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[–] expatriado@lemmy.world 25 points 1 month ago (12 children)

they made it so Spread was the best choice almost alway, i recall a boss for which Laser was best, using memories from 35 yeats ago tho

[–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago (2 children)

"Flamethrower" (the wavy path ball gun) is perfect for a couple parts of the game where you can lay down. You fire and ever shot hits, and you are never in the path of enemy bullets or mobs.

[–] Albbi@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Does it do this better than the spread? I'm trying to think of what part of the game this advice would work...

[–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 1 points 4 weeks ago

In very narrow cases, yes. If I remember, spread has a specific rate of fire which is fairly slow compared to flamethrower, so you can clear very specific targets faster with flamethower. Again, 99% of the time Spread is going to be better.

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