Talk:Vulkar/@comment-50.155.28.229-20130610224536/@comment-5857935-20130612075835

Snipetron was bad because it was slooow. You needed every shot fired to kill something to justify using the weapon, and without armor pen that was an excercise in frustration. Pretty much every weapon was better than the Snipetron before, it was just fun to use.

With armor pen the Snipetron is a true sniper weapon against any foe, and it's elemental 150% bonus against Grineer takes it well into the range of "viable" that it never had before.

If you're fighting foes without armor* the Vulkar can meet or beat the Snipetron.


 * Corpus crewmen take 80% normal damage from body shots, 125*0.80=100; tie.  Normal infested take 80-100% normal damage but only 50% from armor penetrating; Vulkar wins.  But do you really want to use something this slow against infested?