There has been a lot of discussion on how to make the Sleeper Simulant better and after thinking about it for a while this is what I think would make the weapon more worthy of the exotic slot:
1. Increase critical damage shots by 10% from the current damage dealt.
2. Decrease non-critical damage shots by 25% from the current damage dealt.
3. Replace the 5x ricochet rounds perk with a new "exotic specific" perk which basically grants both Surplus AND Outlaw.*
4. Fix the bug where having "extra fusion rifle ammo" armor doesn't grant more ammo.
*With Surplus you would get 3-4 shots with each heavy ammo pickup (instead of just 2) and Outlaw would give an extremely quick reload speed after getting a critical kill.
Tell me what you guys think in the comments below.
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I dunno I think it's pretty damn nice as is. At most maybe raise the ammo to 9 without the heavy perk. And no more than 10 with. Anymore and it will just end up being nerfed like gally. What I like about SS is in pvp people can't blindly shoot a wall and let wolf pack go across the room killing things. And the damage it does in PVE is crazy! Can't believe increasing that damage is a recommendation. Do people not even try for the crit? That's where the gun shines so bright!!