The M1000 is the Scout's STRONGEST Weapon! | Deep Rock Galactic

I love watching armor melt from bugs with hipster + armor breaking

when I picked up this game, I ended up going directly to the scout, and honestly after playing through my first promotion I feel like the m1000 and the tracer guns as the secondary is my favorite weapon dynamic (although ironically I find myself using said secondary more often than the primary since I end up using the m1000 for big single target damage and the tracer guns for swarm control lmao)

I just unlocked the M100 on my Scout and I'm really confused by it.
I can't tell if the "zero" is off (because shots that would be hits with the GK instead just aren't ), I'm tired so my aim is worse or what: the feeling I get is that I can't get it to do as much raw damage as the Gk.

I sense a wave of greenbeard Scouts on their way to try and 2 shot an oppressor with a m1000, only to realize that theyre already out of ammo

You forgot to mention the most important part of hoverclock: It negates fall damage. A lot of the m1000 overclocks are good but hoverclock m1k is the only build I use when I play 6x2, because of how ridiculous your mobility options become.

People who hate it just can't aim. I personally quite like it but it's heavily overshadowed by the plasma rifle.

I hated the M1000 when I first tried it, now its a strong competitor for my favourite gun in the game.

The reason why I hated it, and I think I might not be alone in this, is because I went into it with a poor understanding of what kind of weapon it actually was, so it failed to hit my expectations, because my expectations were wrong.

The M1000 looks a lot like the game's sniper rifle, but it isnt, not unless you specifically build it to be.

I think if youre only using the M1000 with either hipfire or charged shots, like I first did, youre using the weapon wrong. Even with builds centered specifically on one of the two, you want to be using both.

I also dont think the main use for Hoverclock is to use the bullet time for mid air sniping, its to augment the aerial mobility your other tools give you, like by mitigating fall damage.

Was struggling to damage dreadnoughts with the M1000 so went back to the assault rifle....
(Don't have overclocks yet)

Nicely edited, well made video. Such a shame you ask for like and subscribe every 4 minutes.
Thanks for the information, good luck in the future!

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About the Hoverclock activating while normally shooting, it only happens when you're not hosting a game, aka a client. Just letting you know.

Never heard anyone complain about the m1k before. It's the best tool in Scout's arsenal for killing hvt's.

Hipster suck bro. If Scout is shooting grunts with his primary, then something has gone horribly wrong.

Electrocuting focus shots overall increase your focus shot damage because of the shock damage, allowing you to hit some unexpected breakpoints while being able to take ammo in tier 1. Best overclock imo aside from hipster. also the slowdown is really strong on shock, making some tanky enemies like bulks a breeze to deal with

A few points:

No one says the m1000 classic is the worst weapon in the game. That's not a thing, at all. I don't know where you got that from.

Hoverclock - This is absolutely high haz viable. It actually is incredibly useful for juking enemies and saving yourself from falls. It's also just kinda better mobility than Active Stability System once you know how to use your movement tools. The M1000 classic really doesn't even need a boost to be good, and it shows with this overclock.

Active Stability System - Don't use expanded ammo bags. Ever. You said this encourages you to use focus shots for swarms - don't. If you're shooting basic grunts, use unfocused shots. They always die in one weakpoint hit, or if you miss, two hits. Same ammo cost if you're bad at aiming, but with a chance to cost less.

Hipster - This overclock is not good. Don't use it. It's trading the M1K's entire niche for effectively what the GK2 already does. You're actually going to likely be better off using the GK2 with AI Stability Engine because you aren't going to be missing half of your shots through spamming because of the ungodly recoil.

Electrocuting Focus Shots - This overclock is also not very good in a general sense. It does theoretically do more damage, but most of its damage is over time. Also, some enemies are immune to the electrocution status which would make it a straight downgrade. One instance I've found where it's actually quite useful is Industrial Sabotage missions. It hits pretty important break points on Rival Tech enemies that greatly increases your weapon's ammo economy on those missions.

Supercooling Chamber - This overclock is terrible. Don't use it. Its one upside does not balance out its three massive downsides. Basically the one thing it's okay at is Elimination, but you're gonna be gimping yourself on every other enemy in the mission because your ammo economy will be terrible while also shooting slower and leaving you more vulnerable.

i just use it because i like the little ping when you reload

man i'm playing the game because of this m1000

What's crazy about electrocuting focus shots is that the electrocution lasts 6s, 5 ticks per second, 4.5 damage per tick, which equals 135 damage.

You're trading approximately 15 physical damage for up to 135 damage. You're still doing more total damage as long as you wait about 1 second between each shot since that already does 22.5 damage.

Hoverclock best grrrr 💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀

Supercooling for the win

As long as the subata exists no other weapon will take the crown for being the worst

Hipster all the way lol

М1000 это уничтожитель крупных целей! Толпа? Оставьте её, вы вышли охотиться на крупную рыбу

The closest thing you can get in DRG to a 50 caliber sniper rifle is hyper propellant, which is effectively a high explosive 50 cal. With a very small explosion, but insane direct damage.

Iirc, Supercooling's WP Damage Bonus doesnt actually work without the WP Damage Bonus mod, might be wrong though.

Scc with critical weakness modifier, specced into maximum damage, has you one shotting oppressors

I like this weapon but I don’t use it because it annoys Mission Control

I just don't like this weapon. Every time I try to use it, it ends up worse than the gk2. It does less DPS, has less ammo, lower percentage uptime, is worse against swarms, is worse against single targets, is only slightly better at long-range sniping high-value targets, basically the only thing it has going for it is hoverclock (which is admittedly very cool) and I use special powder to fill the same niche. I don't know what I'm doing wrong, I use the suggested builds and I've tried hipster and not hipster and the gk2 is just... better. In every way.

Hoverclock is only supposed to work with focus shots but if you're not the host then it will cause a bug that makes it so it works with normal shots. I think this is because when a player clicks because of ping and stuff the game thinks it's starting a focus shot causing the hoverclock effect to happen without actually using a focus shot and instead firing off a normal shot.

Blud 38 damage normal shot with hipster or the damage overclock for the M1000 with a focused shot that deals over 250 damage is huge

IS it only me but im only getting unstable overclocks for weapons (got every one for nearly all weapons) and the normal ones i just never get

Im Using the cooling chamber cause its the only one i have. One of the focused shots does 243,75 damage and can ONESHOT Teammates

basicaly...
every wepon a class has is there best wepon
there all on even footing!

M1000 is cool on paper but GK2 has AI Stability Engine which makes the M1000 completely obsolete in every way possible. I'd even take GK2 without an OC over the M1000 with its best OC.

my aim isnt good :(

I love it.
But i HATE the slow reload.

Idk why but I just can’t get this rifle to feel right. Perhaps because I’m on console but it doesn’t feel effective or satisfying to use

This gotta be one of the VERY rare cases, where term "extended clip" is actually correct.

When I was a greebeard I mained tijs weapon and this weapon only so much that
I perfected aim with it. I hit weakpoints at very awkward angels one shotting grunts and few shottting pretorians

I hate this thing. Might be entirely cause I have shit aim, but I swear it misses even shots that for me are dead on target. And for what its supposed to be the damage feels underwhelming (again, might not be hitting as much as I need to). But I also dont feel like I have this problem with things like the gunners revolver, which also is a low ammo, high damage, precision weapon. Just something about the M1000 feels off. And no, hipster did not change this. Then again, I hate that I feel this way about certain weapons, which just makes me try them at different intervals, over and over again, so maybe this opinion gets flipped on its head in the future

much rather the ai stability ar but yeah this is good too

Electrocuting Focus Shots will do more damage overall if you let the DoT tick down. Obviously it's not as good on enemies with shock resistance like Oppressors, but against medium-sized bugs like Slashers & Guards you can kill them with a charged bodyshot much more reliably if you wait out the AoE.
Electric Focus also works very well with the Zhukovs with Conductive Bullets. If you grab Hollow-Point Bullets on the Zhukovs as well as Hitting Where it Hurts (stun Focus Shots) on the M1000 you can stun a Pretorian and then blast it to bits with the Zhukovs. It's my go-to loadout if I ever load onto a Fester Flea mission (since it's easy to kill fleas with focus shots.)

i fully agree ! m1000 and coil gun would be a sick combo