@@MadiGirlmeat just put reticle on guy you want to kill and shoot. Simple as that, then move from another to the other to the other to the other to the other to the other to the other to the other to the other till you're done and another group comes then repeat.
I think pre aiming at the enemy weak point will help, since scoping makes your sensitivity lower, needing to move your mouse a lot more than usual. If you are already doing this then I think you just need to calm down a little, starting slower is always better than breaking your wrists
As a MUL-T main, I have been unknowingly practicing for Railgunner's release that whole time; Rebar Puncher for the practice with a strong piercing hitscan, and Power Mode Nail Gun recoil shenanigans for the "thrusters" in the air. No wonder why I loved Railgunner off the bat!
@@pat5653 releasing nail gun gives a burst of nails that knock you back so if you repeatedly fire and release nail gun with enough attack speed you can fly
It is useful in the early game for clearing out lots of wisps or blind pests. Lemurians too, those guys aren't really worth sniping when 2 shots from the primary kills them and doesn't need any precision.
Important to note, for default special the cooldown doesn't start counting until railgunner is done recharging meaning attack speed actually influences the cooldown reduction. I planned on releasing a video about it today but woolie beat me
Supercharge is quite nice when you're playing coop, as a buddy can usually cover you while you one-shot the teleporter boss. That being said, Cryocharge is very good in singleplayer runs.
I like Supercharge better. Cryocharge is good for Mithrix, but it can't freeze normal bosses and the damage is comparatively very underwhelming. I suppose it can be used for mobility, but I find that mines + a bit of movement speed is generally good enough for me. Plus, landing that weak point Supercharge with a couple of crowbars and watching a boss's healthbar just dissapear is very satisfying.
I'm also leaning towards supercharge, but the cryocharge might be good for freezing and executing a mass of enemies. Since I think the shots are a lot wider, so they'd hit a big clump. I wasn't paying attention to it at all when I first used the ability though haha
I still strongly prefer Cryocharge as my main issue with Super is the 5 seconds you don't get to deal damage, which is a long time and early on is a big deal. Basically cryo is more consistent and safe for less damage (though it still chunks). Same thing with the two secondaries, short range scope allows for more consistent damage at the cost of dealing less damage per shot.
If you get lysate cells and cooldown reduction, you can make cryocharge do way more damage over a few shots than supercharge. Just something to think about.
@@nobleradical2158 its all about the 1 shot thing for me, with a couple bands and some good accuracy you can get 12000% damage ++ which is better than 3 or 4 4000% percent shots especially because the missiles from atg you get will also be doing 12000% damage+
Supercharge synergies soooo well with a Ukelele, as the 3.0 proc rate makes it so the ukulele has a 75% proc chance if i'm not mistaken (and I don't think I am with my testing). The extremely high damage and Piercing ability makes it so you can OS very large and wide groups of ennemies. There's no need to shoot in the next few seconds when there's nothing to shoot at.
one very useful tip ive found that im surprised wasnt covered is how useful her special is for clearing hordes of enemies when they form a conga line. quite often when i try sniping these conga lines normally, it takes quite a few shots. there seems to be a bit of damage falloff with piercing large amounts of enemies at once. several times ive sniped enemies in a conga line that normally would be 1-tapped even if i didnt hit the weakspot and they will only loose about half their hp. however, if i use my spec, this doesnt occur, dealing the maximum damage to everything as well as being a wide horizontal cylinder of damage instead of a thin beam, which results in obliterating anything thats in the general direction of your shot and not just what your crosshairs are directing pointing at
Given that you can still use your mines during the post-Supercharge cooldown, and that it scales with attack speed, I have found that Supercharge is far superior. Waiting for a few seconds to start killing shit again is not a big deal. The only major benefit to Cryocharge is that it synergizes much better with the new Lysate cells. (Also, if for some reason you have taken Visions of Heresy or (God forbid) Hooks of Heresy, those items can still be used during the Supercharge cooldown.)
I don't know if it is a bug or not, but at least right now Visions of Heresy is set to 1 charge after using your default secondary, so definitely watch out for that if you are using both default secondary and special.
I prefer cryocharge because supercharge is strictly worse at dealing with large groups, which is the main problem railgunner has. Boss damage is absolutely no issue, so the extra supercharge damage is nice, but not necessary.
I would actually argue that lysate cells are much more impactful on her supercharge ability as one single lysate cell can effectively reduce the amount of time between supercharge shots by almost half.
i dont think this was covered in the video but heres an important thing ive found: her regular scoped shot will deal approximately 50% less damage for each target it pierces. dont know if this is intentional or not since her supercharged shot doesnt have this feature but definitely important to keep in mind.
I would like to note that the Lost Seers Lenses are a bit worse than how Woolie described because, while yes you can instant kill, you'll almost always be doing that anyways with the damage from Lens Makers, meaning that the only noticeable difference will be your loss of damage on Bosses
Really depends on how long you want to run rly. Early on for sure, better to have normal crit, but very lategame instakills get a lot more valuable on things like scavs or void enemies, plus you can compensate for lack of crit glasses with the few greens that give crit and maybe some ego cleanse shenanigans.
@@KazLordOfLightWarriors you forget irradiant pearls, which are actually quite easy to get now in long runs thanks to egocentrism. Also a nice way to offset the problem with benthic bloom eating all your movement/crit/attack speed btw, since it only eats whites and greens.
I would like to add to the Railgunner pool of knowledge! If you're on the fence on whether you should take ATGs or Plasma Shrimps on the Railgunner, here are my two cents on it: It all comes down to Supercharge: enemies are not supposed to survive it. If they survive it, they will have very little health remaining most of the time. While the ATG can potentially make some of the highest numbers you've seen in this game if it procs on Supercharge, you're betting on a 30% chance of that happening. If it doesn't come out, you're stuck without Supercharge and with an enemy to kill. That's bad. With the Plasma Shrimp, while it is much weaker, it's still being based off an incredibly strong attack: you don't really *need* it to be stronger than it is. That'd just be overkill. With 2 or 3 stacks it pretty much acts as a guaranteed double hit of Supercharge (as long as shield is up) which is more than enough to kill most things in this game. Thoughts?
I think an important thing to note is how Supercharge is really good at eliminating key targets which in turn gives you time to take out smaller ones since you don't have to worry about the big one anymore. Supercharge does an absolute fuckton of damage and you can usually 1-2 shot bosses with it fairly easily so it really comes down to preference of whether you want the versatility of Cryocharge or if you want the raw boss killing potential of Supercharge.
1 crowbar though makes her alt M2 do nearly the same exact damage as Supercharge, just without a 15 second cooldown that ONLY starts cooling down when she recovers from the shot. Supercharge just isn't good comparatively, and the freeze mechanic scales much better, as they die once they reach a certain percentage (30%, which is a LOT of health later on) of health rather than a flat HP value. Cryocharge is just objectively better.
@@pixxlated_ 1 crowbar also makes supercharge do more damage too you know. Freeze also doesn't work on bosses which is a pretty important distinction to make. Cryocharge is better in more scenarios and more versatile but as I mentioned you can't discount Supercharge's raw boss killing power as that can make fights easier by virtue of not having to deal with the bosses anymore. Maybe in singleplayer Cryocharge is the more consistent choice(although I've had a lot of solo Monsoon success with Supercharge) but in multiplayer I'd argue Supercharge is much stronger since you have teamates to help cover the weakness.
I've found that in my runs Supercharge is superior as it just allows me to get that higher damage output sooner. Cryocharge for mobility is rather neat, but I've found that the Mines give you the benefit of adding your momentum when they knock you around. Assuming you have a feather or quail (which is almost always something you want regardless) and the attack speed to levitate enough with your primary that Cryocharge isn't necessary for mobility. Given that the cooldown and charge up periods on Railgunner are affected by attack speed, I think Supercharge is just better for the far higher damage output it offers. I also think that Backup Magazines are honestly underrated on Railgunner. You miss out on that bonus damage but if your attack speed is high enough you can fire so many high damage shots that it makes the alt version of the sniper rather redundant. Regardless though, there doesn't seem to be much of a "correct" way to play her, given how strong she is. All her options feel good to use.
I just finished a 20+ Stage run with her. A lot of my items ended up being attack speed and on-hits so at stage 12 or so I just stopped sniping and like the Auto stuff shred and burn everything. Still had to Snipe stuff every now and again but late game that M1 becomes just a budget Commandbro Primary and is suprisingly very good lmao
Playing TF2 has prepared me for Railgunner perfectly. Soldier and Demoman for the blast jumping, and Sniper for the actual shooting. This character felt like coming home, first time I tried her.
4:59 the 15 second cool down does not start until the weapon recharges; So the cool down is 5 secs (by attack speed) + 15 (normal cool down), so without items, your firing this every 20 secs at most. The freeze shot is just a normal 15 sec cooldown. On terms of back up mags, its good for fodder clearing. Yea the boosted shot is only for the first target but chain shooting before reloading can quickly get your pred stacks up and you can just unzoom and force the reload
Yup, both specials start their cooldown when you start charging them, but Super's system reboot resets it when you fire. So realistically, Cryo has a 15s total CD, or 13s after firing, while Super has a 22s total CD, or 20s after firing.
I agree with the backup mags, when you're trying to shoot something that's really mobile, you usually don't actually need the extra damage from a perfect reload, and being able to spam a couple shots until you hit the target can be life saving
Did you know, with the default sniper, you can zoom in and reload at the same time? If you right click as soon as you let go of it, you can zoom back in and reload in-scope. If you mess up the reload though, you'll have to "re-zoom" to fire again. Probably not intended but neat :)
For the mobility stuff, any Rex mains out there will have an easy time of it, and if youre not a Rex Main, perhaps give him a few practise jumps to get into the habit of the jump and flick
A few more things I learned when playing Railgunner: Bustling Fungus is not very good unless you are trying to collect for the Weeping Fungus void item. This is only because all attacks from the Railgunner cause you to move a very small amount, even if you are standing completely still, causing the Bustling Fungus to disappear and only reappear once you stop moving. In a harder run, you most likely wont even get the chance to stand still, but if you're starting a run and trying to camp a boss from the other side of the map with the fungus, you most likely wont get any healing when sniping. Despite the Lost Seer's Lenses effect on your crit damage, if you have just a few of them a high enough fire rate, you can just use the "Primary" because of the tracing. I got a really good run with this method because of a little luck and an early Lost Seer's Lenses
Item synergies: voidsent flames Why waste time with non-elite non-boss enemies when they can get 1 shot by your primary auto-aim fire? And since the shot itself does such little damage, the explosion usually still gets the crowbar damage bonus
Question from someone who isn't like.. that smart. I heard this game is getting the creepy Epic games crossplay thing. Is there a way to like avoid that like if I just play single player does Epic still creep on me?
Something fun to know for Railgunner when doing Eclipse (or just the game in general), is that if you pick Cryocharge, it can freeze Mithrix, allowing for some execute mechanics AND it can cancel attacks, such as the spinning fire columns. Pair this with a Lysate Cell, Alien Head or Purity, it allows for a pretty easy Mithrix fight, and if you get enough cooldown reduction, you can stunlock Mithrix, PERMANANTLY.
As a railgunner user (not main yet, as i feel i can improve greatly) i find the singularity band works extremely well. Pair that with a singular gasoline or will-o-whisp and its pretty dominant for the early and mid game
Singularity band all the way. Easily clumping enemies is so nice, including reasons you said, and I find them far easier to get than praying to RNG for a primordial cube. Band over cube means you can use an equipment for something else too. It also still deals total damage too, just less than the fire/ice band and once the black hole ends (though really nothing's escaping the black hole, seemingly not even Mithrix).
How to play railgunner? Take commmando artifact, spam soldier sirrenges , void shrimps, and items for debuffing enemy.( It what im always doing and it working great, shot finnal boss once with ultimate shot and little shrimp will fly to him and deal half of damage, and normal enemies and bosses who too near to you shoot by primary attack
But that's not all, the primary ability can be deadly thanks to the void version of the ATG missile mk2. With that void item, it will help to increase the damage output alot because it homes to the target. Making Railgunner a killing machine.
@@2911oscar you are incorrect. It is when you DEAL damage it fires a rocket, Not when you Take damage like you say. Homing primary = easy access to dealing damage. Easy Access to dealing damage makes Shrimp proc easier. Do you get it now? (This isnt supposed to be condescending, it may look like it, it aint)
And I forgot one thing. The void version of the ATG missiles work well with the lunar item that turn your health Into shield. This would give you a upperhand alot more.
this may be easier for me due to my tf2 sticky jumping experience but when you get a hard light afterburner you can air pogo with the mines (hit yourself repeatedly in the air for more distance or height) as well as catch yourself from fall damage by shooting where you land
The fact that sotv added an alternative for fuel cells that give more specials make cryocharge more powerful than supercharge, why wouldn't i do 5 shots for 2000% instead of 1 for 4000%
Supercharge vs Cryocharge I find is just a difference on when you want to use them. If your goal is to oneshot a boss, then Supercharge is your go-to friend. If you want to control the area a bit better, then kite and run Cryocharge down a conga line. Also, if for whatever reason you decided to grab the Heresy Primary or Secondary (rip run if you do the latter), they don't go on cooldown during Supercharge, meaning Visions has some real synergy with Supercharge, though I find it to be just a worse version of her primary otherwise. Also her M99 fires 9 shots of Visions for whatever reason, which feels like a bug to me.
A lot of people saying they think Supercharge is the way to go. Just wanted to point out that while Cryocharge does about only half the damage, it also cools down immediately. The shot itself takes about 2-3 seconds (already starting recharge) and there is no weapon cooldown. Realistically, it's about a 12-13 second window before you can fire again, counting that little bit of time firing. The Supercharge takes (it seems like) the same amount of time to fire, 2-3 seconds, THEN adds another 5 second cooldown which takes away your ability to damage enemies almost entirely, and then finally does the 15 second cooldown. This means that Supercharge takes about 22-23 seconds to let you fire another one, as apposed to 12-13. Additionally, using supercharge on a horde of enemies is sometimes a run-ender if you don't manage to get everything at once. Wiped out a bunch of beetle guards and fodder right in front of you? Too bad there were 9 wisps in the sky right behind you, you can't shoot them. I agree Supercharge is better at purely one-shotting the teleporter boss and other random boss spawns, which are huge threats, but I'd argue Cryocharge is better 99% of the time otherwise. It may not do as much damage but it can almost fire twice as many times as the Supercharge--without the dramatic downside of not being able to use any weapons. They both scale better with attack speed, and while its more important on Supercharge for sure, Cryocharge also gets the speed boost in case you wanted to argue late-run effectiveness. I think if Woolie emphasized the drastic amount of time between shot differential a lot of you guys would think Cryocharge is also usually the way to go. Lastly, Cryocharge's freeze affect (which works on virtually every enemy) ALSO has a built in Guillotine effect that works on any enemy you freeze and don't one shot, (LEGIT 30% of their healthbar) and doing enough damage to reach that threshold instantly kills any frozen enemy before they thaw, just like Guillotines on elites. Plus, the entire time they're frozen they cannot hurt you. This helps compensate both for its overall lower damage and inability to one-shot. Supercharge definitely isn't trash at all though and I love that instant dopamine of turning a giant red healthbar to nothing in one click, but I really think Cryocharge is way better and that's why Woolie said so, alongside the little bit of movement benefit he mentioned. Not that this was a loadout video, though, so maybe he'll go more in-depth at a later time.
do laser sight and crit glasses stacking stack lineraly together? so for example 2 laser sights and 3 crit glasses = 230% crit dmg? also does this then mean that the default crit damage is multiplied by 2.3 or the base damage is multiplied by 2.3? I still can't really wrap my head around crit damage, would be nice if anyone could help
Id argue at least having a few mags can maybe help- but only when dealing with lots of boss enemies at once. With enough attack speed you can fire off way more rounds than you would usually which could outdue the extra 500% since. There may be something I'm not accounting for but I did a quick test with 15 syringes and 5 total shots. For this I started the second I began zooming in and ended once I finished reloading the last round. If you reload without shooting all rounds it comes out to about 7500% every 5 seconds or 1500% per second. However when shooting without reloading until the final 5th shot it came out to around 5500% about every 2.5 seconds- whichmeans 2200% per second. Still it makes sense why this wouldn't be desired as its usage is niche
also do not play her with the friendly fire artifact because you will occasionally block your screen/impair your vision with a crit box over your own head, I learned this the hard way you see
Supercharge is REALLY good, that 3.0 makes a Uke nearly guaranteed to proc so shooting just a few enemies will destroy crowds of enemies with ease not to mention the fact it does nearly 3x the amount a Cryocharge can, 2000% base + 500% perfect reload x 2 (crit) = 5000% while Supercharge is 4000% base + 500% perfect reload x 2 (crit) x 1.5 (weakspot bonus) = 13500%
I prefer supercharge. Once you get some attack speed, it will be easy to get through the cooldown, especially since you can use mines to escape. Attack speed doesn’t scale much at all with cyrocharge. Also, if you combine attack speed with lysate cells, you can kill bosses left and right with a flick shot. But hey, it’s all just opinions anyways.
Backup mags are good if you keep them as their name implies: a backup. I find I pick them up and use them for applying large amounts of single-target damage in a more consistent way than relying on watches or crowbars for the damage. Paired with the bands, blast shower, and some fuel cells, you can pump out some SERIOUS damage very fast on bosses.
For me, stacking few backup magazines is a great idea for Railgunner. While consecutive shots won't benefit from perfect reload damage bonus, you still amplify the number of damage/targets you can shoot at before reloading. This helps Railgunner to sustain more DPS in a short period of time. (this is most important when the enemies are frozen from cyrofreeze, where you need to reach 30% threshold in a short period of time) Also, with backup mag, you can more reliably utilise predatory instinct and harvester scythe. Without it, you can only get 8 measly healing and one single stack of instinct. But if you have backup mag, you can multiply the healing and stack you can acquire before reloading (and resets the instinct stack).
Agreed. As long as you have enough attack speed to fire at least 3 rounds before reloading and firing again, you'll come out ahead on damage overall by using a few backup mags. Reloading then refreshes all backup mags, so you can dish out rather extreme bursts of damage. Also the alternate M2 apparently cannot use Backup Mags from what I've seen.
Ima disagree with cryocharge, the supercharge just feels way to satisfying when you land the big bongo blast and the 5 sec cd period I don't feel like its a big enough downside, sure it can lead to a death, but I feel like it is more of a players fault then the downtimes fault.
From my experience cryocharge tends to be better in sim, while supercharge is better in normal gameplay. in sim, you’re in a closed up area with essentially no way out, and large hordes of tougher-than-normal enemies. being able to use your primary and m2 is super important when you literally can’t get away, and the execution from freezing helps with crowd control. On the other hand, in normal gameplay, supercharge (if used correctly) is a one click boss erasure tool. it also can hit in a small aoe. I do find that the effectiveness/ consistency of both seem to decrease as the game goes on, where even the absolutely colossal damage they deal can sometimes leave a boss at 50% or more health with a shot. it’s really annoying honestly it makes me feel like it’s a waste to use
Anyone just... not like Railgunner? She feels like way too slow paced of a character for this game (which is focused on high paced combat). Sure, she can get guaranteed crits, but you have to take the time to aim down sights and aim at the crit spot, which sometimes can be the difference between life or death. Her mobility also kinda sucks, especially when you're in a sticky situation because you don't really have time to worry about getting the right angle. She just straight up feels too slow for this game.
she's the FASTEST-paced survivor in the game, once you get comfortable with quickscoping. you're not supposed to play her as a "sniper" character - get in the enemies' faces!
as i have experimented around with Railgunner myself. i can say that Void Will-o-Wisps are another key item to consider it a good run. 1 because they will proc the crowbar damage buff since they happen at the beginning and 2 because of the early shot damage. simply for the fact that it happens at the start of a health bar instead of the end makes it very important to rail gunner in my opinion. the Void Ukulele is a situational item. again on her the key is single target damage so she makes great use of this. but having regular Ukulele helps her add clear something fierce as well.
so getting perma tonic, some horns, syringes, etc, i turned marksman into an AR and did more than double the amount of damage to enemies than my 2 other friends combined who were using the sniper ability.
Honestly I do really love the Railgunner, but part of me kinda wishes that her Primary attack was more along the lines of her alternative secondary. This kind of heavy, semi-auto, rail-gun shot ringing out across the field, without having to be zoomed in for it at all times. Also I know I'm probably in the minority for this, but I honestly find her alternative skin for beating the game on Monsoon, to be flat out super ugly and probably the ugliest in the game.
Real quick, do note with the Lost Seer's Lenses void item, it doesn't take away your crit mechanic entirely. You can still get crit chance from other sources, just not the Lens-Makers
Correct but you can get very little extra crit chance unless you find a laser sight since the other items don't stack crit chance but give a one time flat amount. Meaning dmg is better with normal glasses.
i finally got to obliterate on normal to get Merc unlocked, but it wasn't with railgunner. I had an easier time doing it with Void Fiend.. And I unlocked every loadout almost for the Railgunner and those achievements on PC were at like 0.2% rarity a few days after the DLC dropped.. which is crazy to think most people haven't unlocked anything yet for railgunner. even void fiend was at like 0.5% or something crazy, now they're at 1-2% rarity achievs on Steam which is still very low Railgunner is easy to hit the shots on for sure but I can imagine railgunner not being super fun on console using a controller, unless the auto aim is super helpful (kind of like void fiend's basic M1 which is hitscan AND helps to auto aim even with a mouse).
Ok, question. What happens if you get more than 100% crit strike chance from items when using the railgunner? Dose the bonus damage continue to scale or does it cap at 100% extra crit damage same as crit chance caps at 100% chance?
My thoughts? Now i wanna know about Voidboi In all seriousness i have apparently trained for the flick shots because its how i maneuver with Rex. Run, jump, turn, use vine push thing. You can get good momentum and/or upwards mobility
I recently got a run where I printed around 24 lens maker glasses and then later on in the run I found the lost seer one, and then I had an item that did auto damage (I think it was the mired urn) and I ran around 1 shotting EVERYTHING, I ended the run on I think stage 15 or something as I went for getting 1 mil damage in 1 shot. Did a total of 100 million damage.
Get Primordial Cube and Bandolier, and if you're lucky, Soulbound Catalyst. Pop your cube, use your supercharge shot for a HUGE collateral. Soulbound recharges your cube instantly bc of all the kills, and you're very likely to get a bandolier drop in the center of it.
Finding out Railgunner was a woman was the same as finding out Samus Aran was a woman lmao. Also I feel particularly proud of myself for getting decent at Railgunner relatively quickly even though I almost never play shooters.
How the character is built: Smart Rounds are primary attack Sniper is secondary attack How the character is played: Sniper is primary attack Smart Rounds are for when I missed 3 shots in a row on the same Lemurian using their wonky AI to perfectly dodge and can't be bothered to humiliate myself further
I use supercharge and find grabbing a bandolier makes your other abilities have no cooldown, so you can use the 4000% charge damage, pick up 1 bandolier, and keep fighting.
strongly recommend using vision and strides of heresy. lose mobility but increase survivability massively. if you bring super charge you can sill shoot vision off heresy while cooling down. strides of heresy is amazing once you already have a couple hopoo feathers and speed boosts. it also allows the railguner go to void fields and not die between the void cells. I say vison of heresy is essential and always pick it up. and strides are a bit more situational but I still pick them up most runs. they help a lot early game for the heals (especially on monsoon)
Another helpful tip, if you’re playing Railgunner, using equipment items like Spinel Tonic or Opus Frenzy will make the “Perfect Reload” bar longer/larger so its easier to do a Perfect Reload. I don’t know what other items also have this effect but those are the two I am aware of.
The higher your attack speed, the faster the reload bar goes, so to compensate that and make attack speed not punish you by missing an active reload, the effective range inside the bar is wider. So this means syringes, predatory instincts, and pauldron also widen the bar, while light-flux pauldron (new lunar) narrow it (and make the bar take longer to move)
The info at 7:02 makes it sound like the second mine needs to actually come into contact with a terrain surface for the first to explode when, in reality, it just needs to be thrown out but I know that you were probably referring to the fact you need at least 2 charges of the skill instead of it acting like some form of trigger. Sidenote: the Railgunner's concussion devices work just as well in the air, making Hardlight Afterburners cause complete chaos in a godrun. Plus, the momentum sorta multiplies the more you have to instantly detonate. Seriously, I don't think there's a faster way to hit the skybox.
I've found that if you build attack speed, void shrimp missiles, ICBM and ukulele, railgunner can also be insane without ever using the "secondary" ability. Holding left click just fires a scary swarm of constant homing projectiles that means you just need movement speed to account for the short range.
i take alt mine and default charge. youd think im trolling, but i just pick up like one gasoline and this one shots entire hordes of enemies also supercharge just deals actually viable damage against bosses so you can spend more time focusing on not getting chased down by rats. this is how i got my mastery, anyway.
I like supercharge more because with half decent rng I just dont have to fight tp bosses anymore for like 10 stages, but to each his own. The argument you make for the alternate is worth looking into for me, I hadnt considered the mobility aspect.
in risk of rain 1, I ONLY touched commando and enforcer, but once I unlocked Sniper, he's all I played. As soon as I saw RAILGUNNER was just my boy sniper, I mained her for about 4 games before I unlocked Void Fiend. Supercharge will always remind me of sniper, so that's what I always use. After beating the game with Void Fiend on run 10ish though, I've really started enjoying captain. Have yet to touch anyone but Commando, Bandit, Cap, and the 2 dlc characters. Railgunner holds a special place in my heart though
Crit damage from her passive stacks additively with the 100% that crits normally do, and that's pretty bad! When you pick up your first crit glasses you will notice that they increase your damage by only 5%, and 0% for M1 fire, bodyshots and equipments of course. Meanwhile, other survivors get 10% DPS on everything, plus they NEED them to properly use things like scythe, predatory and spleen. Which is why I give away crit glasses to the other survivors in multiplayer until they're full. In solo, sure, 5% damage is 5% damage, nothing to scoff at.
I've been playing ror2 for a LOOOONG TIME and I did not know all this stuff about her!! I kinda avoided her, but I'm now excited to give her another chance!
I have a question Woolie?🙂 Will the Railgunner be able to defeat Mithrix and the Voidling as a infinite range infinite zoom/magnification cold/ice elemental sniper queen with Magnetic Accelerator, XQR Smart Round System, M99 Sniper, Concussion Device and Supercharge with all cold/ice elemental items and sniper items such as Runald's Bands, Frost Relics, Laser Scopes, Transcendences and the like?🙂
FIRST OF ALL supercharge is better because BIGGER NUMBER secondly, void seer lenses in my experience are not bad at all on railgunner when combined with normal ukeleles (this kinda goes for all characters but thats neither here nor there, my point is that ukelele chain lightning procs void seers instakill, ADDITIONALLY i would argue that void ukelele is WORSE than normal ukelele for railgunner because normal uke spreads the huge supercharge damage across all enemies on a stage meaning that with just one ukelele and a well places supercharge youre clearing entire hordes of enemies on a 15 second cooldown)
The argument between Cryocharge and Supercharge is interesting. If we're ranking them based on what Woolie ranks it on, Cryocharge is better as it's more consistent and you're not left out in the open with only your mobility. You have a near-20 second cooldown before being able to shoot again if you have no attack speed, and it's totally overkill. You can still one-shot bosses with Cryocharge as long as you hit the weakspot and just land one extra headshot afterwards. Also, another thing is that you nearly deal the same exact damage as Supercharge when you pick up even 1 crowbar. Finally, the freeze debuff it gives to enemies scales so well into the late-game, as it executes at 30% HP, not a flat value. But the fact that you only need a single common item that you are DESTINED to be searching for (as it is Railgunner's bread and butter) to be able to catch up in damage, AND you don't have to wait 20 seconds inbetween shots, AND you don't have to be left defenseless just proves to me that Cryocharge is objectively better. Ultimately, you can do well with both. That's the thing with RoR2, you can do well with any combo of abilities, it's mainly personal preference, but it's the consistency that matters. And Cryocharge wins in that category.
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when voidfiend?
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I did not know you can fly. huh.
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I CAN DANCE ALL DAY!
Also known as "The Survivor who will give me carpal tunnel because I think I'm good at flick shots"
Will? I already have carpal tunnel 😂
never flick. point ahead and wait. this is my wisdom
@@MadiGirlmeat just put reticle on guy you want to kill and shoot. Simple as that, then move from another to the other to the other to the other to the other to the other to the other to the other to the other till you're done and another group comes then repeat.
I think pre aiming at the enemy weak point will help, since scoping makes your sensitivity lower, needing to move your mouse a lot more than usual.
If you are already doing this then I think you just need to calm down a little, starting slower is always better than breaking your wrists
Oh my god yes. My forearm was in so much pain because I pulled the trigger with each hit with so much ferocity.
As a MUL-T main, I have been unknowingly practicing for Railgunner's release that whole time; Rebar Puncher for the practice with a strong piercing hitscan, and Power Mode Nail Gun recoil shenanigans for the "thrusters" in the air. No wonder why I loved Railgunner off the bat!
same i cant wait to get the dlc
MUL-T can use Power Mode Nailgun for boosting??
@@CeasingZulu Get it while its on sale!!
@@pat5653 releasing nail gun gives a burst of nails that knock you back so if you repeatedly fire and release nail gun with enough attack speed you can fly
@@zachcate7102 I knew about the burst but not about the knockback! Good to know, thanks
You know you have a good run going when her primary fire is killing things
22 crowbars do that to a mf
Try 100 lol
@@justanormalaccountnothingt1571 a bunch of seers glasses also do that to mfer
It is useful in the early game for clearing out lots of wisps or blind pests. Lemurians too, those guys aren't really worth sniping when 2 shots from the primary kills them and doesn't need any precision.
That is how I play her I love flying with the shot.
Important to note, for default special the cooldown doesn't start counting until railgunner is done recharging meaning attack speed actually influences the cooldown reduction. I planned on releasing a video about it today but woolie beat me
oh sick
additionally, you can let the special "time out" after prepping it, if you want to avoid disabling your weapons and back out of the shot
As a TF2 player with over 2,000 hours on Sniper and Demoman each this character is practically made for me. I am in love.
Give Demo a glock
Finally, stickyjumping
@@Companion__ The mines feel like a budget sticky jumper.
@@literatemax they gave demo a glock in momentum mod
Sniper with a sticky jumper, nice
Supercharge is quite nice when you're playing coop, as a buddy can usually cover you while you one-shot the teleporter boss. That being said, Cryocharge is very good in singleplayer runs.
I like Supercharge better. Cryocharge is good for Mithrix, but it can't freeze normal bosses and the damage is comparatively very underwhelming. I suppose it can be used for mobility, but I find that mines + a bit of movement speed is generally good enough for me. Plus, landing that weak point Supercharge with a couple of crowbars and watching a boss's healthbar just dissapear is very satisfying.
I'm also leaning towards supercharge, but the cryocharge might be good for freezing and executing a mass of enemies. Since I think the shots are a lot wider, so they'd hit a big clump. I wasn't paying attention to it at all when I first used the ability though haha
I still strongly prefer Cryocharge as my main issue with Super is the 5 seconds you don't get to deal damage, which is a long time and early on is a big deal. Basically cryo is more consistent and safe for less damage (though it still chunks). Same thing with the two secondaries, short range scope allows for more consistent damage at the cost of dealing less damage per shot.
If you get lysate cells and cooldown reduction, you can make cryocharge do way more damage over a few shots than supercharge. Just something to think about.
@@nobleradical2158 its all about the 1 shot thing for me, with a couple bands and some good accuracy you can get 12000% damage ++ which is better than 3 or 4 4000% percent shots especially because the missiles from atg you get will also be doing 12000% damage+
Supercharge synergies soooo well with a Ukelele, as the 3.0 proc rate makes it so the ukulele has a 75% proc chance if i'm not mistaken (and I don't think I am with my testing). The extremely high damage and Piercing ability makes it so you can OS very large and wide groups of ennemies. There's no need to shoot in the next few seconds when there's nothing to shoot at.
one very useful tip ive found that im surprised wasnt covered is how useful her special is for clearing hordes of enemies when they form a conga line. quite often when i try sniping these conga lines normally, it takes quite a few shots. there seems to be a bit of damage falloff with piercing large amounts of enemies at once. several times ive sniped enemies in a conga line that normally would be 1-tapped even if i didnt hit the weakspot and they will only loose about half their hp.
however, if i use my spec, this doesnt occur, dealing the maximum damage to everything as well as being a wide horizontal cylinder of damage instead of a thin beam, which results in obliterating anything thats in the general direction of your shot and not just what your crosshairs are directing pointing at
Don't quote me on this but i think there is a 50% loss per penetration
The primary fire is nothing to forget, it can very easily start proc chains later in a run
It’s insane
Given that you can still use your mines during the post-Supercharge cooldown, and that it scales with attack speed, I have found that Supercharge is far superior. Waiting for a few seconds to start killing shit again is not a big deal. The only major benefit to Cryocharge is that it synergizes much better with the new Lysate cells.
(Also, if for some reason you have taken Visions of Heresy or (God forbid) Hooks of Heresy, those items can still be used during the Supercharge cooldown.)
I don't know if it is a bug or not, but at least right now Visions of Heresy is set to 1 charge after using your default secondary, so definitely watch out for that if you are using both default secondary and special.
I prefer cryocharge because supercharge is strictly worse at dealing with large groups, which is the main problem railgunner has. Boss damage is absolutely no issue, so the extra supercharge damage is nice, but not necessary.
@@lowkey_Ioki I like to use either marksman and supercharge or sniper and cryo. You have one mainly single target ability, one multi target
I would actually argue that lysate cells are much more impactful on her supercharge ability as one single lysate cell can effectively reduce the amount of time between supercharge shots by almost half.
@@lowkey_Ioki i launch the enemies into pits, atleast the ones i can, some are too thicc
i dont think this was covered in the video but heres an important thing ive found: her regular scoped shot will deal approximately 50% less damage for each target it pierces. dont know if this is intentional or not since her supercharged shot doesnt have this feature but definitely important to keep in mind.
Supercharge + Brainstalk on higher difficulty is an absolute beast, add some syringes on top and you can fire a constant stream of 4000% damage
I would like to note that the Lost Seers Lenses are a bit worse than how Woolie described because, while yes you can instant kill, you'll almost always be doing that anyways with the damage from Lens Makers, meaning that the only noticeable difference will be your loss of damage on Bosses
Really depends on how long you want to run rly. Early on for sure, better to have normal crit, but very lategame instakills get a lot more valuable on things like scavs or void enemies, plus you can compensate for lack of crit glasses with the few greens that give crit and maybe some ego cleanse shenanigans.
@@morinor1340 you can only get 15% crit from non LM sources, that being 5% each from harvesters, Predatory, and Laser Scope. And only on the 1st stack
@@KazLordOfLightWarriors you forget irradiant pearls, which are actually quite easy to get now in long runs thanks to egocentrism.
Also a nice way to offset the problem with benthic bloom eating all your movement/crit/attack speed btw, since it only eats whites and greens.
@@morinor1340 irradiant pearls boost crit? I thought it was just normal stats like damage health and speed.
According the better hud mod they do
I would like to add to the Railgunner pool of knowledge!
If you're on the fence on whether you should take ATGs or Plasma Shrimps on the Railgunner, here are my two cents on it:
It all comes down to Supercharge: enemies are not supposed to survive it. If they survive it, they will have very little health remaining most of the time.
While the ATG can potentially make some of the highest numbers you've seen in this game if it procs on Supercharge, you're betting on a 30% chance of that happening.
If it doesn't come out, you're stuck without Supercharge and with an enemy to kill. That's bad.
With the Plasma Shrimp, while it is much weaker, it's still being based off an incredibly strong attack: you don't really *need* it to be stronger than it is. That'd just be overkill.
With 2 or 3 stacks it pretty much acts as a guaranteed double hit of Supercharge (as long as shield is up) which is more than enough to kill most things in this game.
Thoughts?
0:10 railgunner is all about pinpoint accuracy, proceeds to miss every crit shot on the beetle queen
How many syringes does it take to fly? Like if you just aim at the ground and hold how many would it take for you to keep going up
I quickly fell in love with this new survivor. The game really missed the sniper, and now we've got it.
I think an important thing to note is how Supercharge is really good at eliminating key targets which in turn gives you time to take out smaller ones since you don't have to worry about the big one anymore. Supercharge does an absolute fuckton of damage and you can usually 1-2 shot bosses with it fairly easily so it really comes down to preference of whether you want the versatility of Cryocharge or if you want the raw boss killing potential of Supercharge.
1 crowbar though makes her alt M2 do nearly the same exact damage as Supercharge, just without a 15 second cooldown that ONLY starts cooling down when she recovers from the shot. Supercharge just isn't good comparatively, and the freeze mechanic scales much better, as they die once they reach a certain percentage (30%, which is a LOT of health later on) of health rather than a flat HP value. Cryocharge is just objectively better.
@@pixxlated_ 1 crowbar also makes supercharge do more damage too you know. Freeze also doesn't work on bosses which is a pretty important distinction to make. Cryocharge is better in more scenarios and more versatile but as I mentioned you can't discount Supercharge's raw boss killing power as that can make fights easier by virtue of not having to deal with the bosses anymore.
Maybe in singleplayer Cryocharge is the more consistent choice(although I've had a lot of solo Monsoon success with Supercharge) but in multiplayer I'd argue Supercharge is much stronger since you have teamates to help cover the weakness.
I've found that in my runs Supercharge is superior as it just allows me to get that higher damage output sooner. Cryocharge for mobility is rather neat, but I've found that the Mines give you the benefit of adding your momentum when they knock you around. Assuming you have a feather or quail (which is almost always something you want regardless) and the attack speed to levitate enough with your primary that Cryocharge isn't necessary for mobility. Given that the cooldown and charge up periods on Railgunner are affected by attack speed, I think Supercharge is just better for the far higher damage output it offers.
I also think that Backup Magazines are honestly underrated on Railgunner. You miss out on that bonus damage but if your attack speed is high enough you can fire so many high damage shots that it makes the alt version of the sniper rather redundant.
Regardless though, there doesn't seem to be much of a "correct" way to play her, given how strong she is. All her options feel good to use.
I just finished a 20+ Stage run with her. A lot of my items ended up being attack speed and on-hits so at stage 12 or so I just stopped sniping and like the Auto stuff shred and burn everything. Still had to Snipe stuff every now and again but late game that M1 becomes just a budget Commandbro Primary and is suprisingly very good lmao
Playing TF2 has prepared me for Railgunner perfectly. Soldier and Demoman for the blast jumping, and Sniper for the actual shooting. This character felt like coming home, first time I tried her.
4:59 the 15 second cool down does not start until the weapon recharges; So the cool down is 5 secs (by attack speed) + 15 (normal cool down), so without items, your firing this every 20 secs at most. The freeze shot is just a normal 15 sec cooldown.
On terms of back up mags, its good for fodder clearing. Yea the boosted shot is only for the first target but chain shooting before reloading can quickly get your pred stacks up and you can just unzoom and force the reload
Cryo is shorter than 15 since the cd goes down during the chargup
Yup, both specials start their cooldown when you start charging them, but Super's system reboot resets it when you fire. So realistically, Cryo has a 15s total CD, or 13s after firing, while Super has a 22s total CD, or 20s after firing.
I agree with the backup mags, when you're trying to shoot something that's really mobile, you usually don't actually need the extra damage from a perfect reload, and being able to spam a couple shots until you hit the target can be life saving
Did you know, with the default sniper, you can zoom in and reload at the same time?
If you right click as soon as you let go of it, you can zoom back in and reload in-scope. If you mess up the reload though, you'll have to "re-zoom" to fire again.
Probably not intended but neat :)
i found this out too. i also found out how bad of an idea it is to be more scoped than u need to be.
I just noticed today and came here to see who else might have!
For the mobility stuff, any Rex mains out there will have an easy time of it, and if youre not a Rex Main, perhaps give him a few practise jumps to get into the habit of the jump and flick
A few more things I learned when playing Railgunner:
Bustling Fungus is not very good unless you are trying to collect for the Weeping Fungus void item. This is only because all attacks from the Railgunner cause you to move a very small amount, even if you are standing completely still, causing the Bustling Fungus to disappear and only reappear once you stop moving. In a harder run, you most likely wont even get the chance to stand still, but if you're starting a run and trying to camp a boss from the other side of the map with the fungus, you most likely wont get any healing when sniping.
Despite the Lost Seer's Lenses effect on your crit damage, if you have just a few of them a high enough fire rate, you can just use the "Primary" because of the tracing. I got a really good run with this method because of a little luck and an early Lost Seer's Lenses
Did you try if you can make the chanche any better with 3 proc coeficent on the special?
“snipings a good job mate”
With her concussion device you are also able to move the pots on abandoned aquaduct making it way easier to do
This is amazing info! Thanks! Since it doesn't do damage I guess it doesn't explode them?
@@Jonjon13Jonjon13 Yeah it doesn't :)
Its still pain. They make them fly like a kilometer each time, not really thay great.
Item synergies: voidsent flames
Why waste time with non-elite non-boss enemies when they can get 1 shot by your primary auto-aim fire? And since the shot itself does such little damage, the explosion usually still gets the crowbar damage bonus
Question from someone who isn't like.. that smart. I heard this game is getting the creepy Epic games crossplay thing. Is there a way to like avoid that like if I just play single player does Epic still creep on me?
No idea what you're talking about but if that's a thing there will probably be a way to opt out
I think someone lied to you
@@unusualfrog779 Oh thank goodness! I was worried I would have to uninstall the game.
Something fun to know for Railgunner when doing Eclipse (or just the game in general), is that if you pick Cryocharge, it can freeze Mithrix, allowing for some execute mechanics AND it can cancel attacks, such as the spinning fire columns. Pair this with a Lysate Cell, Alien Head or Purity, it allows for a pretty easy Mithrix fight, and if you get enough cooldown reduction, you can stunlock Mithrix, PERMANANTLY.
As a railgunner user (not main yet, as i feel i can improve greatly) i find the singularity band works extremely well. Pair that with a singular gasoline or will-o-whisp and its pretty dominant for the early and mid game
1-get ukulele and singularity
2-proc singularity
3-use supercharge
4-profit
Singularity band all the way. Easily clumping enemies is so nice, including reasons you said, and I find them far easier to get than praying to RNG for a primordial cube. Band over cube means you can use an equipment for something else too. It also still deals total damage too, just less than the fire/ice band and once the black hole ends (though really nothing's escaping the black hole, seemingly not even Mithrix).
How to play railgunner? Take commmando artifact, spam soldier sirrenges , void shrimps, and items for debuffing enemy.( It what im always doing and it working great, shot finnal boss once with ultimate shot and little shrimp will fly to him and deal half of damage, and normal enemies and bosses who too near to you shoot by primary attack
commando artifact KEKW
But that's not all, the primary ability can be deadly thanks to the void version of the ATG missile mk2. With that void item, it will help to increase the damage output alot because it homes to the target. Making Railgunner a killing machine.
void ATGs make it so tasking damage when shields are up shoots a rocket, what does that have to do with railgunner?
@@2911oscar you are incorrect. It is when you DEAL damage it fires a rocket, Not when you Take damage like you say. Homing primary = easy access to dealing damage. Easy Access to dealing damage makes Shrimp proc easier. Do you get it now? (This isnt supposed to be condescending, it may look like it, it aint)
@@casualmarkit9969 ah my bad, I thought it was when your shields take damage
And I forgot one thing. The void version of the ATG missiles work well with the lunar item that turn your health Into shield. This would give you a upperhand alot more.
this may be easier for me due to my tf2 sticky jumping experience but when you get a hard light afterburner you can air pogo with the mines (hit yourself repeatedly in the air for more distance or height) as well as catch yourself from fall damage by shooting where you land
basically single pre
The fact that sotv added an alternative for fuel cells that give more specials make cryocharge more powerful than supercharge, why wouldn't i do 5 shots for 2000% instead of 1 for 4000%
Supercharge vs Cryocharge I find is just a difference on when you want to use them. If your goal is to oneshot a boss, then Supercharge is your go-to friend. If you want to control the area a bit better, then kite and run Cryocharge down a conga line. Also, if for whatever reason you decided to grab the Heresy Primary or Secondary (rip run if you do the latter), they don't go on cooldown during Supercharge, meaning Visions has some real synergy with Supercharge, though I find it to be just a worse version of her primary otherwise. Also her M99 fires 9 shots of Visions for whatever reason, which feels like a bug to me.
using the mine and primary to go faster and fly sounds so fun wtf
A lot of people saying they think Supercharge is the way to go. Just wanted to point out that while Cryocharge does about only half the damage, it also cools down immediately. The shot itself takes about 2-3 seconds (already starting recharge) and there is no weapon cooldown. Realistically, it's about a 12-13 second window before you can fire again, counting that little bit of time firing. The Supercharge takes (it seems like) the same amount of time to fire, 2-3 seconds, THEN adds another 5 second cooldown which takes away your ability to damage enemies almost entirely, and then finally does the 15 second cooldown. This means that Supercharge takes about 22-23 seconds to let you fire another one, as apposed to 12-13. Additionally, using supercharge on a horde of enemies is sometimes a run-ender if you don't manage to get everything at once. Wiped out a bunch of beetle guards and fodder right in front of you? Too bad there were 9 wisps in the sky right behind you, you can't shoot them.
I agree Supercharge is better at purely one-shotting the teleporter boss and other random boss spawns, which are huge threats, but I'd argue Cryocharge is better 99% of the time otherwise. It may not do as much damage but it can almost fire twice as many times as the Supercharge--without the dramatic downside of not being able to use any weapons. They both scale better with attack speed, and while its more important on Supercharge for sure, Cryocharge also gets the speed boost in case you wanted to argue late-run effectiveness. I think if Woolie emphasized the drastic amount of time between shot differential a lot of you guys would think Cryocharge is also usually the way to go. Lastly, Cryocharge's freeze affect (which works on virtually every enemy) ALSO has a built in Guillotine effect that works on any enemy you freeze and don't one shot, (LEGIT 30% of their healthbar) and doing enough damage to reach that threshold instantly kills any frozen enemy before they thaw, just like Guillotines on elites. Plus, the entire time they're frozen they cannot hurt you. This helps compensate both for its overall lower damage and inability to one-shot. Supercharge definitely isn't trash at all though and I love that instant dopamine of turning a giant red healthbar to nothing in one click, but I really think Cryocharge is way better and that's why Woolie said so, alongside the little bit of movement benefit he mentioned. Not that this was a loadout video, though, so maybe he'll go more in-depth at a later time.
trickshots and quickscopes are a thing now 😎
Supercharged Shot + ATG + ICBM is a fun time. For when you want four things off your screen
do laser sight and crit glasses stacking stack lineraly together? so for example 2 laser sights and 3 crit glasses = 230% crit dmg? also does this then mean that the default crit damage is multiplied by 2.3 or the base damage is multiplied by 2.3? I still can't really wrap my head around crit damage, would be nice if anyone could help
soldiers blast jumping, great
Id argue at least having a few mags can maybe help- but only when dealing with lots of boss enemies at once. With enough attack speed you can fire off way more rounds than you would usually which could outdue the extra 500% since. There may be something I'm not accounting for but I did a quick test with 15 syringes and 5 total shots. For this I started the second I began zooming in and ended once I finished reloading the last round. If you reload without shooting all rounds it comes out to about 7500% every 5 seconds or 1500% per second. However when shooting without reloading until the final 5th shot it came out to around 5500% about every 2.5 seconds- whichmeans 2200% per second. Still it makes sense why this wouldn't be desired as its usage is niche
also do not play her with the friendly fire artifact because you will occasionally block your screen/impair your vision with a crit box over your own head, I learned this the hard way you see
fun fact with cryo you can do a 360 no scope for fun
cause there are no downsides
also woolie what equipment do you reccomend for rail
Supercharge is REALLY good, that 3.0 makes a Uke nearly guaranteed to proc so shooting just a few enemies will destroy crowds of enemies with ease
not to mention the fact it does nearly 3x the amount a Cryocharge can, 2000% base + 500% perfect reload x 2 (crit) = 5000% while Supercharge is 4000% base + 500% perfect reload x 2 (crit) x 1.5 (weakspot bonus) = 13500%
Why does he still call them "sherrykins"
Wandering Vagrents where my bane before the DLC and now they are even more so because of there annoying weak spot location
I like supercharge because my brain is pretty much "BEEEG NUMBER"
“Snipin’s a good job, mate.”
I prefer supercharge. Once you get some attack speed, it will be easy to get through the cooldown, especially since you can use mines to escape. Attack speed doesn’t scale much at all with cyrocharge. Also, if you combine attack speed with lysate cells, you can kill bosses left and right with a flick shot. But hey, it’s all just opinions anyways.
Backup mags are good if you keep them as their name implies: a backup. I find I pick them up and use them for applying large amounts of single-target damage in a more consistent way than relying on watches or crowbars for the damage. Paired with the bands, blast shower, and some fuel cells, you can pump out some SERIOUS damage very fast on bosses.
@@shaunhayes3072 Read my first sentence again, slowly, and out-loud to yourself.
For me, stacking few backup magazines is a great idea for Railgunner. While consecutive shots won't benefit from perfect reload damage bonus, you still amplify the number of damage/targets you can shoot at before reloading. This helps Railgunner to sustain more DPS in a short period of time. (this is most important when the enemies are frozen from cyrofreeze, where you need to reach 30% threshold in a short period of time) Also, with backup mag, you can more reliably utilise predatory instinct and harvester scythe. Without it, you can only get 8 measly healing and one single stack of instinct. But if you have backup mag, you can multiply the healing and stack you can acquire before reloading (and resets the instinct stack).
Agreed. As long as you have enough attack speed to fire at least 3 rounds before reloading and firing again, you'll come out ahead on damage overall by using a few backup mags. Reloading then refreshes all backup mags, so you can dish out rather extreme bursts of damage.
Also the alternate M2 apparently cannot use Backup Mags from what I've seen.
As a kraber main in titanfall 2 before it got taken down I am hyped for when I get this on console
Ima disagree with cryocharge, the supercharge just feels way to satisfying when you land the big bongo blast and the 5 sec cd period I don't feel like its a big enough downside, sure it can lead to a death, but I feel like it is more of a players fault then the downtimes fault.
From my experience cryocharge tends to be better in sim, while supercharge is better in normal gameplay. in sim, you’re in a closed up area with essentially no way out, and large hordes of tougher-than-normal enemies. being able to use your primary and m2 is super important when you literally can’t get away, and the execution from freezing helps with crowd control. On the other hand, in normal gameplay, supercharge (if used correctly) is a one click boss erasure tool. it also can hit in a small aoe. I do find that the effectiveness/ consistency of both seem to decrease as the game goes on, where even the absolutely colossal damage they deal can sometimes leave a boss at 50% or more health with a shot. it’s really annoying honestly it makes me feel like it’s a waste to use
Anyone just... not like Railgunner? She feels like way too slow paced of a character for this game (which is focused on high paced combat). Sure, she can get guaranteed crits, but you have to take the time to aim down sights and aim at the crit spot, which sometimes can be the difference between life or death. Her mobility also kinda sucks, especially when you're in a sticky situation because you don't really have time to worry about getting the right angle. She just straight up feels too slow for this game.
she's the FASTEST-paced survivor in the game, once you get comfortable with quickscoping.
you're not supposed to play her as a "sniper" character - get in the enemies' faces!
So which secondary is better or more consistent?
i am almost a 100% sure attack speed on Runner makes the reload bar move slightly to the right but makes it bigger
Weird how a sniper like survivor has enough mobility to skip pillars with no items, but hey I don’t think anyone is complaining.
You can't shoot it THAT fast without items...
@@literatemax I’m not talking about only her m1. You have to combine her m1, mines and special to pull it off.
Supercharge is better because professionals have standards
Thx now i'm waiting for the void fiend guide
as i have experimented around with Railgunner myself. i can say that Void Will-o-Wisps are another key item to consider it a good run. 1 because they will proc the crowbar damage buff since they happen at the beginning and 2 because of the early shot damage. simply for the fact that it happens at the start of a health bar instead of the end makes it very important to rail gunner in my opinion. the Void Ukulele is a situational item. again on her the key is single target damage so she makes great use of this. but having regular Ukulele helps her add clear something fierce as well.
Comboing the void Wisp with ignition tanks also gives you some mean burn damage
so getting perma tonic, some horns, syringes, etc, i turned marksman into an AR and did more than double the amount of damage to enemies than my 2 other friends combined who were using the sniper ability.
I've had a crazy amount of fun with attack speed Railgunner, highly recommend it. (No aim just pew pew)
I love attack speed in railgunnner plus ukulele(or corrupted version) is hella fun
And then you find a Brilliant Behemoth...
Im really enjoying railgunner myself. Such a fun survivor
Honestly I do really love the Railgunner, but part of me kinda wishes that her Primary attack was more along the lines of her alternative secondary. This kind of heavy, semi-auto, rail-gun shot ringing out across the field, without having to be zoomed in for it at all times.
Also I know I'm probably in the minority for this, but I honestly find her alternative skin for beating the game on Monsoon, to be flat out super ugly and probably the ugliest in the game.
The alternate skin is the first original Sniper, I've heard
@@Rhyolite-hyena Which is fine and all, but it doesn't make me dislike any less lol.
So stoked for the Void Fiend guide. I've been getting blasted while playing as him
i was aware the primary had knockback but it never occurred to me that it could be used like this
I wish you had an alternate ability that let her Pierce through walls to
Gears of WAr Active reloadssssss
Real quick, do note with the Lost Seer's Lenses void item, it doesn't take away your crit mechanic entirely. You can still get crit chance from other sources, just not the Lens-Makers
Correct but you can get very little extra crit chance unless you find a laser sight since the other items don't stack crit chance but give a one time flat amount. Meaning dmg is better with normal glasses.
I think ive been playing Railgunner wrong lmao
First mistake was using gamepad. Really makes my scope aim slower
i finally got to obliterate on normal to get Merc unlocked, but it wasn't with railgunner. I had an easier time doing it with Void Fiend..
And I unlocked every loadout almost for the Railgunner and those achievements on PC were at like 0.2% rarity a few days after the DLC dropped.. which is crazy to think most people haven't unlocked anything yet for railgunner.
even void fiend was at like 0.5% or something crazy, now they're at 1-2% rarity achievs on Steam which is still very low
Railgunner is easy to hit the shots on for sure but I can imagine railgunner not being super fun on console using a controller, unless the auto aim is super helpful (kind of like void fiend's basic M1 which is hitscan AND helps to auto aim even with a mouse).
Ok, question. What happens if you get more than 100% crit strike chance from items when using the railgunner? Dose the bonus damage continue to scale or does it cap at 100% extra crit damage same as crit chance caps at 100% chance?
My thoughts?
Now i wanna know about Voidboi
In all seriousness i have apparently trained for the flick shots because its how i maneuver with Rex. Run, jump, turn, use vine push thing. You can get good momentum and/or upwards mobility
I recently got a run where I printed around 24 lens maker glasses and then later on in the run I found the lost seer one, and then I had an item that did auto damage (I think it was the mired urn) and I ran around 1 shotting EVERYTHING, I ended the run on I think stage 15 or something as I went for getting 1 mil damage in 1 shot. Did a total of 100 million damage.
Get Primordial Cube and Bandolier, and if you're lucky, Soulbound Catalyst. Pop your cube, use your supercharge shot for a HUGE collateral. Soulbound recharges your cube instantly bc of all the kills, and you're very likely to get a bandolier drop in the center of it.
Finding out Railgunner was a woman was the same as finding out Samus Aran was a woman lmao. Also I feel particularly proud of myself for getting decent at Railgunner relatively quickly even though I almost never play shooters.
How the character is built:
Smart Rounds are primary attack
Sniper is secondary attack
How the character is played:
Sniper is primary attack
Smart Rounds are for when I missed 3 shots in a row on the same Lemurian using their wonky AI to perfectly dodge and can't be bothered to humiliate myself further
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I use supercharge and find grabbing a bandolier makes your other abilities have no cooldown, so you can use the 4000% charge damage, pick up 1 bandolier, and keep fighting.
strongly recommend using vision and strides of heresy. lose mobility but increase survivability massively. if you bring super charge you can sill shoot vision off heresy while cooling down. strides of heresy is amazing once you already have a couple hopoo feathers and speed boosts. it also allows the railguner go to void fields and not die between the void cells. I say vison of heresy is essential and always pick it up. and strides are a bit more situational but I still pick them up most runs. they help a lot early game for the heals (especially on monsoon)
Wait, does vision of heresy not stop her scope shot? Cause that's amazing.
Another helpful tip, if you’re playing Railgunner, using equipment items like Spinel Tonic or Opus Frenzy will make the “Perfect Reload” bar longer/larger so its easier to do a Perfect Reload. I don’t know what other items also have this effect but those are the two I am aware of.
The higher your attack speed, the faster the reload bar goes, so to compensate that and make attack speed not punish you by missing an active reload, the effective range inside the bar is wider. So this means syringes, predatory instincts, and pauldron also widen the bar, while light-flux pauldron (new lunar) narrow it (and make the bar take longer to move)
I find that cryocharge gets better the longer a game goes, since you can get a quick 1-2 on swarms of large elites and infested/void mobs
Or you can do the same but end them before they even realize they exist.
@@aarepelaa1142 But if you can’t use your abilities for 5 seconds you won’t be able to do that.
The info at 7:02 makes it sound like the second mine needs to actually come into contact with a terrain surface for the first to explode when, in reality, it just needs to be thrown out but I know that you were probably referring to the fact you need at least 2 charges of the skill instead of it acting like some form of trigger.
Sidenote: the Railgunner's concussion devices work just as well in the air, making Hardlight Afterburners cause complete chaos in a godrun. Plus, the momentum sorta multiplies the more you have to instantly detonate.
Seriously, I don't think there's a faster way to hit the skybox.
I've found that if you build attack speed, void shrimp missiles, ICBM and ukulele, railgunner can also be insane without ever using the "secondary" ability. Holding left click just fires a scary swarm of constant homing projectiles that means you just need movement speed to account for the short range.
i take alt mine and default charge. youd think im trolling, but i just pick up like one gasoline and this one shots entire hordes of enemies also supercharge just deals actually viable damage against bosses so you can spend more time focusing on not getting chased down by rats. this is how i got my mastery, anyway.
I like supercharge more because with half decent rng I just dont have to fight tp bosses anymore for like 10 stages, but to each his own. The argument you make for the alternate is worth looking into for me, I hadnt considered the mobility aspect.
Another reason to take Railgunner's default utility is so you can launch pots in Abandoned Aqueduct to their switches.
TIL, never tried cause I thought the pots would break. Good to know
in risk of rain 1, I ONLY touched commando and enforcer, but once I unlocked Sniper, he's all I played. As soon as I saw RAILGUNNER was just my boy sniper, I mained her for about 4 games before I unlocked Void Fiend. Supercharge will always remind me of sniper, so that's what I always use. After beating the game with Void Fiend on run 10ish though, I've really started enjoying captain. Have yet to touch anyone but Commando, Bandit, Cap, and the 2 dlc characters. Railgunner holds a special place in my heart though
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so for a quick mention, your bomb that pushes you, that sounds like raze's satchels lol
Crit damage from her passive stacks additively with the 100% that crits normally do, and that's pretty bad!
When you pick up your first crit glasses you will notice that they increase your damage by only 5%, and 0% for M1 fire, bodyshots and equipments of course. Meanwhile, other survivors get 10% DPS on everything, plus they NEED them to properly use things like scythe, predatory and spleen. Which is why I give away crit glasses to the other survivors in multiplayer until they're full.
In solo, sure, 5% damage is 5% damage, nothing to scoff at.
railgunner ranger from tds
I've been playing ror2 for a LOOOONG TIME and I did not know all this stuff about her!! I kinda avoided her, but I'm now excited to give her another chance!
I have a question Woolie?🙂
Will the Railgunner be able to defeat Mithrix and the Voidling as a infinite range infinite zoom/magnification cold/ice elemental sniper queen with Magnetic Accelerator, XQR Smart Round System, M99 Sniper, Concussion Device and Supercharge with all cold/ice elemental items and sniper items such as Runald's Bands, Frost Relics, Laser Scopes, Transcendences and the like?🙂
FIRST OF ALL
supercharge is better because BIGGER NUMBER
secondly, void seer lenses in my experience are not bad at all on railgunner when combined with normal ukeleles (this kinda goes for all characters but thats neither here nor there, my point is that ukelele chain lightning procs void seers instakill, ADDITIONALLY i would argue that void ukelele is WORSE than normal ukelele for railgunner because normal uke spreads the huge supercharge damage across all enemies on a stage meaning that with just one ukelele and a well places supercharge youre clearing entire hordes of enemies on a 15 second cooldown)
The argument between Cryocharge and Supercharge is interesting. If we're ranking them based on what Woolie ranks it on, Cryocharge is better as it's more consistent and you're not left out in the open with only your mobility. You have a near-20 second cooldown before being able to shoot again if you have no attack speed, and it's totally overkill.
You can still one-shot bosses with Cryocharge as long as you hit the weakspot and just land one extra headshot afterwards. Also, another thing is that you nearly deal the same exact damage as Supercharge when you pick up even 1 crowbar. Finally, the freeze debuff it gives to enemies scales so well into the late-game, as it executes at 30% HP, not a flat value. But the fact that you only need a single common item that you are DESTINED to be searching for (as it is Railgunner's bread and butter) to be able to catch up in damage, AND you don't have to wait 20 seconds inbetween shots, AND you don't have to be left defenseless just proves to me that Cryocharge is objectively better.
Ultimately, you can do well with both. That's the thing with RoR2, you can do well with any combo of abilities, it's mainly personal preference, but it's the consistency that matters. And Cryocharge wins in that category.