Boost confidence to my whole squad by letting them know they can focus most of their effort and ammo on small/medium Zeds.It can take down a Scrake/QP squad solo as fast as it can reload in about 6 seconds iirc.For FP you can either stack 3 REU for a OSK or just shot once and then shot again while they're raging to take them down. It can 1 shot SC/QP hassle free and reliably so don't have to care stacking REU, don't really have to care spacing.Haven't play KF2 for about 5 years now (stopp at late 2017), but I opted for M99 because: Railgun just straight up better you just add a step to your scrake takedown over M99. And yeah I understand that's not your job in a 6 man match but obviously everyone contributes to trash killing in some capacity. Magnums are great for mid-tiers but the 5 round capacity is obviously annoying for trash.

It's almost as easy as just bopping him with a M99, just takes slightly longer.įor FP you just have to bop him twice with the railgun, which two hits per FP doesn't sound that bad to me, especially considering the railgun has way more ammo and FP movements are much more predictable than scrakes.īut yeah, main benefit of railgun over M99 is you get an off weapon that isn't complete ass for dealing with trash. Get a 1894 and railgun, upgrade both (I realize T5 railgun is 3k but the 1894 is literally free then the upgrade is 500 so it's a stupid cheap build).įor scrakes (6mHoE ofc), bop him one time with the 1894 regardless of standing still/crouching, he'll enrage then you just have to get a stationary/crouching shot off with the railgun (not guided obviously). get Sniper, Stabilization, reload speed, and ammo. With M99 it doesn't make much sense to rely on Dead Eye, so Always Prepared is almost always taken if played optimally.Ĭan't remember the sides. It just doesn't matter as one isn't in position to waste it all, unless he shoots without any regard.įor that reason faster reload/DPM isn't needed (unless for a boss wave, where a rail is always better than M99), as you just either 1-shot a scrake (so the reload time doesn't matter as much as it's mostly needed to land shots in succession, but if you killed your target there's no need for that), or shoot an FP and finish it with 2 magnum shots. If one lands at least 70% of M99 headshots, which isn't too hard considering that one just doesn't have enough big zeds in vanilla HoE. Yes, it's the only case where M99 shines, 1-shotting scrakes, no strings attached.Īs I already mentioned, ammo capacity doesn't matter much for vanilla HoE, as there's not enough big zeds to waste all 26 M99 rounds, 33/40 (depending on Always Prepared) railgun ammo capacity is an overkill.

Killing floor 2 scrake description