Talk:Buzlok/@comment-86.143.145.82-20161011204857/@comment-135.23.52.62-20170201162938

I feel like that was the original intended function for this weapon, but they felt that it was too similar to Magnetize. For once it would be a weapon with damage that actually scales with punchthrough. It might need a bit of a nerf considering with its base damage and one punch through mod, each enemy with a beacon could get hit ~3 times with each shot, but it could make it viable for endgame. Just remove the cosmetic explosion effect, or replace it with a blood poof. For hard targets you could beacon their weakpoint, while against swarms you could fire without beacon to hit many targets at once.

I'm just imagining how awesome this could be. Every tough enemy gets beaconed and swarmed by bullets. Would be VERY fitting if Buzlok = Robo-Swarm Gun. It would still be very grineer. Instead of corpus nano-bots or ai drones, it would simply be mini lock-on meat grinders... Imagining Kela with a beacon on her face, getting melted as max punchthrough buzlok rounds orbit through her and tear her apart, spraying blood into the air.