Laser Cannon op against Automaton gunships

[Houd.ini]

I was trying out the laser cannon today and i realised it is awsome against Gusnhips. You shoots them at their engines and they explide in 3 seconds. Why is nobody mentioning it. Not to mention it kills tanks and tower easely if you hit them in the back. I used it in combination with the eruptir and jetpack and you can clear enemkes from ip to 200 meters.

[Houd.ini]

Originally posted by Zidj:

Originally posted by michaelthered:

laser cannon is ultra mid for me......i've held that thing on a devastators eyeballs for seconds and didn't kill it until my laser bot multiplied fire on it. It even seems you have to hold it on grunts for far far too long before they die. Not sure i've ever killed a hulk with it. Only support weapon i've killed a hulk on my own with is the amr. I've heard the ac can do it, but i must not be a good enough shot even tho i've been able to do it with the amr. The laser cannon abs needs a bit of a buff.....it's never going to be good at crowd control i get that, but if you do hit the lighter enemies with it...they should melt pretty much instantly. It's an unweildy weapon and that's perfectly fine......it just needs to do more damage. ANd at close range it's abs horrendous and i don't really know why. I've had multiple saw boys bearing down on me while i've got that laser cannon buried in their faces and they just waltz through it. Once they hit you, you can't bring it bear again....and that's fine. But it seems to do WAY WAY WAY inconsistent dmg.

The damage is consistent, it's just like any other beam weapon (scythe, dagger)- you're not doing very good damage unless it stays on a weakpoint. Each weakpoint also has its own HP pool so you want to focus on the same one, and if possible, have it be the one that is weakest.

Though I must ask, were you using it on a cold planet? That is ideal for energy weapons because of heatsinks, however that lower firerate also applies to laser weapons, reducing their ticks per second.

Indeed i have become the helldiver of past christmas by mostly playing on snow planets. i wonder where the other 2 helldivers are :P

[Sevrojin]

iv been doing t9 runs with the laser rifle , laser cannon, and laser sidearm

these weapons are heavily underreated and i myself hated them at first thinking they were total garbage.

you cook the cannon till its about to overheat then swap to the primary and once thats about to overheat you go to your sidearm and once thats at about halfway heated the cannon should be cold for a new burst.

the only issue is this is more on a medium/small clearing build its not reccomended to run this solo as most this with heavy armor you will be unable to kill without the use of strategems

also insanely effective vs flying bugs and gunships(not dropships)

[[TGU]SOL]

Laser cannon is all round good against the bots, aim for the head and it takes them all out very quickly even hulks, it also makes short work of walkers weapons and the AA tank. it is odd so many don't know targeting it cannons kills it super quick from the front , auto cannon and quasar work just as well.

It just a pain in the ass to use in heavy vegetation.

[Katitoff]

Originally posted by Mister Sir:

Originally posted by Houd.ini:

I am not talking about quassar cannon but the laser canon. It shoots those damn gunship down in 3 sexonds if you aim at their egnines. With a full charge ypu can take out 3 of them in 10 seconds.

Jesus, I even forgot that thing existed. I heard it got a buff which is great, but I do not see anyone use it ever.

I see it on regular basis at 7 and 8 against automatons, even use it myself, it is great weapon vs automatons, only things you need to flank to kill are tanks and towers.