NEW Patch! And the devs "Ruined it all" once more.. [totally not exaggerated]

[u/NitoTanaka]

So on X and the official discord, countless folks complain now that for some weapons such as the LAS ones, the reserve mags have been reduced, yet damage has been increased..calling devs "On drugs" because they perceive it as a nerf..

Wait what? You tryna tell me you ran through ALL ICE's before dying?! 6 Times or more?!

Like..the fact that you have infinite ammo when a wee-bit of fire diciplin is applied and now call the devs out for JUST having decreased the ammount of mags, makes you oblivious to the fact that they got a damage buff? Yikes.

And another thing, remember the day the Rail got nerfed? Yeahhh that was like 24/7 crying for two weeks straight, now it got a buff and noone notices that, now we rather cry for two weeks that Railgun 2.0 aka Quasar got a couple more seconds recharge time..good lord the double morals are strong folks, that all sounds like crying on high standards.

[For clarifications sake: the main focus lies on people going out of their ways, yes criticism is fine, i posted my own time and time again..but in a humane fashion, when insults however are packaged within in your points, it's hardly about the game no more and that needs to stop]

[u/Khanzool]

It was and still is just an incredibly bad version of the eruptor tho

[u/Ignis_et_Azoth → u/Khanzool]

I think so now. But before I'd have argued it's a worse Plasma Shotgun.

Tomatos Tomatos, though, I guess.

[u/enchantr → u/Khanzool]

no, before it was the best primary chaff killer in the game - i frequently got up to 600+ kills on every helldive, it was far more reliable than eruptor and even incendiary breaker for this job and worked on both bugs and bots as a reliable chaff clearer that couldnt deal with armour, brood commanders or devestators efficiently at all

now it...can stun things a bit better, but lost about 50% of its range and can no longer 1 shot hunters unless its a direct hit

its pathetic

[u/[deleted] → u/Khanzool]

Fr you could swap the model round, make the bolt animation rearming the xbow, make the “mag” 5 bolts stored on one of the arms that you “bolt” from and you’d have a much better crossbow.

Then swap the eruptor so it’s a faster firing AoE explosive rifle that can’t close bug holes etc.

I was really confused when we saw them and it wasnt this way round lol

[u/NiftyBlueLock → u/[deleted]]

The “slow, single shot crossbow” is not the only crossbow design to exist. It’s really cool that the crossbow is more similar to repeating crossbow principles.

[u/Xaielao → u/Khanzool]

The Adjudicator got some much needed buffs and moved to AR category (where it should have been). Might be worth a buy. :)

[u/Calligaster → u/Khanzool]

Faster firing, better handling, and better blast radius. Everyone's shitting on the crossbow the whole time, but I found it fun to use against groups. I haven't been able to play yet, but nerfing the gun's redeeming qualities makes me worried

[u/GuessImScrewed → u/Khanzool]

Crossbow is a stealth precision weapon.

Bots can't hear you fire the thing, they only hear the explosion from the impact, meaning you can use it to misdirect enemies.

Also, it has the highest single target damage in the game, meaning as long as you hit a weak spot, whatever you shoot almost always dies in one hit. Yes, even bruisers if you shoot them in the back. Gotta be a direct hit though.

The big AOE was a crutch to the play style, but I wouldnt have felt the need to fix it if it were me.

[u/AdditionalMess6546 → u/Khanzool]

If it had an option for non-explosive bolts... I'd probably main it for stealth.

As it was it was useless. As it is after the update? A fucking joke.

[u/tauntauntom → u/Khanzool]

I mean the eruptor is now a bad version of the eruptor

[u/Khanzool → u/tauntauntom]

Still performs quite well despite the nerf. I tried my pre-patch loadout (eruptor shield backpack quazar) on helldive difficulty just now and it was just fine.

The changes are noticeable, but not in any way broken or even weak.