Is Gatling gun worth it? Flare gun?

Is the Gatling gun even worth using over flare gun?
I cannot see any benefits using the Gatling gun over flare gun especially now that I see more fixers playing and you get that -50% heal rate with flare gun.

I'm truly asking can anyone help? Are the devs going to buff the Gatling gun even more because I think it still needs a tweek or two.

P.s. the k my upside I see using the Gatling gun is for its cool noise and is fun but that'll get old because it's irrelevant weapon.

 

The gat gun is very weak. Even if you had a T5 leg gat gun, a max epic flare gun would be worth using over it. But keep in mind it is new and there might be buffs in the future

 

Mhm I got epic level 10 Gatling gun and im going to just put it to sleep forever like many will do after a month. Maybe make the Gatling gun burn up enemies if you hit a certain amount of time or the ship disables but whatever it needs something or it'll be a wasted new item that replaced the other wasted items that were deleted from the game

 

If u think about it, the gat gun is kinda like an accelerated flare gun, but doesn't give the beneficial effects of flare and has a long unload time. So yea for now it's still underpowered, @PastelPiku says that the event damage bonus for gat gun (+30% dmg) should be what it takes to make it viable dmg vise.

 

Good points but flare's strength comes from, well, being a flare. You can put all of your training into gatling gun and lose some damage and maybe like 2 seconds on your flare, but it'll still have a 30% healblock and buff cannon damage for full value. The most important thing to consider is that the gat is not going to be very useful unless you're practically firing it nonstop.

Question: My gat has a 7s cooldown but that cooldown doesn't actually start until the last shot of the clip is fired, which takes about 2~3 seconds to empty. Does its DPS value consider this? Is the calculated DPS actually higher than most other weapons?

 

I just calculated, unfortunately the dps value does not take the 15 shot unload time into consideration, hence the actual dps output is much lower, and lower still if u factor in shots that get interrupted by rising waves.

 

Yea the devs needed to make a new weapon that would be used or at least semi used. Welp another item down the drain so far.

 

Looks pretty strong to me.

 

Lol nice joke buddy.. this isn't a real life Gatling gun that'll tear all these other weapons apart

 

Mhm.. I'm just trying this gatgun out but it's nothing compared to the flare gun it's a useless weapon.

 

Similarly, the flare dps rating is if you are continuously shooting flares, it doesn't align to a single flare shot and burn. You have to be chaining and maintaining multiple burns to hit the dps stated on the item. Granted it is much easier to do with a flare than gat... Just thought I'd mention that.

 

I like the gat for low hp enemies, like ships with 100 or so hp left. I can take them out with the gat without having to worry about the long cool down I my other weapons.

 

Uhm, there is a difference, a big one. Say you're 1vs1 with another defender, with flare you can keep flaring him until he's dead, and the damage you did with the flare, would be very close to the stated dps value. Now that is totally impossible with the gat gun, since its stated dps value assumes that the gat gun starts to reload the moment you fire a single shot, not 15. The time it takes to unload the 15 shots, before it actually starts to reload, would diminish the stated dps greatly.

 

That's a reaaallly interesting point. You're making me want to start trying to get dupes to eventually try it on my defender.