (like raising damage up to like 50% more over time while on target, increasing the terrible 300 DPS to a better, but still lower than average 450 DPS) or they should set the target on fire (or something similar, possibly weaken medium armor and allow for light pen to penetrate medium? Might be too much...)

[Crossbone]

I wish it had an overcharge mode so it could do higher damage in exchange of higher heat

[Koushik Ayame]

Dagger is by far the worst weapon in the entire game. What a joke

[Spikebomb5]

fighting different factions should require different weapons/strategems. I agree most weapons should be buffed/have niches. It's bad against bugs but before sickle, i would main scythe vs bots. Not requiring ammo vs rifles, longer range than shotguns, it's great except up close like with berserkers.

[Fox]

All laser weapons are pretty lackluster compared to any similar projectile weapon. Also, the sickle isn't a sickle when compared to HD1, it's just a better liberator with a slight spinup. The old sickle was a completely different weapon.

[Qua2ar]

Originally posted by Koushik Ayame:

Dagger is by far the best weapon in the entire game. What a fact

fixed it

[Koushik Ayame]

I don't believe you for a second that you think the dagger is actually good.

[Balthazar the Magnificent Dog]

Scrythe does 300 dps, and sickle does 688.

Scrythe is more accurate, but you have to be a Rover to aim that good.
Scrythe takes longer to overheat, but not enough to make up for the difference in dps.

Ideas.
Add a headshot aim assist.
Set target on fire.

[Pimpin Pippin]

Every weapon needs to have a valid relevant selling point.
Scythe is garbage in every way, except that it has infinite ammo.

But in this game you have plenty of ammo from many different sources - calldown, backpack, enviroment boxes, respawning...
So the only selling point of scythe is rendered utterly pointless.

[Mitzuriki]

If it can chop off limbs within a second or two that'd be great

[Midas]

I agree with it having a scope. If it had the same zoom options as the sickle, I think people would like it a lot more. It's actually pretty decent if you can stick it on something's head, but that's hard to do with no real magnification.

[Hand's Hermit Permit]

I'm sure the beams will be very effective against illuminate shields, so there's that.

In general though, beams should be excellent at dismembering enemies. They should be able to easily slice through bug legs (many bugs can just lose their legs and keep fighting) and bot arms. I don't know what the limb damage stat is on the scythe/dagger, but it's really not noticeably better than anything else.

[Mason Greyrat]

Would be cool if that thing did the same damage as his rover counterpart