FYI: Test and review of Improved Omegaton M2870

[~ thebuzz ~]

Test and review of Improved Omegaton M2870

Initial disclaimer: Hi all – this is my first review of an item so please bear with me if I get something wrong. I plan to do some future tests with other items, weapons, faps, armors and possible other items – so any advice you might have to improve the tests is greatly appreciated.

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I finally got myself an Improved Omegaton M2870 the 15th of September 2008, and being like a little kid that just got his Christmas gift I ventured out to play a little with some big boys.

My equipment for this run was:
Ghost + 5b plates – Hedoc SK-80 Adjusted and Improved Omegaton M2870 equipped with 2x Hunnir Lasers, Jzar Scope and A105 amp.

Initial information about Improved Omegaton M2870:

(Hit ability and Crit hit ability is not mine - edited old EF pic)

Class: Pistol
Type: Laser
Weight: 1.1 kg
Stats
Damage: 63 HP
Range: 44.0 m
Attacks: 67 /min
Reload: 0.9 sec
Dmg/sec: 70.4 HP
Power: 3095.4
Economy
Max. TT: 1350.00 PED
Min. TT: 40.50 PED
Ammo: 14
Decay: 0.500 PEC
Total Uses: 261901
Cost: 14.500 PEC
Cost/sec: 16.19 PEC/sec
Dmg/PEC: 4.34 HP

Oh well that’s the stats on PAPER and facts, but how will it manage with my skills? (Check my profile on Entropedia.info) – so I decided to start my own “Tom thebuzz Christensen” do item tests and reviews…

Here goes with Improved Omegaton M2870:

First 400ped ammo blasted through this item went to figure out what this item really can do, so first start of with some Estophyl from provider and up to alpha, of course with no real luck.

While in the area I bounced into an Chomper provider – well this being an “uber gun”, lets see what it can do – I’m normally just looking at these and then seconds later being flat at the ground counting down from 10 to 0 – things goes white and I’m suddenly standing up again, shaking my head and try to figure out wtf did happen there.

In this case – I managed to shoot it all way down to about half HP – and then SMOCK I was a n00b again, with a very expensive piece of equipment in my hands… No – did I even get a chance to return to the mob after 3 tries I gave up and – well let me see what else I can do – so went to one of my favorite n00bish places, as I kind of had a huge scratch there in my self-esteem.

Headed out for Limnadian where I blasted some Allophyl and Estophyl – again with no luck at all, but it was a nice “noobish” run where I learned the true potential of what this gun could do. That somehow returned my trust in myself J

Oh – getting bored with all the no looters and getting a bit braver, it was about time I headed out to the Hogglos, I usually has no problems with these even with my Unlimited HL8, tagging them with Marber Bravo and single them out has for some time been an easy thing for me.

The Hogglos was kinda fun, A-Bomb had told me that I would cut down my armor decay and fap decay a bit with the gun, kill faster and stuff… But I never ever imagined what difference this gun could do to the tougher mobs. Basically I could kill two Hogglos in between each time I needed to use the FAP, finally however being swarmed with a nice blend of Old, Mature and Young I was killed and FAP couldn’t help me at all – so I ventured back to the revival as a former white dot…

Again shaking my head and recovering by a huge bacon mob slapping me to the ground, I realized that now it would be time for me to do some wise hunting instead of changing mobs constantly…

Turnover (Probably because I changed mobs constantly on 400ped ammo and 100ped decay on gun/amps/scopes/lasers/armor) was minus 250PED. However my FAP decay and Armor decay was significant smaller than I’m used to.



Now it was time for one of my favorite mobs: Scipulor …

I now started to hunt what I like to hunt – Scipulors, its one of my favorite mobs and I often go okay on them… They sometimes drops HL8 (L) and HL11 (L) – which has some markup even though its too little – but it still makes an plus in most hunts with my old HL8.

Under normal circumstances – I couldn’t take larger than guardian, and even at these I would have to fap a great lot. Dominants and Alphas were totally overkill and sent me to revival in most cases. Probably due to the HL8 reload time and the longer time killing it.

HL8: Normally I would end up with about 5-8 times getting killed in 450 ped ammunition, having 50 ped armor decay, 40 ped fap decay.

Now let’s see what Improved Omegaton M2870 does – do it make a difference for me?

450ped ammunition, 2 amps, fully repaired gun, armor and a fap.

First off, I now do guardians and dominants without fapping during battle unless I get the occasional crit from the mobs. Alphas I need to fap 4-5 times on…

Compared to old times, the gun made it possible to do larger mobs, without major problems, secondly – I died 1 time during a 450PED battle run. (Don’t watch the darn TV while hunting – I experience this daily to get killed anyway due to some hot chick or whatever is on TV that withdraws my attention from the game..).

After this first initial run this is my results:

• 1x HL8 176 PED TT
• 1x HL11 180 PED TT
• 350 PED oils, wools, hides and general materials.
• Skill gains? A lot…
• Armor decay: 30 ped (HL8 gives 50 ped) (Diff: 20ped)
• FAP decay: 22 ped (HL8 gives 40 ped) (Diff: 18 ped)

• Gun, amp, lasers, tag rifle, scopes was decayed 102 ped.

Armor and Fap combined I saved 38 ped decay. Or 42.22 % saved.

I have made several runs afterwards and hunting "intelligent" with this gun results in a constant plus - ofcourse unless the mob is "saving up"...

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Here are my rankings:
Speed: Killspeed was very high due to high dmg/sec and fast reload - therefore getting 90/100
Economical: I saved many peds on fap, armor, gun repair, making better turnover than ever - therefore getting 99/100
Coolness: Only thing real cool about the gun, is its fast relo♦ad, rather high dmg/sec and its rarity - therefore getting 85/100
Skills: The gun gives pretty decent skill gain it seems, not more green lines than NORMALLY – but still gives me it seems more skillgain per green line than I’m used to… - therefore getting 85/100
Avalibility/Rarity: Not many guns in game, doesn't seem to drop anymore and is VERY expensive due to its reputation - therefore getting 95/100

Its REALLY hard not to give this gun 100% in all factors (besides avalibility)… However – some weapons is even greater so this gun ends up with a combined character of:

90.8/100

You have comments to this test - want me to do another on another item or anything - please return some feedback below

Also a side note, I waited for 711 to see if he wanted this in a Test and Review forum, I haven't heard back from him yet - but I wanted to use some of my hardware reviewing skills to good use in Entropia Forum

[~ thebuzz ~]

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[A-Bomb]

Told you youd like it .

Nice little story and review. Now stop wasting time on EF and go put your baby to use!

[Konve]

Not bad.

But, if you will allow a bit of bitching..

• You're not very objective - Everything is compared to your HL 8 and what else you're used to.
• I think you will need to review your method of setting scores if you're going to make future review. For example, imho, this hardly deserves a 99% score on eco when there are things with more dmg/sec and more "eco" around. You don't seem to take different levels of skill into the equation either.

But as I said, not bad at all (for a first).

[somon90]

Excellent review theBuzz

I call for an dedicated part of the forum in which more reviews like this could be posted, so that if one is about to buy a new piece of weaponry ( or anything else for that matter ) one could just look it up in the "Review Registry" of Entropia Forum ( these reviews could be linked in the items respective entropedia pages)

How come no one have though of this before?

[Immortal]

Originally Posted by ~ thebuzz ~

Armor and Fap combined I saved 38 ped decay. Or 42.22 % saved.[/FONT]

Like saying a pizza is 20% hotter :p

[~ thebuzz ~]

Originally Posted by A-Bomb

Told you youd like it .

Nice little story and review. Now stop wasting time on EF and go put your baby to use!

Yup U told me in CP that I would like the gun as I saved fap decay, and armor decay.. But ahm I thought it was just some hunter that told me some bullshit - to promote his gun and maybe in time increase the price on the gun globally. Sorry for thinking this about U and sorry that I didn't trust it, it all came out true and proved your trustable

[~ thebuzz ~]

Originally Posted by Konve

But, if you will allow a bit of bitching..

• You're not very objective - Everything is compared to your HL 8 and what else you're used to.
• I think you will need to review your method of setting scores if you're going to make future review. For example, imho, this hardly deserves a 99% score on eco when there are things with more dmg/sec and more "eco" around. You don't seem to take different levels of skill into the equation either.

But as I said, not bad at all (for a first).

Thanks for commenting, I asked for that

I cant hardly other than compare it to what I used to own HL8 I used most recently and everyone (almost) can handle an HL8 (L) to see what Im talking about, I could also have compared it to one of the other things I owned: Adj v1, ML35, ML45, Imp 21 defender, Adj hero, HL6, HL8, Determination, Honor, Niflheim (L), Nano Katana (L), CB26 (L) and CB29 (L).

What it comes closest to is CB26(L) with beast on it... But then theres the decay...

U also said:
this hardly deserves a 99% score on eco when there are things with more dmg/sec and more "eco" around

Yes it does in my opinion.. Cause as A-bomb told me in CP, it saves me a great deal in armor decay, fap decay and gives me overall more skills than some L item I have maxed (for example CB26). So besides its ~lower than other guns eco~ (ON PAPER) - its better eco overall - and since this is a "human" review of the gun, I take all aspects into consideration when giving it eco rank ..

Oh - please give me something I should rank the items on if doing future reviews!?

[Konve]

Originally Posted by ~ thebuzz ~

U also said:
this hardly deserves a 99% score on eco when there are things with more dmg/sec and more "eco" around

Yes it does in my opinion.. Cause as A-bomb told me in CP, it saves me a great deal in armor decay, fap decay and gives me overall more skills than some L item I have maxed (for example CB26). So besides its ~lower than other guns eco~ (ON PAPER) - its better eco overall - and since this is a "human" review of the gun, I take all aspects into consideration when giving it eco rank ..

Oh - please give me something I should rank the items on if doing future reviews!?

Yes but what I mean is if you rate it 99 out of 100 - what is better? I think anyone and everyone would say "Well MM has to be better" - and I bet it is. So if MM is 100/100, where would you put imp mk2? It has the same dmg/sec as imp m2870 but 4,7 vs 4,4 (with a105). And did anyone say ancient imp mk2? It has to be at least 105/100[ERROR: Not enough room in the scale. Extend scale or reduce your score. All loot belong to us. End of transmission...]

As for new things to rank. How about Price (compared to loot, markup on loot and other items/weapons) and Durability (TT vs decay - how long hunts can you make)?

[A-Bomb]

Originally Posted by Konve

Yes but what I mean is if you rate it 99 out of 100 - what is better? I think anyone and everyone would say "Well MM has to be better" - and I bet it is. So if MM is 100/100, where would you put imp mk2? It has the same dmg/sec as imp m2870 but 4,7 vs 4,4 (with a105). And did anyone say ancient imp mk2? It has to be at least 105/100[ERROR: Not enough room in the scale. Extend scale or reduce your score. All loot belong to us. End of transmission...]

As for new things to rank. How about Price (compared to loot, markup on loot and other items/weapons) and Durability (TT vs decay - how long hunts can you make)?

Actually, counting the real eco of a gun depends on the mob. On some mobs you will have alot better eco using a MM than an Imk2, eventho the Imk2s base eco is better than the MMs. However, yes they are both more eco than the i2870. So youre not quite dead on here.