I main scout with Cryo Zhukovs and Hipster M1000. Zhukovs help with bosses and crowds due to the ice explosions and m1000 is just a good all rounder. I am thinking swapping to the deepcore thought because spam click is starting to hut my fingers.
I absolutely fucking hate the crossbow. I can see how pheromones are useful (And maybe I'll start running phermone grenades instead of ice), but the crossbow feels like total garbage for everything else, its slow, clunky and inefficient and most of the ammo types are way too gimmicky requiring too much effort for too little reward.
I use deep bags, auto reload and vampire, since my actives are medic and self-rez so I can try to reverse a wipe in case things go badly (Self res, use insta rez on one teammate, a normal rez on a second and pick myself up with the vamp), I guess i could drop autoreload for throns but how useful is elemental resistance? That's just for enviromental hazards no?
Elemental resistance provides poison resistance, so acid spitters, poison clouds, praetorians, bulks do fire damage, also resistance to radioactive damage. If you're having difficulty surviving I'd take that over auto reload. Crossbow is as powerful as the primary weapon for grunt takedowns when you have bodkin points, it does take time to get the aim down pat, but its my favorite secondary. If you're just trying out pheromones with specialist oc, you can go projectile speed, on the crossbow, and that makes aiming a lot easier. At the end of the day I think you should play with whatever you like best, if you're having fun that's all that matters. When I play with the m1000 I find my situational awareness is less, because I have less ammo and need to focus on making shots, im not 16 and Korean with progamer aim, I have normal person aim.
On scout I run deep pockets, elemental resistance, thorns, Iron will and hoverboots for when I need a platform and don't get one. I'm assuming you use overcharged winch on the grappling hook, with the shortest cooldows. M1000 is fine, but if I'm going to play like the weapon is automatic, then I'll just play with an automatic weapon. With the drak and battery booster you get 850 ammo, 19 damage a bullet + chance for electrocute, and more importantly the slowdown from the electrocute, it also gives faster projectile speed which is a must. No reload pairs well with the grappling hook. Longest burning flares are my preference, I get less of them, but I'm more selective with where they go, so im looking for pillars, stalagtites, jutting out pieces of terrain, the pipes at the top of the drill rig on extraction, engineers platforms, anything but a flat wall where you lose half of the flares light.
Other things I do:
- If I see someone fighting a bug swarm a distance from me, a flare goes to them
- if someone goes down, a flare goes to their location before rez
- flares go into the distance, not just overhead so we can get a good look at furthest bugs
- I always look out for engineer, because he is slow and no shields, if he's not setup sentries, he needs backup.
Try the Drak 22212 + Shield battery booster.
@Counterfeit Obol
Also works against Praetorian attacks, but not those of the Glacial Strata.
Yea but frost praetorians don't even do damage do they lol? I swear the frost breath is just for show, I never take damage from it. Elemental resistance does provide frost resistance.
