i been playing with this cannon and… its not AS BAD as i thought it would be, in fact this thing slaps really hard on most bots in the game and can send the dog bots like shotgunners flying in most cases. i hit one of those shotgun bots in the side and sent it flying like a beyblade lol.
the one thing about this weapon that frightens me though is… it can take off a mammoth in one shot from a distance… yeah…
i run this on my hadron with a king for reload and a cyclops and this thing reloads pretty fast. without the king this thing reloads ungodly slow even with the cyclops and hadron.
the most dangerous about this is if you hit someone in the right spot, especially on a high center of gravity you can send someone flippinf over effortlessly. though sometimes it doesnt work all that well. sometimes i can send even a heavy build flipping but sometimes i cant. at a distance it works well. if you hit a bumper it does almost nothing, but if you hit a weapon or even a cabin it does so much damage, it even stays around sometimes to do more damage. enemies can even run into the cannonball and deal damage to themselves.
i dont think its as destructive as the avalanche but it focuses its damage in one shot.
up close its kind of useless, it does ok damage but at range is where it shines best, when you start getting to medium range it does good, if you can land a shot at long range though it absolutely slaps people. i took off quite a few cannons from full hp at range, heck i took off a tsunami and even a mammoth at long range which is crazy to me.
still it has its uses and if you can get that reload speed down its a dangerous weapon to come across.
Just about to make one but my first thought on it outside of using as a turd tosser is still how is the perk going to work on a heli…
if you can hit a heli it works pretty well. if i get more helis in my matches ill let you know. from the ones ive hit it hits them pretty hard.
Shooting from the heli seems to work but it’s a little slow. I did notice I could take props off with one hit in the air. I’m not sure if I would recommend the pairing though it’s kind of funny.
idk if this is a bug or not but… if i hit my own team mate with the cannonball they flip over.
lol It could be a feature maybe… lol
I’m actually enjoying this weird gun. I was confused for a bit about why I would see damage numbers long after I fired, but eventually realized people can hurt themselves by driving into cannonballs on the ground, which is a fun mechanism.
The hadron/king trick works well, but I found it pushed my PS up above CC range where I prefer to operate. Instead I’ve been using it on a fast Deadman build, and also a slower Echo tank.
It’s perk matches up pretty well to the echo.
Still playing around with this a bit in the garage. The Whaler cab is kind of amusing with it. The perk takes 2 shots to charge and the charged shots are rather comical with the boosted impulse.
Ooh, good idea!
Sounds ridiculous
Smasher isn’t bad, it’s just extremely powercrept. Because devs have a “weapon that deals damage like you’re on a 10 dolores stacks punisher that also has its perk activated” fetish with every. Single. Weapon. They. Create.
Like damn why extremums deal 4k damage per burst. I’m not even talking about that new legendary autocannon, it’s ridiculous
Are you talking about the one in the new BP?
I hope so, because I’m already committing to using my bearings for a second one, and working on the ingredients to craft one more for myself and at least another to sell.
i hit almost 2000 cabin damage on a bot and it wasnt even heated. it was 1900 something damage from afar, that was straight up cabin damage. i fricken bonked that bot lol…
the damage sometimes is random though but if i can aim properly with the right trajectory and distance i can get some crazy numbers. i can one shot most cannons off someone except mastodons with their high hp, mammoths fall off as soon as i hit them from afar, guns like reapers and autocannons stand no chance. the projectile itself can even do damage if enemies run over it or if it happens to land on them after being fired or fets caught up in their armor.
i imagine this thing is going to be pretty good on the whaler and heck i bet itll be decent in the impulse brawl, id like to see how much impact itll have from afar in that.
It’s not really random you want to hit cabs and large high dur weapons. If you hit structure parts the dmg can go down fast.
Yeah, that’s ram damage for you.
Wanna know an even funnier thing? It’s either broken or rigged (probably the latter) as it sometimes can penetrate parts like cab or goliath and go straight into the frame parts.
I’m more inclined to think that it’s rigged as i’ve been playing thrusts alot lately and there are matches where i suddenly can onetap frame parts through goliaths multiple times in a row lol
i tried it, its useless