not gonna lie, i was testing this in the garage on the exhibition and this thing is hilariously bad. it suffers from the exact same problem as the thrust. this weapon is HARD COUNTERED by anything with a bumper on it. guess what, if you hit someone from across the map with this thing and it just so happens to hit a bumper, well you are screwed. and guess what 98% of all crossout players put on their builds? yep, a bumper.
i was testing this and it does roughly 500 damage up close. pretty pathetic right?
far away the highest cabin damage hit i got was 1231 straight to the cabin. pretty strong.
on a bumper though? guess how much damage i got when i hit a bumper… if you said below 100 you win a wasteland cookie. i got 51 and 43 damage LOL!!
edit: it didnt matter what bumper i used either, same results.
now i get that bumpers protect a car well, but holy crap this is just hilariously bad. i could tickle someones car and get 51 damage with a feather let alone a… what? 400 pound cannonball?
i wonder how the community on reddit is going to defend this trash heap!
I find it to be extremely balanced, it can do big damage, it can fail to do big damage, the flying trajectory is super straight, yet not impossibly so, nice impulse, ok rotation speed, ok health, ok weight, has a job but also gets countered rather than being able to do absolutely everything.
Sadly in this game balanced weapons are a rare thing and most often appear to suck ass to all people because of how blatantly op the usual bullshit is. People get a twisted sense of what gun is good and what is bad when they just toss blatantly op crap into the game constantly and let it run rampant without much intervention (at least while they can milk money out of it). Bad guns are unusable trash, balanced weapons are just bad and sucky, and the blatantly overpowered bullshittery feels like a “good gun”.
Which it technically is but honestly there’s a boatload of way worse guns than the smasher that deserve to be called hilariously bad. Smasher is just fair bad because it’s balanced properly rather than being just blatantly way superior to everything else and able to do absolutely everything by itself
After buying it off the market and playing with it for multiple matches, I have to say this is a very fair gun. Sadly that is not a common thing so if you’re just looking for flat out performance this isn’t it. The impulse is even better than I earlier thought, especially at 0 range, you can disrupt a lot of builds with it even if you fail to deal damage. Almost like an arothron yet not as extreme though
I can see it being super good not in regular gameplay but in more limited modes, like a brawl or event like crossout day where you had a limited selection of builds not focusing on just blatant performance and some funnies mixed in as well.
I miss fun stuff like that, especially when those kinds of modes seem to be the only way to get people not run the cookie cut 900+ downloads minmaxed current state of game meta blatantly op gun, and instead dare to play builds that are, god forbid, silly, and good heavens, not optimized to absolute perfection, and I am flabbergasted, use a bad gun rather than an op one ooh mah gaaah
am i also the only one who finds how this cannon fires to be incredibly weird?
it has the hatch closed when it fires and open when it reloads… shouldnt it be the opposite way around?
Usually the builds I run are out of meta or are just like my own custom builds that most people would dream of building because it’s “out of meta” but anyways, I’ve only seen 6 different people use smasher and every time I got shot my one I would maybe move a bit and my armor would be a little penetrated but other than that it doesn’t do much to me, which I find is a problem for a cannon not being able to do cannon things, also I was messing around with other people’s smasher builds and every time I miss the practice cars the ball loses all momentum so if they would change that little thing It could probably be used more
this was before i knew bumpers where better for protection btw
Its only problem is ramming damage. And ramming damage is either buggy as hell or rigged, so sometimes you’ll deal really bad damage, and sometimes you just oneshot a heavy frame part that’s behind a goliath
