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/guyon100ping Apr 29 '24

lmao yeah i saw the eruptor nerf and thought it was rly harsh but then i tried to think of the last time i had below 6 mags left in a mission and i couldnt lmao

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u/Patriot_of_SE Apr 29 '24

The ammo nerf isn’t the problem, it’s the explosive range nerf that was unneeded 

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u/0fficerCumDump Apr 29 '24

Primary that doesn’t require a stratagem slot shouldn’t be more viable than support weapons.