De-Bork The Glaxion!

[Vaskadar]

The lazy laser! The wayward weapon! The bumbling beam!

 

The Glaxion was ruined some time ago, but I aim to bring attention to its blighted beam of meandering particles. The freeze ray has fallen.

 

So, the only innately cold weapon in the game has this awful tendency to go where it shouldn't. I.E. away from where you're aiming. While I'm sure there are reasons behind this, it's so awful that I'm afraid to see what would happen when one throws on Heavy Caliber with this weapon. It's got to be absolutely horrendous.

 

The accuracy nerf (whenever it happened) was so heavy-handed that I don't see anyone using this weapon anymore. Not because it's innately a bad weapon, but because it is now incredibly unreliable.

 

Can't even really use it like the quanta or other weapons of its class. Its ammo economy is bad enough, but to ruin that with terribad accuracy is just a slap in the face.

 

I'm pretty disappointed in it now that I've revisited it.

[RealPandemonium]

So, the only innately cold weapon in the game has this awful tendency to go where it shouldn't. I.E. away from where you're aiming. While I'm sure there are reasons behind this, it's so awful that I'm afraid to see what would happen when one throws on Heavy Caliber with this weapon. It's got to be absolutely horrendous.

You haven't even tried slotting HC?  Do you even have the weapon?!

[Paradoxbomb]

This thing is really a bit of a mess. It burns ammo just as fast as the Amprex despite lacking the ability to multi-hit targets or being able to rack up crazy damage from critical hits, and even with an ammo mutator and frugal trigger discipline, maintaining ammo on this thing is nearly impossible for any meaningful amount of time. The borked accuracy is the icing on the cake, as you actually have to keep the trigger held down to get it to align, which only adds to it's poor ammo economy.

 

The accuracy and ammo consumed per second definitely need a second pass. I honestly want to like the Glaxion since it is a pretty fun freeze ray and status cannon, but requiring Carrier, Ammo Mutation, and Rifle Scavenger just to comfortably use a gun which is mediocre at best just isn't worth it, especially when there's the Amprex which outperforms in just about every way (except status, but tbh it's status chance is already pretty high and can effect four targets simultaneously, so I'd still argue it's a better status gun as well).

Edited October 13, 2015 by Paradoxbomb

[ACorpse]

[low1991]

Seriously... All high-RoF weak-DPS weapons will be 'balanced' if WF follows it's own set-up logic...

If archwing' guns can have unlimited ammo (there crate in space dropping ammo), why can't ground-weapon have them too?

Or the other-way:

If Ground-guns have limited ammo, why isn't archwing' gun following?

Edited October 13, 2015 by low1991

[Ryker]

As I said on the other post.

 

 

INB4 SYNDICATE GLAXION.

[Vaskadar]

You haven't even tried slotting HC?  Do you even have the weapon?!

 

I've already seen what happens to it when it's slotted. I don't need to experiment any further with that.

[Nira]

I've been away from the game a month or two and it was still broken for a while before I left.

 

Really hope it gets fixed soon - it is huge fun!

Edited October 15, 2015 by Dualice