Automatons... Best newb gun?

[NiveusT]

Feels like the guns we get for them are way too weak for the amount they throw at us.


EDIT: Thanks for all the answers :) I got it now :)

[Amaranth]

SMG is great with them.

[Solvem Probler]

The go-to weapons are the Defender and the Breaker.

[Gilmore]

Breaker.

[Insanitor]

Machine Gun wrecks them! Even the big ones, just focus fire the head :)

[Xarko]

Scorcher is also great vs automatons, but that's alllll the way down in the warbond. As poster above said, use the machine gun. People tend to underestimate it as a start weapon, but that thing shreds medium armor with ease.

[MarcoPants]

Dominator

[GavinGWhiz]

1. Echoing people saying Breaker is a solid early-warbond option.

2. Just wanna say seeing this post warmed my heart after the absolute garbage fire that was this Discussion board last night when players were FUMING about not being able to play the game a little bit more on their three-day weekend. It is refreshing to see actual discussion of the game again and not, y'know, whinging about something we can't do anything about.

[SnuffSaid]

You probably just got back from one of the escort missions, which are absolutely busted and need detuning badly. They're about 2 levels of difficulty harder than any other bot mission, and about 4 levels of difficulty harder than bugs. The dropship rate combined with the spazzy civilian pathfinding just makes them a joke. One time I had to stop fighting to literally push each civilian away from a wall they were running into.

Personally I'm avoiding any bot campaigns with escort missions until both those issues are fixed.

[Jonathan J. O'Neill]

Breaker Shotgun and aim for the crotch.

[Kalenath]

Breaker is best, of course.

Liberator Penetrator is decent against low/mid tier Automatons, but it is later in war bonds and has a low magazine size. You really need to aim well with it, but you have a good scope too. Its damage falls off fast at higher difficulties.

Anti-material rifle stratagem is good for low difficulties, but it seems to be a bit off in aiming, at least for me.

As other have said the basic Machine Gun is awesome for lower level automatons, but when Devastators show up? Break out the anti-armor.

[DaddyGabe]

Anti Material Rifle

[White Rider]

Originally posted by DaddyGabe:

Anti Material Rifle

underrated choice.

Yeah it takes a stratagem slot.

Yeah it's niche and situational otherwise.

Against the bots though it is very good, especially early but it still does a good job later against hulks and devastators.
Target weapons or heads.
For Hulks, just aim for the little red "eye" in their chest plate.
A few shots will drop a hulk.

[Kalenath]

Originally posted by White Rider:

Originally posted by DaddyGabe:

Anti Material Rifle

underrated choice.

Yeah it takes a stratagem slot.

Yeah it's niche and situational otherwise.

Against the bots though it is very good, especially early but it still does a good job later against hulks and devastators.
Target weapons or heads.
For Hulks, just aim for the little red "eye" in their chest plate.
A few shots will drop a hulk.

ALWAYS hilarious to see that happen, yeah. :)

[NiveusT]

I know everyone is saying breaker, but... Which breaker? All of the ones I see are page 9 or page 3 of the special warbond. Am I missing one?

[⛧Vinn⛧]

Originally posted by Kalenath:

Breaker is best, of course.

Liberator Penetrator is decent against low/mid tier Automatons, but it is later in war bonds and has a low magazine size. You really need to aim well with it, but you have a good scope too. Its damage falls off fast at higher difficulties.

Anti-material rifle stratagem is good for low difficulties, but it seems to be a bit off in aiming, at least for me.

As other have said the basic Machine Gun is awesome for lower level automatons, but when Devastators show up? Break out the anti-armor.

aiming side to side introduces weapon sway. your gun needs to be still to hit dead center.