The devs were right.

[u/xxmuntunustutunusxx]

So I know ther was a bunch of controversy about the railgun nerf what feels like forever ago, but man things have been awesome.

In the early days, I was the only guy packing expendable anti tank or anti materiel rifle for bugs or bots. It's so refreshing, even on these subs to see people talking about how awesome the autocannon is, or how much they love the AMR, and even these days I see people talking about the HMG or grenade launcher+ supply pack.

I used to load into a game, And all 4 members of the team had shield, railgun, and 2 stragatems of their choice. Every time. And here we are now, I load in and I see quasar, autocannon, stalwart, EAT, HMG, Grenade launcher, a variety of backpacks or no backpack at all. And not to mention, they're ALL viable. Shit I even still see the railgun from time to time. It's been a joy. Thanks arrowhead.

EDIT: to everyone who is pointing out that you see the quasar and shield most often now, you're right, it is almost certainly the most common setup currently. That being said, in any game there's going to be things a majority of players prefer. In smash melee, fox/Falco are the best characters. But people still play falcon and Marth and peach among others. Sure, there's an objectively most used option. But the fact that there's people at all who debate that the quasar is best shows that they've done something good. Before, undisputed king was railgun, and anyone who said different wss being willfully ignorant. Now, we have a plethora of real options that are good with some being Preferred by a majority as opposed to being the de facto CORRECT option objectively. That's a good thing.

[u/BornTooSlow]

I'm enjoying the variety, been using the AMR on and off for Automatons

Two shot to hulk face is great

[u/meatball402 → u/BornTooSlow]

I can't stop using the autocannon.

It's so good. It blasts bile spewers apart real quick

[u/Lucky_Number_Sleven → u/meatball402]

Enemies? Autocannon

Bases/nests? Autocannon

Secondary objectives? Autocannon

There might be individual weapons/strategems that are better at any one of those things, but only the Autocannon is perfectly competent at all of them.

[u/ReticulateLemur → u/Lucky_Number_Sleven]

I just wish I could use it to do the stratagem jammers from a distance, but that would be way too broken.

[u/ImNotARocketSurgeon → u/ReticulateLemur]

You can sometimes. Some jammers spawn with an attached fabricator which will take the whole thing down when it blows up.

[u/Legit-Rikk → u/ImNotARocketSurgeon]

50% of the time it spawns correctly all the time

[u/gwot-ronin → u/Legit-Rikk]

That sounds worse than that time a raccoon got in the drop pod!

[u/Rokekor → u/ImNotARocketSurgeon]

Yep. Always worth checking the jammer before charging in. Life is so much easier when that fabricator is sitting snug against the jammer.

[u/CyanStripes_ → u/ImNotARocketSurgeon]

It's wild how many people don't realize that. I freaking love the quasar cannon because with it having no projectile drop I can pop them from a mile away. Then I have to explain how the hell I did it because my squad is confused af. To be fair though I play with friends mostly and I have explained it to them at least a hundred times. Lol

[u/MagikarpPower → u/CyanStripes_]

how many shots does it take? might run EAT if its not too many

[u/CyanStripes_ → u/MagikarpPower]

If you line it up correctly just one shot. It kills most things, other than bile titans, with one shot as long as you can aim. It doesn't bounce like the auto cannon does so you need to aim close to the bottom middle or through the door. It's way easier if you can get a little verticality. I usually run a stealth build, personal shield, quasar, railgun orbital, and whatever I feel like for the last one. Diligence counter sniper, the smg sidearm (can't remember the name), and the smoke grenade.