Suggestions on effective weapon loadouts?

[BustedHipGaming]

What do you find to be the most effective weapons configurations, and why?

Melee: I kind of like Mace-style weapons (hammers, anything big and smashy)

Bullet shooter: Detonator weapons are kinda nice against groups if you time them right

Energy shooter: I like full auto or ray

Missiles: 12-shot homing for me, can't seem to land the 2-missile nukes

Floating zappies: If I have them active, I don't see them do too much damage, might try setting them up with cold element to see if they slow down a target, tho.

What's your opinion/preference?

[Mech_Monkey]

Hello!
Arguably some builds are better than the others... though I believe everything is quite viable. Especially if you like a certain playstyle, you will make it work.

Except for one of the builds I tend to prioritize melee. Now you have to decide if it is melee + speed or melee + elemental, or a combination of melee / ranged. I believe there are mods for each.

Then I decide on shields/hp. In my experience, it seems a bit difficult when you want to go half and half. What works for me, maybe because of the playstyle, I either go for HP + nano to recover when in melee. Or I go shields + shield recover speed.

The build I use the most, I do not remember the exact mod names:

Melee dual + nano = healing while destroying
Speed engine = zoom in and out of the way + some mods for fuel consumption, so I can do it for a longer time ... It is 1000 acc and something like 200 consumption, I think less than 200
... So the mods are mainly focused on melee damage, speed, recovery. I think I have one for Quantum break, so it lasts longer.

Apart from melee weapons, I use detonator, homing missiles/shock dmg, and freeze floating zappies :D
So shock missiles get them weaker, I quickly charge in with a combo
If they are in a group, even better, I throw in few detonators into the mix
Zappies will freeze them from time to time, giving me more opportunities.

[zlk]

For melee weapons I prefer dual wielding single tip spears. It offers unparalleled range and the dual strikes have good range as well.

You should try a pure melee build and see if you like it. Here's mine:
Cast highmetal engine, Spartoi OS, Styxgear architecture. It comes with 3566 physical attack power and 17,794 shields. In the case that I run out of shields I use Quantum Break Armored Form to quickly regenerate and just face tank most things. I also use a Hammerfall M.A.S.S. for high base armor. Unequip all other weapons as you will not be using them.

If you like melee and ranged try this, it's a heat damage spec and uses Revenant architecture with Suncaller for extra heat damage and Wildfire Starter to get a devastating amount of burst from dual strikes. Switch all damage types to heat including weapons and missiles.

Then there's the extremely powerful Full Metal Jacket build, most powerful in the game perhaps - using the Anglerwasp architecture, Full Metal Jacket and Bullet Specialist Techs, Omnia OS to reduce fuel burn rate, and Melded Engine so you can take some hits. I sometimes with two shots destroy enemy M.A.S.S. units with spread shot and the gatling gun finishes off full health enemies in a matter of seconds. I also set the damage type of the floaters to shock to apply the weak status buff so enemies take even more damage.

[BustedHipGaming]

Originally posted by zlk:

For melee weapons I prefer dual wielding single tip spears. It offers unparalleled range and the dual strikes have good range as well.

You should try a pure melee build and see if you like it. Here's mine:
Cast highmetal engine, Spartoi OS, Styxgear architecture. It comes with 3566 physical attack power and 17,794 shields. In the case that I run out of shields I use Quantum Break Armored Form to quickly regenerate and just face tank most things. I also use a Hammerfall M.A.S.S. for high base armor. Unequip all other weapons as you will not be using them.

If you like melee and ranged try this, it's a heat damage spec and uses Revenant architecture with Suncaller for extra heat damage and Wildfire Starter to get a devastating amount of burst from dual strikes. Switch all damage types to heat including weapons and missiles.

OK dumb question maybe, but what is a hammerfall mass?

[redeyedraven]

Originally posted by BustedHipGaming:

OK dumb question maybe, but what is a hammerfall mass?

Hammerfall is one of the armor-sets.

[BustedHipGaming]

Originally posted by redeyedraven:

Originally posted by BustedHipGaming:

OK dumb question maybe, but what is a hammerfall mass?

Hammerfall is one of the armor-sets.

Is there some advantage to different armors other than them looking different?

[redeyedraven]

Originally posted by BustedHipGaming:

Is there some advantage to different armors other than them looking different?

AFAIK the only thing that truly impacts your M.A.S.S. is the weight of armor. Hammerfall is one of if not the most heavy one. Other than the weight, armor has no stats attached.

[zlk]

When you select armor, there is weight that affects how much total armor, i.e. defense (damage reduction) you get, with heavier armors granting more defense. However, the heavier your M.A.S.S. is, the slower your acceleration will be and the higher the rate of fuel consumption will be. If you go to the Tuning screen you will see the numbers fluctuate as you increase and decrease your weight.

And Hammerfall is a M.A.S.S. that makes you look like Juggernaut from X-Men.

You can see all 16 unique armors currently available in this video: https://youtu.be/dATZVbxqn74

Also you can see how some melee combos look like with different weapons equipped. This video shows basic, heavy, extended and empowered combos showing their range and attack pattern. https://youtu.be/HP_FMRk3k1w

[Leonhardt]

I personally use nukes by getting a swarm of enemies to follow me and backpedaling away from them before firing it off. Does massive damage to whole crowds.

[Leonhardt]

My current setup right now is
>Twin flame swords
>Shock mace
>Flame machine gun
>Shock detonator
>freeze beam rifle
>Flame beam ray
>Freeze homing missiles
>Shock nuke
>Freeze funnel

Can tackle basically anything.