Anyone able to help me understand the Charge rifle a bit better? I get shot and fully drains my level 3 shield and a part of my health. Yesterday I got 2 direct hits on a blue shield but there shield did not break. I had to get 5 direct hits to knock him down.
It charges up before the main blast, 45 damage is frontloaded during the charge up, another 45 with the blast, 90 damage total (on torso)
On running targets, you'd need to trace the trace the player the entire length of the shot for full damage.
It's a broken gun.
@iiNyxiNexusIt does 90 damage max. Even if you had no helmet and CR hits a headshot, that's still only 99 damage max (but it's really not a good idea to headshot with CR, since it actually does LESS damage to a helmeted head than body (87 dmg max vs purple helmet)). There is no way to "fully drain" a lvl3 armor with just 1 shot.
Also, keep in mind that it has damage dropoff starting at 250m (90 damage) up to 400m (60 damage).
To not break a blue armor with 2 shots, you would need to miss all your tickle damage and be at least 350m away from the target (or more simply, you just miss your final hits, which are half of all the damage).
If you're going to even pick up the CR, you really need to get good at hitting everything - both the beam and the final hit. Otherwise that weapon is just utterly useless. It's fire rate is very slow, so if you miss any shots, you really have no chance to knock anyone, ever (especially if you can't finish your target before the eternity-long 3.6 seconds reload (with white mag, you have to hit all 4 shots, with purple you can miss a little)).
P.S. If you don't love the weapon, there's little reason to use it, since it's actually pretty average and also limits your loadout extremely (since it's unusable in CQC, you have to have a primary weapon that you can use without switching, so you can't use R99, you can't use shotguns, you can't use hemlok...). The only real reason to use it is to understand how it works and it's strengths and weaknesses, so that you know how to play against it (since you're quite likely to run into some). Every time I take CR/AR instead of my Hemlok/R99, I lose, horribly (even though I do hit 70+ shots most of the time on the CR, it just can't really compete with hemlok at mid range and the AR can't compete with R99 in CQC; and there's really no reason to ever shoot at long range, where CR starts to shine).
P.P.S. That's from PC perspective (the only perspective I can give), it's performance (relative to other weapons) could be entirely different on console. The stats are the same though.
As far as reading articles did EA change the prime health from 100 to 150? Headshots include I hit someone for 123 damage with no shield bit the breakdown showed otherwise. Could this be because of lag?
I personally hate the charge rifle....1km away and I get lasered every time!
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