Arty's rifle (G3) is a joke

(peculiarPaladin) #1

It’s semiauto and does such low damage it’s useless, I usually eliminate the others with the airstrike.

I think the SIG is better than the G3.

(Szakalot) #2

[quote=“peculiarPaladin;1286”]It’s semiauto and does such low damage it’s useless, I usually eliminate the others with the airstrike.

I think the SIG is better than the G3.[/quote]

aim for the head and they will drop like flies. It used to be one of the stronger weapons a couple of beta builds back, so it got nerfed a little; make it probably average at best. Still allows for effective fragging if you AIM FOR THE HEAD. Also one of the few weapons that greatly benefits from aiming down the sights.

(Litego) #3

I found Arty to be fucking terrible. Tried all three weapons, found the AUG to be pretty damn good, but the two others were garbage, absolute garbage!

Then again I only tried each weapon for one match, so the sample size isn’t great, and our team did get massively shit on at the time. I probably just need to play him more, or maybe he’s just as shit as I experienced him being.

(Reddeadcap) #4

[quote=“Szakalot;5891”][quote=“peculiarPaladin;1286”]It’s semiauto and does such low damage it’s useless, I usually eliminate the others with the airstrike.

I think the SIG is better than the G3.[/quote]

aim for the head and they will drop like flies. It used to be one of the stronger weapons a couple of beta builds back, so it got nerfed a little; make it probably average at best. Still allows for effective fragging if you AIM FOR THE HEAD. Also one of the few weapons that greatly benefits from aiming down the sights.
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There are many guns that benefit from aiming for the head and other things going for them, if thats the only thing making it worthwhile, it is a pretty bad rifle.

(eggplantSafe) #5

I’m noticing that most rifles are terrible. Yeah, I like AUG best too, the rest have pretty low damage output. And well, overall, machineguns and submachine guns are pretty lousy compared to shotguns and sniper rifles. (not saying they should be as powerful, but they should certainly deal more damage.)

(Reddeadcap) #6

Its not easy to compare them when not all of the weapons are availalbe, especially since one merc isn’t available to use their default weapon and the only other way would be to aquire a loadout card… that said these two weekends I’ve gotten four of the exact same loadoutcards for a specific character and five for another.

Stoker’s Default rifle (The AK?) Seems Underwelming, not sure if it just doesn’t hit hard enough or is too inaccurate from the hip and is meant more for using with its sights but I’ve hardly touched the thing.

Skyhammer’s default seems to be a big jack of all stats when it comes to rifles and have enjoyed it very much in the Fragger Loadout cards.

The rifle similar to Skyhammer’s but set to burst fire is a beast, its not insanely powerful, but you really need to get those bursts hit spot on to do insane damage, making it rather unforgiving if you miss.

Arty’s default I’ve got no clue how to properly use it but I’ve seen people survive entire magazines of it at one point, and I’m talking low health character-classes and at another die from a headshot or two, I think it needs a few more touches.

Kira’s Default Aug I haven’t used one bit.

As For Smg’s I’ve only been able to use Sawbonez’ default and the strange SuperV/Thompson hybrid, I find them both decent, I’ve heard Nader’s Default is powerful but inaccurate and Pheonix’ is extremely accurate but lacks damage but I cant verify this.

And Finally on LMGs since there are currently only 2 of them, Fragger’s Default and Thunder’s default, and none of Thunder’s LMGs can be found in a card all I can say is that Fragger’s is pretty fine, I loved testing out Fragger and his LMG is just excelent after some use, its a great at all ranges and does maybe less than wanted damage but it does have that 55 shots per mag going for it.

(eggplantSafe) #7

That’s true.

I am mostly comparing the defaults and the ones I got so far. My accuracy with shotguns was pretty terrible but their damage was pretty decent in close combat.

I got better with accuracy and headshot aiming overall with the machine guns, though, and still sometimes deal no damage. I am terrible with Skyhammer’s default weapon, and haven’t really hit enough with his burst gun. I’m much better with Arty’s AUG, and Fragger’s default, Fragger’s default I thought was a pretty cool gun, although seems to be very bad for long range engagements. (which I don’t mind)

But, I often die a lot to shotgunners, and it still occasionally takes awhile to kill some people, so I think it’d be cool to adjust damages to body or something, but that’s just me, since it appears that headshots seem to rule the Dirty Bomb land. :stuck_out_tongue:

(Reddeadcap) #8

[quote=“eggplantSafe;6491”]
But, I often die a lot to shotgunners, and it still occasionally takes awhile to kill some people, so I think it’d be cool to adjust damages to body or something, but that’s just me, since it appears that headshots seem to rule the Dirty Bomb land. :P[/quote]
Headshots feel like they do an insane amount of damage in all honesty, as for shotguns and snipers they’re best discribed as a huge risk versus reward combat style, you have little ammo and high damage, but you need to be spot on with them, even with shotguns and mid range have a tight enough spread to have most of the shots hit center of mass unlike other games where the spread somehow can hit 8 feet to the left or right at a 3 foot range, at very close ranges the shotguns are insanely powerful but at the price that you’d have to be precise since the spread is so tight.

(eggplantSafe) #9

Yeah, I do ridiculous amount of damage to people when aiming for head for sure, but do minimal damage to the body. :neutral:

With some guns, like Arty’s default gun, I couldn’t even hit the head, but that was probably just not being used to it.

(artfulSedan) #10

Lol it’s one of the best rifles in the game o_o yeah agreed it’s not the best in CQC but at mid to long ranged you can clip some fools wiht it :slight_smile:

(watsyurdeal) #11

If you are spamming shots you are doing it wrong, tap it out, take your time and aim while you strafe and you’ll be fine.