I've been playing around with the X43 Mike lately... but I don't know, it just seems a little too useless, it runs out too quickly and does less damage than other close range weapons

this weapon svcks, just like the gauss rifle, they should put back the MOAR instead of this crap

I agree, why did they remove the alien weapons?

this is VERY good weapon in singleplayer

Mike is great at the very end, to kill those 4 cloaked aliens and a few uncloaked ones. With ammo 350+500 I killed them all. Just 1 reload, that's important to say.

X-43 Mike + Rapid Fire = Death ray. I love this gun in any maps that have any close quarters. Even without rapid fire, this is still quite the decent gun.

it wouldn't be that bad, if they increased movement speed with this weapon, otherwise you just walking like a turtle with close range gun

It's great for re-heating Pizza.

It works well, but ideally to use it you need the double primary weapon module, because its range is so limited. If you use it like you would a shotgun, it will kill people in armour VERY quickly. I haven't unlocked it yet, but I've come up against it 3 times now and only won one of those encounters because of a headshot.

i said it before and i'm going to say it again: WITH LIMITED RANGE YOU NEED HIGHER SPEED,
it's basically like a shotgun, with lower damage but with armor-penetrating-feature.
another good thing about it(which i'm not sure about, because never encountered a guy with x-43 mike against me) is that it doesn't do much sound, and you can act with it like with silencer

Aimpoint Enhance isn't needed with this puppy
I think it's actually pretty darn good, I understand why it does ZERO damage over 17m now. Almost every Scar user in range I manage to take them out <3

Personally I either slot Rapid Fire, Weapon Pro or Side Pack with it.

I find it effective even more for a few reasons:
_You do not have to think about damage reduction from Armor Mode since it ignores it
_Despite the netcode the way it is now, from the way the gun works, as soon as you spewed 9 ammo you know you can stop shooting. He's dead. Not yet visually because the latency is playing games on you, but you can stop firing. I LIKE THAT A LOT. That's the theory alright and I shoot 15 ammo on one target when it's a fight instead of an ambush on someone too static because I'll be missing a couple.

I haven't tried Point Fire Enhance with this as I think the interest will be mitigated but I have to some time, just to see if you can actually try to aim a half dozen in the head without worrying about the recoil spread.