Talk:RIA 20 Striker/@comment-3224196-20141212155526/@comment-16137132-20141214065901

This is a hell of a long post, so i don't blame you if you don't read it, but please do.

I'm not that big a Striker fanboy as others, and i do accept the fact that the Sublight, Hornet CM 800 or some other guns are superior to the Striker, but it doesn't stop it from being awesome.

Responding to your reasons:

1) Don't tell me the Striker's the most expensive thing you ever maintained? RED Hornets use much more money for augments and definitely for ammo price. Besides, if you have lvl 10 capacity and around lvl 6 field supplies then you have an unlimited supply of premium ammo (I nearly have 70,000 premium ammo without having to buy any of it).

2) At your level you probably do face a lot of savage wickers, which granted, any thermal weapon would suck against it. But then again, physical weapons suck against more bosses, and adaptive at lvl 10 actually does do well against fiery skin zombies. Even regen fiery bloaters are a breeze for me.

3) Erm...Okay, what can i say?

4) You can't put Overclocked but overclocked isn't everything. Like, would you put overclocked on a HVM MPG or something? Not really, cuz you don't need it. Same here, Capacity, Deadly, Tenacious, Adaptive are better than overclocked.

5) Actually with Deadly and Adaptive it fares much better than my raptor. The damage is already great, and with deadly it approaches a non-augmented COM2. Besides, quite a few other chemical weapons need Overclocked with tenacious, and so far i feel like DoT is the most effective against bosses, so there.

6) It might be overrated by die-hard fanboys but frankly i think it does deserve quite a bit of praise. it's not that rare, it's easy to use, and it deals massive damage. What's not to like? (btw is this really a reason?)

7) Erm...okay, what can i say? Maybe i don't find it so problematic, with a trigger finger around 8-9 rps...?

8) Well first, you don't fight against other players like that. Second, It's much more common than the weapons you mentioned. With a lvl 61 assault and a lvl 37 medic, i've found 2 10*** RED Striker with 1 pre-aug only, but I've only found 1 sublight COM2, 1 HIKS and 1 Hornet before. Bad luck, maybe?

9) Well, the Striker's fairly multipurpose. It does great single target damage, it's good against most bosses, and it takes little time to decimate crowds. it's a sort of general weapon where it's not especially good at anything but averagely good at everything.

10) On this i have to agree. 10rps is challenging my finger. 12.5 rps or something and play more than 5 games will make my finger fall off

Hope you do realize the potential of this gun. Other than that, keep giving us reason! I love a healthy argument :)

Sorry for being long