Elite Blaster

[Grimaldus]

sooo, ive been playing for a while, and ive noticed that if i get enough points in one life i get the elite blaster, with increased damage, but ive also noticed that sometimes it goes from a blue/orange beam to a weird burst fire rifle.
what the hell is going on?!?!?!?

[Delta0175]

Could you maybe post a screenshot or record a video? I don't think I've heard of any mods that change the awards, but do you have any mods installed? Otherwise it's not really supposed to do that as the Elite Rifle is only supposed to be a burst fire while the Beam Rifle which is the award for the Sniper rifle fires a beam, though it's purple rather than blue/orange, the only orange beam that a weapon fires is Leia's sporting blaster and the one that shoots a blue one is a Clone Sharpshooter's Sniper Rifle.

[Grimaldus]

i dont have any mods, and i get the "award" rifle which i believe is just a damage buff, but a few times the trail has been blue
oh, i dont mean "beam" as in a soild line, i just meant the round that had been fired, cause its a laser and i wasnt sure what to call it :P
ill take a screen shot next time i get one :D

[Delta0175]

Originally posted by AntiThesis:

i dont have any mods, and i get the "award" rifle which i believe is just a damage buff, but a few times the trail has been blue
oh, i dont mean "beam" as in a soild line, i just meant the round that had been fired, cause its a laser and i wasnt sure what to call it :P

While the upgrade weapons do, do more damage the actual damage buff is called War Hero which is gotten after getting 36 points.

Blaster Bolt is the term you're looking for.

Also I believe I think I know what is going on now, I was confused at the 'beam' part, but now that has been cleared up I do think I know what's going on.. What basically is happening is I believe that you think when you get the award when it appears in the left hand corner, you actually don't get it until you switch your primary weapon to your secondary, then back to your primary. Basically, shoot 12 enemies in one life with the Blaster Rifle, the message that you are awarded with the Elite Rifle appears, you switch to your Blaster Pistol, then back to the Blaster Rifle and notice how next to the BR icon it doesn't say 'Blaster Rifle' anymore, but AWARD Rifle.

[Grimaldus]

Originally posted by Delta0175:

Originally posted by AntiThesis:

i dont have any mods, and i get the "award" rifle which i believe is just a damage buff, but a few times the trail has been blue
oh, i dont mean "beam" as in a soild line, i just meant the round that had been fired, cause its a laser and i wasnt sure what to call it :P

While the upgrade weapons do, do more damage the actual damage buff is called War Hero which is gotten after getting 36 points.

Blaster Bolt is the term you're looking for.

Also I believe I think I know what is going on now, I was confused at the 'beam' part, but now that has been cleared up I do think I know what's going on.. What basically is happening is I believe that you think when you get the award when it appears in the left hand corner, you actually don't get it until you switch your primary weapon to your secondary, then back to your primary. Basically, shoot 12 enemies in one life with the Blaster Rifle, the message that you are awarded with the Elite Rifle appears, you switch to your Blaster Pistol, then back to the Blaster Rifle and notice how next to the BR icon it doesn't say 'Blaster Rifle' anymore, but AWARD Rifle.

ahhhhhh, i see what you mean! i havnt been changing between my guns, so thatll be why it seems like its inconsistant xD
thanks for helping me on that one!

[Delta0175]

No problem and yeah, I think the devs might have intended this as they probably felt as time went on people sometimes would rather use the normal version of the weapon rather than the award and you're stuck with it when you reach Legendary status with the award or well as long as you don't ever change your weapon anyway or completely making a new Profile. A lot of people particularly hate the Beam Rifle as it's impossible to get headshots with it the normal way and that your role changes from long range to close with the loss of the second magnification.

[Grimaldus]

sooo, your telling me that the award sniper rifle is WORSE that the default?

[Delta0175]

Generally, yeah, though it is pretty good at close quarters. The highlight of it is that it can penetrate up to 5 people so it's good for small maps like the Tantive IV where enemies can bunch up, but what kills it pretty much is how you can't get headshots the normal way, basically what you need to do is:

Zoom in

Center the dot on the top of the targets head, as if you were trying to give them a haircut.

Zoom out

Fire

It is noted that the dot has to be in the middle of the top of the enemies head. If your aim is off by even a centimeter, you will miss the shot. Due to the fact that the process to get a headshot is long and has to be very precise, you can only do this with stationary targets.

But yeah it's pointless doing something like that even though bots are stationary like 60% or so of the time.

[Grimaldus]

thats a pretty strange system, but i can imagine haveing the penetration would be a major advantage in choke areas :D
but i think ill just stick with the blaster rifle class, after spending so much time playing the series with this class, ill sick with them :D

[ST3PBR0]

is the online still up?

[Delta0175]

Originally posted by xX(X_X)FreeStyleGuyXx:

is the online still up?

Officially, no, the servers went off a year ago and Gamespy doesn't even exist anymore. Unofficially you can play it via third party through Gameranger or Gamemaster, you can play it through other means, but those two are the most active.

[highfivingbears]

The beam rifle is great for no-scoping in close combat situations

[Hikage]

So how many "Elite" Weapons are there?

[highfivingbears]

Originally posted by Donezo Washington:

So how many "Elite" Weapons are there?

The Flechette Shotgun,Beam Rifle,Award Rifle,Precision Pistol,Homing Rocket Launcher.
Those are all of the ones that I know of.

[Delta0175]

Originally posted by (totally assigned):

Originally posted by Donezo Washington:

So how many "Elite" Weapons are there?

The Flechette Shotgun,Beam Rifle,Award Rifle,Precision Pistol,Homing Rocket Launcher.
Those are all of the ones that I know of.

The "Award Rifle" is actually called the Elite Rifle and the Rocket Launcher is a Remote Rocket Launcher that you can control as you can already home with the default one by just locking onto a vehicle also the neat thing about it is it is the only award that doesn't override the default weapon so you can use the regular Rocket Launcher and the Remote Rocket, but that's all of them yeah.

All the awards can be viewed in the Career tab and clicking on them shows a description on how to obtain them.

[Valrynn the Dragoness]

Whats the best way to get the homing rocket launcher? I've been practicing sniping the underside of the AT AT on Geonosis and I can do it from spawn with a rocket, but it's a slow process.

Is it even worth getting? If so, whats the best way?