RS422 Railgun Stress Test & BREAKDOWN in Helldivers 2 

Spent my whole 13 hours of Patch Day on this one, Railgun ended up being... an interesting subject to spend it on lets put it that way. Thanks for watching and as always my favorite comment will be featured at the end of the next video! Cya Next Time!

Community: Please buff this underpowered and over nerfed weapon AH: Minor armor pen buff + Significant Stagger Nerf 👍

How it started: Rail gun is best gun. How it's going: I'm going to bed. 😅

"courageously advancing in the opposite direction". good one.

I wish the devs would just remove the railgun and rebuild it from the ground up because it has such a huge identity crisis. Even if the damage and penetration was S-tier, it would still not *feel* powerful, since it is just a weak "pew", enemies don't get staggered and even if you hit they just topple over and die. It needs better sound and VFX design to actually make it feel good. It's a goddamn railgun, pretty much the epitome of "powerful sci-fi- weapon", and we actually see that in the orbital railcannon. It looks cool, has visual (and actual) impact and actually feels like a superfast projectile demolishing whatever is unlucky enough to get hit by it. So why isn't the railgun just the scaled down version of that? Why does such a powerful accurate weapon only have a basic red-dot when it is actually more like a artillery/sniper weapon? It needs variable magnification scopes. Why does it have a slow projectilevelocity? If we ignore the shitty ingame excuse "the portable version is just not powerful yet" (in which case: Why is it manufactured at all?), it should be *the* weapon with the highest projectile velocity in the game. It should be so fast you don't even have to lead your shots at a distance of 500 m! Again, the orbital railcannon does that so much better: You see the targetting laser locking onto the taget and then boom, not a second later the strike hits. Whereas the normal orbital artillery takes a while to reach your target. Real-life railguns produce a trail of flames behind them due to their insane velocity and cause explosions when they penetrate through a target due to the sheer force of impact that's unleashed... Why do the in-game projectiles just disappear into the enemies with minimal visual effects?

Basically it functions like the AMR without the accuracy, a longer reload, and less utility at range.

Literally no point seeing the other content creators when your breakdowns are so thorough. Good job bruh ❤

That's sad. I really like the high-risk, high-reward aspect of the railgun, but in the current iteration, the reward isn't there...

Quick note in the exploding factor of the gun, i was doing some quick tests earlier and wasn't paying attention so the gun blew up in my hands yet surprisingly, my hands were still there. Did this again and turns out it'll deal 50% of your HP if you have the Fortified perk which can be handy for those who are just learning the weapon and don't really have the times down pat.

Im still wishing the grenade pistol at least got 2 per ammo box

The problem seems to be that the devs rubber-band with their balancing ethos. They over-nerf powerful weapons, leaving them in a bad state to the point that other weapons fulfill almost every function the nerf'd one originally did and if they _do_ provide some kind of buff again, they either nerf some other trait (keeping it bad in spite of the buff) or the buff is so inconsequential that it makes no difference. They see people talk about how good it is, then butcher it without really thinking, then get scared about buffing it back up because they think it'll be too powerful again.

Thanks for suffering to share this info with us. I knew this wouldn't change anything just reading the notes, and after playing today it sure didn't feel much better. You can kill chargers slightly faster now, but you don't get a stagger... I don't know what compelled them to provide a nerf alongside a small buff to the weapon, but it sure feels like they don't want to admit they overnerfed this weapon. I really want to enjoy using it again, but I just feel like I'm not helping my team enough when there's better options I can take.

When I bought the game, I was in awe observing people using the rail gun. Then I made my way level 20, saving up slips to buy it - next day, it was nerfed to utter worthlessness...and it obviously still is 😢

I can see what the Devs were getting at with thr Railgun, it doesn't do a lot of damage because it's not an explosive, high calibre projectile like the 84mm HEAT shells of the Recoilless, it's a small, high velocity solid bullet, realistically it'll only damage what it smashes through, it should reward accuracy even more, maybe with a longer range scope, and with a bit more stagger (and probably higher muzzle velocity) I'd also appreciate if we got more Ammo-type Backpacks, like a backpack that hooks up to energy weapons (mainly lasers, arc and the Railgun) to allow better charge up speeds or none at all and a slight increase in damage, that sounds like a cool choice to make for a dedicated build Or, what about a shoulder fired variant of the Railgun? Slightly more spool up, maybe a three round magazine, with Autocannon ergonomics but actual anti tank penetration, with the caveat that it needs a battery backpack

a video explaining armor values and hardness would be greatly appreciated😊

Come on devs, just revert the original nerf wholesale

Just giving the stagger back is all I ask. The lack of damage versus the hardest targets is fine, as long as we can support by staggering

I've noticed a trend of the devs slowly removing support weapons abilities to deal with "hard armor", and it is getting frustrating. With gunships and factory striders there are now WAAAAAAAAAY too many enemies that are immune to medium armor pen, AND when you can pierce it, you are dealing with "structural damage. Arc thrower got a distance nerf so it can't damage gunships Laser cannon just got a structure damage nerf after players found out it was amazing at taking out structures. The railgun is seemingly WORSE than the AMR at dealing with structures which makes no sense. All this is frustrating, but it would be manageable if the stragagems could offset this power vacuum, but there is not a SINGLE orbital/eagle that can take out a gunship, 110mm have shit accuracy and that doesn't seem like its getting better, and the new airburst is basically a troll against airborn targets. Despite all the "buffs" given to other weapons, the devs rarely give an increase to the ability to hurt hard targets, and seem to only be adding more hard targets to the game (in the form of mission objectives and enemies). IF anything, outside chargers, the game has only gotten more difficult on every front.

Against Bots, its a no-go, why? It does ass damage against the Gunships, meanwhile the AMR and LC will rip through them. The only advantage the railgun has is the damage to the Hulks, it loses to the other two at: Killing tanks Devastators Laser Cannon Turrets Factory Walker Small mob clearing Opening Crates. I HIGHLY advise you avoid using this gun until they buff the use against structures, but who knows if they will, as they seem anal about it right now as they even made the LC (Laser Cannon) take longer at killing the Laser Cannon Turrets than it use to take.

Finally someone explains and shares my love for the railgun. I’ve said since day 1 that the railgun and rail cannon, due to science behind it, are my favorite things to use. Great vid! Got my sub.

List of improvement to the Railgun: * Better optics (must) * Variable Zoom (current, 100 m and 200m) (must) * Higher damage against Gunships in particular to combat them (whether through better armor penetration or damage value doesn't matter) * Higher Stagger against targets that can survive a weak spot shot (interrupting Bile Titans when they puke can give teammates room to focus fire against it) The focus here is on the Railgun being able to compete with the AMR in a similar role. So just make it better against targets that are in the category of heavy armor, but still numerous enough that you don't want to use a 500 KG or Orbital Precision strike every single time you encounter them. Because of the bugs using swarming tactics they will just be a worse matchup IMO. Bots are the preferable matchup because they stay back (except the Scorcher Hulks...) and the strongest feature of Railgun against bots right now is it can one-shot Hulks.

Was gonna try it out sometime soon, but now I'm definitely not. So thanks for saving me the time and inevitable frustration!

If it makes you feel better, I'm pretty sure Joel still has nightmares about the old Railgun.

Thanks for putting in the work man🙏

Thanks or suffering for us. I obviously don't test as well as you do, but from what I saw, the Plasma Punisher came out of the patch the best. Very surprisingly. You already made a video on it once so it'd be weird to redo it so soon, but I recommend trying it out to see what I'm talking about, because most people like myself avoid that weapon, and now it's my go-to.

For chargers it is actually 2 high charge shots to the leg to remove armor, or 3 to head to kill it. It's decent.

this is an amazing breakdown of the new railgun. thank you for making this.

Imagine being Arrowhead Studios, making a really good weapon in the Railgun, placing it in the final batch of support weapon unlocks at level 20, then deciding to make it one of the worst guns in the game. All the effort people go through to access this “late game” weapon only for it to feel awful to use.

Im pretty sure your info about penetration level is incorrect, railgun now has level 5(heavy 1) penetration in safemode

HANDS DOWN BEST GUIDES!!! Love the content keep it going ^^ That being said.. are you going to do another vid for the crossbow ? If not.. what is your opinion on the changes ? For me as a crossbow main.. it's really really bad now.. feels like the unwanted child of the scorcher and dominator. Poor ammo economy, aoe, damage breakpoints.

Thanks for suffering for us eravin.😂

I literally searched for this a few hours ago. I love that it 1 shots dominators even with bad aim but not killing striders or gunships is really bad. You can make it work with EAT against bots. Against bugs it might be better since you can 500kg titans and if they survive just shoot out their sacs and hope that kills them. It 2 shots charger leg armor and 3 shots them to the head which isn't too bad but the flammenwerfer is so much better.

The funny thing about the Railgun's overcharge explosion is that it's survivable if you're wearing *any* armor with the Fortified passive. Apparently this has been a thing since forever but I did some testing for a few hours and yeah the explosion doesn't instantly kill you as long as you have armor with Fortified. The explosion is also survivable with any Heavy armor, with or without Fortified so I guess that's an extra point for people who like running them :p

Great content. You saved me a lot of time and suffering with the rail gun.

QUESTION: Can any PLEASE tell ME where to post bugs to? I noticed that the Plasma Shotgun self damages you when you are wearing the Energy based Shield backpack Stratagem since the patch. Any help would be thankful.

Thanks for the tests, but I would like to know more How are u able to 4 shot a tank turret to the heatsink? I literally stood on top of isolated annihilator tanks on several occasions, and it took me ~8 rounds of 90%+ charge to the heatsink in first person mode to kill it Is there an issue with hitting it from the top ? 🤔 Funnily enough, about factory striders, after I removed the cannon turret and the gatling guns, it took me ~8 shots to the eye to drop it It took so many more shots to the under belly I've lost count

I love how you haven’t panicked yet about the patrols increasing on Helldive difficulty. You’d think the earth was caving in with the other content creator’s. Like OMG how will they farm samples. 🤭

Do you think you can take a look at the Diligence and Diligence CS? Would like to see your opinion on these considering they also lean towards a more methodical, aim heavy playstyle.

You should definitely do an in-depth video on the Pistols; I hear the Peacemaker can actually one-shot light bots in the head now. Also, the DCS can now one-shot devastators in the face. *_Devastators._* So good...

Honestly, it would be a viable pick if they kept the stagger. That way it doesn’t kill heavies but still sets them up for your team

I've had a lot of fun cutting the Rocket and Heavy Devastators in half, find it much more safer and reliable to peek boom reload and repeat. However what it lacks is anti air against gunships and also it takes too long pop cannon turrets. I could make that up by using the Eruptor though 😁

Thanks for the vid. Broke my heart 😔

All they need to do is give it a smidge of a damage buff so it can at least 2 shot chargers to the head and itd at least have a reason to exist. Fun fact! Quasar, EAT and Recoiless do 650 damage. With tier 6 pen at the correct angle. The Railgun USED to do 600 damage with tier 6 pen at the correct charge level. This means they 100% nerfed the railguns damage with the railgun nerf because if the railgun did the same amount of damage then it would be able to at least 2 shot chargers to the head. They dont need to revert the damage entirely. But just enough. Eravin explains this much better and explains how its structure damage specifically in the video(which effects enemies as well, theyre just referred to as "structures" due to armor level). But just a simple explanation for people who didn't watch

Nerf was uncalled for, especially now as they have made other options viable Increase hard armor pen and it will be good again

Completely agree. There’s no reason to ever use the railgun against either enemy type given the other options you have, even after the “buff”. I’m convinced they have a grudge against the rail bc it was the first “meta”, it’s so stupid. The original function and power of the rail gun at launch would fit well in the game today. Even if they thought it would be too powerful then drop the mag count or increase the shot amount to strip armor a bit, that’s all that was ever needed. Instead they made the rail pointless and a burden to ever consider using on higher difficulties. So dumb. 🤦‍♂️

I've been triyeng out the railgun recently and so far, the AMR feels better to use, and besides RG being able to penetrate heavy armor, the AMR can kill the same medium Armor targets with less effort

This thing needs scaling stagger and projectile speed as you increase the charge if it doesn't have that already; Or just a full overhaul to make something that should excel at taking out heavy targets actually viable for that.

Well I did go Railgun on a bug mission and the squadmate I was paired with did nothing but bitch that I was not doing anything. I was thinking the bile titan only took 7-8 shots at unsafe 90% though, when you did your test did you aim for forehead? keeping in mind that when it opens it's mouth to spit it's forehead weakspot disappears into it's back?

If you want to circumvent the inconsistant charge times (and save ammunition) you can use a macro with the charge time of 2975ms. Technically it charges to 2990ms before exploding but this is unreliable for some reason. Charging to 99.5% doesn't change the fact that the gun does crappy in general on heavier targets but I have noticed there is a slight increase in structure damage, It usually takes 1-2 less shots than 90% to take down a heavier target. Macros are cringe but if you want to use the gun, this definitely makes it more viable.

This could (emphasis on could,) be one of many buffs to the gun, but they're implementing these changes at an glacial pace.

This Helldiver salutes you for your sacrifice.

Despite all this I switched from quasar cannon to the railgun and I haven’t regretted it. My other friend runs a quasar and with the nerfs to it the railgun is perfect for dealing with devsators and hulks (and orbital railgun for those pesky tanks) while he focuses on high priority targets like gunships, dropships and factory striders. TLDR railgun + quasar combo is god tier agenst bots . + it looks sick

In a sense, I kinda understand how they don’t want it to break armor like a rocket. But it def needs a more defined role in exchange

If it can deal with Hulks and chicken legs, that's all I need to know. Having easy ways to deal with those and having quasars on the team as well to deal with the rest will really take the pressure off the newly nerfed quasar and keep my grenades in my pockets where they belong.

Thank you! 🙏 I was hoping it would do better against gunships and factory striders. Looks like it improved a little there but not enough to consider it a viable choice against those units. I mean some primaries outperform it by a lot when it comes to gunships and factory striders. When fighting Automatons it feels like a nerf to me with stagger reduced. I don't need a safe shot to kill a hulk. Why even bother using a safe mode anyways? If you miss weakpoint while fighting a hulk with unsafe mode, at least you do body damage. Before it would stagger hulk's and other units which helped a lot. Now with the stagger gone it feels even weaker.

I had to go through so many other videos to get a good video that breaks down the railgun like you did. Awesome info

I've only been using it against bugs but the past couple of days I've actually been warming up to the railgun again. Though, not because it's actually that strong but I've been finding it feels like how the Autocannon is to the bots. Moderately good against all the medium tier enemies, and situational against the heavier ones. Which is nice since the autocanon's usefulness against bugs really depends on if bile spewers are present since it's not great against Chargers and I don't think it can solo kill a Bile Titan? (though it will take care of the sacks nicely). Since the railgun can one tap spewers still it's filling that similar flex role and while not great against Bile Titans I have followed up with the rest of the time's fire power to finish some off. It's a little more mobile than the autocannon to which helps against bugs; it's an excuse to run the supply pack to which is nice because bugs certainly can force more stims and nades out of ya than bots. I ran a funny 'manual reload' build of punisher(stock)/senator/railgun/supply pack and it's got a tool for every bug in the bunch. The railgun is like, on the edge of being pretty good again. There's a laundry list of things that could be done to improve it but nothing needs to move by miles, just a few yards here and there.

Hey, you should take another look the DCS now that it’s been significantly buffed. I did some testing and it can now one shot devastators up to 125m away! That’s a massive improvement from the 20m limit that it was at before. It’s a wonderful weapon now. It’s honestly made the standard Diligence kinda irrelevant because of how hard it hits and how nimble it is now. Also, poor railgun. Edit: oh, and it two shots berserker heads now if you can land the shots. Not sure what range that drops off at, getting those maniacs to sit still is tricky.

dang i really wanted a breakdown on the FS vs RG matchup, especially if it strips armor. i've seen armor being stripped of the forehead of factory striders, and that new weak spot could apperently be damaged by medium armor pen weapons. oh and i'd love to know if it strips armor of other spots as well, like possibly the legs. I always got the notion that the railgun was for destroying armor and not direct dmg, so i hoped that one of the most complex enemies were delved more into, especially since it feels like the railgun's goal is more to assist in killing than actually killing.

@Eravin how do you like the plas punisher now? Thing has been strong for me since patch.

It feels great. Idk how it fairs vs atats yet, though. It was 4 to kill a front mini gun which was shitty, lol. Still could use an audio cue for full unsafe

I think, the railgun is still superior to AMR (and all other anti-armor support weapons) in two specific dimensions, in it's FPV FoV and its overall "snappiness" (if you crouch with MM/engi kit). I''ll explain, Mouse sensitivity coefficient for FPV in this game seems to be MDV 100% (e.g. like it was for AWP in CS by default), thus you can adjust sens with MDH 0% to 3rd-1st person to only one FOV. With RG you have same FoV in FPV ADS as with most pistols, ARs, shotguns. AMR has lover FOV with 50m zoom, so as other AArmor guns (and they also occlude a huge portion of already low FoV). For those of us who play apex/BD/literally anything it's a minor but existent point of not throwing away habitual mouse sens. As for 3rd person ADS, I can't help but feel, that it has some stupid sticky aim-assist. As for snappiness, I sincerelly think that "weapon ergonomics" in shooting games are at the same level of malignancy as screenshake and stun/stuggerlock. But 100% sure devs will never change anything in that department. Lastly, as far as "ugly scopes" go, IMO they all are equally awfull, with Penetrator's one being somewhat partially decent. The contrast between awesome detailed weapon animations and utterly ugly and lazy scopes is infinite.

I was wondering, can you do a vid on the factory strider going over ideal ways to kill them with both stragems and weapons? Maybe this would be a series worth starting for high tier enemies?

I mean, its BETTER then it was I'm pretty sure. But more testing on my part is required. Honestly they may as well give the RAILGUN its clip back from Helldivers 1 (it had a 5 round clip). RANDOM FUN FACT, Ever hear of Titanfall or the Titanfall universe? Last I checked all the weapons in that universe are indeed RAILGUNS. And I think we all remember the KRABER, getting good with that BOLTGUN of a Sniper Rifle came with some serious bragging rights. Plus the Dopamine Rush from nailing those headshots was OH SO GOOOOOOD! Id even call it a cure for Depression.

I have brought it back to my load out against bots, my team and I always loaded out for super heavy. With this update I can change my load out and help with Devs and Hulks, it takes a lot off their plate. It was when we get swarmed by devs and hulks that we’d get bogged down a bit, now we are flying through them.

I usually play in a full squad and most of the teammates bring the dedicated AT like Eats and Quasars. So knowing this gun is very effective against annoying ads like Devastators and Berserkers will probably make me use it more. And I'm too noob with the AMR and I don't like the ergonomics of it. I feel like this weapon would only really be useful for Bots though. Plus a Stun grenade and a eye hole shot on a Hulk makes it trivial. Grenade pistols can deal with Fabs and the Scorcher can takedown gunships. I do wish its penetrating was way higher so Chargers legs can be shot with 2 shots instead of 3.

I find it hilarious how accurate and painfully funny the video was. It seems really easy to fix this weapon (heavy armor specialist) but the devs seem afraid to overpower it. Too bad bc it’s fun to use.

I’m just confused what the intended role of this thing is. Like, is it supposed to be anti-armor or anti-tank cuz it feels like it’s doing both and excelling in neither beyond the barest minimum

the charger legs can be broken in 2 unsafe shot and after that you can use regular weapon to kill it

The railgun will strip charger legs in two slightly overcharged shots, same as when the gun was first released

I think the rail gun definitely has a place but needs more buffs. If it was 2 shots to kill a charger and a bot plane it would be ideal. Also the it can HURT bile titans meaning you can use 3 to 4 shots after a missed 500 kg bomb or some quasar shots from team mates and kill it. It is very significant as it helps cross damage thresholds.

I think the railgun is better against bugs than the author implies. If you bring stratagems to capitalize on it’s weakness (cluster AND 500), and you play to its strength (jet pack OR shield and faster fire rate than quasar) it is a valid option

The only thing that the railgun changes have actually changed is taking it from useless to techincally viable against bugs, due to it's charger kill no longer requiring 90% charge. For bots, more armor pen changes almost nothing, you still just use it to pop devastators, hulks, and the occasional problematic strider, and it still does next to no damage against things that actually have armor. The AMR fills the same exact role but can actually kill gunships and striders, and it baffles me as to why the railgun still has it's massive armor handicap in a world where the AMR can kill a factory strider in two mags. Initially the nerf kind of made sense, turning it into an anti-bot sniper weapon instead of an anti-everything gun, but now that the power of AT rockets has been brought up I feel like the initial iteration of the railgun would fit right in to the modern meta and maybe even be a bit underpowered.

Id like to make and addendum and say that the charger legs are now back to being two shotted by two well charged shots

Railgun should be hitscan, but with very high recoil. Damage should be variable based on angle of attack and how much of the target's body the railgun round passes through. To use a bile titan as an example, a headshot from ground level would do typical headshot damage. A headshot from high ground where the round passes through the head, thorax and abdomen of the bile titan would do epic damage. Or in the case of a hulk, shots penetrating armor from the side would be more damaging than armor shots from the front or back (ignoring the heat sink for the sake of argument) due to the width of the target being greater than the thickness front to back. Make fighting with the railgun a matter of position. Also, variable optics with a good sight would be totally appropriate. (Basically, the railgun should be the ultimate sniper rifle in the game.) Stagger being somewhat low strikes me as reasonable since, assuming the round is penetrative rather than expanding, the blowthrough would account for lessened stagger.

Thx for the video! Railgun needs all of the nerfs reverted honestly. Btw, what do you think about the patrol changes?

I actually liked it against bugs when I tried the railgun last night after the changes. Still can one shot the titan in the head during his spit. The medium enemies look cool too when they just explode. I’ll need to try it again vs bots tonight. I struggled with it, was hard to hit shots and I ended up just switching to the laser canon and testing that out. The bot map was pretty obscured in terms of vision so nah r that’s why j couldn’t anything.

We're probably just going to have to use this thing as a dedicated anti-medium bot weapon. Devastators, Striders, and Hulks. Leave the big guys for stratagems or someone with anti-tank weapons.

Convert to laser cannon for bots. The time is now. Capable of destroying everything in the bot arsenal with ease (outside of berserkers,) this support weapon will remain sleeper supreme. Don't like the las cannon? Good news, the AMR does it the job almost as well. The only things the AMR struggles with is gunships, tanks, and cannon turrets, all of which take about an entire magazine.

Give it more ammo and I think it could fall into a nice anti medium armor weapon with limit vs heavy use. With a backpack free you can go rover for chaff or ammo pack so no medium while survive lol. Then, go 500 KG for Biles or precision for tanks.

It truly need a new buff/gimmick like being able to pierce multiple targets and leaving a trail of fire being or something like that to make it a bit for viable and fun. I cant justify using this when other support or even primary weapons can do the same or an even better job in most cases while not having those big downside (like low firerate/ammo) :(

My only beef with the railgun is the aiming reticle is so big it obscures what you aim at.

Was really hoping it would be worth using after the patch.

The fact it can one-shot hulks in the eye on SAFE mode makes it elite against bots.

I do like that the railgun is nonlonger the best support weapon in the game to the point that using anything else was just a complete self-nerf. However, it needs something more and personally, I like it as a precision high power weapon with the drawback of a red(green)-dot sight and limited ammo. It's a fun playstyle. The removal of its stagger is whack, it shouod be returned. Personally I think what it really needs is a bit more armour penetration and maybe 10 or even 20 more shots (with resupplies being and ammo crates resotring the same relative ammo amount). Its value should come from thr 90% charge penetration with limited damage. Maybe 8 shots for a bile titan and about 5 vs tanks and cannon towers? Idk just me having thoughts I felt like rambling on.

Your character rig is incredible - is it a live 2D model or 3D?

13:03 "Gone are the days of Railgun domination." Indeed, and I don't think they're coming back. Though, from a game balance perspective, this thing is a balancing nightmare. Make it too strong and you invalidate the launchers by having a weapon everyone can run to sweep up medium enemies with ease and then also deal with tank-class enemies without a second thought. People only even care about it being capable of this *because* it's launch version was absurd. Had it started where it is now, I don't think it'd have nearly as many people wanting it buffed. IMO, if the Railgun were to regain it's ability to kill tank-class enemies, it would have to be heavily reworked into a new weapon entirely, as keeping it mostly the same but bringing back it's immense flexibility would be utterly anathema to the rest of the game's balance concept. Everything has a tradeoff in some way or another. Pre-nerf RG didn't have enough tradeoffs to justify it's power, and was thusly nerfed.

I remember finally hitting 20 and getting the railgun thinking it would replace my AMR, took it one mission against bots and went straight back lmao

Redunk the one gun classically known for massive penetration in exchange for smalll area of damage... is so bad at it. Honestly I still dont know what to use in my back slot. I've often just gone in without anything lately and found it (Granted i play on 7 or 8 most of the time. not 9). If i take something in its been EAT. Except after this last update a really annoying thing is when I fire and drop it. I no longer take my primary out. I take my secondary out (and then grenade myself). I dont know if that was a glitch or a change. but before it would just go to whatever weapon i had out last

I know the damage looks miserable but lets be honest you're only bringing this for devastators, hulks, chargers and stalkers. It performs well enough against those to consider bringing it instead of the AMR with its longer reload (and equally bad scope). There shouldn't be a world where you're bringing it for tanks, fabs or titans, IMO For as long as your whole team is nothing but quasars which I predict will remain the case as the nerf basically doesn't do anything, it's really just a matter of preference between it and the AMR to me

Curious what you think of solo play now.

Used to love the Railgun for Automatons! It was my go-to cause I could one shot devastators and hulks as long as I stayed calm. Teammates loved it too cause it kept the devastator pressure off of them. But now with the Striders and gunships its just not worth it. My favorite is the Spear now believe it or not.

Kind of curious what you think of the Crossbow changes, I saw you using it in the video Edit: I can't spell

With all of these nerfs, it honestly feels like I just need to fall back to the EAT's.

Rail Gun went from S-tier at its peak when it was the go-to for bile titan killing to C-tier at best at present, the buffs and nerfs from this patch felt like they had many odd choices thrown in there, like nerfing Quesadilla's recharge timer to 15 seconds (even though this effectively changes nothing for Quesadilla's out of combat usage) which only affects it really inside of combat. That and the targeted nerf to solo players with scaling the number of patrols up the fewer players you had in your squad. I think the Monster Hunter series already had this figured out with its scaling health mechanic. The monster scales upwards in health the more players on your team, capping out with 3 players so it's highly beneficial to run with 4 basically in every scenario. I can't imagine what thought process AH had when they decided to make life harder for people who were already willingly solo'ing Helldive, which is already considerably more difficult considering the constraint on your reinforcement budget, effectively very limited stratagem variety (especially on planets with -1 Stratagem slot) and more. If you got stuck too close to the enemy when you keep dropping back in, you could get chain killed reasonably easily.

Railgun still have stagger its just way up the charge(couldnt stagger titans tho) tested on chargers and at around 85 charge it goes on a straight line just like the arc thrower.

I never see anyone running this weapon anymore at all, like ever. It's been completely dropped by almost everyone. Talk about overnerfed, even after a buff to correct it it's still mostly abandoned.

Could you do a video on the "new" blitzet its so good against bugs even before buff

It needs to strip chargers in 1 or 2 shots. Shooting it 3 or 4 times and then switching to your primary and shooting it some more just makes you wonder why you brought the thing

It's probably okay to use with EATs or 110 Rockets/ other anti tank stratagems