How is the eruptor?

[Lycon]

When I quit playing it was super good, could kill chargers in 1 hit etc. Hows it now?

[Sirre]

It's in the category of "usable" weapons, or around high B tier if you prefer that sort of scale.

It's is certainly not the shrapnel fueled powertrip it was back then.

[Chaos]

Was it as good as back then?
Not anymore more lol.

It's not garbage, but it won't be anyone first choice for that's for sure.

[o0oWMDo0o]

Combined with the stalwart or MG43 it's a beast. Think of it as a support weapon.

With the large bugs aim for the floor under there bellies and you can insta kill them with shrapnel damage.

It also takes out close groups of trash.

I wish it had an airburst setting though. Would make so much cooler...

[Dakota]

It's rather bad. There's not really a single good reason to bring it over the crossbow, which does more damage per shot, fires twice as fast, can be fired one handed, has way better handling, doesn't explode at 100m, etc.

Technically the eruptor can potentially do more damage in a single shot with the frag, but the frag is so weak on it now that it doesn't really make up for the huge list of advantages the crossbow got. It's sorta like the situation with the slugger and dominator where the slugger got nerfed and all it lost was given to the dominator, meaning no reason to bring the one over the other other than just screwing around.

[badger vortex]

mostly just a worse crossbow, which is unfortunate - it had potential on release

[Foxador]

No point to use it when you have the crossbow which is better in every single way

[Axis of Lint]

Originally posted by badger vortex:

mostly just a worse crossbow, which is unfortunate - it had potential on release

"Potential" lol. The eruptor was flat broken on release.

[Inardesco]

Originally posted by Lycon:

When I quit playing it was super good, could kill chargers in 1 hit etc. Hows it now?

It could do it because they gave it the airburst shrapnel, instead of grenade shrapnel.

Now it has grenade shrapnel and an explosion.

[Turbo Thorsten]

Originally posted by Chaos:

Was it as good as back then?
Not anymore more lol.

It's not garbage, but it won't be anyone first choice for that's for sure.

It's my first choice for bots unironically

[jrf773]

It's ok. If you were looking for it to be what it was, nope nope nope. You can do worse for primaries, but you call also do better.

[Foxador]

Originally posted by Axis of Lint:

Originally posted by badger vortex:

mostly just a worse crossbow, which is unfortunate - it had potential on release

"Potential" lol. The eruptor was flat broken on release.

Only because it could kill chargers. Minus that it was barely worth using with it's super slow firing rate and god awful handling

Sure you could cheat the game and fire really quickly but that was just a gimmick that didn't really do much as you couldn't aim and you just blind fired

If chargers couldn't get killed by the gun than no one would've cared to nerf it because it was flat out stated that the only reason they did end up having to nerf it was because it killed chargers

[badger vortex]

Originally posted by Axis of Lint:

Originally posted by badger vortex:

mostly just a worse crossbow, which is unfortunate - it had potential on release

"Potential" lol. The eruptor was flat broken on release.

wouldn't say broken, still handled like a drunk elephant and slow RoF

[HK-47]

Bad.

[Malidictus]

Decent but disappointing. People got so ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ hung up on the shrapnel mechanic that Arrowhead ended up balancing the weapon around it. As a result, you have a very slow grenade launcher with relatively low explosive damage and RNG shrapnel spread. It is, unfortunately, just a weaker crossbow - which is a shame, because it's a really cool weapon in concept.

Someone in another thread had the idea of giving it programmable ammo, allowing it to fire an AP4 kinetic penetrator with maybe some explosive damage in a very small radius. Basically, the boltgun it looked like from the promo materials. That would give the Eruptor a lot of extra versatility without needing to up its stats.

[sel]

Basically, just use the crossbow. Its in the same warbond so you should have it.

the crossbow is objectively better in every single way compared to the eruptor, now.
the only reason you would use the eruptor is for flavor.