its bad enough that bots have perfect aim, retcher bots are just absolutely annoying and infuriating to deal with, if you have 2 of these on your ass theres no hope for you. if they sneak up on you your screwed.
they can hit you while your in the air with stupidly good accuracy and they can strip your build in a matter of seconds if you arent using mgs or miss a shot with a recharging weapon. even the barriers struggle against these damn things because their damage output is so stupidly high. the aegis is useless against these and the barrier 9 is also useless because like i said, if you get 2 of these on your ass then your screwed. if you get 3 on you… well prepare to launch your controller into the nearest wall with the force of an atom bomb.
the only thing im complaining about here is retcher BOTS, not the normal weapon itself.
and yes i get that the retcher bots can be easy to strip, but the bots can be unpredictable at times to and it sometimes forces you to miss a shot. the amount of damage these stupid retcher bots can do is absurd and THEY DONT MISS! every one of those damn explosive rounds will hit you and deal stupid amounts of damage.
i would rather take a mandrake bot then these unfair pieces of trash any day of the week.
They also need to tone down on the amount of bots with relics, seems like at least 2 out of 3 bots above 10k ps is packing relics for some reason. You don’t see 2 thirds of players using relics so why should bots?
I strongly think retcher needs a rework, it has way too much raw DPS and its just an explosive shotgun that is very difficult to aim. It really should function like the thresher and all the GL’s need to lose their projectile vapor trails imo. They cannot be effective at indirect suppressive fire which should be their role (and no weapon fills that role currently) when the game telegraphs their trails to everybody on the map that obviously. Retcher bots or raid builds would not be an issue then.
between the retcher and the porcs its hard to tell which one has more dps.
retchers are a legendary but have the ungodly strength of a relic. its supposed to be balanced by the fact that it overheats quickly, has a long cooldown time, is difficult to aim, has projectiles that fly straight in a ballistic trajectory and it has low hp compared to other weapons.
but this is completely thrown out the window when you give this weapon to a bot with perfect aim. it will literally shred your build and is a huge middle finger when your a flying build and they hard target flying builds. i think every “bullet” that the retcher fires should be a tiny middle finger.
the porcs on the other hand have the most raw damage of any weapon in the game and having 5 on a vehicle just destroys builds. it has its downsides but if you hit someone with all 5 of those barrels theres no weapon in the entire game with as much damage output as the porcs… well… maybe the mandrake but you would need to hit someone directly every time and with every bullet which just isnt possible.
i have noticed that actually… ive come across many matches with bots packing scorpions, typhoons and mastodons as well. the most common relic for me to come across is scorpions but i do come across breakers commonly to. typhoons are common as well and 1 - 2 mastodon builds come in now and then. im wondering why so many bots are packing relics now…
They are pretty bad weapons in ordinary PVP because they are a large, fragile, and very inaccurate explosive shotgun that can only work with maximum cheese. Nobody in this game can even use GL’s for their intended purpose which is indirect harassing fire because their trails telegraph them too much for them to be useful at indirect fire. Their velocity is excessively slow too. When they are cheesed and maxed out with aimbot they are OP in those 3-5 seconds they are shooting at you before you instantly degun them. I think they are a poorly implemented weapon along with the other grenade launchers.
Maybe if we complain about all bots enough the devs will get as butthurt as they did about cannon bot complaints and dumb down all bots to the level of current day cannon bots
Hopefully by that point the chore is too much for them and they just get lazy and finally remove bots for good