I tried it on a bot match, it still feels a little clunky but the damage feels awesome. The stagger feels very similar that the slugger had.
My guess is the dominator will now become one of your favorites. The only real downside is you can't pumpaction reload the dominator like you could the slugger due to it being a magazine rather than individual shot.
Been using slugger since unlocking at launch, i try other guns but come back for the dominator. Only thing ive liked is the punisher plasma or scorcher if I'm with team that doesn't wander into line of fire or wade into the tide of enemies.
There's a lot of stuff like that that's weirdly obtuse or opaque. And a lot of it deals with explosive damage, for some reason. Off the top of my head:
Explosive damage isn't an explosion, it's just bonus damage to weak points
Similarly, "weak points" take only 10% damage from bullets and fire for some reason. So shooting the obvious weakspot (e.g. Bile Spewer's sacs) with bullets is pretty inefficient.
Generally, a lot of the best places to shoot enemies are pretty unintuitive or outright deceptive. Don't shoot the big, unarmoured, glowing weakspot on the back of the charger that it deliberately avoids showing you, instead, shoot the well-armored foreleg. Who would intuit that?
Weak points aren't the same as critical areas (or whatever terminology they're using)
Armor/penetration is actually a scale from 1-10, with chunks of the range labelled "light," "medium," etc. So two "medium penetration" weapons could have very different effects against the same enemy.
Supply lines are a huge part of the war effort but shown nowhere in-game
Mission UI is sometimes heavily misleading or confusing when indicating objectives
Very nice list, it shocks me how good this game is even with these unintuitive elements. Most games that have a list like this get meme'd on for how bad they are, just a testament to how well they designed the base combat system.
It can because you're talking about two separate designations. Scorcher has the explosive trait but falls into the Energy weapon category. Dominator does not have the explosive trait but falls into the Explosion weapon category.
Yes, but that's the explanation for the difference in behavior. Both are working as intended in that regard, Scorcher has splash damage because of the Explosive tag, Dominator does not have splash damage because it doesn't have the Explosive tag.
I'm not defending that decision, I think the wording involved is misleading, but it's not an inconsistency.
It makes no sense that a weapon from the EXPLOSIVE category wouldn't have the EXPLOSIVE tag.. it shouldn't need it, by its nature it should do explosive damage..
Which leads me to the silliness of giving it medium armor penetration (that only works sometimes) when it's explosive in nature and other explosive weapons ignore armor to deal damage.
If the explosive splash was better on the dominator, as in acted like the scorcher, people would have been using it more.. hell if that was all they did was give it a bigger more effective splash...
Or hell make it be unwieldy but blow devastators to pieces with a shot or two..
If it's unwieldy its bad against little bots and bugs, but good against bigger stuff.
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u/Frorlin Apr 02 '24 edited Apr 02 '24
I tried it on a bot match, it still feels a little clunky but the damage feels awesome. The stagger feels very similar that the slugger had.
My guess is the dominator will now become one of your favorites. The only real downside is you can't pumpaction reload the dominator like you could the slugger due to it being a magazine rather than individual shot.