unsafe mode on railgun worth using?

[lastwordz]

is the unsafe mode worth using with the added risk of blowing up? or is the safe mode more than enough for everything?

[Dr. Rockso]

Unsafe mode all the way. I have yet to blow myself up with it but i'm sure that will change now that I said something about it.

[FashionSuckMan]

there is no real danger in unsafe mode. Just pay attention and it wont kill you.

[⛧Vinn⛧]

but is it worth not being able to hold the charge? sometimes i start to charge way before i see an enemy to shoot the second they are coming out behind a corner

[Bill Waggoner]

Yeah, you will do a lot more damage. When you invevitably go into the red and it goes boom, don't spend 2 minutes looking for the weapon(like I did) because it's gone :)

Gonna have to order in a new one.

[DaddyGabe]

very good against armoured units

[Batailleuse]

Originally posted by DaddyGabe:

very good against armoured units

so is the 500kg nuke, orbital railgun, and orbital laser.

there's rarely a moment where i felt the Railgun actually feel more useful than properly used Orbital.

I'd rather have a Grenade launcher to close bug holes, clear Diff 7-8-9 acid mortars and large hordes than having a railgun.

Nuke usually clears everything, including Titans one tap if placed well.

[Varukaii]

Depends on what you use it for, from what i've tested, safe or unsafe it still takes 2 shots to shave off the leg armor of a charger for then to kill it with smaller arms fire.
Same goes for hulks , 2 shots to kill from the front right in the eye visor.
For me personally its a case of "every second spent dead is a second you don't deal damage" so i prefer staying in safe mode and alive and deal constant damage rather than explode myself due to a moment of not paying attention (and theres a lot of those moments). Also if you explode the gun is gone , you got to call in a new one, and the cooldown is not negligible so you might be stuck a few minutes without a railgun if you die.

[Indigo]

"safe mode" is more of a recommendation, any soldier worth his cape will ofcourse switch over to the proper setting.

[Varukaii]

Originally posted by Batailleuse:

Originally posted by DaddyGabe:

very good against armoured units

so is the 500kg nuke, orbital railgun, and orbital laser.

there's rarely a moment where i felt the Railgun actually feel more useful than properly used Orbital.

I'd rather have a Grenade launcher to close bug holes, clear Diff 7-8-9 acid mortars and large hordes than having a railgun.

Nuke usually clears everything, including Titans one tap if placed well.

Imo its faster to two shot a charger in the leg, whip out the breaker and unload in the leg, usually you can kill a charger like this in about 6-7 seconds if you do it enough times