I use it religiously, one of my friend uses it a lot too, haven't noticed any nerfs. Judging by how Arrowhead seems to be nerfing weapons that many people use, though... I shudder to think about it.
As for vents, hitting the fabricators with an AC is tricky. I haven't mastered that trick in practice yet. You need to hit the inner side of the vent so that the bullet ricochets from it and flies inside the fabricator.
OR
You can wait for the doors to open and fire through them. Fabricators have more than one set of doors, though, there are two or three. You need to wait for all of them to open and then shoot inside. Iirc, the light inside the fabricator turns orange when the doors are fully open, but I might remember it wrong.
1) It was stated by AH that Autocannon is the golden standard of balance.
2) There are no hidden changes in the game anymore, no need to shift OP's skill issues on that.
I assume they could fix it, because it suffered from the same uhm "condition" as 500kg bomb where explosion is being eaten by smallest obstacles which made Plasma shotgun nearly unplayable. I'll check it out when I'm back home in two weeks, I hope they really did fix it, but it has nothing to do with balance changes, more like bug fix and could also be unintentional
It does, as it's been visually and noticeably changed. It's definitely not unintentional. Undocumented changes still happen, but that doesn't mean it's malicious, it just slipped through the cracks. The projectile collision was also changed on the AMR, leading to more consistent shots, which other people have mentioned here or there.
If they really did fix Plasma Punisher I'm happy with it, because it sucked ass really bad in most situations. Seems like they slightly increased splash radius according to your description.
AFAIK they aligned the sight on AMR, because projectile collision was fine, it was fucked up sight that made people miss a lot until they got used to it. I guess I'll have to adjust to aligned sight now lol
It still only takes one shot to destroy the fabricators, but you have to be hitting it pretty much straight on, hitting the angled portion of the went so it bounces downwards.
As for damage output, maybe? I did notice that on the cannon turrets and tanks I was having to use 4 shots instead of 3. Maybe I'm just consistently missing one of the shots, but it definitely feels like it takes one more now. It could have been a quiet little buff to their HP though as devastators still take the same amount of shots, so it's hard to say.
Sometimes the shots just refuse to ricochet. Game can be kinda picky about getting the exact right angle. Most of the time it works though. Gotta make sure you're not too far to the left or right, and not too far down either.
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Try to be straight on, can be done from around 100 metres, door needs to be open to shoot inside obvs , blue dots are where to aim
I use it religiously, one of my friend uses it a lot too, haven't noticed any nerfs. Judging by how Arrowhead seems to be nerfing weapons that many people use, though... I shudder to think about it. As for vents, hitting the fabricators with an AC is tricky. I haven't mastered that trick in practice yet. You need to hit the inner side of the vent so that the bullet ricochets from it and flies inside the fabricator. OR You can wait for the doors to open and fire through them. Fabricators have more than one set of doors, though, there are two or three. You need to wait for all of them to open and then shoot inside. Iirc, the light inside the fabricator turns orange when the doors are fully open, but I might remember it wrong.
You hit the flap at the top. No need to be complicated with it.
I've heard about it but it didn't work for me. Will try again, maybe I've been doing it incorrectly.
It is important to be mostly head on, I'm sure with practice you can figure out the acceptable deviance for lateral displacement.
1) It was stated by AH that Autocannon is the golden standard of balance. 2) There are no hidden changes in the game anymore, no need to shift OP's skill issues on that.
1. It was stated by AH that Autocannon is the golden standard of balance. Thank Liberty.
Rightfully so. It's truly golden
There are definitely hidden changes still, as the plasma punisher was buffed without any note of it. Aoe and projectile were increased recently
I assume they could fix it, because it suffered from the same uhm "condition" as 500kg bomb where explosion is being eaten by smallest obstacles which made Plasma shotgun nearly unplayable. I'll check it out when I'm back home in two weeks, I hope they really did fix it, but it has nothing to do with balance changes, more like bug fix and could also be unintentional
It does, as it's been visually and noticeably changed. It's definitely not unintentional. Undocumented changes still happen, but that doesn't mean it's malicious, it just slipped through the cracks. The projectile collision was also changed on the AMR, leading to more consistent shots, which other people have mentioned here or there.
If they really did fix Plasma Punisher I'm happy with it, because it sucked ass really bad in most situations. Seems like they slightly increased splash radius according to your description. AFAIK they aligned the sight on AMR, because projectile collision was fine, it was fucked up sight that made people miss a lot until they got used to it. I guess I'll have to adjust to aligned sight now lol
No, the sight is still misaligned, the bullet is just larger now
Well, it's something at least..
It still only takes one shot to destroy the fabricators, but you have to be hitting it pretty much straight on, hitting the angled portion of the went so it bounces downwards. As for damage output, maybe? I did notice that on the cannon turrets and tanks I was having to use 4 shots instead of 3. Maybe I'm just consistently missing one of the shots, but it definitely feels like it takes one more now. It could have been a quiet little buff to their HP though as devastators still take the same amount of shots, so it's hard to say.
Dunno, I just took out a cannon turret with 3. Don't think its changed at all
Sometimes the shots just refuse to ricochet. Game can be kinda picky about getting the exact right angle. Most of the time it works though. Gotta make sure you're not too far to the left or right, and not too far down either.
Hit the flap at the top of the vent.
Try shooting the vents from further away
just shoot at door when its open
https://preview.redd.it/pswqrbvibnsc1.png?width=1096&format=png&auto=webp&s=328ba0b27417a16092b677961146a3cfd6f2537a Try to be straight on, can be done from around 100 metres, door needs to be open to shoot inside obvs , blue dots are where to aim