Sharpshooter´s Armor Buster, effective against drones? | Forums

[FNDMNTAL]

"Sharpshooter’s Armor Buster is a high-powered three-round burst that tears through almost anything" - IGN pvp article

So here´s a video showing how machine gun drone destruction took 4 sniper shots (three armor buster and one reqular*).
the point of the video is to show that every round makes same amount damage.

*another scenario may be that PVE armor buster more than three-rounds, although the animation shows how three are loaded into the magazine and and the ability gauge runs out after three shots.

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[tRIncar91]

I always kinda felt like the 'Armour Buster' rounds ability was just a way of making the Sharpshooter class more useful than the general Long-distance People Management you see in every game. Really that kind of thing should be done through different types of ammunition available to all.

Regardless, I didn't explore that part of the Beta, I groaned at the classes and begrudgingly picked Panther because that suited what I would be doing more. I only accidentally used the class special skill once and found it only really effective at being the only time my frame rate dropped.

Going ahead with accepting this all exists though, I'd imagine 'Armour Buster' being the name should imply their effective use against drones and other armoured targets.
It does appear in the video that there are 4 rounds though after loading 3, which is odd, and that they all did near enough the same amount of damage.
On the one hand it could have been a bug, on the other it could have been the type of rifle being used (which on my phone's tiny screen I couldn't quite make out - HTI?), But then with special rounds, that damage should have gone further up.

Any Sharpshooters around for comment?

[trakkaman]

Is distance a factor? third shot did the most damage as seen by that enemy health gauge, sharpshooter was the most popular class in the closed beta @32%, be handy for that big drone, more than 61 000 behemoth destroyed in the closed beta, no stats for pocket rockets fired haha!

[TheReaverSpecOp]

If i'm not sadly mistaken thats the the only WOLF lvl 150 camp in the beta, remember that you could max be lvl 40 even though you could get lvl 42 weapons and armor.
So taken the lvl stuff ingame to account then for me its pretty normal.

Oh and the silencer will probably also decrease damage, since the panther class stated that its SMG/HDG suppressors dont have penalty.

[FNDMNTAL]

Going ahead with accepting this all exists though, I'd imagine 'Armour Buster' being the name should imply their effective use against drones and other armoured targets.
It does appear in the video that there are 4 rounds though after loading 3, which is odd, and that they all did near enough the same amount of damage.
On the one hand it could have been a bug, on the other it could have been the type of rifle being used (which on my phone's tiny screen I couldn't quite make out - HTI?), But then with special rounds, that damage should have gone further up.

same here, I assumed they would have had more effect. It may be that AP rounds are more effective on land vehicles and helicopters than on drones. May be the equivalent of Wildlands vehicle destruction ability. The weapon i used was the tac50.

Is distance a factor? third shot did the most damage as seen by that enemy health gauge

it´s hard to say from video how much damage / round actually makes so i made photo where I combined all three shots.
gray ones are "armor buster" rounds and white what remains after three shots. it is still unclear how much damage the reqular round will do because it was shot last.

Oh and the silencer will probably also decrease damage, since the panther class stated that its SMG/HDG suppressors dont have penalty.

i only tried armor buster with silencer so i can't tell if it has an effect or not.
however, you can be right. silencer seems to be a kind of choke. weakens the damage effect of everything that goes through it.

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[GAP_Computer]

Is distance a factor?!

don't think so, i shot the same turret at 407m without the Armour Buster and only need 3 shots, maybe the weapon make the difference, i was using the HTI

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[Auron1_TLM]

Distance should really be a factor. Otherwise the "range" value would be useless.