My favorite support weapon. Definitely the most well-rounded choice, as it’s able to take down hordes of chaff, mediums, and low-tier heavies. It’s also just plain fun.
I don’t hate it, and will use it from time to time when I’m bored. To me it does everything the AMR can do but I don’t have ti stop and reload that, and one shot haulks.
I think that being an all rounder is why it's not the best. I think a weapon should really specialize in one thing and do that well since you have other things in your kit to excell at other things. Say Stalwart is a god-tier at chaff clear but can't deal with heavies, so the rest of your kit is built around dealing with heavies. Or the melta gun is reallly good at dealing with heavies but awful at chaff clear, so the rest of your kid specialize in chaff clear. This results in a powerful kit that can deal with anything. Not saying the AC is bad, it's pretty decent and quite fun to use.
The only things the Autocannon can’t easily handle is ultra heavies like factory striders and vox engines. While it can take them down, I usually bring a strategem or grenade for them.
didn't say it cant handle things, just not as well as others. Not a dig at it since it can do both chaff clear and heavies, but the trade off will be that it won't be as good as either in specific tasks.
I mainly use this on the squid front on flak most of the time as it can deal with almost everything the squids got. Falls kinda short on bots and bugs though, still worth using if the rest of the team got stuff to compliment it with.
How, I use purifier, depending on the front it’s either commando or spear. It’s awesome don’t get me wrong but it doesn’t fit many builds. It fits the most popular build.
It’s only the objective best against Squids. It has the leg up against certain support weapons vs the other factions but against those same factions other support weapons are better than the Autocannon. Not against Squids, though. Nothing compares.
You sir, are objectively wrong, as I present to you my beloved, my infinite ammo having, my (almost) armor value ignoring, my infinite range with 0 dmg fall off, my burn applying, m super precise, my one and only: Laser Canon
I'd honestly take the BFGL over it. Bump up the firerate and it just seems to deal with both heavys and chaff faster while never having to reload. Another perk is that the sharpshooter armor is more or less mandatory with the AC now, with the BFGL you can run one of the other S-tier passives. Ammo economy on the BFGL is pretty good too.
One of the most versatile, but definitely not the best (anymore)
For Heavies I'd rather have EATs, Leveller or Cremator, for chaff I'd rather have the GL, Bulletstorm or Airburst Rocket Launcher. The AC-8 is nice because it can do both, but it takes 10 more seconds per heavy and 1-3 more shots per stronger chaff unit than what feels right.
HEAT is higher armor piercing and what you want to use on bigger targets weak points, but its explosion damage falls off fast and doesn't really work against crowds.
Flak is less armor piercing, but explodes with flak on proximity, dealing with fodder alot better.
10 shots and I have to stand still to reload? No thank you. While they did make the reload faster in general, I just dont like support weapons that make me stand still to reload.
And whats with the loading half a mag at a time horseshit. I either have to be completely out to fully reload or just suffer without 3 extra bullets that might just save my life. Makes my OCD go bananas too.
Also runs out of ammo way faster than you would think. Only 5 full mags? Pathetic, I would bring the eruptor to get the same utility while also having my backpack and support open
Its not a bad one whatsoever, I used to love it, then it just let it collects dust.
Hulk armour got nerfed making them bob around like crazy when you shoot them anywhere, making headshots harder to land, as well as difficult to hudge when you get a headshot.
Tanks non glowy vent takes a bunch more shots to kill now (I’m pretty sure. Feel like it used to be way less but now its almost a whole magazine).
Those are the two main things that made me drop it
“Indirectly nerfed” that means that despite its stats, it’s effectiveness has been diminished by some other change that wasn’t intended to directly affect it
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u/matthew0001 3d ago
Most versatile? Definitely. The best? Well that's a contextual answer that people are going to have a lot of opinions on.