YouTube - Killing Floor - 1015 Beta Patch 4 - Machete and LAW Combo on Suicidal
The LAW damage increase is pretty nice as you can now 1 shot scrakes on solo suicidal without using the demo perk. Still, the main drawback of the LAW is that it leaves no room for a suitable backup weapon unless you are a support specialist. While having rockets that can do ~2920 damage per shot is nice, unless you are playing on farm, west london, or wyre, space will be a concern as you will need to fight in close quarters at times or move some distance away to get a clear shot. For that reason, LAW users may want to consider using other perks such as:
- Support - Can carry the pump shotgun, which has good penetration, to defend himself at close range.
- Berserker - Level 6 weapon bonuses allow the machete to be a serviceable weapon. Melee movement bonus lets the zerker put distance between himself and the mob in order to get a clean shot. Damage resistance reduce the cost of any mishaps.
- Medic- Same reasoning with speed bonus and superior armor though the medic's speed boost is an overall boost and not restricted by melee weapons.
- Sharpshooter - 9mm is a beast in the hands of a shooter and more powerful than a commando perked AK on head shots with near instant reload. Note that the sharpshooter's head shot bonus doesn't apply to the LAW since DamTypeLAW.bCheckForHeadShots == false.
Of course, the tight space can also work to your advantage as the specimens will be bunched tightly together allowing you to kill a score of them with 1 rocket.
Without the demo damage bonus, the LAW can deal ~1825 damage and the blast radius, despite the decrease, is capable of wiping out 15 or so specimens in 1 shot. In the end, it comes down to whether or not you want to trade CQC capability for more powerful rockets, 1.6x more powerful that is.
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Numbers for the 9mm (35 base damage) with level 6 SS perk (+60% base damage, +50% head shot damage, +60% faster reloading):
- 35 * 1.6 = 56 damage/shot [SCAR base damage was 57, now bumped to 67]
- 35 * 1.6 * 1.5 * 1.1 = 92.4 damage/head shot
- 2.0 sec/reload * 0.4 = 0.8 sec/reload [SCAR base reload rate is 2.966]
Files:
- KFVetSharpshooter.uc
- SCARMK17AssaultRifle.uc
- SCARMK17Fire.uc
- Single.uc
- SingleFire
Just saying.....