Powerful Guns for the Kodiak

[peacefighter]

When I checked the Kodiak's equipment, I learned that it has two powerful guns available:

Railgun (AP = 6, 421 - 579 damage, ammo = Energy Cell) and
The Great Communicator (AP = 6, 349 - 481 damage, ammo = Energy Cell)

I don't remember when or where I got them. I mounted The Great Communicator. In a random world encounter, I got to use The Great Communicator. In the ensuing battle I fired the cannon two times (8 AP's total). After the battle I checked my inventory; I realized that the two shots cost me 100 Energy Cells! Wow!!! That's way too much ammo used. I thought that any ammo used in the Kodiak does not come out from my inventory. Am I wrong? By the way, I reloaded the game--can't afford to blow 100 Energy Cells over a meaningless encounter (went back to the Ranger HQ to dismount gun)..

[snuggleform]

Railgun is from arresting Liberty and then talking to Patriarch.

The kodiak does not use ammo from your inventory. It's been tested with the 7.62 ammo. If it does with energy cells then it's a bug.

[LArc7thHeaven]

No railgun is for delivering valor alive and talk to patriarch.

[snuggleform]

Err I got the names mixed up. The first kid yea Valor.

[peacefighter]

LArc7thHeaven a écrit :

No railgun is for delivering valor alive and talk to patriarch.

Yes, You're right! I remember arresting Valor and afterwards talked to the Patriarch. In the same quest, I sided with "The Great Communicator" and his robot friends. Maybe that's where I the second cannon, The Great Communicator.

snuggleform a écrit :

The kodiak does not use ammo from your inventory. It's been tested with the 7.62 ammo. If it does with energy cells then it's a bug.

Yes, I am aware that 7.62 mm's are free to use, and therefore I assumed that it would be also the case with Energy Cells. I believe you're saying Energy Cells are NOT free. Have any idea why it would cost 50 Energy Cell per use?

[snuggleform]

I used the great communicator a LOT in one of my runs and I never noticed my energy cells being drained, and I never bought a single cell. So I'm saying I believe they ARE free.

If you can reproduce energy cells being drained by communicaotr, I'd suggest reporting it as a bug in the bug forum.

[peacefighter]

I'll remount The Great Communicator and try again. My eyes are really bad if I had misread the Energy Cell count.


SUPPLEMENT:
I need new glasses! I must had read 10 for 100. Sorry for the confusion.

[Psycho Pie]

also (yeh i'm necroing this thread watyougonnado?) the great communicator does not need 6 AP to use but only 4 AP, so two shots on a immobile kodiak.

[Oodie]

The best weapon is Repair Kit, because it lets you keep running over enemies.

[Rayman.]

i used to use clearcutter with cluster bomb or goat cannon. Now I like Fullborer with caltrops more because it is always useful to set enemies on fire and slow them a bit.

Of course, the body and armor must be such that the kodiak has as many action points as possible and the morningstar.

[Heau]

EMDream a écrit :

Also, I find the best weapon to actually be the caltrops decent range shoot over walls and slows them for only 3ap. If you don't move and have the best ap gears you can use it 4 times.

I had doubts at first but after playing with it, I value the AoE stun(Goat) over the caltrops. I took 0 hits/dmg on the Patriarch encounter on max difficulty. AoE stun to dive in on T1 and then Lucia killed all foot soldiers and took the vehicle down to sub 5% health with good Jackhammer(-1AP) angles. This is just one of several ridiculous example.

Then again, I didn't have a setup that really benefited from the "slow" debuff.

Oodie a écrit :

The best weapon is Repair Kit, because it lets you keep running over enemies.

+1

I moved the kodiak in on the final scorpion battle southwest of the map to try and provide cover to my melee res-chain to speed this up and somehow it pinched the scorpion for its remainder ~35% health.