Done! Repeaters may be manly, but only in the same way that self-flagellation is manly. They have generally low accuracy and tons of recoil, so forget about easily killing anything far away. They have small mags, low damage, and low to mediocre fire rates, so forget about easily killing anything up close. Seriously, with very few exceptions, they are not very good. In general, there is virtually no reason to use any non-unique/legendary over a machine pistol.
The disappointing:
- The Hornet is no Defiler. Sorry to the folks who say otherwise. I’d rather have a very accurate weapon with big damage and big DOT than a weapon I have to click frantically to apply a fountain of little green numbers. Yes it gets the job done, but I didn’t enjoy using it very much.
- The Firehawk is no Hellfire. It’s like a thumper hellfire with a shitload of recoil that doesn’t proc at least half the time.
- Krom’s Sidearm is pretty good…it’s like a high-tech combat rifle that blocks your vision when you shoot it. But like all shock weapons, you don’t need to use them very much.
The surprisingly good:
- Well, not really a surprise, but elemental Violators wreck. If you’ve never tried one out because of the low damage numbers, you should do yourself a favor and try it. They are my favorite elemental shotguns in the game, and they aren’t even shotguns.
- Athena’s Wisdom can be very good, depending on the version you get. The extra crit damage and super accuracy of my version made it great for collecting zombie brains…point and click killing, amazingly even easier than using a masher.
- a double Knoxx’s Gold is the best non-elemental repeater in the game. It has less damage and less fire rate than an Atlas, Torgue, or Vladof, but the huge recoil reduction makes it an absolute joy to use when hip-firing and the huge mag is very nice. Yes, I got incredibly lucky with the version I found…but man was it fun. Even a Double Thanatos has tough competition from this gun. It may have half the fire rate, but it is putting all those bullets through a MUCH smaller circle. For hipfiring, I dare say it is better than a double thanny.
Anyone ever try this before? I’ve played through a bunch of times and the only repeaters I ever end up using are the Firehawk and sometimes Thanatos. So, I figured I would try using nothing else to see what I’m missing, and if they’re as crappy as I always thought.
So, if I can figure out how to post pictures in this new forum:
Decent repeater in the first chest, but can’t use it yet…looks like it’s melee til the next one!
There’s always this one. I wonder how long I’ll need it.
Of course!
And a nice double elemental find at the end of the seeds area:
It’s going to take me a long time to do this (can’t play much anymore) but I’ll try and remember to update this as I go. I’m not sure if I’ll include machine pistols…seems like it might make it too easy. So far it hasn’t been an issue since the clipper sucks and I haven’t found another one yet.