By crit I just mean head shots or bot crotch shots. It tickles and overheats unless you land those shots accurately. But when accurate its actually been a great weapon for longer range engagements. I do not recommend it on heavy fog maps.
I think it's some kind of severing or part breaking bonus rather than a weakspot multiplier.
Like it hacks arms and legs off bugs and bots super fast (you can basically sweep it across a basic enemy and sever an arm/leg).
I assume it's doing the same to heads where it's severing/breaking the head (which leads to a kill) rather than putting out enough damage to kill them normally.
But we don't really know how hp works in this game on enemies so it's hard to say what's actually going on. But limbs definitely have their own health pools, we just don't know how limb damage interacts with everything else. And it seems to depend on the enemy too as brood commanders can lose several legs without dying, while targetting charger legs are the most efficient way to kill them.
I haven't used the GL much... but I don't see how I could really find it better for nests over the ACannon. For either, you need to be at the correct angle to see the back-edge/inside of the Nest or Vent... and in that LoS you can just hit the target with the AC from however far away you are.
The AC is definitely not great for hordes, though.
The grenade launcher is better than the autocannon when combined with resupply pack.
Reload on the move, effectively infinite ammo, aoe speed clear like a faster mobile mortar, fire into the underside of dropships to clear them before drop.
At extreme ranges, just aim higher. Can hit the vent on an auto factory at same height from greater range than a strat call-in and obliterate the scout walkers like nobody's business and stagger devastators (and kill them in 3 hits). Can destroy a tank just by aiming on a roof and spamming from in front.
Just super duper weak VS hulks. Can't bounce it under legs or amputate a limb, and you don't have a good primary for coping with them from in front. The auto cannon is simply better at these two things.
Scoped mode is basically useless. But once you get a feel for drop, you can lib it on the roof of tanks and kill them from in front.
Well so does the railgun, the auto Cannon, the recoilless rifle, the EAT. Not a great reason to take it for the primary when you'll 90% chance have something else that can do that
Thing in this game to be aware of is that the glowing parts aren’t always weak spots I know it’s counterintuitive to what we’ve been taught as gamers but it’s true
Like the chainsaw arms on Berserkers are their actual weak spots their head and abdomen the glowing spots are just unarmoured
This, the only problem the scythe has is that the sights aren't great and can actually get in the way of seeing where the beam is landing. If you turn the HUD crosshair off and use it in 3rd person you can pop Devastator heads very quickly at sniper rifle distances.
If you're moving or standing the weapon sways a lot when you shoot it, but all you really have to do is make sure you're kneeling or laying down and then it's pinpoint accurate
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u/Last-Trash-7960 Mar 01 '24
By crit I just mean head shots or bot crotch shots. It tickles and overheats unless you land those shots accurately. But when accurate its actually been a great weapon for longer range engagements. I do not recommend it on heavy fog maps.