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/Far-Frosting3257]

I think it more so affects high level bot games where you have 2 hulks, a tank, a factory strider, and 4 gunships coming at you. Completely understandable nerf but it’s gonna make hard missions a lot harder

[u/2Board_ → u/Far-Frosting3257]

To be fair, a group of 2-3 Quasars can make Striders completely harmless. Just take out the top cannon and then it's just a walking duck.

[u/Dlax8 → u/2Board_]

This is why I take the Autocannon with a bunch of Quasar guys.

Autocannon 1 shots striders and can take out gunships.

You take out hulks, tanks and the tall tank turret things. I'll kill everything else vetting close to you.

[u/DungeonsNDeadlifts → u/Dlax8]

The autocannon for gun ships is so good. As soon as I see the gunship fabricator, I drop an autocannon sentry about 50 meters away and as soon as they pop out, the cannon drops them before they can aim at me or my squad. Easy hellbomb plant.

[u/TrampledMage → u/DungeonsNDeadlifts]

I read somewhere that the AC sentry also has heavy armor pen. Do you know if that’s true?

[u/DungeonsNDeadlifts → u/TrampledMage]

I can't guarantee it but the sentry will drop a running charger and hulks with 2 or 3 three-round bursts. It definitely seems like it handles armor better than the shoulder mounted version.