thoughts on the beam emitter
the first time i used this aug i placed it on an N-7 Eagle, i was kind of annoyed that the weapon i installed it in still used thermal clips, as it just doesn't make any sense, it's basically a remna...
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I'm still not even sure what the idea of the [Beam Emitter] is meant to be, but I know it's not to remove the ammo usage, for that you'll need to choose the [Vintage Heat Sink] like DarthLama mentioned 🙂
At first I though it would do something like remove accuracy penalties or the projectiles' arcing trajectory, but that doesn't seem to be the case, so I'm at a loss 🤔
Isn't it a guaranteed instant hit? I mean, given it's a beam and not a projectile? Also, constant hit would supposed to take down shields faster? I'm not sure how it works in the game though. Rarely meddled with that augmentation because some weapons I chose to play worked wonders by themselves and other sort of augmentations.
During my 1st playthrough I thought it would be cool to make my blackwidow a laser sniper rifle... Well think you can guess the outcome of that... the frustration, the need to leave the quest, to go all the way back, leave the planet,, disassemble the damn thing and then reassemble with the correct augs and mods, then fly back down to the planet, all these whilst SAM telling me to check my emails lol...
@PandaTar wrote:Isn't it a guaranteed instant hit? I mean, given it's a beam and not a projectile? Also, constant hit would supposed to take down shields faster? I'm not sure how it works in the game though. Rarely meddled with that augmentation because some weapons I chose to play worked wonders by themselves and other sort of augmentations.
Nope the guaranteed hit aug is the seeking plasma aug, and it not guaranteed, just like a homing missile it can still miss if it hits a barrier lol, I use it on my shotgun... The beam emitter is useless.
The game will always have one augment that is the worst one.. that augment is the Beam Emitter.
It honestly has no upside at all, none. In it's current state, there is absolutely no reason to use it. Unless of course you like playing on Normal and having it feel like insanity due to the fact that you're doing next to no damage.
If that's your thing, cool.. otherwise chuck the Beam Emitter out of an air lock, it's nothing but junk.
Another thing that is worthless is the Ricochet system. Makes it impossible with a sniper to get headshots as it will now hit the ground in front of the target and bounce instead of going for the head which I aimed at. Even worse is that it slows down the projectile making it had to hit enemies that keeps moving around.
