I like this format. It's not clickbaity, nothing fancy, no buzz words or "this weapon is still meta!" Its just a video to explain how it actually functions, impoving those who already enjoy it and attracting others to give it a shot. It promotes a varied play style, which improves the quality of the game in the long run. Everyone wins.

It’s still good. But has been replaced by the expendable anti tank. And now the quasar cannon. Don’t really see many people run it anymore.

Theres just always a weapon now that does its job but better. Nobody is saying that you can't use the railgun, it's simply outclassed by the other weapons. With all the buffs coming to the other support weapons, the old railgun is more in line with the current balance.

I love this type of video, it’s amazing. Very clear, concise, and fun to watch!

Dude for real it’s there. Your confidence and delivery is so solid. Appreciate all the effort

Probably my favorite video of yours that I’ve seen. More of this please!

I still ran the rail gun after it's heavy nerfs if only on the automaton front. The rail gun allows for a quick and easy solution to anything from a scout strider to a hulk, especially those nasty devastators. For tanks and turrets I simply packed eagle rocket pods. With the new patch however I am unsure this strategy will hold up. Rocket pods seem to no longer one shot tanks and towers and the gun ships are a new threat that need dealing with.

What was meant to be a balance can't be called anything but a nerf. We need guides just to explain how to make the railgun a useful weapon now. It needs a buff in the form of range & scope increase, armor penetration, ammo, or something! Maybe just like leave the stats alone & give it a dramatically shorter cooldown? It needs something to make it appealing

I only got to the railgun after the nerf so I don't know what it was like before. I like it for the niche of killing medium armor enemies and heavy enemies that have exposed weak points. Currently that means I only bring it against bots as it struggles to deal with chargers and bile titans. I think if you want to consistently deal with heavy enemies for both factions you need to move to heavier weapons like the quasar, recoiless, or EAT.

I think the way the weapon is designed now is okay. It stands out for being an in between of the AMR and the Launchers. Like you're not gonna use a recoiless or EAT on a single Strider or Devistator, and you might want some heavy armor peircing that the AMR doesn't have. The main problem now is that it isn't great against heavily armored targets and the AMR has more utility cause of its range of engagement. Yeah I'm still trying to find a reason to choose this instead of something else.

With that strategy of looking at gauge while aiming, you probably love that they added that extra indicator on the side of the sight.

FYI, 100% charge is actually way earlier then most people think. there's a bunch of markings that leads up to the top, but, before it even reaches a top they stop showing up. This is because there's a buffer for 100% charge. Not a lot of people notice this because the markings are so hard to see without the charge.

Also the armor penetration get a nerv so u ALWAYS need 90%+ charge to one shot. My Problem is not the charge but the zoom and the huge reddot. like the slugger has a cleaner reddot and more zoom than the railgun. if u shot in the distance like 100 meters the target is huge as the reddot.

The new SHIP MODULE update for 10% reload speed made this musket more of a bolt action. Love the technical aspect of your videos... i'd love to see SHORT on thee nuisance and updates on these.

PSA update: the one-shot kills were a bug with crossplay that has since been fixed. His search for a special weakpoint was futile. It's great against bots and decent against chargers, but for titans it can only really be used to finish off damaged ones who didn't quite die yet to heavier anti-armor weapons.

Good video. You've earned a sub.

As of the most recent patch, it's rather good. They uncluttered the sight to make it easier to aim, and it is still obliterating medium enemies in one shot with a high degree of precision.

The character fires the gun while looking into the optics from the very end of the stock, the reticule of the sight is not zeroed in either, the place you actually fire the rounds in aiming mode is about 5 cm above from the forward element on the standard helmet. There is no "get gud" with a game that has fundamental problems such as camera placement. This isn't the only weapon that has this issue either.

Laser cannon has similar TTK vs. bots and semi-infinite ammo

Imagine charging a railgun shot to take out a medium enemy that the eruptor take out with one pull of the trigger. Charged arc thrower bolts are much more effective at dealing with chargers and hulks too.

My first round with a railgun I was able to kill 8 bile titans with 8 shots without even trying but when I have tried REPLICATING it myself I havent been able to do it and I dont know why.

With the update they can kill gunships now and have slightly higher penetration for other stuff. Lost stagger tho. I couldn't damage the towers.

Sweetspot bile titan doesnt exists. Its a myth, PS5 hosting the game makes it a 1 shot or 2 shot. Its a bug, a damage bug.

"up right down down down" i KNOW that's the super bomb 🤭 yeah, okay

Either needs a small rework because for some the risk of overcharging for the damage is marginal. Or it needs more ammo since 20 ammo pool feels pretty sparse.

if you struggle with hulks bring stun grenades. will give you enough time to line up a good shot and kill them. but honestly speaking for any of this you can just bring the sniper rifle. instead of balancing the power gauge, liming up the perfect time to kill with the charge meter hoping you wont get aim staggered from a random laser shot or that the enemy wont turn around/walk up a slope and shift the aim the moment you need to let goto net blow up yourself - just take one or two quick shots with the sniper and be done with it. the issue isnt that the railgun is bad or anything. its still a great weapon that does its job. but its just not worth the hassle anymore. if you need to aim for the weakspots anyways then bring a weapon that allows you to do so and take the shot the moment the lineup is perfect instead of hoping the correct charge timing and aim will coincide.

I think if they made the railgun the ballistic version of Quasar Cannon by just giving it infinite ammo it would be perfectly balanced

wtf doesn’t this thing create an explosion when I use it for?

I still like running it with a squad really good at those tricky mid-armor foes while leaving the heavies to a Quasar, when solo diving I feel naked without the Quasar.

what graphics setting makes the gauge look all glowy like that? Mine looks flat

Pretty sure railgun kills chargers in 3 headshots, unless it got nerfed again. If I see it coming, I can get 2 shots in, dodge, and then finish it off. Also might be an ok option to finish off bile titans if your eagles and/or orbitals didn’t quite kill it. But by itself against a full health bile titan, I wouldn’t recommend lol. In terms of special weapons for bugs, there’s better options. However, it can still be viable if you’re tired of using the same stuff.

I love the rail-gun. I just think it needs a small buff against tanks, towers, & gunships. 3 shots at 90% or 4 shots at 60+%. I’m glad some of the other support weapons are more efficient at taking out heavies but the gap is too large Imo.

Instead of a charge meter on the gun, I'd like it on the reticle as with the Quasar.

Haven’t watched but I’m expecting: “just use the auto cannon” because that’s actually effective

Railgun is best gun... always been.

I have emtied 10+ shots into a chargers leg and the armor is still on? I am confused.

I like the Eruptor better. Staggers, acts as a mini grenade launcher, and does good damage most of the time. Just don't use it in close proximity.

Rail gun is still good, much better than jetpack, but it's just outshined by autocannon, everything rail gun can, autocannon does faster, and it doesn't blow your head and itself without warning.

3:37 This just goes so against my shooters instincts that I’m gonna just not use that gun anymore I physically cannot untrain myself on this one: eyes on the target, not the reticule.

The issue is the anti material rifle does everything the railgun does and doesn’t risk death and has a better scope and better ammo capacity and jesus christ they really hate the railgun don’t they?

One-shotting hulk vents with railgun, I call suspicious there. I've shot the heat vents of automatons with railgun charged to 70-90 and it just does very little damage, because it does not deal explosive damage. Any videos I see with RG doing good damage I sort of suspect it's that funny playstation damage glitch. Like killing a bile titan in 3-6 shots, that's just not possible without the playstation damage glitch.

The Railgun is my favorite weapon to use PERIOD. Such a skillful weapon that feels very rewarding to use. I'm glad that there's a weapon like it that feels like a nice rewarding weapon to put in the time and master.

The one-shotting bile titans with railgun is a bug for players with playstation hosts. The bug still exists as far as I am aware. This bug affects all support weapons for other players than the host.

interesting, might give it a shot but just seems like a worse Autocannon at this point IMO.

I don't think anyone would agree a hulk is more annoying to deal with than a heavy/rocket devastator, the heavy variation in particular just never misses.

So why would I use this over quasar? It has ammo vs infinite. Additionally quasar hits harder or as hard and can’t kill me lol.

Railgun is mediocre as fuck, but gotta correct this one major misconception, that last section without any marks is actually above 100%, and like the rest of the stages before it has a 1s charge time giving you some leeway to line up your 100% shot.

Anything under charger a AMR can do better, Charger and up you might aswell use quasar, eat or ac. This gun really has no spot in the game rn.

Why is it the railgun becomes lame and the rail cannon still is an overpowered one shot monster? Sure that’s on a long cooldown but why didn’t they just do that to the railgun? Absurdly powerful but let’s say 3 shots with 2 being backpack charges and a long reload time…I’d rather things stay powerful or get more overpowered but take longer to be able to be used. One shot killing a charger or two a Titan should be in such a weapons capabilities if striking the head.

Rail gun is asswater since day 1

Help, I accidentally used ⬇⬆⬅⬇⬆➡⬇⬆ on the thumbs up buttom.

Anti-material rifle is better against medium enemies, the rocket weapons are better for heavy. Railgun just lost its niche, its too nerfed.

Scorcher > railgun

Id recommend cutting out the part at the beginning with the bad audio to keep viewer retention better!

No thank you

The railgun is still better than AMR in terms of medium armor. For AMR it takes 2 face shots to hulks whilst railgun is a 1 shot at 90% charged.

GIT gud

only problem, you show you trying to kill a turret to the wents, taking 5+ shots, and an eternity when the AC does it in 2-3, 5s useless piece of utter garbage

it sucks

I still like the Railgun. It seems to have been tuned to be primarily for fighting automatons though, which is fine with me. People need to view it as a support weapon for dealing with medium and heavy infantry units. It's weird how so many people I've talked with about it have this idea that the Railgun is "trash" because other things like the Quasar or EAT can OHKO stuff or the AMR has broader applications, but the bottom line is every weapon has its uses. Like you noted in this video, the Railgun handles hulks faster and more efficiently than any other weapon in the game. Period. It could use a few buffs, but it's still very strong. People just can't get over how OP it was in the beginning.

I really wish they 1: give it the option to change to a better scope/sights 2: safe mode is obsolete and should be removed/replaced by a dangerous mode that charges faster than the base mode. Sidenote i wish it could do better damage to bile titans but i know asking for a damage buff is sacrilege to people who hate the RG for some reason. But what might help even more than that is a shorter cooldown timer when you accidentally blow the gun up But i think the first 2 suggestions would really help the gun out because of all the drawbacks it currently has. Still a great weapon but some love would bring it back in line with things like the autocannon and anti-material rifle

The railguns alright, but I'd rather just use the autocannon or quasar.

This video needs more views. Good quality capture, good quality audio, and solid advice for those trying to spread Managed Democracy 🫡 well done, Patriot. Super Earth is proud