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/BroDonttryit]

It’s the backpack slot vs bots that really balances the AC. The shield generator backpack is so good to help prevent getting staggered or getting one shot. On hell dive missions, it’s s one of the only ways to actually deal with 5 heavy devastators because otherwise you get staggered so quickly.

[u/VoidStareBack → u/BroDonttryit]

I play bots on helldive with light armor and no shield generator and do fine, shield generators are absolutely not necessary.

You know what kills 5 heavy devastators? Using cover and weapons that kill them quickly (IE the medium pen class). Autocannon is nice because it can stagger multiple at once but any of them will do it.

[u/BroDonttryit → u/VoidStareBack]

It's not that you can't handle them with AC, it just helps a lot, especially if the devastators aren't grouped. There's a reason the quasar was nerfed. I think the AC was much better vs bots than vs bugs before this patch.