Placeholder Weapons
What weapons will you never finish a game with? Like as soon as you find something better/you want, it's gone? Also what weapons if you find on drop will you keep the entire game?
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@Lord_Scorpion34
I’ll never finish the game with:
Hemlock - cause I’m bad at it (I know I should practice with it more)
Triple take - there are just better marksmen weapons
Charge rifle - same reason as hemlock
Generally all LMGs because I feel like we all have a gentleman’s agreement on those.
Guns to keep
Mozambique - I love imagining the reaction of people when they get knocked by a meme
Ps. I’m actually fantastic with it!
R-301 - it’s just good
Volt - it’s just good
Flatline - r-301 with a deep voice
G-7 - I’m fantastic at it for no good reason, it’s also a bit op recently
I’ll never finish the game with:
Hemlock - cause I’m bad at it (I know I should practice with it more)
Triple take - there are just better marksmen weapons
Charge rifle - same reason as hemlock
Generally all LMGs because I feel like we all have a gentleman’s agreement on those.
Guns to keep
Mozambique - I love imagining the reaction of people when they get knocked by a meme
Ps. I’m actually fantastic with it!
R-301 - it’s just good
Volt - it’s just good
Flatline - r-301 with a deep voice
G-7 - I’m fantastic at it for no good reason, it’s also a bit op recently
Keep: R301, Hemlock, Volt, Flatline in one slot. EVA with at least a blue bolt at a push, or Havoc but only with TC. All with x2.
G7, Longbow, R301/Flatline with AR in the other. With x3 or x2-x4 until I find a x3.
Discard everything else unless a situational care package weapon.
I have been looking at my stats more and keeping track of what weapons work and don't for me (as in, I can hit at least 50% of my shots on moving targets).
Works:
- G-7 (I am pretty sure this is one of my top 2 for kills)
- Hemlock (and pretty sure this is other top 2 for kills)
- P2020
- Mozam.
- Wingman (but only with default irons)
- The bow, because bringing a bow to a gun fight makes perfect sense...
- Sentinel (but ONLY with Iron sights, figure that out)
- R-301 set to Semi-auto
- Flatline set to Semi-auto
- Prowler
- Melee
- Grenades
Does not work:
- Literally anything that is auto-fire only (so I avoid LMGs, even when playing Rampart now).
- Flatline set to auto-fire
- R-301 set to auto-fire
- Shotguns that are not the Mozam.
- Wingman with any other sights.
- Longbow
- Charge Rifle
- Most any energy weapon
- The Knife during Gun Run (which I only got to once)
- Tacticals that are supposed to do damage.
That odd ability to get hits with, and even kills to mid game, with a P2020 means if I find it on drop I'll keep it. With the laser sight now it's not bad for hipfire. It's not a good primary, but it's very quick to swap to if you have run out the clip on the other gun, or were sniping and suddenly discover closer enemies. If I can get a G-7 and P2020 setup early game, I will run that to the end (one ammo type helps) but my fav combo is G-7 and Hemlock.
- @Kyldenar
The hemlock is for me the most difficult-to-use weapon in all of Apex. Maybe it's because it supposedly has "range" so I keep trying to use it with a big scope the way I would use a tripletake. And the first bullet hits the target, the second is several meters above the target, and the rest of them literally wrap around the underside of the map. With that kind of recoil I'm surprised I don't end up shooting myself in the back.
The scout is also a mystery to me, and you would think, due to my fascination with mid-range guns, that I'd be aces with it. But I'm not. I never even try to pick one up anymore.
I'm also surprised to hear people list melee or grenades as favored tools. I relegated melee to some button on my controller that I can't even find so that I wouldn't keep hitting it accidentally when trying to do other things. I did that a lot in the first four or five seasons until someone told me you could map the controller. And grenades I refuse to use on principle because they're so counter-intuitive (with all the menuing and arming and putting down your gun that you have to do) and so nooby with a trajectory tell so a monkey could place it. Very un-Halo-like. Recon disapproves.
But these are all more reasons why we make good squadmates - never fighting over the same toys.
- @BigMacAttack8u
No one is bad at the charge rifle. There is no easier weapon in the game. The secret (tell no one else) is to use a mid-range scope, not a sniper scope.
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