the missile pistol is, urinonically, better in dumbfire mode...

because it is essentially a Commando rocket. it does 1000 AP5 damage on impact and only 300 of that is AoE AP3.

with Dumbfire, you can actively treat this as a pocket Commando for sniping weakspots, and it does a LOT of things extremely well on the bot front. then the Homing Mode is there for specific targets.

for instance, this thing can one-tap hulks to the eye. yes, the Ultimatum can do it too, but this thing holds 4 total shots, and should you miss the eye, a second hit will kill them, and at that point it's simply as efficient as an Ultimatum - two hulks killed per combat load.

it can also onetap hulks to the vent, so between vent and eyeshots, you're looking at POSSIBLY four hulks killed before you run out of ammo. the Ultimatum can only match this if they are exceptionally close to eachother.

just like Commando, this thing has ZERO bullet drop. it airbursts at around 100 meters, so while you can't snipe things across the map the same way a Commando can, you can still pull off very precise shots across bases. it'll one shot cannon turrets. it'll one shot mortars and AA's. it'll one shot a Tank if you hit the turret vent. I believe it'll oneshot a barrager if you hit the exposed launcher weakspot, most of the time I do this they indeed die but given recent health buffs they might have been damaged by something else first... you can 2-tap a factory strider's upper cannon, and you can snipe a factory strider's eye around three times to kill it; with one rocket as room for error.

using its lock-on feature it is one of the strongest and most immediate hard counters you can personally hold to deal with Gunships. a single rocket will destroy one. for this, I -do- suggest using homing mode.

you can also snipe fabricators with it - specifically, shooting the vent is extremely easy since this weapon is pinpoint accurate and doesn't drop over distance. long as the vent is facing you and is within 100 meters you can blast it, and so can you blast (in one shot) fusion cannons.

it competes with Ultimatum and surpasses it if your aim is particularly on point and you have other mass AoE sources (it's EXCELLENT with Dynamite for instance since that one covers AoE + demo force)

one of the best sidearms we've gotten in a V E R Y long time, and it has plenty of good uses on the bug front too - it can instantly peel a charger's leg or onetap their backside, you can snipe impaler heads with it, and in emergencies you can 2 tap bile titans to the face (I recommend baiting the acidbreath animation if you intend to do this).

on Illuminate, it serves still as a good spawn closer, but its best role is, *no joke,* killing harvesters (which die in one solid hit to the leg joints) and it'll handily onetap stingrays.

with a supply backpack this is all the elite killing you're ever going to need unless you repeatedly miss - and you can do some very cool loadouts with it since all your antiheavy needs are solved with one stratagem that already has a lot of other great and powerful synergies and you then have three more free stratagem slots to use as desired.

it further combos particularly well with some stratagems and weapons - there are very cool combos you can do with this + 110mm Eagle, and WASP + P33 is ridiculously solid for homing heavy kills. WASP sometimes fails to secure kills; with this, you have an immediate finisher.

I l o v e this thing. hard to use to its absolute full potential and I'm still learning new tricks with it!