The upcoming patch for Hellraiser 2 will bring significant buffs to the RS-422 Railgun, and Arrowhead has increased the weapon’s damage values in an effort to bring the gaming community the fun they’ve been waiting for.
The studio is currently providing a brief description of patch 01.001.007, building on what was shared in last week’s blog post and preparing for the update’s release on September 17th.
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Following yesterday’s reveal of plans to buff the flamethrower, Arrowhead’s latest reveal concerns the railgun, a very popular weapon, especially early in the game’s life cycle, where it was used to knock down armored enemies, before receiving an unwelcome nerf.
So, what does this update do to it? In short, it increases its damage. Arrowhead writes that the gun’s “durable damage will increase from 60 to 225, and full overcharge damage will increase from 150% to 250%.”
“We’ve turned it on again,” developer Niklas Malmborg said in a brief video chat with Arrowhead chief business officer Johan Pilestedt about the changes to the Railgun that seem to be coming to standard across all of these posts, going on to point out that its persistent damage numbers have been nearly quadrupled, seemingly with the goal of making the gun more effective against “very large enemies” in safe mode.
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Furthermore, Malmborg confirmed that despite the increase in overcharge damage, the time required to recharge will remain the same as it currently is. So this looks to be good news for those eager to get their hands on the weapon that Pilestedt once described in a tweet as a “risk/reward weapon for high-level play” designed to “work like a sniper rifle on cocaine, but at the risk of killing the user.” Hopefully, this buff will make its performance absolutely poetic.
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