Nataruk

MR16 player of 350 hours here: I really hate this weapon. With its 4 Vs for free, godly base stats, and insane projectile hitboxes that make aiming optional, it made every single weapon I had before it completely pointless. Why put potatos & formas into anything else if this mows down level 100 enemies right out of the box? Aside from the huge splash animation that blinds me half the time, that's its only downside but the damage more than makes up for it.

Now, before you storm me with criticizm, skill issue and the usual BS, try to hear me out.

The quest rewards a weapon that begins with already epic parameters (i.e. there's no need to do any extra building; you can add formas, but don't have to), and thus trumps 90% of other primary weapons, by default. This essentially means that after this quest the entire primary weapon pool is divided into two groups: the majority which do not even hold the candle to the Nataruk, and the ~10% which may surpass it if they're built well. So unless a player deliberately wants to play a specific weapon type, or just wishes to make the game hard for themself, one has no incentive to use a great majority of weapons. It's like a hard line: sure you can play Braton Prime, it will only take 7 formas and an incarnon to make it okay-ish; or you can just take this funny bow here that you got for free.

I don't think this is a good design.

In the disadvantages it says that the headshot multiplier for quick and perfect shots is 1x, but in the notes it says the headshot multiplier for charged and perfect shots is 1x. Can anyone tell me which is the right one?

Why the patch history didn't get updated? Did the nataruk get a ghost nerf, so it isn't even mentioned or it is prohibited probably because of controversial nature of the ghost nerf that wasn't disclosed and no player doesn't know about this nerf?

Idk when it happened, but when i returned to using the nataruk, i noticed that it's charged shot AoE is now way smaller (around 50% smaller, even more than 50%! Significantly smaller, it is very visible change!) than lastly when i was using this weapon (around 2 years ago). It is really great nerf, that makes the nataruk much closer to other incarnon bows like paris or dread which AoE wasn't as big as nataruk's old AoE. That nerf made the nataruk no longer an unique bow. It stopped to be able to clear whole corridor of enemies with 1 shot. Even it requires a bit of aiming like incarnon dread/paris. Now tenet arca plasmora is way better than the poor nataruk. That is really sad, the nerf was really big dissappointment for me, imo it wasn't entirely necessary.

"Despite listing 0.1s reload time (0.05s rounded up), the reload time is actually 0.5s."

It's probably due to how battery magazines work, meaning 0.05 reload time is a time to start ammo regen plus 0.45 seconds from the 2.2 ammo/s battery reload.

A bodyshot quest-bow with infinite ammo overshadows all but maybe 10 other primaries in the game. Excellent design.

Anyone know if Firestorm affects the charged and perfect shots hitbox?

The headshot parts contradicts itself, it says only charged shots gets headshot multiplier and then it says only quick shot gets headshot multiplier.

"Quick and Perfect Shots have a headshot multiplier of 1x."

"No headshot multiplier on charged or perfect shots. Quick shots will still benefit from headshots, however."

DO NOT USE WITH MAG'S MAGNETIZE.

The visual effect is biblical but jesus christ I dropped to 30 fps from 144 just for firing it into a magnetize bubble.

This page contains an error. At "Disadvantages over other Primary weapons" it says the Quick and Perfect shot do not make a headshot multiplier. In the notes, the Charged and Perfect Shot do not make a headshot multiplier.

This page recommends not getting alot of fire rate, replacing point strike with critical delay. Every bow needs fire rate. without fire rate it takes twice as long to kill anything, wether it be heavy targets or groups of trash mobs. This weapon is perfect for point strike because it raises it crit chance to a nice spot and critical delay wont actually increase dps.

Spectres consider its infinite ammo to be zero and use secondary.

Looking this "non aoe just huge projectile hitbox" bow that can't use Split Flight.

Meanwhile new Cinta (similar mechanic), Incarnon Dread and Paris (AoE at incarnon), still able to optimize 400% Multishot from Split Flight despite being AOE at some point.

Look at the stats, its practically asking to be run using Hunter Munitions + Viral build.

"The projectile hitbox of both the perfect shot and the charged shot is quite large, allowing the player to hit enemies and even achieve headshots without needing to be perfectly precise."

More like "the projectile is so goddamn large you have to aim anywhere but at the head to actually score headshots". I swear, against the grineer i have to aim directly above them (as in, so high their HP bar doesn't show up) and headshots on MOAs are RNG cause you'll hit somewhere else before the head.

I recommend a 3x +/ 1X - riven with fire rate, or 2x + to be able to fire rather quick perfect shots and not going above the threshhold of not being able to use perfect shot at all due to too high fire rate

This bow's name can be a rough reference to Natah... Ruk is loosely translated as lovable in Thai. So the name of this bow is Lovely Natah.

Neat thing about not having a quiver is that it doesn't clash with your syandana

Conflicting information:

"Quick and Perfect Shots have a headshot multiplier of 1x."

"No headshot multiplier on charged or perfect shots. Quick shots will still benefit from headshots, however."

I don't know how to edit stuff but hopefully someone who does can fix it.

This is the only weapon in primary category that has "inf" for Ammo max in the CSV file, every other charge type weapon has 0 written in that slot

And that's why I can't use a float or integer in that slot!