Iāll be honest - my recent criticism of Plasma was under the assumption that way more people are using it.
General question for āProā players (in other words, not me - the leaderboard-topping, Ironman-flying people, examples being @Francis, @OneWingLunarian, @SA-GoldenBoss128, @Sammarald, and others):
What weapons are you actually using competetively, and why?
For me I just collect every weapon gift & atom at Dailies+Weekly, use only Positron at Space Race, at Ironman I donāt use weak weapons like Corn, Boron Railgun because when I used those they kill less enemies+increase the chance of my dying, and I donāt play Anniversary.
Positron seems good thanks to auto-lock, high firerate and dps thanks to splits
Though during competitions i tend to pick up everything but absolver and corn sometimes
I sometimes use Bullet Spray Expander at Space Race too.
Plasma, Positron and Absolver are the best weapons in my opin-ion. Laser is good for bosses. On Weekly youād better collect them all, including corn.
To win, duh 
So generally, itās more valuable to collect gifts for points than it is to rely on a specific weapon?
Because, as I said a far while ago, thatās actually more than what I was expecting when it comes to ābalancedā weapons. That actually puts a lot of my concerns to rest regarding weapon choice, and balancing in general. I think itās safe to say that Galbatorix, in the end, was pretty successful.
Also glad that Absolver is still divisively controversial and the bane of all things resembling consensus, just as it ought to be.
Yeah because of every gift worths 16k points+atomsā points increase the more you collect them.
I though the āEither brave or stupidā medal would be worth it at Conet Chase now that Mysterious Ship is a potential boss there, but still, no even if it worths now 50k points. Whoever is relying on mission medal to get more points is making a big mistake.
I wasnāt really relying on mission medals, but I was under the false assumption that sticking to a weapon was of greater points value than changing to one that would potentially score less points.
Well, I was, I want to make sure nobody else fall in that trap.
I was too until BoggY advised me.
Yes, although there are some waves where youāll have to have Plasma/Positron, or even Ion (asteroids)
Weapons that arent used as often are contributing to a better weapon virtuosity bonus
Because I cannot check the forum well in these days
have you ever considered taking over the universe? trying to read through some of these and am amazed. I canāt keep my pc running quickly with too many tabs open at once!!!
Huh, excuse me? That data is very obsolete for CIU. It only applies to CI3/4/5. Microsoft OneDrive - Access files anywhere. Create docs with free Office Online.
Will there be allow cheats?
Cuz i have the game on steam and it dosent work
The weapon data.
Is this a problem cuz i have it on steam?
Itās going to be fixed next update, read about how to do it for Steam here:
Pretty sure we have more important fish to fry, but can lightning fryer be buffed again?
The current DPS is pretty mediocre and worse still, the two bolts from 
6-10 on fighters diverge pretty considerably, making it significantly worse at killing one single enemy. Sure the main purpose of this weapon is crowd control, but even at that, its utility is rather questionable.
First of all, the two bolts should have a narrower spread, not as narrow as the dual bolts on the BX series, but still narrower than the current dual bolt system, this could be achieved by changing the spawn point of the bolts from the rear pods to the front pods.
Secondly, it needs more damage. Iām not very experienced with exact damage values so it might not be very smooth or balanced. I have noted the overreliance on the bolts for DPS instead of the base DPS which is very poor. In waves where there is unlimited time and lots of weak chickens, lightning does a pretty good job, but with a few very tanky breeds like balloon chickens, it is inadequate. Its lower power levels are disproportionately underpowered. It also doesnāt do particularly well against asteroids.
So I buffed the lower levels quite a bit, and left the max power lightningās volley untouched since I do think max power lightning is decent enough.
A slightly higher firerate wouldnāt hurt either, not as fast as positron of course but faster than the current firerate.
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/834058998546038788/845972840673968169/CIU-WeaponData-v81.override.xls
Note that I might revise my lightning buff should issues arise.
Indeed. You overbuffed low power, reduced the max power damage increase below 20% and significantly nerfed its boss DPS. Iād hardly call that an improvement.
Iād really appreciate if you at least waited until itās time for weapon changes. Just because weāre testing stuff right now, doesnāt mean we donāt have other things to take care of first (and we havenāt even reached a consensus on everything yet).
Feel free to revise it, but also wait until weāre done with everything else. I donāt want more back-and-forth changes like with Vulcan and Utensil.
i dont know
The difficulty was 38% - 78%, with Superstar Hero (78% - 118%)