ULTRAKILL - All About The Screwdriver (Green Railcannon) 

The screwdriver is the gigachad of the rail gun variants. It gets bullied all the time but it’s always there if you need it

green railcannon carried me through minos prime, it's purpose isn't for dps but for survivability - giving you a constant and reliable stream of health against harder to hit enemies like minos prime and v2

2:17 is legitimately the first and only time i've ever seen glu actually railcoin successfully

I agree, the screwdriver is objectively bad in terms of damage. However, I still believe the screwdriver has its place in both beginner and advanced play. The blue railgun excels at single-target damage, the red railgun excels at CC/AOE, and the green railgun excels as a utility/survivability tool. Players need to be very close to enemies in order to heal off blood, and the green railgun practically turns an enemy into a temporary health fountain. Whilst I agree with the concept that the healing may be wasted due to hard damage reducing max health, keep in mind you can still technically increase your effective health to 200 or more depending on healing and how much hard damage you sustain, and even beginner players should have learned by their introduction to the rail cannon that standing still is not a good idea, hence why the screwdriver's healing radius is rather generous compared to conventional means. I find it most effective in rooms with a few major threats supported by fodder: I personally have a hard time micro-managing so many enemies in such a fast-paced game: I often employ sticking a slow or big enemy with the screwdriver so I can dance around them, healing off the stray fireballs I didn't see off-screen, then shifting my focus to the more important threats in the room with less enemies to distract me. Whilst I could use the red railgun, I often doubt myself without a large collection of foes to evaporate and I personally prefer core-eject instead due to the railguns' cooldown. Personally, I think the green railgun is fine. The healing isn't insane, but I see it as a way to enable calculated recklessness and allow players like me to begin considering what resources certain enemies may offer and engage in enemy layout and design with a deeper understanding, because in the end a regular player can beat the game by just considering enemies as things to kill: the green railgun may not wield terrifying power, yet I hold a respect to the weapon for getting my mind involved in ULTRAKILL.

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I don’t know why everyone hates on it i personally love it for Bossfight I wouldn’t have defeated the Secret boss guy if I didn’t have it consistently healing me

Fun fact: The screwdriver is the only weapon in the game that gives absolutely ZERO style! Even screw parrying! This is a beginner tool and hakita knows it. With that in mind i don’t think it should be changed. I think its very good at being a beginners tool without making players overly rely on it.

The screwdriver getting clowned on while it practically gives you insane regen for tanky enemies, allowing you to do basically do any close-ranged attack without the need to look out for health.

I agree with a lot of this when it pertains to the cybergrind. But I want to say it's pretty helpful in boss fights if you want to just facetank them to pound shotgun shots for a while. I also used it a ton when I was new to the game... so maybe it can be considered more of a noob friendly weapon? Certainly easier to use than railcoining or cannonnuking

green rail cannon does more damage, heals you so much your basically immortal while it's active, wipes your ass, and does your taxes, but you see it's bad because if you never miss a rail coin shot you can get slightly more damage, and no healing

Green screwdriver is great for bosses as it lets you stay close to them. Made beating Minos, v2, and Gabriel wayyy easier.

green railcannon has a gurren lagann reference, so that immediately makes it the best railcannon. cant wait for the custom color palette update

Screwdriver is definitely meant to be more of an assist in bosses due to the amount of healing it can pump out. If you're low on health (Let's say around 15), you could get in close to try to deal damage and get blood that way, but that puts you closer toward your enemy which makes it easier for you to hit. Now, of course, the best way to heal is to parry an attack, as it will fully heal you if you're successful. But this relies on both the boss using a projectile attack before you die and also you being able to parry the attack which will likely kill you on failure. Thus, the Screwdriver provides a strong alternative to both, allowing the player to quickly heal to full with very little risk involved (Just aiming and firing at midrange). Sometimes I like to pop Screwdriver if I'm low on health and don't trust my ability to parry. It's a safety net for newer players, but it's also a support railcannon charge rather than an offense or crowd control one.

The drill is hella underrated, not only does it heal you like crazy, but it’s loud as hell and cand give you an idea of where enemy’s are, it single handedly got me through Minos and Sisyphus prime

This weapon is really good for high mobility melee-focused fights, were it's hard to keep track of the enemy as they move around, but they also have to get close to deal damage. I wonder what boss, hits hard, but mainly goes in close quarters to deal damage. very curious. *Judgement Intensifies*

I personally like the screwdriver. Since if you move a lot in Ultrakill, there's less of a chance for you to get hit by something. With railcoining you have to stand still for about 4 seconds, which is a lot. The screwdriver however, while very hard to aim. Provides you with a shot that you can just shoot and keep moving. I like to parry the screwdriver and hope to catch some big guy with it, it's actually much easier than it looks like. And if you do land it, the screwdriver becomes op. Another thing is that - sure, you can insta-kill the mindflyer if you get the right timing. But again, what if you have to move a lot to avoid damage? Well the screwdriver is perfect, you can shoot the mindflyer giving you 8 sec of peace allowing you to get rid of some different enemies. Like angels, that simply will always make you keep moving. I use the railcannon for insta-killing angels if they're in a row, you can get a sweet tripple kill if you're lucky with the way they spawned. Angels require only one shot of the railcannon to immediately die. I also use it for killing big enemies quickly like for example malicious face, i punch a coin hoping for it to go to mal face. And if it does i shoot him with the railcannon to deal a shit ton of damage, sadly doesn't insta-kill. I like to try some railcoining occasionaly but i suck, it's difficult, and i don't see any real purpose to this. Beside speedrunning. My favroite mod for the railcannon is the green one, the screwdriver. That's just my opinion, loved the video. Thank you

5:37 I choose the healing, because sometimes you _need_ a lower rank tool that's a confirmed safety net while you're still learning or in a really tight situation for a P Rank. *Sometimes you just need something to do damage over time to Flesh Prison while you're still learning why the Normal Charge Pistol is actually better than the Alt Charge in this specific context.*

I feel like the green rail has the potential to become more valuable without any additional balance, considering the railgun recharges even when the screw is out means you can just have screws be a perpetual source of DoT on heavy enemies as long as you keep parrying the screw (given there are 2 or more heavy enemies at a given time), however until the new difficulties come out its unlikely that anyone will put the time into doing this because the use case of having to use 2 railgun charges in a single encounter is so damn niche, especially given that the other options are 1: Remove big enemy instantly or 2: Remove all small enemies instantly. Its paradoxical, the use is there, there could be genuine value, but the value is still bad.

It's very much a 'noob player utility' moment to help the player get accustomed to Ultrakill. An anti-frustration mehcanic that provides leniency in player movement and dodging against bosses. As the player naturally improves against a boss, it's use will drop over time. As such, it really is peak game design, perfectly viable for its role and i will NOT BE ACCEPTING SCREWDRIVER SLANDER. IT DOES WHAT HAKITA WANTS IT TO AND EVERY NEW PLAYER APPRECIATES IT DURING THEIR 1ST BATTLES. ITS THE FUCKING GIVING TREE OF RAILCANNONS AND DERIDING IT BECAUSE IT DROPS OFF AS INTENDED IS FUCKING STUPID. Also Cybergrind survival tips when? Killing enemies is fine and all but what's the point when they start swarming?

The survivability it gives you when dealing with high health + high mobility targets is actually kind of insane. Though I tend to use the others for most situations, bosses like Sisyphus prime made me actually really appreciate its inclusion

Honestly screwdriver is how i managed to beat minos prime in 8 tries on my first encounter with him, the passive healing from him constantly shoving his arm down my throat helped.

The screwdriver would be useful if: It gave style Healed hard damage (at a slower rate than normal) It dealt slightly more damage

Look, i've never even thought about that coins could be used with another weapon (not like i'm able to even hit them with the revolver, mind you), so it seems i'm on the lower side of the skill, and i've definitely noticed it having higher damage than the blue one, thus i'm mostly using it as a "fire and forget" weapon so that something will definitely die later and i can focus on other targets, if i actually need a heal maybe i'll dash closer to the target but that's it.

I wish that the screwdriver had an AOE debuff to it, maybe it shoots out metal fragments that act as caltrops and slow enemies in an area for crowd control in addition to the blood generation. You could also give the metal fragments an interaction with magnets for more of that ultrakill wackiness.

Ive learnt from minmaxing destiny 2 that any dps that happens in the background while you can shoot other guns is always good. Its just extra when you take into account doing other stuff at the same time, and hey its just a healing zone too

I wonder if the green railcannon being able to heal the player up to +25 of their max would be good. Example: if no hard damage, then the screwdriver blood can heal the player up to 125. If hard damage only allows for 50 health, heal the player up to 75.

If you use the screwdriver on gabriel when hes falling you can juggle him in the air and it’s hilarious

I'm seeing a lot of comments saying it's there to assist new players, and while in large part I agree, I don't think that means it should become useless to advanced players. Saying that it shouldn't be changed because 'buffing the healing makes it more of a crutch' is dumb; not only does it assume that there is no way to buff it besides increasing its healing, but... Imagine if railcoining was removed and the electric railcannon just straight-up did 27 damage. If that were the case, new players would use it as 'a crutch' for very obvious reasons; 27 damage is enough to oneshot almost anything -- and yet despite that, the electric railcannon is very much capable of inflicting 27 damage in a single shot without being a crutch, because doing that requires some degree of practice and knowledge to execute that more advanced strategy. Screw juggling is a great example of this and I like it a lot as a way to buff the screwdriver. It's hard to do, requires practice and knowledge, and also adds to advanced play by enabling the screwdriver to deal more damage at the cost of overall receiving less healing from an individual enemy (even if you don't hit it INTO something, knocking it out of an enemy deals a significant amount of damage, resulting in higher damage overall if you do it right before it runs out). Despite this, I still do think the screwdriver is overall lacking in depth, but not because it's a 'noob friendly weapon' but because, aside from screw juggling (which really needs to give style points btw), _it has no interactions with your other weapons._ And okay. Sure. The pump charge doesn't have direct interactions either, but I think there's an important difference -- as the player's skill increases, their capability to deal damage becomes higher as they learn more numerous and more efficient techniques for dealing with enemies. At a low skill level, the railcannon is meant to be a game-changing move that you can do once in a while to turn the tables, and all three variants absolutely are. However, in order to stay relevant, they are given a lot of those interactions. Blue has conductor and railcoining, red has core nuking and...railcoining, and, well...the screwdriver doesn't really have anything. It's got juggling, but it's hardly strong enough to measure up to the other two at that level. Not to mention, cross-interaction is the bread and butter of this game. Ultimately, I think the way to go with the screwdriver would be to allow you to deal a lot of damage with it in exchange for its defensive boosts; having greater defense (like projectile blocking or enemy immobility or something) is another route to go but personally I find that a little less interesting, as with the damage option you still have a reason not to do that advanced technique for more healing (something the other variants actually kinda lack, not that that's a huge problem). This could be a lot of things, it's not hard to think of; enemies with nails in them could have those nails flung out to hit other enemies. Maybe it could interact with the shotguns somehow, negating its extra healing by requiring you to be up close to get that damage bonus regardless (and shotguns have fewer interactions than most other weapons). Maybe something with the rocket launcher. There's a lot of things you could do with it and it really deserves more love.

a nailed notion

It’s the struggling players favorite weapon. I used it for my first time against Gabriel. That free health was very useful

Without this thing I couldn’t have beaten Minos prime the passive blood flow is too good

Well you see glud I have better things to do than go insane, so I am unable to do the instakill thing

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FUCJ YOU HAVE NO IDEA HOW I JUST JUMOPED AS SOON AS I HEARD OMORI MUSIC

The railgun that makes you immortal for it's duration It's literally the best one ._.

Fun fact: The drill under the railgun, its a spiral key from anime "Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagan"

Green saves lives due to the fact it can heal quickly if you suck at moving

I never used the screwdriver much after obtaining it until trying to P-rank Sisyphus prime. When the fucker is teleporting behind your ass and you're barely at 25hp, you're damn glad to hit the green and relieve the pressure.

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I think I have two solutions to make the green rail better. 1) you can now projectile boost the green rail and if it hit’s an enemy it will make an area of effect DoT (damage over time). This will leave a trail that that damages all enemy’s. For example think defenders crest from hollow knight. Note, you can see through the cloud and outlines would be drawn anyway thanks to the p-2 update. 2) Since the main reason the other two rails are so good is because they can use coins. I say we let the green rail do the same, kinda. If the green rail is in an enemy and you shoot a coin. It will go to the screw and propel it to the next highest heath target. If an enemy is idolized it will be ignored in targeting. Note, the basic coin will not reset the timer on the screw, but the slab coin will add to the time left with demising results.

Everybody gangsta until the screwdriver drains V2's and Gabe's health.

I’m a simple man, I see a mindflayer and my railcanon is ready, I use the drill

I now consider myself a permanent member of the glue eaters club

Without the green railcannon i would have struggled so much in every boss fight

I just like green railcannon because 1. Its like a boost to the damage you deal to the enemy. Shoot the enemy with it, and it attacks the enemy while in the same time you can attack the enemy with some weapons like marksman or some shotgun dealing more damage than usual. 2. Its kinda ez to kill annoying enemies like Guttertank, Maricious face or even Gutterman with it 3. It IS very good to deal hp to the player. Just hit and come near the enemy you shot with it. Very good to heal if you have much "hard damage" or somethin like enemy is hard to come near to and shoot with a weapon 4. Damage : ) 5. Also not dealing damage to the player underwater unlike blue railcannon Kinda thinkin that all ultrakill players like the green railcannon because of it

Never thought I would hear omori music in an ULTRAKILL video, these are my 2 favourite games of all time

Killing it as always dude

If I'm low on health and the railgun is charged. Screwdriver.

As someone that has never played uktrakill before This shit is harder to understand than Lovecraftian mythology

Melty blood music is the last thing I expected when I clicked on this video but it's a pleasant surprise

I'm still gonna say the screwdriver is still my favourite version if the railcanon It carried me trough many bosses

I almost pranked everything up to violence without even buying the screwdriver because it would take an extra press of "e" to switch to the red railcannon

My brother in christ,combo it with the nailgun and watch boss healthbars turn to ash-

after i left the screwdriver behind when i mastered gabriel, i thought i'd never have to see it again then sisyphus came, yet so did the screwdriver, even after all that time, it still came to help me i am forever in it's debt

Hakita: The screwdriver is the key to all of this. If we get the screwdriver working...

Playing through Violent on my first run it was painful fighting V2 for the second time, but once I figured out that you can preemptively set down a nail trap and chain its explosion with the drill, it brought me a solution that experimentation benefitted me with. (Honestly though this really helped me out because I suck at counterricoshots.)

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Also people bullying screwdriver being bullied despite the same people knowing they can’t do shit when their low against flesh prison and literally any other difficult boss

The screwdriver is actually incredibly useful tho! It always comes in clutch when I try to nuke and instead of switching from electric to mal, I switch to screw and fucking miss! Simply unequiping it would be a massive waste of dps and utility!

Screwdriver might not be the best option but I think it's a great option for newer and or less skilled players. I personally really liked that I could just stick the screwdriver in a fat enemy and practically become invincible as long as I stick around them. Now that I beat the game and am on my road to P-ranking every stage in the game, I have to admit that I don't touch the screwdriver anymore. What I am trying to say is that despite the screwdriver not being really good damage wise, I still think ULTRAKILL is better off with it as it gives a good defensive option for less skilled players at the cost of not dealing a ton of burst damage.

You're gonna need the screwdriver one day. . . And on that day it shall turn to you and say "no"

I heard Mika’s theme and I didn’t recognize at first until I visited the description

Hey just picked up the game a few days ago and Ive been looking at some of your guides, they're really quality and the production value is fantastic, great work my dude

I TESTED with the screwdriver railcannon against Cerberi in the sandbox, all perfectly the same, with a healthbar, and the screw did the most damage Hence why I use it, every other railcannon requires skill to make good and/or certain conditions If the screw is bad I’ll probably just stop using the railcannons entirely

The screwdriver is really good in that one room in p-2 with the 2 idoled mindflayers

I only use it in P-2 to keep that damn hallway mindflayer stationary so its easier to deal with the other enemies.

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For those of us who aren't cracked gods at this game and regularly take damage or don't regularly burst higher tier enemies fast enough, the Screwdriver is a great way to use a larger enemy as a pivot point, nullifying the damage they deal on lower difficulties. I can't reliably multi railcoin, or malicious nuke, I can't even launch coins faster than the base speed, the most dps I can put out is either magnetic nails or dual swapping shotguns. The screwdriver is reliable for me, and I don't need to do anything fancy with it so I can focus on doing fancy things with other guns.

the screwdriver is probably the best choice for newer players or specifically the V2 fights, so basically its to compensate for low skill of getting in damage and hp

i feel like the update that let you parry the screwdriver made it worse (for my play-style). i like to get in dirty with the fists and shotgun, and that meant that i needed more health, especially for bosses, which before the update, could be solved with the screwdriver. However, now i cant do that since i find myself punching bosses with the feedbacker a lot, leading me to get rid of my screwdriver.

Honestly I felt the screwdriver was nice for learning purposes against bosses in my first encounters with them, that way I could focus on learning to dodge their attacks without having to worry about needing to damage them to offset whatever attacks I couldn't dodge

Screwdriver is that one teammate that never does cool shit and would rather keep the teammates alive

I was playing dead cells and i have a rule engraved in my mind “if you kill an enemy faster that it hits you, you won’t need that much health”. Why would i choose to make the battle longer over making a strong blow to short the period. Less time, less chances to be damaged

I only recently beaten the existing game, and that thing really helped me on Heresy Gabriel

I legitimately had my hopes up that the first background song was the Ridge Racer 4 Car Select song

From watching these vids I have noticed that I have improved in my skill so keep up the good vids and tutorials and thanks for helping me and a lot of people improve. 😊

I used to use since it allows you to be extremely aggressive against bosses like gabriel or ferryman. Normally those enemies are able to out damage you normal healing so the extra healing is useful. Still the worst railgun but has uses.

Screwdriver got me through P-2. I am forever in it's debt.

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hearing omori music over ultrakill gameplay is the weirdest thing to ever exist.

This is good & funni content Mr. gLud3, keep it up.

I can't think of another game that lets me shoot a drill at someone. So I think I'll keep using it for that reason alone, even if it's inefficient.

I like the screwdriver. I don't use it much, but when I do, it's usually worth it. Like killing a hideous mass in a run of cybergrind (even though there are better ways) Or using it to heal quickly on a boss.

best mindflayer instakill is core nuking instead of p boosting, because it still takes one rail charge, and it has a lower risk of messing up if you can just hit a core

I consider this a certified Mordhau moment.

I feel like it'd serve it's role better if it could overheal, still affected by hard damage but like, maybe overheal 50% of your current max health. so if you have no hard damage you go up to 150health while if you have say 50 hard damage you'd still end up with a 75healthbar which is a lot less dire.

people shit on it but this was the gun that got me through the minos prime fight and i’ll always love it for that reason (even if i dont use it much)

It’s really a matter of deciding between whether you want to screw your enemies or rail your enemies

So, fun fact! If you parry a, say a boss, that you've screwed, because, ya know, they're hittin you a lot and you wanna heal, there's a very solid chance that you will 1: not get the parry. 2: will get a proJectile boost on the screw. 3: Break said screw because 90% of bosses have nothing you could punch the screw into. Thereby removing your healing source, wasting one of your three punches and whiffing a parry that would've fully healed you likely frames before said boss smacks you upside the head. Now obviously thats Just if you whiff the parry, if you land it... you'll still break the screw, but at least now you're at full life! ... Having wasted a rail shot...

The Green RG isn't Just "New Player" Tool.... Used right it can make a Difference in certain fights SPECIALLY if you are trying some kind of challenge run (Such as No Coin Railcannon or Malicious Nukes or some Gun/Move restricted run) and even then there ARE some Bosses that Make using it not as Effective just like there ARE Enemies that don't yield the Mileage of other Meta High level Moves (For example i have seen some Enemies have now the Ability to PARRY Projectile Boosted Pellets)

things to note about the screw itself while it may be slightly it is atracted to magnets

i primarily use screwdriver and electric because 1. i already have trouble pulling off railcoins so you can probably imagine what it's like for me trying to do corenukes. 2. it just turns whatever enemy you hit it with into a constant healing aura, usually one that is actively chasing you down. 3. sisyphus 4. ferryman i kid you not the only reason i even have malicious equipped at all is because it makes the least annoying sound to hear while i'm using it to zoom in at stuff. frankly from what i've seen, malicious is the one that needs a buff since the only thing it's used for is corenuking.

Hold up… the screwdriver deals HALF of the HIM’s health without having to railcoin? I feel horrible for equipping this

ik im a whole year late but, ive been using the screwdriver for a challenge im doing to myself in ultrakill, short story, playing with 2 mods that basicly one, make every enemy become heavily more difficult, like AI, attacking paterns, etc, and an other mod that makes them heal the same way we do, and sometimes heal them alot of their hp, the screwdriver is the thing that, massivly helps with it

the screwdriver is a great variant when you suck at not getting hit and you are fighting a boss,use the screwdriver and you are basicaly immortal

I feel like screwdriver should instead be a nailgun variant. It doesn't really fit with the other railguns as it's not a hitscan and doesn't fire rails.

Pairing the screwdriver plus the blue Gatling gun deals really good damage. Which is why I only use 2 weapons for bosses

As a guy who never successfully does decent damage with ultraricochots, I can confirm drill is pretty good against big enemies and some bosses with smaller hitboxes.(plus technically V1 is in hell for blood so canonically this should be his favorite weapon for all the blood it makes)

the screwdriver is good in gluttony for the challenge of killing a mindflayer in acid

Screwdriver excels in Cyber Grind waves with multiple Mind Flayers, especially now that Sentries make prolonged aerial combat much riskier. Slam Storage Jump, combo one to death ASAP while ludicrously high up, and CC one with the screwdriver to give you a bit more breathing room while you slam back down.