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[tvih]

Hornet is easily the best, it's not even a contest.

[BoomDynamite]

Hornet, GPSMG, Hurricane (It's a mini-minigun)

[UKStory135]

Dr-Rai1 wrote...

I wasn't even kidding. All of the SMG's in this game are crap.

[DSxCallOfBooty-]

Hurricane is worthless, drop it.

The Tempest is a little easier to control, and it kills quicker. Hornet kills extremely quick, but it very hard to keep under control. Worth using for certain builds, although it's very heavy too. I imagine it will be more worthwhile when the Ultralight Materials are fixed.

Speaking of Ultralight Materials, they actually work on the Geth Plasma SMG, which is reason enough to say that is the best SMG. It takes a little bit to start up, but works fine (I prefer it to some of the rifles). The Shuriken is terrible, don't both with that weapon.

So, as of right now, GSMG (GPSMG?), Tempest, Hornet (Hornet could be #1, build dependent), Hurricane, Locust, Shuriken.

[goldenbender]

I prefer the Tempest or the Locust with the clip size mods. The only time I ever use a SMG is for my Concussive Shot spamming Turian and Human Soldier builds. The SMG only acts as ammo power delivery, so I like something fully automatic without much muzzle climb.

[Adam2190]

Hornet with extra clip so it holds 48 rounds instead of 24.

[sg1fan75]

none

[sociopartolman]

Hornet X on the Batarian Solider is insanely good. With proper ammo mods it takes enemies down so fast the kill feed makes me feel bad for using it.

[scottster117]

If we're talking Bronze and Silver...Geth, Hornet, or Hurricane with a T. Soldier. If we're talking gold...lol smgs.

[Horacio Zhao]

definitly hornet

[golyoscsapagy]

UKStory135 wrote...

Dr-Rai1 wrote...

I wasn't even kidding. All of the SMG's in this game are crap.

The geth one actually is free with ultralight materials.

But as long as it's faster to reload than to swap weapons not much point in secondary weapons at all.

[T1l]

Geth SMG is godly for applying debuffs with ammo powers for tech explosions on an engineer.

It's the only weapon to roll with.

Hornet is a gigantic POS which relies extreemely heavily on recoil dampening effects (mods/being a Turian). It's a dust collector, at best.

[nicola_nibhroin]

bucyrus5000 wrote...


I have one character i use an SMG on, my Quarian Engineer. I like the GethSMG, but it's RoF thing means I can't get max RoF when I'm spamming Incinerate. I want a gun I can sit on the trigger with and spam incinerate. I might just switch back to my level 10 Locast.

Is it RPing reasons that you want to use an SMG or you just want a high RoF gun? If the latter I use an Avenger X with my QE- recharge of 200% so I can spam my powers, but pretty much no kickback so if I need to shoot something to cover my backside I can with no problem.

I tried the Locust, Tempest and GSMGs (felt slightly more authentic RPing wise to have my squishy QE run around with an SMG rather than an AR, plus I use an Ar on pretty much everything at the moment) but am just not a good enough shot to compensate for the recoil. Got the Hornet today so maybe I'll give it another go and try shooting from the hip, as people have mentioned.

[Morocius]

I've actually enjoyed using the hornet as a break from the carnifex, despite it being a long range sub machine gun it's fairly hard to control it on longer ranges. But it can do fairly good on short to medium range if you can get used to the recoil atleast.

The thing is more that the carnifex is light (x is anyway) does great damage at any range and has virtually no recoil, i'm really not sure why they bothered making other side arms.

[Sigh656]

None. Use a pistol and aim in the head

[Mr_Steph]

Tempest easily.

[dday3six]

Hornet, with Extended Barrel and Heat Sink. It's got the best damage, and with burst fire it's the best for transitioning from targets without missed rounds in between. The best usage for it is a Turian Soldier spec'd for Weapon Damage + Stability and Marksmen spam, along with equiping Armor Piercing, Inferno, Warp or Disruptor Rounds III and of course SMG Rail Amp III. Any of the SMG's are usable because they are light and good at inflicting Ammo effects. They are however weapons that literally need weapon damage bonuses, ammo effects, and amp rails to be good.

[IonSilverbolt]

I think the Tempest is the best SMG currently. The recoil is very manageable if fired from cover, and with a scope, it has pretty good accuracy and range.

+ Large amount of ammo.
+ Reasonable recoil compared to other SMG's.
+ Very good damage with a scope and barrel. Has plenty of ammo on its own, and SMG's reload fast enough anyway.

The Hornet I might consider better if I can get some of the weight off of it. It's only at 3 whereas my Tempest is 10.

[UKStory135]

In single player, my infiltrator uses the tempest with cryo ammo to freeze the enemy and cause a tech burst. But the engineers are too squishy in MP, and I don't want to carry any extra weapons with my MP Infiltrator. I do think an Asari Justicar with either the tempest or geth water pistol and warp ammo could use her pull and bubble to set off biotic explosions.

[OniGanon]

Hornet X - Barrel + Heatsink. Light as an Avenger, and just about the highest DPS weapon in the game. Great vs shields. Give it to a class with either Warp (TSnt, AA), or Cryo (QE, HI) and it works fine against Armor too.

Of course, being a rare weapon it takes a while to get it to X and is so damn heavy at low levels it's not really worth it until VII or so.

[DevilDoc8404]

Steelgrave wrote...

LMAO! The Hornet??? That's one of the worst guns in the game!

You're doing it wrong.

[Badpanzer]

Tempest by far imho...in the hands of a Turian soldier its deadlier than any AR except perhaps a RevX.
Most classes can carry a Tempest and a heavy pistol with a 200% cooldown so they are lighter than AR's as well.

[Duranndal]

Hornet or Tempest - depending on character/build/situation. IMO
Tempest X on Turian Soldier is truly devestating.

Also, ammo and weapon mods are a must on automatic weapons for gold if you're using them as primary weapons. You get much more out of the mods with automatics than you do for slow firing weapons.

P.S.  I've gotten first place plenty of times with an SMG as a primary on gold.  Not that score matters all that much, but it seems to matter more to the whiny sniper ****es (not all snipers are that way.  I you smart snipers).  I can't even count how many Salarian/Geth infiltrators I've seen leave a match after they realized they were 3rd or 4th on the scoreboard.

Modifié par Duranndal, 17 avril 2012 - 01:47 .

[Mievain]

If you can handle the recoil, hornet will do massive damage, best used on turians. Geth smg works with ultralight materials so its good sidearm for no downside even if you don't end up using it.

Hurricane has massive recoil and spread but does huge dmg on close range, tricky to use but not really useable on gold as you won't have long range killing power with it.

Locust and Tempest are crap.

Modifié par Mievain, 17 avril 2012 - 01:47 .

[defleshing]

geth smg with warp or disrupter ammo. no better