When I first started using the Triple Take, I thought it was weak. However, I liked the design of the weapon so I gave it another go. Turns out that I just misunderstood how it works and now it may be my favorite weapon.
Here are 5 things I like about it:
It allows you to stay mobile during combat
Unless you are aiming at someone who is not shooting back at that moment, the best play style to have with this gun is to take a shot, then move, then take another shot. This will allow you to manage the rate of fire and stay a hard target to hit. When you get used to its rate of fire you should learn things like peak shots from behind cover
That’s how this gun promotes mobility. With other guns you need to hold down the trigger and really focus on tracking your target while spraying your bullets to build up damage. Triple Take has more of an “aim-shoot-move-repeat” style to it.
Its good at just about every range
You probably heard or seen people joking about using the Triple Take as a shotgun. That’s because it’s still good at close range. I think of the triple take as a sniper-shotgun.
Now I wouldn’t recommend replacing it for shotguns because the eva-8 and peacekeeper will still beat it in a shot-for-shot battle in most cases. But if you land from the drop ship with someone and they pick up a eva-8 and you pick up a Triple Take, if they shoot you in the chest and you shoot them in the head with all 3 bullets, they’re going down.
You don’t need to worry about bullet drop as much
Energy ammo travel fast, so you don’t need to worry about bullet drop as much. This make hitting moving targets much easier to hit than other snipers, which helps with the dps factor. As a matter of fact, once you get use to this gun, moving targets will become easy to hit.
It hurts
This gun shoots 3 round burst, each doing 23 damage to the body and 46 to the head. Land all three bullets on the body and you’re doing 69 damage. Head shots are a bit difficult to calculate because helmets reduce head shot damage by:
- 15% at level 1
- 20% at level 2
- 25% at level 3
Most people don’t even respond fast enough after taking the first body shot if you catch them out in the open, so in a lot of cases you’ll get off 2 shots before they can even react. That’s 138 damage before they react. Their shields are broken at that point and they only have 62 health left (assuming they have a full purple shield).
Another thing to mention, is that aiming down the sights of this weapon naturally reduces the spread similar to how a precision choke mod works.
It has the best iron sights in the game
This is the only gun I prefer to use without scopes. You can still track your target with these iron scopes. The tip of the line between the two triangles is what you want to use to hit.
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