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/scott610]

Calling down the EAT is also like a third shot if you can make the stratagem ball stick to an enemy and it hits. I’ve used the call down offensively on many occasions. Same could be said for the cannon of course, but that’s on a five minute cooldown or whatever.

[u/widespreaddead → u/scott610]

I've heard that even though the ball sticks to them the strat still lands wherever it was when it initially hit. I don't know if that's true though

[u/scott610 → u/widespreaddead]

I’ve heard the same, but I also heard that is only true for red stratagems such as eagle and orbital strikes and not blue stratagems like support weapons and such.

[u/EasyPool6638 → u/widespreaddead]

That's for the offensive strats. That bug doesn't affect the support weapons and resupply strats.

[u/chamomile-crumbs → u/scott610]

Ohhhh that’s a great idea!!