Originally Posted by Dragonskin
The lasher is unique. It fires energy disco balls that light up surroundings at night.. which is fairly useful for tracking targets at night even without a IRNV. It also has an AOE effect that will hit anything in it's path even if the ball itself doesn't directly hit anything. Then the ball itself deals direct damage as well as AOE damage to the target it hits. Not to meantion the gun itself has animations with moving parts. It opens up when you fire and reload like some kind of transformer with a bunch of lights inside.
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Gotta agree with this, I recently certed the Lasher and using it is nothing like using a regular LMG - you will absolutely die 1v1 against most other weapons, but for suppressive fire, especially from an elevated position, it's great and makes you feel like an absolute badass. As an added bonus it really makes HA feel like a unique, specialist role, rather than just 'default soldier guy'.
It may look like an LMG, but in practice it's more like a rapid-fire mini-grenade launcher - with exactly the degree of precision (not much) and friendly-fire potential (loads) that suggests
