| “ | Synth-wave beats in our veins. A powerful gun for close-quarters fights that cuts the wings of your opponent. | ” |
—Weapon's description in Gallery | ||
The Wave Pulser is a Special weapon introduced in the 16.7.0 update. It is a part of the Digital Hero Event Set that includes: Laser Cycler, Wave Pulser, and Digital Sunrise.
Description[]
This is a Vaporware themed Special weapon that shoots single projectile per shot and has 
and 
attributes. This weapon is best to use for small maps like Classic Pool. It has extremely high damage, medium fire rate, remarkably high capacity and with low mobility.
Appearance[]
It is a weapon that looks similar to a rifle with magenta, grey, and black details. The animated triangles on the top of the weapon could most likely be a reference to the mountains of Retrowave themed wallpapers, but instead of purple, the animated triangles switch from dark to light blue with a green hue. There is also a hologram of a retrowave themed sun that rests on top of the retrowave mountains.
The weapon shoots big dark pink and blue colored projectiles (without skin) that take a form of a rapidly rotating lattice. While firing, the weapon will be slightly risen up and the holographic triangles with the orb will become much smaller
Performance[]
Wave Pulser has two strong attributes, which are are Wall Break and Disable Jump .
- With the Wall Break
attribute and quick travel time, it's nearly impossible to hide from Wave Pulser, especially on small maps. The bullet's damage is not reduced after it breaks a wall, so the user can freely attack enemies while hiding behind a wall. It is recommended to use it along with a weapon that has X-Ray attribute. - Disable Jump attribute makes it easier to kill the enemy if they survive the first hit.
The Wave Pulser has fixed delay, meaning that there's always a delay animation while switching from any other weapons. Due to that, this weapon is not very suitable for the Three Category Spam.
Overall, as it does not require a lot of skill and possesses insane battle ability, Wave Pulser is an exceptionally powerful weapon in both short- and medium- range combat.
Strategy[]
Basic gameplay[]
In the 1-49 level range match, most players only get 200-240 armor(even lower if they get no coin to upgrade), which means there's a very huge chance for Wave Pulser user kill them with only one shot. And after just less than one second, it refilled done and ready to murder another player.
Its threat will decrease when walk into 51-65 level range, because most players will stay in the air and get very high mobility, this will increase the difficulty for the Wave Pulser user to hit them
What's more, If the weapon's projectile hits an enemy, it will deal extremely massive damage to him/her and give the effect. This means eventhough you didn't kill enemy with first shot, it will be still easy to attack twice as enemy couldn't jump for a while. This time phase is enough to throw him to rebirth.
Tips[]
- Use this weapon in small maps due to the wallbreaking and big bullet size.
- Try not to use this weapon in long range as the bullet travel is not fast enough to compete with long ranged weapons.
- If it's necessary to use Wave Pulser in long range, try to do Prognosis——Guess where will user go in the next second
- The real midpoint of the projectile is at another place, at the little bit shifted ↘ position of its midpoint of marker Be used to it, or it will be very hard to hit a enemy out of short range
- Most of the times, switch weapon is not necessary. But if your weapon damage is low because of lack of effeciency, you could switch to another weapon like area damage or shotgun, after a shot of WavePulser
- Switch to any weapon with 80 mobility or higher as the mobility is quite slow.
- This weapon's high capacity will make reloading less constant, so use that to your advantage.
Counters[]
- Attack the user(s) from long range.
- Strafe around the user so you don’t get hit. But be careful while doing so in close range as this weapon‘s projectile size and the hitbox is pretty big.
- If in close contact with its user, eliminate them with Area Damage weapons. Keep in mind that if you're too close to the explosions, you can damage yourself.
- Try to stay in the air(better if you are at the total vertical higher places, they couldn't head up too straight) in order to let them harder to do Prognosis
- Charm or Weakening is always working, this will dramatically decrease their threat
- Dodge the projectiles with a 90 mobility weapon.
- If you are in Silent School, White palace, try to avoid the long corridor if a Wave Pulser is spotted.
- It is not advised to spam this weapon in most maps, so if a user is spotted doing so, it shouldn't be a problem to eliminate them.
- If you tried all the ways to deal with Wave Pulser user, change your game room and stay away from him.
Skins[]
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Recommended Maps[]
Any maps that get short-range firing area is best for Wave Pulser
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Equipment Setups[]
Equip any long ranged weapon.
Community Notes[]
- Wave Pulser was ranked as weak weapon by players when it was just released: the projectiles' slow travel speed, low damage, and deceptively-small hitbox resulted in subpar performance for a Mythical weapon.
- But when Update 23.4.8 released, everything changed. It got Wallbreak instead of Piercing, at the cost of a pathetic 5% damage decrease. After that, the screaming in the Silent School disappeared. All that remains is the bumg, bumg, bumg (very real Wave Pulser firing sound).
- A lot players began to hate/like it in community as its insane power combined with the low skill floor required to use it effectively nullifies the value of any mechanical skill that high-level PG3D players have gained over the course of their playtime.
- In spite of community pleas, the Wave Pulser has never been nerfed since 23.4.8.
Changelog[]
- Initial release.
- The damage got nerfed to 2-3 shots kill, instead of 1-2.
- This weapon got its damage increased by 11%
- This weapon's bullet speed was buffed from 300 to 350.
- Damage increased by 10%.
- Mobility increased from 50 to 65.
- Rocket speed increased by 43%.
- Damage increased by 45%.
- Rocket speed increased by 66%.
- Damage increased by 18%.
- It received another skin.
- Damage secretly reduced from 200 to 191
- attribute got replaced with
Sound effects[]
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Trivia[]
- The little light ball on the top could be a digital synthwave planet.
- It has a similar firing sound as the Total Planner.
Gallery[]
