Bullet damage from the shooters is weak - it was this way in the closed-beta, and they didn’t improve anything for them.
ive noticed the same thing with mike, mostly been playing as melee cuz of this reason
Hmm, the only shooters I’ve actually tried are Oscar Mike and Whiskey Foxtrot (haven’t tried Montana yet), are there any others?
Oscar Mike doesn’t really have any problems, but Whiskey Foxtrot is basically useless. Tried him once or twice, personally hated the burst rifle since it wasn’t an auto-burst (which hurts my already weak hand joints lol), but haven’t seen anyone else play good with him either. The only thing WF can do is push you back with his scatter gun…
Montana I feel is an extremely strong character, I think he slows you in his ice mode too? (Slow is my bane, my kryptonite… god dang) And he can stop a lot of ults and attacks with that stomp of his! Not sure about his damage but he seems to rack up a lot of kills in good hands.
Foxtrot is horrible. He’s intended to be a minion devourer thanks to his kill boost trait (+25% damage per kill, 10 sec duration) - but I guess they were worried about a runaway reaction, so they put his base damage so low that he has to stack three just to be competitive with Oscar.
Sticky Bomb is actually decent, but Scrap is so horrible that the 2nd mutate just lets you shoot off three in a row if you want. I mean, why not - it’s inaccurate and low-damaging. Who cares?
The ultimate is situationally good, but honestly running off his base damage I couldn’t care less.
As for other shooters, Montana is excellent if in deadly need of support, and Calderius is incredible and doesn’t need to be touched (besides maybe a slight buff to energy blades, I can never find a good reason to use them).
Shooters shouldn’t do as much damage as melee characters, they have far better range, and crits are much easier to target. In meltdown I think melee characters are stronger than in incursion, but in neither mode do I struggle with shooters. If anything it’s easy to sit back by defenses and turtle, then laugh as you poke enemies to death.