Fat Scout

by Mic. on 01/07/2023

Salutes 4

"Warthog" Auto 210

"Warthog" Auto 210 icon
+1 Rate of Fire
+2 Magazine Size
+42 Max Ammo
+2 Pellets per Shot
x0.5 Base Spread
x0.4 Recoil
-0.5 Reload Time
+2 Magazine Size
+400% Armor Breaking
+1 Damage per Pellet
Shoot a Turret with the Shotgun to consume 5 turret ammo and fire a projectile in the direction currently being aimed at by the turret, with a 3 second cooldown between projectiles. Each projectile travels at 75 m/sec, does 160 Explosive element Area Damage in a 2m radius, has a 100% chance to stun for 1.5 seconds, inflicts 1.0 Fear, does 50% Friendly Fire damage, and has 200% Armor Breaking.
Changes the Shotgun from semi-automatic to fully automatic, +0.5 Rate of Fire
Cycle Overload

Deepcore 40MM PGL

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+1m AoE Radius
+2 Max Ammo
+20 Area Damage
+2 Max Ammo
+20 Area Damage
Lose 50% of Direct, Area, and Armor Damage, and convert it to Heat that will ignite enemies
+500% Armor Breaking
+180% Projectile Velocity
Anywhere from x0.8 - x1.4 damage per shot, averaged to x1.1
+1m AoE Radius
Stuns creatures within the blast radius for 3 seconds
After 0.2 seconds of arming time, any grenade that passes within 2m of an enemy will detonate after a 0.1 second delay. After being armed, grenades will emit a green light. Grenades no longer explode upon impacting terrain, but instead automatically self-detonate 3.3 seconds after being fired or when they stop moving. Additionally, x1.1 AoE Radius.
+60 Direct Damage to any target directly impacted by a grenade.
Changes the PGL to add the player's current velocity to the grenades being fired, instead of using a flat velocity for every grenade.
RJ250 Compound

Platform Gun

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LMG Gun Platform

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Engineering Suit

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S.S.G
S.S.G icon

Loadout Guide

Maybe not as mobile as the scout, but damn do you pack a punch.

TL;DR

RJ250 Compound gives you so much ammo that you can just blast jump to your heart's content and clear waves of grunts at the same time. Use it to move around the cave and lock down important vantage points for your team. Move your turret around so that it's always shooting something important.

"Warthog" Auto 210

Your bread and butter for dealing with larger targets. Try to get as close as possible since Cycle Overload's increased spread can be a bit tricky to work around. Luckily, the highly mobile playstyle of this loadout lets you position yourself around enemies super easily.

  • T1: Overstuffed Magazine. Slightly higher DPS than taking fire rate if you're using Cycle Overload. It also makes the gun a bit more flexible.
  • T2: Loaded Shells. Honestly, this tier ends up really just coming down to personal preference. I find the increased pellet count to really help with tanky targets. I'll sometimes swap to Expanded Ammo Bags for EDDs. Choke is also a great option if you don't like weapons with high spread.
  • T3: Recoil Dampener. The kickback from trying to unload your entire clip into enemies as fast as possible makes the gun super inaccurate. Reducing the recoil really helps with making the gun a lot more accurate overall.
  • T4: Bigger Pellets. Armour break is just really not worth it in this tier, more damage will always be better.
  • T5: Turret Whip. This mod is criminally underused, being able to blast out a 160 damage projectile consistently is super powerful. Not only is it great against swarms, but really helps blast down Praetorians that you can't get an angle on. Also just really fun
  • Overclock: Cycle Overload. Free damage. Really puts this gun's burst damage to a new level. The reload penalty is really negligible since it's super easy to animation-cancel (Just tap your pickaxe as soon as you load the magazine into the gun). The spread is very easily managed since we are playing super mobile with this loadout anyways. If you're struggling to deal with the spread then feel free to take Choke in T2.

Deepcore 40MM PGL

The thing that really makes this loadout work. Fantastic at clearing swarms with a lot of ammo as well. Oh yeah, and with our Overclock you can now rocket jump which is kinda cool I guess.

  • T1: Extra Ammo. We'll be using this gun both as a mobility tool and as an actual weapon, so we want all the ammo we can get. RJ250 Compound also changes the +2 Ammo to +3 Ammo. So taking ammo in T1 and T2 gives you the max possible ammo on the PGL.
  • T2: Extra Ammo. See above.
  • T3: Incendiary Compound. This is what makes this loadout so effective. The fire damage, coupled with the fact that fire damage has no area falloff, means that all grunts caught in the AOE will be set on fire. This is means that they'll pretty much always die within a few seconds after being hit. This makes the gun a super effect swarm-clear tool. This mod also makes you take less damage from your blast jumps.
  • T4: Nails + Tape. Increased AOE means more enemies will be hit with the blast and subsequently be set on fire. Concussive Blast is also not a bad option if you're struggling with managing swarms getting in your face.
  • T5: Spiky Grenade. Allows you to set key targets on fire a bit easier (Spitballers, Brood Nexus, etc.). More damage is always good.
  • Overclock: RJ250 Compound. Easily the best non-unstable OC for the PGL. As explained in T3, Incendiary Compound allows us to still kill all grunts in the blast radius even with the damage penalty of the overclock. So any extra damage is just overkill, making this OC super efficient. Not to mention the mobility provided by RJ250 is incredibly useful. Allows you to get into high places and escape tricky situations.

LMG Gun Platform

You can use any turret setup you want, but I've found the most success by running MKII with Quick Deploy. It allows you to jump around the map and set up your turret super fast. This allows you to hold down a location, jump away, redeploy your turret, rinse & repeat. Unless you're defending the objective, you don't ever have to reload your turret. T4 and T5 are pretty obvious choices. Armour break gives you more damage against pretty much all common enemies and makes your turret waste fewer shots on tanky targets. Defender System is too good to pass up.

Grenade

Personal choice really, I like S.S.G. since they fit the mobile playstyle of this build better than any other grenade.

Screaming eagles!