Helldivers 2

That’s the neat part! You don’t!

It’s a gun I want to like, being able to be a sort of flex weapon. But as a helldivers YouTuber put it “the epoch does two jobs, and frankly it’s about to fired from both”

It’s got a bit of an identity crisis, and yes you can make flex weapons work, but the epoch is high risk, little reward, if I want anti tank why not bring a recoiless or quasar , if I want CC why not the grenade launcher

Both do a better job and I won’t explode violently if I don’t edge the gun just right

Its damage is ok but the downsides don’t justify it. but the AOE is horrendous. And I could forgive some of this if it could close bug holes

Basically a weapon I in theory like, theoretically doing both anti tank and chaff blasting but horrible at both

Its high risk for little reward

There is some skill for the weapon as it will hum when close but yeah the weapons not great

It needs a bigger boom. It's not you.

I am also unsure what its use case is. I can usually get it to p 80-90% power, but it still takes several shots to kill large things. The plasma cannon fills the "charged anti-tank" role better.

It's decent at crowd control, but isn't as consistent or easy to use as a grenade launcher.

It seems like a weapon that tries to fill multiple roles but isn't great at any of them. I still use it occasionally, but I rarely think "I'm glad I brought this."

I want to like it but I can't. The charging has a very tiny sweet spot which is easier to detect via audio.

But audio for weapons is very unstable right now, making it very difficult to find.

Also, as others have said it's very much a jack of all trades, but not as good. It's almost like the AC, but without a backpack, for less power, less range, less consistency etc...

It can do more AT stuff than the autocannon buy given all the other downsides it's a weapon that's basically asking too much for a "meh" payoff. If it had a larger blast or more damage (maybe different firing modes) plus a more forgiving hot spot it would be a pretty fun option I feel.

I'm pretty sure you need to play an entirely different game to drive the Epoch. It's in Chrono Trigger. /s

I wanted to use the Epoch as a bigger version of the railgun. It fails on every level.

Thankfully, the Harpoon does nearly everything I wanted.