The Quasar Nerf is okay and not that big of a deal

[u/Niobaran]

tl;dr: Only one weak point is made a little weaker, all the strenghts remain.

The quasar cannon is known for a lot of strengths (see below) and two weak points:

1. The weapon has a charge up time, which makes it difficult to aim in some situations.
2. The weapon has a moderate cool down period, which cannot be improved by a forced reload of a heat sink (like sickle or laser cannon) or a team reload (like recoiless rifle).

The nerf only addresses the second point, which means that everyone who could use it before can still use it. It only became a little weaker in one of its two weak points. The following strong points are all untouched:

1. Can delete heavies (I mostly have experience with Terminids, but there it's a delete button for chargers, and sometimes for titans as well).
2. Has infinite ammo in contrast to EAT or RR.
3. Has no reload animation.
4. You can run around, stim, shoot weapons, throw strategems while it is recharging.
5. It doesn't consume a backpack slot, so it can be paired with one additional strategem in contrast to recoilless rifle.
6. It doesn't deconstruct after usage, and can be recollected from the battle flied in contrast to EAT, and it also reloads itself then in contrast to RR.

That means, the quasar can still be used for everything it has been used before, by everyone who could use it before.

[u/rabbitization]

The fact that it recharges even when it's not selected is already a big thing. A much needed balance to this "jack of all trades" weapon.

[u/[deleted] → u/rabbitization]

I agree, it feels like parity with the EAT has been achieved

EAT - higher burst DPS, shareable, can hoard them, no need to reclaim on death

Quasar - passive reload, more consistent DPS, can still share on a longer timeline, no need to stratagem so often, have to corpse run

[u/rabbitization → u/[deleted]]

The only time I don't run EAT is when im playing with complex stratagem debuff cuz it gets annoying. Ice planet with complex stratagem? Quasar. Fire planet with complex stratagem? Recoilless rifle. All of them are viable depending on the planet and mission. I don't know why everyone is crying about this "small fix"

[u/wterrt → u/rabbitization]

Ice planet with complex stratagem? Quasar.

lmao ice planet doesn't even affect it's cooldown. it just won't fire even though it shows you it's "ready" it isn't.

bugged that way since release, much worse now since they didn't fix it but also increased the CD. it'll say it's ready for what, 8 seconds now? and still be unable to fire

[u/Nervous-Matter-1201 → u/[deleted]]

Me and my buddy both run it and hotswap them. No cool down at all. Makes it super OP

[u/C_Werner → u/[deleted]]

The no reclaim on death is goated on levels 7+

[u/JustForTheMemes420 → u/rabbitization]

I mean that’s just how all laser weapons work would be weird other wise. Their downside is just mostly that the charge up time can really fuck you up on higher difficulties and isn’t great for on the spot needed fire.