Small blasters are so bad, using them helps the enemy team win.

Maybe (probably) I just need to git gud, but are the small turrets actually inferior to light weapons? The missile turret seems alright, but with the blaster I need to dump an entire mag for one kill at 10-20 metres and the railgun... I dunno it does good damage against infantry but doesn't seem to work. Maybe I just suck at aiming with it.
But whatever the case I'd much rather tape my trusty scramber rifle to the vehicle than use any official turret. Shouldn't mounted weapons be stronger than handheld weapons? There is a reason soldiers carry assault rifles and mount .50 cal machine guns and not the other way around. Am I using them wrong or are they actually just mounted light weapons?

Come learn a bit about them. Fury 514. Add the chat, ill fill you in.

The reason you are having trouble is most tankers dont consider the small turrets when building their tanks. They are just swapped around to meet pg cpu requirements. Not so, here. I have tanks specifically designed to optimize gunners.

I have squads that focus on vehicle combat. Its really alot of fun for cheap.

Interesting note, blasters actually have 150M range I think (smalls). Yet due to inverted dispersion, are only actually effective at what is essentially point blank range.

What they need to do is convert the small blaster into an assault HMG, minus the vehicle effectiveness.

Interesting note, blasters actually have 150M range I think (smalls). Yet due to inverted dispersion, are only actually effective at what is essentially point blank range.

What they need to do is convert the small blaster into an assault HMG, minus the vehicle effectiveness.

Theoretically they are good, based on stats, but in game I find them to be pretty terrible.

It's almost impossible to hit anything with a small rail turret. And it's almost impossible to apply any significant damage to infantry with a small blaster turret.

I too feel they should be lot better than hand held weapons. By better I don't mean have better stats, I mean in game it should be considerably easier to kill someone with a small blaster turret, than with an AR.

if you've tried using a small blaster against an LAV or DS you can clearly see that they are indeed working

now one can say that they are primarily meant for AI purposes but when they are that strong to AV they cant be justified to do the same to infantry

small blasters are best used against heavies which have big hit boxes and don't move fast enough to avoid direct fire from a small blaster

the main reason the small blaster lacks AI capability is indeed the inverted dispersion but if you take laser rifle etiquette into mind and pre fire to get accurate before slaughtering your foe you will see a big difference

other things to consider are the dispersion mods that were added a while back that no one seems to pay any attention to

as for rails and missiles, rails have great aim and do lots of damage this justifies the semi skill based play style against infantry

while the missiles have splash but also have some slight dispersion making it hard to be used at range against infantry justifying the splash damge and range while maintaining decent AV capabilities

if you specialize in vehicles or more specifically small turrets you should know that they in fact work perfectly well and are some of the best and balanced weapons and would also make for great heavy weapons especially as AV such as how the breach HMG works and they could be tweaked to have their own primary AI versions

I'm looking to fix small turrets next chance I get.

I'm looking to fix small turrets next chance I get.

And gunner performance in general.

The pilot/gunner relationship is one of the best things about Dust, and is easily the feature I enjoy most.

If bugs like these were fixed, I would literally scream with joy.