[2020] Weird Mod Options

Waiting for my ribs to cook...

I was doing some tests and goofing with strange builds and some turned out to be quite good.

There are a number of ricochet mods and overclocks. They can trigger off of hitting a weak spot or the ground. Leadstorm, Subata, Bulldog have one. You don't see it happening, but if you hit the ground or weakpoint you have a 50% chance to hit a nearby enemy. If nothing else, it's a way to maximize ammo and get more DPS. But those bounced shots also have whatever characteristics they had before. So a bulldog and subata can poison.

Further, a bunch of weapons have blowthrough. That means they can shoot through a target and potentially hit more. BUT, if you blowthrough, they also have whatever mods/overclocks they originally had. So you can blowthrough a mob with a Bulldog, poison it, hit the ground, chain hit, hit another mob, poison it. I haven't been able to figure out how long it can go on. But I was bulldog poisoning huge groups with a revolver. Using Bullet Hell ricochet overclock on Leadstorm with blowthrough did a lot of dmg to smaller mobs. Or you could use the additional stun duration and just aim at the floor and keep everything stunned.

You can blowthrough with the BRT7 Burt, and lay electro minelets (overclock) in the ground under the mob you just shot. Same with using blowthrough on the Zhukov with CryoMinelets or Imbedded Detonators.

You can take the M1000, blowthrough, Stun. And your focus shots can stun up to 3 mobs in a row.

The Neurotoxin Overclock on Thunderhead can be combined with the AE radius mods. You'll do like 3 dmg base with your AE, but you'll poison everything in 4m for over 100 dmg.

Shotgun effects work on each pellet. So Boomstick can get superblowthrough rounds and Stun Duration and you can lockdown a group of mobs. Warthog can use Stunner overclock and do similar.

I think a lot of these chain effects aren't really balanced or tested well. As such, you can do some pretty crazy things with them. I'll often go into a mission and tell the team, "I'm testing some pretty stupid configurations, sorry." And I'll end up getting 2.5x the kills of anyone else. Of course, sometimes I'll try some combination and realize it totally sucks.

The +Dmg +Ammo +basic stuff all works pretty good. But finding some weird combination is also a lot of fun.