And by that I mean... What is your golden goose? Your cashcow, your bloody meal ticket? What is your go-to loadout that you would 100% confidence in to come out on top in a 12-missions Precursor run? Or something you would, you know, bring to multiplayer with *nudge* *nudge* *wink* *wink* ;) I just want to have an idea on your most effective loadouts, so we can learn from each other, discover new things about the game, and spice things up a little. I'll start with mine.


I call this bad boy the "War Criminal's Special". One day I figured that I should put all three of the most diabolical weapons on a the fastest configurable rig, throw a Spacer (good ol' Allard) in it, and gave it a fly. And ever since, nothing was the same ever again.

The Arlo:

In my opinion, the first and last agrav you will ever need. Other agravs are either too filmsy and get one-shot by Medium-Heavy weapons, or too slow, or fast enough but come with bad maneuverability, backpedal speed and turn speed (looking at you, Tomahawk). The Arlo, on the other hand, is Spacer's tech perfected. Ruthlessly agile and fast, with near-perfect lateral speed, and with decent shield and armor to absorb the occasional mistake...this girl can out-maneuver and out-match literally anything, anywhere. And the fact that it offers the combination of my choice weapons; it was a match made in heaven.

Chuffer:

The laughing gas. Toss a few canisters down the street and watch the enemies gather to die painfully. Perfect for creating choke(get it?)point and death corridor. This thing strips armor like no tomorrow; 6 cans (three shots) are enough to kill a full-shield Spacer mobile citadel; 2 cans (1 shot) for any strategic targets (buildings, ammo depots, comm tower...) to go down.

Most things would die in 1-2 shots... and you have EIGHTY of them!! The gas lingers around for 5-6 seconds, and it basically poison the enemy and kills them at an amazing rate... Any thing small passing through that is guaranteed a death sentence within 5 seconds of exposure. Big things would lose their shielding and is wide open for follow up attacks.

It also has good range with flexible trajectory. You can curve it over fences, do long range hail-marys and still get lingering kills, shoot through without destroying the tree so it keeps you hidden. With time and practice, you can anticipate the enemies and pull off kills at high speed with the Arlo, do up-close strafing runs, split-shots, etc... All kind of crazy stuff.

Black Hand:

Excellent stealth/agro weapon with decent range, and compliment the Chuffer and AKP very well. The Arlo isn't exactly a tank. Using the Black Hand while hugging walls and tree-lines can keep you out of harm's way when you are low on shield and ammo. It also drains shield (albeit very slowly), so you can feel safe stripping shield behind cover. Sometimes it can destroy half a district before the enemy realizes what hit them.

But the most devastating use for the Black Hand, as aformentioned, is to compliment the AKP. People tend to overlook how powerful the Black Hand is on armor. A lot of time, when not-alerted you can weaken (or even out right kill) a large group of enemies or even bosses behind a wall. If that didn't kill them, they will almost always clumps up together into the corner where you were at... This is when you unleash the AKP on the poor ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥s.

And you can do one-two punches with the Chuffer and Black Hand, with Chuffer stripping shields from afar, and Black Hand comes in with the kill. Or you can gas them out first, and anything that come through that smoke, hit them with the Black Hand from behind cover.

Also very fun to use it on civilians. Just listen to them poppings like pork rinds! Oink oink!! :D

AKP:

First and foremost, this is your "Oh♥♥♥♥♥♥ button. As mentioned before, the Arlo isn't exactly a tank. So whenever the suicide units get too close and your weapons is still between cooldowns, you can hit them with an AKP.

You can use the AKP by itself in bombing/strafing runs, and quickly run away. But my favorite use with the AKP is to go upclose and personal along side the Chuffer. Throw a bunch of laughing gas canisters into a group of enemies... then charge straight into the carnage and pop a follow-up AKP. With luck (and usually skills), you would absorb enough shielding to negate the gas's effect and any incoming fire.

That's my share. Thanks for reading! Now, what is your bread and butter?