TOPIC: Best items on Zarp

Which items are the best in your opinion?
Let's not count suits because everyone knows the suit, would be pointless to repeat everyone's opinion on suits again.
Let's stick to all the other items only, feel free to post your opinion and argue about how good x item is.

I'll be starting with the iridium pickaxe, and the scope boost
The irid pickaxe gives you 2times more ore meaning, if you mine one ore with one irid pick, you get 2 ores instead of one.
Crazy op in my opinion, and then we have the scope boost, it was introduced a long time ago, and has been the must have item since it was introduced, it's not anymore simply because we don't m9k pvp, it's mostly special weapons & suits pvp.

ToBeHonest wrote:
Add Mining Upgrade on top of that and it's op

That gem bonus over halloween was insane, must have got over 10m free gems from it. The gluon has always been the f1 meta special weapon since it came out. I personally love the dark matter due to the fact its a slow high damage dealer it changes up combat. The QED is pretty fucking lit too.

Gold mini2
on 2nd life it’s like a 5 tap to a Jugg which is like less than a second, crazy good considering it’s range and insta holster

Dark matter gun
really good in small buildings, has extremely high knock back and high damage making it crazy good for area denial, a well placed one is way better at ripping something than a gluon

Hand cannon
let’s you rush with special items then just fly away with little risk of actually losing the item, also very good at breaking dupes and if your pd level 10 you can rent one for 5 minutes

M202.
Thundergun.
Smg Boost.
EDF Police Suit.

AlitGeorge wrote: Give us more details man

Probably either the thundergun just because its fun to use or maybe the machete. The machete is dog shit but its always fun to RDM Joshua and watch his body fly

EviIstewie wrote:
Shoot ur dmg, then gluon rush ez win

Meteor cuz u can rdm people and rip their stuff

Best items? Hoo, boy. So, this depends on one of two things:

1) Viability

Things like the Mummy Suit come into play here, because it's a powerhouse of a suit simply due to the fact that it has 3 lives, with very few ways to actually circumvent this without the player who's using the suit being more or less stupid in their approach - for example, the tripmine approach allows someone to rip a mummy because the person has to respawn on said tripmine, which they'll die to every time.

Another example is the Gluon Gun, which is a player favourite, and has remained as such over the years. The weapon boasts an enormous power and shreds through suits and players like it's nothing.

If you're looking to raid, what do you use? Well, you have several options, but most people will generally go for the Portable EMP, even to this day. The Nano Suit has the ability to hack keypads, but at least you don't have the added risk of losing a suit if someone sneaks up on you.

A final mention might be basing items, like printers - the glory days of using a quad-boosted Ice or GPP, because those were the best two printers of the age before things like the Skull, XMAS, Hell, and Summer.
Or the Medishield/Baseshield/Radshield. A terrific trio that offers a triumvirate of protection from everything from handcannons all the way to a damned nuke!

Special mention goes to a Tactical Insertion Point, which - while a one-use item - is now widespread enough to *still* be an old fan favourite. Feel unsafe in your base? Put one down, and you'll respawn where you placed it, ready to keep kicking ass.

2) Personal enjoyment

There are some items that just tickle an itch, even if they're not the most economically viable, or even the most smart to use in the moment. There are three that I hold near and dear:

A) QED

The Quantum Entanglement Device is a massively telegraphed grenade that is worth more than CS grenades, and is an insta-kill to the majority of suits. It creates a black hole, pulling everything in and vaporising it.

Thermal Detonator

Remember being in the Nexus, throwing like 20 of these on someone and having them raid someone's base? The resulting explosion killing the majority of the basers before they know what happens, and then the rest of the raiding crew coming up to finish the job? That's the brutality of this amazing weapon before it got nerfed by being unholsterable.

C) Valkyrie

It was between this and a Laser Dagger, but I get far more enjoyment out of RDM'ing people legally killing an enemy with a surprise rocket to the face from halfway across the map than I do blowing people up with a surprise knife explosion...

lightning strike
handcannon
dark matter
tripmine
tactical insert
qed

Only just remembered... Can't believe no one else put em. THE HOVERBOARDS, gedf with a mid tier board rush is pretty strong

scope boost & ammo boost

gauss rifle before the nerf

Spicy wrote: emp nade before the nerf

Markus wrote: that too rip the ammo boost + emp nade combo