Between Thunder, Shaft (incl Rapid fire Mode) and Scorpion, which turret would you recommend?

[ekf 88]

I know that Shaft and Scorpion are long range turrets but I use them a lot in similar ranges as Thunder without any too much problems.

Edited June 4, 2023 by ekf

[Maf 32,300]

Depends a lot on your playstyle. I don't like Scorpion much, so I only occasionally use it with Tornado augment. Thunder and Shaft are actually my main turrets now, but I only use them with Vacuum Rounds and Healing Emitters respectively.

Healing with Shaft is really fun, I get a lot of teammates thanking me for support and for me it's a different kind of challenge — I have to find spots in the map where I have line of sight on my teammates in key positions, but the enemies can't reach me. Vacuum Thunder is fun since it's potentially OP, but only if you know how to use it well.

[ekf 88]

On 6/4/2023 at 11:05 PM, Maf said:

Depends a lot on your playstyle. I don't like Scorpion much, so I only occasionally use it with Tornado augment. Thunder and Shaft are actually my main turrets now, but I only use them with Vacuum Rounds and Healing Emitters respectively.

Healing with Shaft is really fun, I get a lot of teammates thanking me for support and for me it's a different kind of challenge — I have to find spots in the map where I have line of sight on my teammates in key positions, but the enemies can't reach me. Vacuum Thunder is fun since it's potentially OP, but only if you know how to use it well.

Hm, what if we don't include augments that can't be bought with crystals?

[wild004 23]

On 6/5/2023 at 12:02 PM, ekf said:

Hm, what if we don't include augments that can't be bought with crystals?

Crystal augment are not much used, status augment + OP augment are just better,

For crystal, you cant go wrong w adrenaline augment, give better pounch before you die

 

[Me0w_XP 523]

On 6/5/2023 at 12:02 AM, ekf said:

Hm, what if we don't include augments that can't be bought with crystals?

Scorpion's best crystal augment (in my opinion) is Explosive Warheads, which gives you splash damage on rocket hits. This is fun if you can launch rockets at groups of enemies like in CP or SGE mode, or even Juggernaut if they have healers near the Juggernaut.

Alternatively, you could try Explosive Shells, which gives you splash damage on arcade shots, but personally I find that splash damage on arcade doesn't really add that much especially due to damage dropoff.

 

For Thunder, the only worthwhile garage augment in my opinion is Subcaliber Rounds, which gives you increased projectile speed, increased impact force, and decreased reload, at the cost of no splash. The new increased critical chance for Thunder makes direct hits more worthwhile too.

 

For Shaft, the 2 augments I would really recommend are Short Band Emitter and Heavy Capacitors, the latter of which you should only consider if you enjoy slow-paced camping. SBE increased your arcade and minimum sniping damage (meaning quick scopes are more effective) but can still be used to camp as it doesn't affect sniping mode reload meaning you're basically using stock shaft with more close combat potential. In my experience, the increased reload doesn't affect it that much.

[ekf 88]

On 6/28/2023 at 5:29 PM, Me0w_XP said:

Scorpion's best crystal augment (in my opinion) is Explosive Warheads, which gives you splash damage on rocket hits. This is fun if you can launch rockets at groups of enemies like in CP or SGE mode, or even Juggernaut if they have healers near the Juggernaut.

Alternatively, you could try Explosive Shells, which gives you splash damage on arcade shots, but personally I find that splash damage on arcade doesn't really add that much especially due to damage dropoff.

 

For Thunder, the only worthwhile garage augment in my opinion is Subcaliber Rounds, which gives you increased projectile speed, increased impact force, and decreased reload, at the cost of no splash. The new increased critical chance for Thunder makes direct hits more worthwhile too.

 

For Shaft, the 2 augments I would really recommend are Short Band Emitter and Heavy Capacitors, the latter of which you should only consider if you enjoy slow-paced camping. SBE increased your arcade and minimum sniping damage (meaning quick scopes are more effective) but can still be used to camp as it doesn't affect sniping mode reload meaning you're basically using stock shaft with more close combat potential. In my experience, the increased reload doesn't affect it that much.

Appreciate the reply.

There's no crystal augments anymore though, right? Every augment has to be found in containers.

[TheCongoSpider 8,942]

On 7/10/2023 at 7:54 AM, ekf said:

Appreciate the reply.

There's no crystal augments anymore though, right? Every augment has to be found in containers.

Every turret except Gauss has 3 unique augments in the garage. 

[Me0w_XP 523]

On 7/10/2023 at 7:54 AM, ekf said:

There's no crystal augments anymore though, right? Every augment has to be found in containers.

Like TheCongoSpider, there are still crystal augments! Every augment I mentioned in my post can be bought for containers or found in containers.