Agreed, one of the main reasons I like(d) the Pepperbox series was because of their "harpoon" effect (aka "No you're not gonna die in those Brambles/Shadow fires and deny us loot buddy, get over here")

It's arguable usefulness aside, I think removing the vacuum effect simply makes the weapon far less interesting/enjoyable.

-espil

Just came back to the game after a few month hiatus, and..

What the ****?!

Every time I mentioned getting Pepperbox to anyone I knew, they laughed. Why? Because it was terrible. Just about anything it did well, other guns did better. Its damage was meh, its typing was neutral, its Fire effect was negligible. The only thing you could consider redeeming about it was the suction on the charge that allowed you to focus-fire on a target.

And they took that away?!

Not just that, they made it PUSH enemies away?

And you'd think since it was clearly a bad gun to the point that it wasn't even worth acquiring, they'd give it some kind of buff at least while "fixing" it, but no.

Augh, I'm just so confused I don't even know at this point.

Somehow they made my terrible novelty weapon even worse.

This is the most bizarre thing to me.

I'm genuinely disappointed.

It's hardly been 2 weeks. That's an awful short time to consider something a "necro".

I've read about it, apparently, being a fix for a glitch. That doesn't make it any better.

It worked better that way, and it wasn't overpowered [or even decently-powered] so why not implement the suction as an intended feature?

That aside, the Pepperbox is even worse than it used to be now, so it needs a buff even harder than before. I could go and make a new thread just to suggest that, but it seems a little redundant when we have this thread.

Of course. I'm not saying the vacuum effect was essential to the gun, but just that removing it nerfs the weapon, and it was certainly already bad as it was.

A damage buff would be fine. Has there been any actual word that it is getting buffed though?