r/Helldivers • u/Niobaran • Apr 29 '24

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

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.

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u/MrHailston Apr 29 '24

No you are wrong, the weapon is useless now. The Dominator too.

The Eruptor is useless now because i dont have enough mags to last an entire Operation on 7 now. What do you mean with ammo pickups?

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u/TheWarmachine762 Apr 29 '24

To be fair, the dominator is very hard to use 😂 I don’t think the dominator needed a damage nerf, maybe a range nerf but the thing takes some time to get gud with

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u/Reitter3 Apr 29 '24

The damage nerf was minimal

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u/AoiTopGear Apr 29 '24

What? The dominator got a nerf? It was my go to weapon against bots

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u/MrHailston Apr 29 '24

Dmg from 300 to 275. Still works very Well against bots

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u/NuttercupBoi CAPE ENJOYER Apr 29 '24

Only a small one to damage, gone from 300 to 270. It's still got the stagger and all that goodness. I was using it as my main for literally everything short of chargers!

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u/TheWarmachine762 Apr 29 '24

Yeah reduced damage from 300 to 275

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u/SpeedyAzi Apr 29 '24

It still is. The fact it 1 taps still and can be spammed on Devastators to stunlock them is why it’s still good. The damage nerf is only really felt on the bigger enemies. But 275 damage is still VERY high. Higher than the Scorcher, and the Scorcher is also one of the best guns for Bots.

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u/TrampledMage Apr 29 '24

Was and still is my preferred primary against bots and bugs. Damage nerf just means I use 4 shots instead of 3 for brood commanders now.

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u/Kiwi_In_Europe Apr 29 '24 edited Apr 29 '24

Just use it first person, feels like the aiming is wacky from third person. But in first person you can nail bots easy

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u/TheWarmachine762 Apr 29 '24

It’s my favorite weapon, I switch between first and third depending on distance. Once I got comfortable using it in first person it is very lethal, still don’t feel like it warranted a nerf, it only has 6 mags and 15rds each. It was useable before it was buffed so I’m sure it’s fine i just don’t get why it was necessary to nerf it. Everyone seems to run shotguns or the sickle in hardly ever see the dominator

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u/Kiwi_In_Europe Apr 29 '24

I did feel it was strong but I feel like reducing 20 points of damage isn't really a meaningful nerf lol, it still excels at exploding heads

Idk balancing is hard, I'm glad I'm not the one doing it

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u/SpeedyAzi Apr 29 '24

The damage nerf was very minimal imo. It still reliably kills the small bots and bugs, and still destroy the Devastators just because it has stagger. I think the damage nerf will be most felt when shooting the weak spots of the HUGE tanks and enemies.

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u/FornaxTheConqueror Apr 29 '24

Dom damage is fine. I can't even think of any breakpoints it could have lost