Overall I am enjoying all of the guns they have on map. I feel pretty comfortable with picking up any wep on the map and going into a fight knowing I have a shot at getting a kill. (Besides the plasma pistol but you can still get some noob combos off just a little more difficult it seems)
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Look, I’ll take the L when it is an instantaneous 1 shot beatdown but when they shoot me once, sprint towards me as I’m backing up and get a massive lunge on their melee it tilts the ever living -Yoink!- out of me.
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I haven’t used it since the flight, but I don’t recall it being particularly effective as an anti-personnel weapon, compared to rockets or sword or other power weapons. Maybe I’d be better with practice, but it’s basically just a worse sniper for most situations, right? Sure, it’s one hit kill, but it’s not easy to hit people, and you have a long reload after every shot vs a sniper with more ammo, more shots, etc. Since ranked has no vehicles, it’s not clear to me where skewer really belongs in the ranked sandbox.
Then again, I guess they just slapped the Ravager down on the edge of Behemoth, and that has no place in the sandbox in any situation, so. Who knows.
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If you play BTB its nowhere near as useful, because those maps are huge so getting into CQC battles is difficult.
Howver, if you play on 4v4 its extremely good. Arguably superior to the Bulldog because not only is it a 1 shot beatdown (like Bulldog) its also capable of 3 shotting across the map assuming you land the shots.
It hurts HCS/competitive because it makes things very one dimensional, and it arguably renders the Bulldog irrelevant as going into that area serves little purpose.
Well Rockets are in Ranked, so I see no reason why the Skewer couldn’t be. Did you know if you drop your weapon as the skewer hits you it hits the weapon and saves your life? So it has a bit of outplay potential I feel. I don’t think any of the current maps would make sense for it besides Behemoth but frankly Behemoth shouldn’t be in Ranked anyways so I’m at a loss.
Ravager is actually decent, you just charge it up, hit someone, it takes away their shields, then you clean up with BR. I managed to get a kill with it not too long ago in Ranked Behemoth surprisingly. Not to mention because it can bounce it has some neat trick shots that can be used.
I mean, rockets are definitely better against players than the skewer. Would you really invest lives in a slayer or objective game to get a skewer the way you would for rockets? Or would it be more in the Bulldog/Ravager class?
Fair point on the Ravager–but I’ve played a lot of ranked and I actually don’t think I have ever experienced another player using it. So, take that for what it’s worth. That doesn’t exactly scream “This is a viable weapon in the sandbox.”
I could see it being viable in a tourney setting for Oddball Streets, just because you could use it to break setups. Aside from that, I don’t really see its value no.