Talk:Synapse/@comment-109.230.27.237-20130923123715/@comment-89.223.33.219-20130923214456

Actually ~9 base damage, as was confirmed at the first day of it's research. And, as 3rd poster corrected - only x2 to Corpus. And no, electrical damage does not deal less damage to Infested, as people keep saying - there are no more resistances and this info is 2 major updates old. Tested electrical damage on infested - simply deals base damage.

With crit capping at 87.5%(as shown with Soma and DI), you essentially waste a mod slot trying to bring 50 to 87.5%. Crit damage is pretty low - the basic 200% value.

Bottom line - it's a weaker and extremely expensive(in comparison) Soma. It may work better with Volt and it may have electric damage, which is better than Bullet, but it's crit stats are fucked up, it has almost no range and comes with no polarities.

Recently compared Flux and Soma, I saw that Soma beats Flux in every scenario, including top end armor values(because soma's Piercing Hit mod crits simply outdamage basic 20 damage of Flux). Until Synapse gets buffed hard, Soma with potato is literally the best weapon in the game for burst(once again, excluding Volt exploit), next to Acrid.