Rifleman Archive

I currently use a laser rifle and a spraystick, but I am a bit leery of the low min damage numbers with these weapons. Is there a better choice out there?

Fast Tusken?

I have a laser rifle as well and use it as my primary weapon. It is very rare that i hit for the minimum dammage. Infact with overcharge shot 2, I regularly hit for 1000 dammage. You need to pay close attention to range as a rifleman. Keep yourself at the ideal range and if you get bum rushed just switch to different gun.

Personally I have two macros, one equips up my typical ranger gear, no armor and my laser rifle. I usually run around in this configuration. The other macro armors me up and loads my pistol. So when all efforts to keep my distance are lost, I can run and gun with out a 5 second fire rate.

Kynetic... One of the things I need to do that I havent spent time yet playing with is macros. What is the command to load up one's laser rifle? That is, how do you load a specific weapon?

thanks much for the answer I dont use a pistol at all, When they get close I pop the spraystick and run like hell.

I am going master CH, A bunch of Rifleman, Master Squad atm, although I have a bunch of secondaries (surveying, Medic) that I will be dropping at some point. I am trying to work without a pistol as I wont have one later.

Go with an E11 and a DLT20a rifle, and a spraystick.

I like the E11 for the bleeds and then switch to a DLT20a for all other attacks.

Wayne,

There is no specific command that equips your rifle. Instead you add your rifle to your button bar, then build your script around that.

You can have 2 rows of buttons and 6 panes of 2 rows. I have pane 5 set up for my street cloths & rifle on the bottom row and armor & pistol on the top. My script looks something like this:

/say Armor Up!;
/ui action toolbarPane04;
/ui action toolbarSlot00;
/ui action toolbarSlot02;
...
/ui action toolbarSlot08;
/ui action toolbarPane00;

This script makes my character say "Armor Up!" giving me a visual queue the script is working. It them switches to the 5th panel of tool bars. Everything we are doing is zero based so the first of anything is always 0. It then runs through the buttons equipping all my stuff. Lastly, it switches back to my main tool bar pane. This all happens in a blink of an eye.

I gave this macro the name ArmorUp and a icon that looks like a little shield and added it to the main tool bar pane for quick access.

My second macro looks something like this:

/say Going Casual!;
/ui action toolbarPane04;
/ui action toolbarSlot00;
/ui action toolbarSlot02;
...
/ui action toolbarSlot08;
...
/ui action toolbarSlot12;
....
/ui action toolbarSlot20;
/ui action toolbarPane00;

Now in this one, note that I repeat the first script. This in effect un-equips my armor. Kinda like a toggle. The reason I do this is because I want to remove ALL my armor and seeing as how I have 8 pieces of armor and only 3 pieces of cloths, this makes sense.

Now I know someone is going to ask why didn't I just call the first script to un-equip my armor. I tried it. It didn't work very well. I ended up with half my armor and half my clothes on! Weird eh?

So this macro has a name of something like ArmorOff and the Icon looks like two little chevrons pointing down and it sits on my main too bar to the right of the ArmorUp.

So, when I am out hunting I have my ArmorOff in effect. This allow my HAM pools to regen at their maximum rate. When I am ready to kill something, I attempt to take it out from the proper range for my Laser Rifle. If I fail miserably, like when the creature brings 3-4 friends or they bum rush me before I can do enough damage to take them down, I hit the ArmorUp button for some added protection and my pistol which has a 1.1 fire rate and dies better work in close.

Hope that answers your question.

I use all the weapons but the laser rifle and T21, becuase they are not available. Depending on the mbos resistance to certain things I switch weapons. Also depending on AR.