• Aeri@lemmy.world
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      7 months ago

      I use the autocannon but sometimes I really can’t tell where I’m supposed to be aiming aside from “at the red dot”

      It’s just, shoot the red light yeah?

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        7 months ago

        I could have just been shooting poorly. I was on suicide difficulty, idk if that makes a difference.

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          7 months ago

          Difficulty selection only changes the amount and types of enemies you face in a mission. Health and armor stays the same for each enemy type.

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            7 months ago

            Which is also my favorite part about this game; so tired of lazy difficulty scaling where higher difficulty just means health/damage is higher for enemies and lower for player.

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          7 months ago

          A good hit will cause fire to spray out of the “face”. A second good hit should blow the face out.

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          7 months ago

          I’ve noticed the first hit has a flame spout out of the eye, and the 2nd hit brings it down. Any other shots in between I assume are misses because there’s 3 other hulks rushing me and oh god oh god…

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      7 months ago

      I managed to one-shot 3 of them last night with a quasar cannon shot right in the visor. Relatedly, I’ve learned laying down wildly improves the quasar cannon’s accuracy.

    • The Picard Maneuver@lemmy.worldOP
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      7 months ago

      It’s supposed to be fantastic at hitting weak spots, especially for the automatons.

      I’ve not used it much because it feels less freedom-y than big explosions or flames.

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      7 months ago

      Someone I play with is trying out the AMR, especially after the damage buff recently. Did pretty well on the bots, granted we’re playing level 4-5

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      7 months ago

      It basically does a lot of what the autocannon can do (minus closing holes / destroying factories) and doesn’t require losing your backpack slot. I love it

    • Cyv_@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      7 months ago

      2 shot hulks to the face, most automatons with vents like tanks and turrets can be killed in 6ish shots, which is I think 1 short of a full mag. Doesn’t take a backpack slot, very long range.

      I find running it either as a stealth build w/jetpack/shield or with a Rover to clear trash quite fun. Harder to make work with bugs so bring lots of orbitals and strikes for chargers and bile titans.

    • formergijoe@lemmy.world
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      Vs bots it’s amazing. 1 shots walkers if you hit their top leg joint. 1 shots devastators with a headshot and 2 shots with torso hits. 2 shots hulks with headshots. You have to hit turrets and tanks on the vent a few times to take them out, but I usually run a 110 rocket pod which almost always takes them out in 1 call-in.

      The only problem with the AMR is the sights feel off and you gotta Kentucky windage it a bit.

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      If you hate devastators and hulks, have decent aiming, and you are good at positioning and staying away from immediate danger it is amazing against bots