ion ftw!

u always use the ion i hate u for that. stealing it before my eyes =) gj anyway

The Minigun is fairly effective against Raptors. use it without fear.
i use shockrifle against it. (of course, AVRIL is the best)

> a combination of AVRIL and shockrifle against raptors is verry efficient.

Yes, use the minigun and avril against raptors. Please .


Seriously though, the discussion of which weapon in UT2k4 is the best is based on the false premise that there is only one answer. Weapons were designed by a clever bunch of people to work on a paper-rock-scissors principle so that most of them would be useful against the others in different scenarios. Examples come to mind like how the minigun helps you spam and finish off jumpy ppl in mid/close-range, but sucks vs nodes, cores or serious armour. Flak is very good up close and so are rockets, but if your opponent gets some distance, they become practically useless and shock prevails (unless there's a sniper around of course). Bio is also helpful, primarily in DM type circumstances where the geometry makes for narrow spaces and close encounters, but shock combos help there too (both cases, ammo's wasted fast though).

Only weapon I'd universally say is pretty much useless is the Target Painter. Honestly, for a superweapon class item, it's freakin' pointless taking the time to get it, expose yourself standing still long enough to activate the attack and then just sit by to see what? Taking off 50% of a node's hp at most? Randomly killing 1-2 ppl max if you happen to get lucky? Personally, I'd gladly lobby the inclusion of a mutator or general policy for TechCom that replaces it on all maps with the Ion Painter. At least with that one you get the result you expect.

The target painter is only useful to cover a big long corridor thorugh which the enemy will come for sure. It's quite useful in Chainsisile Final, if you use it from the mountain over the node to the core.

But yes, everybody gets a warning, it's not very strong and can be shot down. But it covers a bigger area then the other weapons.



Also interesting for the Ion-painter is this mutator:
http://koehler-homepage.de/Wormbo/download2k4.html#IonCannon

One could place it in a single map, if needed.

pegasus_ wrote:
Yes, use the minigun and avril against raptors. Please .




o, i'll unmistakable do that i have my onw way to hunt down raptors though, but i will always try new stuff.

finally 10k frags with shock rifle!!
thx to everyone who got fragged by my shock

damn it igor! u combo whore! ;p


as for me, at last, i have reached 25672 frags with manta. that was my goal =)

I'm random.
Though my favorite weapon is flak cannon, but that doesn't mean that I'm a flak-whore. It only means that I like it.