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Are you seriously saying that pre-patch you were frequently using the Beaton to group kill things with it's small AoE? Giving it AoE at this point makes the gun too powerful.

Not sure why people are complaining about the AOE. It had a terrible radius. I for one like the increased firing speed/clip size. I never killed anything with the AOE from this gun.

The blast radius is just too small. Not worth using the gun just for that. A much more useful gun now.

Except from it's a worse version of the holo rifle .

With all hits and normal ammo, The Tesla Beaton beats the Holorifle+++ in kill rate, I tested them both in the Quarry

I have no Idea why the wiki doesn't display the 25 for 2 seconds on hit........... they should have it on their page

Something that is very helpful to me when reading feedback is knowing when someone has actually tried a new weapon out with a character built to use it or if they are looking at stats and hypothesizing. For reasons that are hopefully obvious, the former is much more valuable than the latter.


Weapons should be designed to be good at a role, and the pre-patch TC and TBP didn't cut it. The AoE was relatively small and the marginal damage it inflicted to those it did hit wasn't a compelling reason to use it, regardless of its per-shot ammo consumption. The EW category already had a scoped, ultra-high DAM, single-shot weapon in the Gauss Rifle. In the Tier 5 category, EWs already had the Heavy Incinerator for small AoE and indirect fire, the Gatling Laser for high volume/DPS, and the Plasma Caster for moderate DAM/DPS with good mid-range accuracy. Out-Gaussing the Gauss Rifle seemed pointless, so the TC/TBP were converted to small magazine, relatively low RoF weapons with high accuracy, high base DAM, and a pretty beefy short DoT.

Yes, it's not the same weapon it was pre-patch, but pre-patch, it felt like an odd man out.

Something that is very helpful to me when reading feedback is knowing when someone has actually tried a new weapon out with a character built to use it or if they are looking at stats and hypothesizing. For reasons that are hopefully obvious, the former is much more valuable than the latter.


Weapons should be designed to be good at a role, and the pre-patch TC and TBP didn't cut it. The AoE was relatively small and the marginal damage it inflicted to those it did hit wasn't a compelling reason to use it, regardless of its per-shot ammo consumption. The EW category already had a scoped, ultra-high DAM, single-shot weapon in the Gauss Rifle. In the Tier 5 category, EWs already had the Heavy Incinerator for small AoE and indirect fire, the Gatling Laser for high volume/DPS, and the Plasma Caster for moderate DAM/DPS with good mid-range accuracy. Out-Gaussing the Gauss Rifle seemed pointless, so the TC/TBP were converted to small magazine, relatively low RoF weapons with high accuracy, high base DAM, and a pretty beefy short DoT.

Yes, it's not the same weapon it was pre-patch, but pre-patch, it felt like an odd man out.

sawyer is right to be truthful because an energy weapon pair with meltdown perk would be very over powered also fallout is easy enough so why give one of the best weapons in the game a AoE