How do you use the stinger?

[legacy-InnermostFear]

I constantly find myself wasting ammo and spraying in thin air. with lag and reflecting issues, it becomes hard to use this weapon. It's excellent when you can aim, but with the current shape of lag, it's horrible.

To anbody who uses it, any suggestions? Its hard to choose the stinger over a sniper or a shock rifle.

[legacy-augy]

You're right.
I could never justify the stinger over the snipe. Over the shock, for certain maps, maybe, but the other 2 guns are just way more capable of dealing way more damage in less time, without requiring you to track your target constantly (which inevitably means you limit your mobility to keep them under the reticle).
Anyways, I prefer primary fire to secondary because secondary's homing isn't good enough. And once the primary fire spins up, it's really scary how fast you can kill somebody.

[legacy-iReProphecy]

Never use secondary if your enemy knows how to reflect.

[legacy-Holy_Avenger]

Exactly, if someone used that on me he's practicley begging to die by reflection.

[legacy-cry_to_the_heavens]

the secondary is bey far, the easiest thng to reflect in the whole game. i have killed many a bot who tried that on me (about 10, being i have had the game for little over 3 days now)

[legacy-Spartan_15]

true dont use the secondary
only use it when you are casing an enemy and they are low on health

[legacy-InnermostFear]

I meant the stinger overall. It has a primary too.

[legacy-Vintoks]

I find myself using the stinger mostly to scavenge and kill-steal weakened players, or using it in brief flickers to soften someone up so I can finish them with a single splash hit or pounce.

The stinger really isn't like the other weapons where you can just stick with it blazing at people because of the damage vs. ammo discrepancy, and a couple other things. You have to be A LOT more picky with your encounters since there’s so much “touch and go” against zigzags and wall-dodges etc. Also primary’s effectiveness drops off the map when you try to keep a pin on someone outside of pounce range, which makes it feel even more lopsided. One nice thing about primary is if they spam reflect against it the return damage hardly does anything to you. The way the stinger hogs so much ammo, coupled with how poorly it interacts with melee, character mobility, it just doesn’t “feel” like it fits. All ‘n all I’m in the same boat you guys are in, if someone knows how to devastate with it do share.

[legacy-smuguf]

I like the stinger, i think that if you can get up close on somebody, it works great!! The primary fire is amazing for upclose because you can anihalate your opponent in no time. The secondary fire is good when you are chasing someone and their back is to you, but as soon as they turn around switch to primary. try primary + homing (malcolm) it works well against people that stick to their guns.

[legacy-Holy_Avenger]

I didn't think homing effected hit-scan weapons like the stinger, at least it didn't work with the sniper rifle that I could see.

[legacy-Spartan_15]

true i didnt think that either

[legacy-C3RV3ZA]

dood the stinger is a close range weapon. its fairly accurate in short distances and even long if you have the aim considering that the shots wont go outside of the crosshair. but being in close id your best bet with the stinger. I dont mind helping ppl get better so hit me up sometime and ill give you some in game pointers

[legacy-Rafahil19]

but the Stingers secondary does have an in-built tracker that follows your crosshair doesn't it? why i wonder...

[legacy-Holy_Avenger]

To be interesting, but to compesate they're much slower and don't "cook" over time. Thus making it very easy to reflect, dodge, and not doing much damage anyways.

[legacy-ra1n]

try shooting 2ndary up in the air all around then locking on them for a nice big shower of shards. combining w/ the primary they are 2 busy reflecting the ones falling they arent paying attention to u anymore. All the weapons are great and very balanced.