Etech pistols come in two main variants- Spiker and Dart. They are both made by six different manufacturers including Vladof, Maliwan, Tediore, Bandit, Dahl, and Hyperion. In this video, I review and test Hyperion's version of the Spiker.
Without the community patch, this variety of pistol, and Etech pistols in general, are very, very poor. They take time to explode after impact. They cannot crit. They do not grenade damage boosts, and their stats are generally worse than comparable purple tier pistols that are not etechs.
The community patch increases the fire rate, makes the pistols deal grenade damage, and allows the projectiles to deal damage on impact.
This has turned a terrible, boring weapon into something that is very fun and quite powerful with Axton.
It is still incapable of getting critical hits, but it makes up for that with the grenade damage boosts that it can achieve on Axton.
This is a weapon that will excel with Axton and possibly Krieg, but one one that will be lame on Zer0 because it can't crit.
With that in mind, the weapon definitely no longer sucks- and I may need to test what some other manufacturers have going as far as their Etech pistols.
I am using the newest version of the community patch:
Patch located: www.nexusmods....
Mod Manager: github.com/BLC...
1 окт 2024
