Paris

Discussion
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Let’s talk not the city but the module, how are you all feeling of this latest addition to the spread stabilizer or whatever they were called modules?

While I like the idea behind it not being speed tied and giving more penetration is pretty nice on paper, in practice this thing basically does not give the buff to the weapons you want it to buff, and just makes already good weapons even better.

The biggest problems with it are the way it’s activated (keeping aim for 2 second is surprisingly difficult in battle, especially when the counter gets reset if you switch from one enemy into another, a teammate breaks the line of aim and so on) and how it cuts away from overalll dps on the weapons you want to use it with (reload based 1 shot weapons).

I was hoping it was a more skill based module for things like cannons and rocket launchers and Darlings etc stuff like that (singular shot weapons outside the Scorpion followed by reload) but nope it’s just yet another turn aim assist on max setting, keep firing button held down and hover mouse over enemy as you use machineguns/miniguns/shotguns/autocannons and just shoot at the middle of mass.

Using it with things like cannons and darlings for example cuts away from how many shots in general you take per match to the point that any buff the module gives to your build can not be really taken into account. Trying to use it as a luck based “it activates if it activates” module also leads to not being able to use it that much, you either do not activate it at all and play normally, it activates at the wrong times like just as you fired or in the middle of reloading only to run out when you can fire, forcing you to fire normally and once again not make use of the perk, or you start to purposely try to use it and deal less overall damage because you’re trying to get lucky penetrating shots and maybe shoot 1 volley in the time span where you’d fired 3 if you just went max reload speed and forgot all about the Paris.

And of course it’s only good for such purposes on the taking shots from across the map Scorpions but then again we all know how much they favor those guns to begin with. But then on things like Millers, cyclones, reapers etc etc you can run it as a forget all about it-module and just get free extra penetration at random, but you are already doing good without it.

tl;dr
Still waiting for some module that manages to give some love to the mostly unloved weapons instead of being yet another extra buff for the already good weapons everyone and their mother uses, but this one isn’t it even though on paper it feels like it

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Exactly.
Plus too expensive so it’s not even worth getting.

On paper tho it seems great.

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I’ve mostly just looked at them for their passive gains. I also haven’t really messed with them much outside of messing around with exhibition builds in the garage. I don’t see it as a waste if you have an extra energy or two and have room on a build. I normally don’t have either space or extra energy though. I would also agree that it’s an expensive way to fill those too.

I don’t really see 2 seconds being too long to activate. The co-driver Falcon’s ability takes 3 seconds to activate to see explosives. I use him fairly often and can normally get that to activate. So I could imagine using those together.

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It works a bit differently from the Falcon perk though, it takes 2 seconds to activate, then it activates for 2 seconds no matter what, resets, needs 2 seconds to activate again, activates for 2 seconds and so on

By the time you’re trying to make use of both perks you’ll end up with them not being synchronized at all and usually only one of the two being active at a time