I love it. It’s the most fun weapon in the game in my opinion. I go for it first every game if its a standard drop.
My only complaint is that I don’t think it’s quite powerful enough. I mean this is a gun which accelerates a solid metal projectile to 10x the speed of sound. It should WRECK light vehicles. It should tear through them like tissue paper. It should go through light vehicles and destroy other light vehicles which are behind it!
Obviously this wouldn’t effect it’s damage to scorpions, wraiths, mantis and banshees which are heavy armored vehicles.
I just really think the Railgun should, at the very least, kill a Ghost with 1 shot. I think it takes the same amount of skill to hit it with a Railgun as with a SpLaser. With the time required to fire the weapon it should have the stopping power to kill a charging ghost no problem.
The SpLaser would still be the weapon of choice vs heavy armored vehicles.
I think the damage, and damage radius should be increased a little bit. It’s very inconsistent and also appears more powerful than it actually is. It doesn’t always kill Spartans and is almost useless against vehicles (aside form making them flip).
> I think the damage, and damage radius should be increased a little bit. It’s very inconsistent and also appears more powerful than it actually is. It doesn’t always kill Spartans and is almost useless against vehicles (aside form making them flip).
doesn’t always kill spartans? i dont think ive ever landed a hit on a spartan with the rail gun and not killed with it.
Agreed! And more of a blast radius would be great too. For how difficult it is to shoot (I am horrible with all charge up weapons) I would really appreciate being able to down multiple targets and especially Ghosts.
I’ll admit the first time i got it in MP i was like “awesome rail-gun, meaning anti-armor, bye bye mantis” you used Rail-gun, it was not very effective “-Yoink!-!”
The damage is fine as is. The main thing with it is the wind up time. If you have a target and they fire on you first you have almost zero chance to get the thing wound up and fired. Of all the power weapons its one of better balanced ones with regards to damage and splash but the windup is what makes it so much harder to use as there is no “hold” its wind and fire.
Plus is designated for anti-personel purposes not anti-armour.
Damage with it is fine- and as much as may get annoyed with the radius- that’s fine too. If you’re having trouble aiming- try the zoom trick:
As soon as you begin to charge, click in the aiming stick zoom through your binoculars- you can make a lot of otherwise difficult shots this way.
I feel the damage is fine, but the range of the explosion could be increased slightly. I’m sometimes good with the Railgun and other times not though, so what do I know what I am talking about.
The railgun is fine as it is. Its lower damage is mitigated by its speed and accuracy. the amount of magnetism on that thing is crazy. It curves so much(more easily noticed in laggy games) you would think you were playing Wanted: The video game.
The railgun is great as is. More damage wouldn’t be rewarding skill. It does seem that they didn’t hold true to the statement that it’ll have interesting kinetic effects of vehicles like warthogs. It barely nudges it.
> The railgun is a oneshot kill weapon, want more do you want it to do?
All I want is for it to 1 shot ghosts. If it really only comes from ordinance drops and it takes me two seconds to fire the weapon then I think it should be able to stop a Ghost from running me over.