nOx’s Swiss Army Engineer

by Anonymous on 2022-12-18

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LOK-1 Smart Rifle

LOK-1 Smart Rifle icon
+6 Direct Damage
+72 Max Ammo
x0.2 Acquire Lock Threshold, x2 Lock-On Range
+1.3° Acquire Lock Threshold, x1.5 Lose Lock Threshold
+10m Lock-On Range
+20% Damage to Electrified Targets and +20% Damage to Burning Targets
Lock-On now prioritizes low health enemies, and will only place as many Locks on an enemy as are required to kill it.
+3 Penetrations
x0.85 Lock-On Time
+6 Max Number of Lock-Ons
Targets with 3 or more Locks are Electrocuted by the first Locked-On bullet that damages them. The Electrocute DoT does 12 Electric-element Damage per Second, slows enemies by 80%, and lasts for 3 seconds.
Full Lock adds 20% more Direct Damage to all shots fired during the burst.
Every time you release a Lock-On burst, the last bullet fired emits an aura of Fear to all enemies near you. For every bullet fired during the Lock-On burst, add 0.15 Fear to the aura (ranges from 30% Base Fear Chance at 1 Lock to 375% Base Fear Chance at 24 Locks). The aura's radius starts at 2.4m and each bullet fired during the Lock-On burst increases it by +0.15m (ranges from 2.55m at 1 Lock to 6m at 24 Locks).
Neuro-Lasso

Breach Cutter

Breach Cutter icon
+1.5 Projectile Lifetime
+3 Magazine Size
+6 Max Ammo
+175 Beam DPS
+3m Plasma Beam Width
-0.2 Plasma Expansion Delay
-0.6 Reload Time
+200% Armor Breaking
+100% Stun Chance, 3 sec Stun duration
After firing a line and a 0.4 second delay, the player can press the fire button again to manually detonate the line dealing 40 Explosive element Area Damage in a 3.5m radius and leaving behind a 3.25m radius sphere of Persistent Plasma that does an average of 35.56 Fire Damage per second and slows enemies by 20% for 4.6 seconds. If the player doesn't detonate it manually, the line explodes at the end of its lifetime.
Leaves behind a Persistent Plasma field that does an average of 20 Fire Damage per second for 4.6 seconds. The Plasma field's width is 2/3 of the beam's width, and extends along the entire length of the beam's path.
Adds a line above and below the primary projectile (multiple lines hitting doesn't increase DPS)
Inferno

LMG Gun Platform

LMG Gun Platform icon

Loadout Guide

Neuro-Lasso is secretly good.

There. I said it. While on paper it may seem terrible, it's actually quite powerful. Let me explain.

Lok-1 Build

I run 1231x with this build. It's built as a Swiss-army Lok-1 that doesn't use the two on-meta OC's (you can probably guess what they are). The idea behind this is using the gun to lock on to bugs at the front of the swarm. Hold the locks for a while, so that the swarm begins to pile up on the bugs slowed by Neuro-Lasso, then let it rip. By taking advantage of super blowthrough (Tier 3), you get tremendous value out of every bullet. Tiers 1 & 2 are mostly up to personal preference, but I like damage and lock threshold, so I get a bigger scan and can hold locks longer. Tier 3c because of reasons aforementioned, and Tier 4a to help negate the huge lock-on time of neuro lasso. Tier 5 is up to personal preference.

Secondary

I like Inferno Breach-Cutter for my secondary, since it's another underrated OC that's rather strong, excelling at swarm clear while also doing good single-target damage. Neuro lasso is honestly very good with every engineer secondary, since each one's tremendous AoE is really strong at swarm clear. This build also excels at elimination, since Neuro-Lasso is able to slow the dreadnought to a crawl, allowing teammates to mag dump into its glowing butt. I tend to switch breach cutter out for Overdrive Booster SD 21221 on these types of missions, because it has crazy burst potential.

Final Words

I find this build to be able to handle almost anything I can throw at it, and it's recently become my go-to build for everything except industrial sabotage. While it may not be as powerful as something like ECR or Executioner, it's plenty strong and a lot of fun to use. So, if you're looking for a new Lok-1 build. I highly recommend you try this out. That's all from me.

R&S Miners, nOx