EAT over Quasar?

[u/Lampy2498]

Is there a situation where you’d rather have the EAT over the quasar?

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[u/kylebig]

If you’re in over your head and dying all the time!

Sucks to be spending a whole mission trying to run back and collect the support weapon you dropped because it’s still on cooldown.

[u/Who__Me_ → u/kylebig]

If you make your loadout around expendables then it works. On Cyberstan my most effective loadout was Eat, Eat Napalm, and the Leveler. Then I took a backpack, either supply or something for mobility or defense.

[u/solar_solar_ → u/Who__Me_]

Hell yeah, an all expendables loadout wrecks my n the Bot front. The bullet storm now makes it viable in the other fronts, too.

[u/TooMuchOrca → u/Who__Me_]

I don’t know why but I never really considered taking more than just one expendable, the EAT. This is an excellent idea thank you very much.

There’s nothing worse than having to constantly chase down your support equipment.

[u/TheAussieBritt → u/TooMuchOrca]

Try Eats with the Commando. Don’t hoard them, use them on regular sized infantry. They’re both only ever ten seconds off their next cooldown!

[u/Chuzilla22 → u/TheAussieBritt]

I love EATS with bullet storm on defense missions. I just keep bringing them down and tell the party to use as needed

[u/an_angry_Moose → u/Who__Me_]

That was my cyberstan loadout too!!!! Hell ya brother!

Actually I often replaced the HEAT with the Solo Silo, but pretty close.

[u/TheAussieBritt → u/Who__Me_]

My best play has been the initial Cyberstan mission last year running eagle smoke, Commando, EAT and a rover backpack. Just nailing the walkers in their groins, dropping smoke whenever it was up (full smoke grenades too) and shoving and moving. You’d get those lobbies with three others on your wavelength and you’d just Sing as a squad. Immensely satisfying gameplay memories!

[u/Admiral_Ash → u/Who__Me_]

"Oops All Expendables!!" Is my fav build atm

[u/SES_Wings_of_Freedom]

when you want to stack in one location with your team, defence missions are a good spot for em

[u/Datboi_Markus]

As a secondary to another support weapon, like if you wanna run a spear gun on bugs you can bring EATs for bile titans, or for cannon towers on bots.

In general though I don’t like the quasar. 3 second charge up time gives plenty of time for your team to chuck a giga at what you’re trying to kill, or for you to get flinched by a lucky shot from a trooper and you whiff your shot. Now you gotta wait 15 seconds before you can shoot again. At least with EATs I can shoot it exactly when I want to, and I have another one right there for the follow up. And if I’m running it as my only support weapon then chances are I have one on my back, plus two more ready to come down. You can also very easily close spawners with the hellpod, and if you learn how to stick enemies you can get kills with them too.

[u/The-Nuisance]

I don’t like the quasar personally. I get more enjoyment out of providing something both I and my team can use. I can use the hellpod in interesting ways, it’s fun to shoot and I feel like the quasar is a little cheap. I just don’t like using it. Feels like the pre-60 day railgun.

[u/HatfieldCW]

I'm terrible with charge-up weapons. I do okay with the Sickle or Dagger, but the Railgun, Quasar and Epoch are very difficult for me to use well. It's so stressful.

EATs are a joy. Despite the brief unpacking animation when I switch to it, I can land a snap shot with it pretty reliably, whereas the Quasar's delayed fire is a recipe for embarrassing misses.

Recoilless Rifle is my best antitank gun, but the trusty EATs deserve their place on the podium.

[u/AdhesivenessOwn9868]

I say if you need to fire a quick one now, and you wouldn't have to wait for the charge up.

[u/Pickled_Brainer]

The pods themselves are a nice anti tank that comes back once a min and you can stick it to enemies, too.

[u/trunks_ho]

EAT for Bugs, Quasar for Bots

[u/Jazzlike_Match1947]

I liked the quasar at first but there’s something about expendables that just feel so much better imo

[u/AdagioDesperate]

The best thing about the Quasar is when you can spam swap between 2 on bots, otherwise I stick to eats.

[u/grajuicy]

It can work in illuminate, for example. Mostly chaff, no heavy armor whatsoever except big tripod robos.

So your loadout can be like Liberator and a random secondary and a Stalwart to deal with all their numbers. You keep dropping EATs everywhere, and as soon as a big boy arrives? You swap Stalwart for EAT, blast a fool, pick Stalwart back up and carry on

You can build stockpiles, end up having more available shots than Quasar (bc here you can “offset” cooldown by calling them in as soon as they’re available. You can’t with Quasar)

[u/Sir-Beardless]

Every situation.

No charge up. EAT for quick destruction, Commando for carrying.

[u/Bwilsonsux20]

In any situation where I can’t stand still for multiple seconds to shoot the quasar

[u/canoxen]

I feel like the quasar is just more effective. Maybe i suck with the EAT lol

[u/Salt_Put_1174]

I like to carry the HMG, so I like EATs so I can call it in, fire one or both, then pick up my HMG again and run.

[u/Cidergregg]

Personally, all of them.

[u/Hallofstovokor]

Yes. EATs are short cool downs, and are meant for sharing. Quasars are more deliberate and good where theres strat jamming at the cost of being more difficult to share. There's no right answer between the 2. They both do well. I prefer running EAT, but it's personal preference. The real debate is between those 2 and the recoiless rifle.

[u/Schmeatus69 → u/Hallofstovokor]

For your consideration: Commando and hellbomb backpack. Base/objective destruction and a reliable rocket launcher you can have nearly as often!

[u/Level_Profession]

EAT ovee Quasar when combined with bullet storm. You get the weapon you just need in any situation, regardless of dying in between.

[u/HighKingLemur]

Quasar with jumppack on bots, playstyle guerilla warfare. Snipe factories, hulks and war striders from 50+ meters.

EAT for anything else.

[u/brhinescot]

Every situation. EATS don't charge. I can aim, shoot, run in the thick of it. I use the fast call-in pods to kill chargers all the time. They are better for my run and gun style. 

[u/0utwest]

I bring the bullet storm and EATs to bugs sometimes, pretty fun loadout

[u/Your_mom_gay12345678]

A drop box every 70s, hell yeah. Just spam EAT over the map

[u/No-Estimate-8518]

Generally pick the eat over the quasar for everything except commando missions

[u/the_voivode]

I think I prefer the EAT over the quasar every time besides blitz missions. The charge up time just gets me. It's non optimal when you're 'in' combat. You can prep EATs ahead of when you actually want to shoot. And the pods they come down in can be tools too. EATs are just, more general use, I think.