Is railgun useful for bots or bugs? 7+ ?

[Youshisu]

I never used railgun, now I can but it feels useless a bit. Only pros I think is range.
It does not one shot, or 2 shot. It even bounce of heavy bug armor... :P
Do I use it wrong? I tried unsafe mode but feels no different.

[Sayo]

No it's just bad. It's not even worth looking at. Far better weapon strategems.

[supremegreenz10]

Yes it is. put it in unsafe mode and be careful. Its still a beast. Dont listen to these children that dont have the skill to adapt to a slight nerf. I would still recommend the autocannon though. I prefer it at least

[Dr. Jan Itor]

I can one shot everything short of Tanks with the Railgun, so it's a frequent pick for me as a dedicated Devastator and Hulk killer. One shot to the eyeslot on a hulk and it goes up. Get time with it and you can make it happen every shot and waste less slugs.

So, useful? Definitely. Is it the meta? No. The autocannon can't as easily oneshot things, but it also provides a higher ROF and more flexibility. The Eruptor is also really good vs. bots and is a primary.

So, if you take it, it's still really good once you get used to it, but you may still want to opt for something more flexible or different load out all together.

[Youshisu]

Originally posted by MiG-21bis Fishbed-L:

I can one shot everything short of Tanks with the Railgun, so it's a frequent pick for me as a dedicated Devastator and Hulk killer. One shot to the eyeslot on a hulk and it goes up. Get time with it and you can make it happen every shot and waste less slugs.

So, useful? Definitely. Is it the meta? No. The autocannon can't as easily oneshot things, but it also provides a higher ROF and more flexibility. The Eruptor is also really good vs. bots and is a primary.

So, if you take it, it's still really good once you get used to it, but you may still want to opt for something more flexible or different load out all together.

Charger too?

thats common heavy armor enemy for me. So I guess rail has to be shot at face too ? Like Quasar launcher?

[BanditBob]

Originally posted by supremegreenz10:

Yes it is. put it in unsafe mode and be careful. Its still a beast. Dont listen to these children that dont have the skill to adapt to a slight nerf. I would still recommend the autocannon though. I prefer it at least

So why do you prefer the autocannon over the railgun? See how you just contradicted yourself.

[Drusus]

Originally posted by Sayo:

No it's just bad. It's not even worth looking at. Far better weapon strategems.

Sayo either:
A. Thinks he's being funny.
B. Is trying to make a comment on people whining post balance changes
C. Deliberately pretending it isn't useful so that it avoids more scrutiny from the Developers
D. Is a damned fool

Personally, I believe to Sayo's credit it's most likely A, B or C and D is included for completeness.

The Railgun has perfectly valid uses and performance for a bunch of use cases. I encourage you to give it a try and, like MiG-21bis Fishbed-L and supremegreenz10 said, try it in Unsafe mode for particularly hardened targets.

Autocannon gives you higher rate of fire for the cost of a backpack slot (and/or potential for team reloading). But they serve different roles.

[Dr. Jan Itor]

Originally posted by Youshisu:

Originally posted by MiG-21bis Fishbed-L:

I can one shot everything short of Tanks with the Railgun, so it's a frequent pick for me as a dedicated Devastator and Hulk killer. One shot to the eyeslot on a hulk and it goes up. Get time with it and you can make it happen every shot and waste less slugs.

So, useful? Definitely. Is it the meta? No. The autocannon can't as easily oneshot things, but it also provides a higher ROF and more flexibility. The Eruptor is also really good vs. bots and is a primary.

So, if you take it, it's still really good once you get used to it, but you may still want to opt for something more flexible or different load out all together.

Charger too?

thats common heavy armor enemy for me. So I guess rail has to be shot at face too ? Like Quasar launcher?

I rarely take the RG vs. bugs. I prefer LMG, Flamethrower, EAT-17s, or Recoiless. RG will still kill them easily, but vs. Chargers? I'd rather an EAT-17 or Recoiless for an easy kill or Flamethrower for an almost as easy kill. If I'm taking the LMG, I'll be relying on teammates or orbital rail cannon.

So, I should have specified vs. bots. Against bugs, it's kind of lackluster, IMO.

[Rincewind]

about 4 shots for a charger and 20+ for a bile titan on unsafe? ITS FING USELESS!

[Dango]

It's still good. Take it on unsafe mode. Just be aware it's a precision weapon, if you want to maximize damage, shoot on the same palce, idealy weak point. It's a gimmick you'll need to take, you'll probably make it explode on you a few time, but once you tamed the beast it's a good weapon.

People who tell you it's bad are those who say a weapon is bad when it's not meta. I mean... Sniper rifle as main weapon are bad, railgun isn't.

Is this the best choice ? No. Does it matter ? No. Play what you like, try to see if you can tame it and have fun. It come from someone who take hours on higher difficulty to tame the plasma shotgun and can destroy bot with it, even with people calling it ♥♥♥♥.

Edit: also, ty for the point, always cool to get jester point for just sayin a bitter truth. It make me feel refreshed ^-^

[asura]

It works fine.
Not every weapon is antitank. People crutched the railgun as antitank.
Antitank rockets are all buffed now. Recoilless, EATs, etc all work fine.

The railgun should have always been treated like a DMR with some skill shot tank busting capabilities. It still works on tanks, cannons, hulks, etc.

If you don't like playing with it then just play with something else.

[Dango]

Originally posted by Rincewind:

about 4 shots for a charger and 20+ for a bile titan on unsafe? ITS FING USELESS!

Cant say for charger, but for titan... lets be honest, even the anti-elite orbital canon ask you at least 2 of them to kill a titan on 7+, i've seen titan take like... 4-5 quasar before going out, and on 9 they often come as a pack of 3.

Any weapon is useless against bile titan, only stratagem and a concentred fire of the whole team with anti-tank is kinda ok. They're a bad exemple, just like factory strider.

[zacharyb]

Against bots the railgun is still good, though it can only kill tanks, cannons, and such by shooting them in their weakspot.

[Dr. Jan Itor]

Originally posted by BanditBob:

Originally posted by supremegreenz10:

Yes it is. put it in unsafe mode and be careful. Its still a beast. Dont listen to these children that dont have the skill to adapt to a slight nerf. I would still recommend the autocannon though. I prefer it at least

So why do you prefer the autocannon over the railgun? See how you just contradicted yourself.

How is that a contradiction? He might prefer the greater flexibility of the autocannon, which is the definite advantage it holds over the railgun. The railgun, however, is a near 100% guaranteed one shot against devastators. I find, more often than not, they're the most dangerous if not prioritized simply because they combine good firepower with numbers. Peek, shoot, reload, and then repeat is a great way to quickly eliminate them all together from a safe distance.

Another trade off is that the autocannon is much better at killing tanks and turrets than the railgun, but the railgun's faster reload and being able to reload while running make it better on the move.

So, it really comes down to what you want to do/what your team is asking of it:
Do they want you focusing killing most heavy threats? Railgun.

Do they want you to be more of a jack of all trades who can deal with enemies at an acceptable pace, but also be able to kill fabs? Autocannon.

[Fizzie]

handicapping yourself bringing it to bugs. Its ok against bots with one shots, but aiming it is a pain with the bad scope. Prefer AMR or autocannon against bots, both can destroy heatsinks more reliably

[Dr. Jan Itor]

Originally posted by Fizzie:

handicapping yourself bringing it to bugs. Its ok against bots with one shots, but aiming it is a pain with the bad scope. Prefer AMR or autocannon against bots, both can destroy heatsinks more reliably

Don't bother with the holosight. Just use the crosshairs and you'll do a lot better.