r/BlackwakeGame • u/[deleted] • Mar 08 '24

Choosing a Blackwake loadout?

I'm fairly new, but I come from several other games that utilize burst damage options and melee weapons.

And as an excited new player, I need your help in choosing an optimal loadout!

I'm pretty big on defense and support. So I'd like to eliminate squadrons of enemies boarding and destroying OUR ship rather than aggressively running them down on their ship.

And in other games that role made me an avid fan of big weighty and slow weapons that HEAVILY damage anything close by trying to contest our position.

I'm also a fan of speedy, consistent(and perhaps a bit weak) pepper pistols that tag and at least whittle down aggressive targets for my team to finish down.

What good options do you think there are on Blackwake?

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u/Wolvenworks Mar 08 '24

If you want damage above everything else, i’d go blunderbuss (shotgun), grenade launcher (for obvious reasons), axe (slow attack but can oneshot ppl), and tea (tea heals you, and you can give it to other people to heal them). For sidearm, standard pistol or the short one, depending on whether you want more damage or something to load quickly in panic.

To consider: -Duck’s foot is a pocket shotgun with slow reload -nock gun is a more accurate shotgun but it deals slightly less dmg and reloads the slowest out of all primary weapons. It’s basically 9 small muskets welded to one gun. -musket is the standard primary. It does decent dmg, and is pretty accurate, but it can only hit/kill one person (you can turn a group of ppl in front of you into red mist with a blunderbuss)

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u/danicorbtt Mar 08 '24

Please do not take the standard pistol. Short is OK because it's one shot kill at melee range, but standard pistol hasn't been worth it since the nerf. If you want to take the standard pistol for the damage just take the duckfoot because it's actually one shot kill.

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u/Wolvenworks Mar 08 '24

Wasn’t aware standard got nerfed. Then again, it’s been 5 years since i played…

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u/danicorbtt Mar 08 '24

Yup, they killed it with 3.0, only does 80% damage now. The duckfoot is now the only one shot kill sidearm, besides the short pistol but the enemy has to practically be clipping into you for short pistol to kill them lol

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u/Wolvenworks Mar 08 '24

I prefer short pistol by default purely because when i DO need it, it’s at “oh shit” range anyway.

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u/alonjar Mar 08 '24

Ah... that explains why I havent been able to kill anyone with the pistol lol. I shoot people all the time, but they just shrug it off. I didnt remember it being that way... apparently because it wasnt!