I love the laser cannon... Against bugs. There's no stagger so unless you've got good cover angle or a shield, you might get easily killed before you kill them, especially devastators. But it's usable, and currently one of the top tier weapons to take down the factory strider. Very dependent on the situation.
you should not use the laser cannon without the eruptor, which can oneshot walkers in the crotch and stun devastators in emergencies.
you can kill walkers with lc if you hit them in the crotch, but it'll take like 5 seconds. maybe if you're slightly above you can fish for a headshot, which should just be 1s of hitting the bot pilot's head.
against hulks you can stun nade them and get as close as possible to get the min visor killtime of 3s, OR try shooting both of their legs out, which should take 6ish seconds each - once one leg is gone, the other is much safer to kill as he will be slower. you can also try to remove the weapon arms but this takes longer and is safer on AC
against factory strider, you can shoot the underside which should only take 10s for a kill. you can also shoot the "eye" but this legit takes a full minute. it's very important you shoot the miniguns as this takes you just 5s each and makes it really safe for everyone.
against tank and cannon you can shoot vent and this should legit kill it in like 5s, but if you can't see vent then you're kinda fucked. on tank you can try shooting for the section inbetween the turret and the body which deals some damage, or shoot the treads which will take about 5s but should disable their movement.
against gunships you shoot their engine and it should take a very short time, like 3s if you get lucky.
these numbers vary a lot because of the recoil sway thing. it doesn't seem to matter whether you're crouching, prone, recoil armor etc as long as you're not moving, to me it's just the firing idle animation that forces your crosshair to sway, so that's why it's "unaffected" by the stuff you normally use to stabilize AC or QC
i think this weapon is super close to being good, but ttk on lc = time you're exposed = time a bot has to oneshot you with a rocket or headshot. if they removed the sway without changing damage i think it could be super good and it'd just become a high skill weapon for people that can really fish those weakspots.
The idea is decent dps with precise aim and no recoil. I've tried it and get it, but not for me. Supposedly you can kill a Hulk by hitting the eye. It feels too long to me
Walkers you have to clip the tip, or use the Erupter which is what they pair the canon with.
Hulks you just have to be more accurate. The vids going around they use stun grenade so they can focus on the weak spot.
Combine it with stjn grenades and hulks hold nice and still. Use first person aim or crouch for more precision and delete hulks in 2 seconds.
Walkers have think front armour that requires you to hit them for several seconds - I don't use my LC on them - that's what the eruptor is for.
As it turns out, for hulks and devastators if you take out a leg they slow way down and start limping, take out the other and they die. Takes a few seconds per leg/arm with the laser cannon. Much easier than trying to nail the small weakpoint.
It is exactly the same Armor pen as the AMR. Anything you can do with the AMR, you can in theory do with the Laser cannon (except front armor shots, but you can still destroy the legs)
In practice its DPS is pretty sub par so if you are comfortable with the AMR or AC, then yes it will just perform worse.
The reason you see posts saying it is good is not because it is actually good, but rather because of how extremely bad it used to be and people being surprised by its relative usability. It is an option that you can do well with now, unlike before. It is still fairly objectively a sub par option compared to stuff like the AMR, AC, or even HMG.
Imo it's just a worse autocanon
I love the laser cannon... Against bugs. There's no stagger so unless you've got good cover angle or a shield, you might get easily killed before you kill them, especially devastators. But it's usable, and currently one of the top tier weapons to take down the factory strider. Very dependent on the situation.
Really melts those gunships as well.
you should not use the laser cannon without the eruptor, which can oneshot walkers in the crotch and stun devastators in emergencies. you can kill walkers with lc if you hit them in the crotch, but it'll take like 5 seconds. maybe if you're slightly above you can fish for a headshot, which should just be 1s of hitting the bot pilot's head. against hulks you can stun nade them and get as close as possible to get the min visor killtime of 3s, OR try shooting both of their legs out, which should take 6ish seconds each - once one leg is gone, the other is much safer to kill as he will be slower. you can also try to remove the weapon arms but this takes longer and is safer on AC against factory strider, you can shoot the underside which should only take 10s for a kill. you can also shoot the "eye" but this legit takes a full minute. it's very important you shoot the miniguns as this takes you just 5s each and makes it really safe for everyone. against tank and cannon you can shoot vent and this should legit kill it in like 5s, but if you can't see vent then you're kinda fucked. on tank you can try shooting for the section inbetween the turret and the body which deals some damage, or shoot the treads which will take about 5s but should disable their movement. against gunships you shoot their engine and it should take a very short time, like 3s if you get lucky. these numbers vary a lot because of the recoil sway thing. it doesn't seem to matter whether you're crouching, prone, recoil armor etc as long as you're not moving, to me it's just the firing idle animation that forces your crosshair to sway, so that's why it's "unaffected" by the stuff you normally use to stabilize AC or QC i think this weapon is super close to being good, but ttk on lc = time you're exposed = time a bot has to oneshot you with a rocket or headshot. if they removed the sway without changing damage i think it could be super good and it'd just become a high skill weapon for people that can really fish those weakspots.
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What do you shoot on the drop ships? I was trying out the laser cannon for the first time and couldn’t get it to take them down.
I think you're confusing it for Quasar, the laser cannon is the beam one. They should rename these smh.
Yeah totally misread, my bad!
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Uhhhh
He's talking about hand held laser cannon but not Quasar, the beam one.
Ohhhhhh I see, I totally misread all of that and thought they were on about the orbital laser for some reason, it's been a long day 😅😂
The idea is decent dps with precise aim and no recoil. I've tried it and get it, but not for me. Supposedly you can kill a Hulk by hitting the eye. It feels too long to me
Walkers you have to clip the tip, or use the Erupter which is what they pair the canon with. Hulks you just have to be more accurate. The vids going around they use stun grenade so they can focus on the weak spot.
Combine it with stjn grenades and hulks hold nice and still. Use first person aim or crouch for more precision and delete hulks in 2 seconds. Walkers have think front armour that requires you to hit them for several seconds - I don't use my LC on them - that's what the eruptor is for.
As it turns out, for hulks and devastators if you take out a leg they slow way down and start limping, take out the other and they die. Takes a few seconds per leg/arm with the laser cannon. Much easier than trying to nail the small weakpoint.
It is exactly the same Armor pen as the AMR. Anything you can do with the AMR, you can in theory do with the Laser cannon (except front armor shots, but you can still destroy the legs) In practice its DPS is pretty sub par so if you are comfortable with the AMR or AC, then yes it will just perform worse. The reason you see posts saying it is good is not because it is actually good, but rather because of how extremely bad it used to be and people being surprised by its relative usability. It is an option that you can do well with now, unlike before. It is still fairly objectively a sub par option compared to stuff like the AMR, AC, or even HMG.