GBO2 Psycho Zaku MK-II [TB]: Ridiculously fast 500 raid!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 เม.ย. 2023
- This video contains two matches I had with the recently released LV1 Psycho Zaku MKII on Gundam Battle Operation 2. It is a 500 cost raid with mobility befitting of a 650-700 coster, three instant staggers, a great list of skills and two melee weapons to stunlock with. It has many weaknesses though; such as low melee damage, awful durability, low amount of thrust and very short melee reach. This suit is very fun to handle and if you can isolate somebody it can do nice damage, but it feels very flawed at the same time. You can see in this first match just how little damage I deal and how long I have to stunlock a general to get anywhere. I hope that you enjoy watching!
Its primary ranged weapon is a bazooka with 1650 power, 5 ammo, 7.4 seconds cooldown, 17.5 seconds reload, 2 seconds swap time, 300m range and 80% stagger value. This has quite poor performance for a 500 cost weapon on its own, but it can combo with your other stuns to easily restrain the enemy. The stagger value also pairs nicely with your machine gun to break MA.
Its primary melee weapon is a heat hawk with 1600 power, 2 seconds cooldown, 0.5 seconds swap time and 100/105/110/125% combo modifier. Its power is absolutely awful and the range is short, but the combo modifier means it does more damage the deeper you are into the combo. Though the reach means that you won't often hit every swing in a four hit combo due to the attacks knocking them back.
Its first sub weapon is an enhanced type cracker grenade with 1800 power, 1 ammo, 10 seconds reload, 1 second swap time and 10% stagger value. Unlike other hand grenades, this instantly staggers. It has a large splash radius and a much improved throwing arc so you can easily work this into stunlocking combos from range.
Its second sub weapon is a pair of heat hawks with 1850 power, 3 seconds cooldown, 0.5 seconds swap time, 50%x2 side swing modifier, 75%x2 downswing modifier, 100/105/110/115% combo modifier, 150%x2 heavy attack modifier and 2 seconds heavy attack focus time. These do much more damage than the single heat hawk due to the side swing modifier being stronger. The downswing is very fast and easy to confirm if you need a knockdown. The heavy attack has fast focus time but it does awful damage, it isn't really worth using unless you are aiming to clash on purpose with another heavy attack raid.
Its third sub weapon is a machine gun with 120 power, 50 ammo, 400 RPM, 10 seconds reload, 0.77 seconds swap time, 300m range, 800 DPS and 9% stagger value. This has high stagger value and fire speed, on par with a Hizack machine gun. Useful for finishing off low enemies or to accumulate stun.
Its fourth sub weapon is a machine gun grenade with 1000 power, 1 ammo, 8 seconds reload, 0.77 seconds swap, 300m range and 40% stagger value. This is a fast reloading instant stagger so you can use this with your other stuns to close the distance before melee.
The LV1 Psycho Zaku MKII has 15000 HP, 15 ballistic resist, 14 beam resist and 25 melee resist. The suit has no shield so this durability is quite awful. You will be destroyed in one combo or close to it by any general with good damage output. It has a 15% reduction right shoulder buffer but this doesn't help much. Its actual defensive skills are good though with LV2 in both Maneuver Armor and Emergency Evasion.
It also has 145 walk speed, 225 boost speed, 55 thrust and 84 turning speed. This is absolutely off the charts mobility for a 500 coster, definitely making it the fastest suit at 500. You will be using this mobility to make up for the low durability, by avoiding damage rather than tanking it. It has LV2 Forced Injector and LV2 Flight Control which further improves this mobility.
It has access to LV1 Offence System which makes it hard for enemies to interrupt its long melee combos, it also has LV2 Power Accelerator which allows it to turn clashes into an advantaged situation. It can aim to clash on purpose with enemies so it can then boost out of the clash and do a full melee combo on them before they can move.
Overall I think that the Psycho Zaku MKII is a bit underpowered. The stuns and mobility are basically the best that any 500 cost raid gets, but the low durability and pitiful melee damage really kills the viability. It lacks the quick melee burst damage of other 500 cost raids, instead needing to lock enemies in long combos to do good damage. This makes it quite vulnerable to being interrupted by other enemies before it can finish the combo. This is made even worse by the poor durability since one combo from a melee general can kill it. I think that the suit should get a melee damage buff so it doesn't have to infinite combo for as long. Thanks for watching, and I hope that you enjoyed it!
Music used:
Yakuza 1, Scarlet Scar
Dynasty Warriors Gundam 2, A Good Thing Is Possible - เกม
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The movement speed alone scares me
Menacingly walk side to side XD
3:55 this whole fight felt personal
I Love Thunderbolt, I’m so glad their adding more of their suits.
YES I AGREE. MORE MORE MORE
really hoping we get at least one of the Acguys 🙏
They're* but I agree, thunderbolts designs are just great.
Hope they add the Gogg's from there
@CobraTrouser you're never gonna believe this
I finally got it and it's a "strong" raid held back a lot by terrible melee damage and the curse of all zaku suits THE STUBBY AF HEAT AXE.
The mobility is faithful the manga but not the damage output.
yeah, it basically beheaded a pegasus-class ship with heat hawks in the manga.
holy wow! that kapool must have had 50 melee resist.
As a Thunderbolt fan, I am pleased to see that it even has ranged weapons seeing as it didn't originally use any.
From my experience in using it, it's very fun and it can get some solid plays in, however it's durability and lack of range on the melee weapons are a huuuuuge issue. I can live with the low damage because I'm good act accumulating damage, but the suit doesn't even make it easy to use those melee weapons without the average opportunity for punishment than most raids.
Not only would forcing myself to get closer create more openings for the enemy, but it's lack of range messes with the game too. In the past three days of playing this MS, my melee priority has been broken through by General units a total of 17 times so far. Yes, I have an awful habbit of keeping trying of the bull this game hands me lol.
Yes, in some occasions the game can get wonky and your melee priority can get broken anyway due to the cursed peer to peer connection we must all endure in this game, but in the PZ MKII you endure it way more than the average Raid due to how short the melee weapons are. Mind you, the heat hawks it uses in the manga are actually longer, but let's just chock it up to the authors artstyle for now.
Due to it's short range and the fact that most Generals at 500 use beam sabers, they tend to have the latency advantage over you, especially when they hit you from your left or right side, even if you swing in those directions. The only angle in which such an occurrence isn't as common is when they're right in your face, but if you slash at the enemy General with the base of your heathawk, your chances of your priority being broken is still high. Due to this, even if it doesn't actually have negative-phantom-range like the Byarlant Custom Beam Saber, the latency makes it into a technicality, depending on the connection of who you're fighting.
Don't even get me and my friends started on how janky of a skill offense system can be. I genuinely can't tell if it doesn't activate because of a game issue or a latency issue. All I know is that half of the time it works and half of the time it doesn't.
70% of my bad engagements in this unit have occurred due to some sort of latency issue. The other 30%? Teammates who won't bunch up enough for me to get my combos off, lol.
Personally, I'm stumped on how they should fix this thing. If the game was perfectly stable, I'd be happy with it, but it's left in a very rocky state due to how unstable and unpredictable latency can be. One moment you're about to land a hit on a General as they swing at the same time as you, the next you're scratching your head, carefully observing game clips to figure out what exactly went wrong.
Yes, they could just give it better defense and damage and call it a day, but it's engagements will still be frustrating to some extent as long as latency works against it. My fix? Make the heat hawks "manga accurate" in length or give it some phantom range.
If the game wasn't janky I'd give the suit an 8/10, but until we get some fix to the latency or a significant buff that also improves the range, I'm going to have to leave it with a 7/10. In the matches where I haven't seen any lag, this suit does everything I ask it too and does it well despite the weaknesses, but I have just as many good games as I have bad games in that suit and most of the time those bad games are riddled with fluctuating latency problems.
With this in mind however, it does bring out a speck of irony.
The slower units at 300 and below have an easier time hitting their heat hawks than the high cost unit with double heat hawks. For obvious reasons? Of course, but it's still super ironic.
I agree. Offence System is kinda weird for fast melee attacks like this because of latency. Basically the way it works is that if they shoot you while you are in a melee animation on your screen, but that info hasn't been sent to their screen, you will get stunned as if offence system doesn't exist. It seems more consistent on suits with longer melee animations such as Dijeh SE-R or NT-D Unicorn Gundam.
@@avenger1_gbo260 Exactly! It's so wonky.
Hopefully the devs can find some sort of proper fix to it.
If they were to fix it, I think they'd have to give it a level of offense system that enhances the length of the stun resistant. Make it last one second as opposed to roughly 0.5 seconds. That would at least help juuuuuuust a little bit.
When you said low melee damage I was not expecting that. I always read the entirety of your descriptions but holy fuck that is some miserable melee damage.
Yeah the damage surprises me. They literally gave it a 100 cost heat hawk as a primary weapon, other than the cooldown being lower and it having amazing combo modifier.
The fact they added this blows my mind, now all we need is the gogg and its slenderman ass arms to slap people around with
Hi-Mo Hazel: "Finally, a worthy opponent! Our battle will be legendary!"
Very nice gameplay, as always. Keep up the good work!
They somehow managed to powercreep the Schuzrum Gallus, I'm actually impressed.
It’s like a gallus that traded off its ridiculously quick kill combo and passive manoeuvre armor for some instant staggers and two melee weps. Both fill different roles for raids imo
TBH it doesn't powercreep it. This thing lacks the instant kill burst damage that Schzurum Galluss gets and doesn't have the weird lack of thrust. I think I would have to say that this Psycho Zaku MKII is kind of mid tier among the 500 cost raids. Titania and Nightseeker Space Type are both far stronger.
I was playing Sniper II WD earlier and could snap the legs of Psycho MKII with just two shots.
Oh my God! It's a beast!!!! Or you are the beast!
This and full armor strike custom is my favorite 500 cost
Oh man, you did the Methuss dirty in the first clip lmao
It's like the Act Zaku got juiced up lol
No. This is the Schuzrum Gallus with thrusters and an additional melee weapon. Truly terrifying to enemy support MS.
@@ChrisBl33p. The melee pattern's from the Act Zaku Commander type lol.
Man there were like no supports in this round to target, not an easy game to be a raid.
And you won’t be seeing them at all this week. This thing is just a monstrous mobility unit there no support in the 500 category that will survive a round with this beast in play. Unless you have you get lucky and get good teammates that will cover you.
Why anybody would use a support in the cost bracket of S. Gallus is beyond me
Yeah I don't think anybody wants to risk fighting an all raid team of people trying out the new banner suit. It felt like pretty normal teams when I played 500 cost today though.
Hello.
A month ago, you made a guide for Sinaju's melee combos.
If I recall correctly, you said that you might consider making more videos like that, depending on their performace on YT.
So...if it did work, do you take petitions for another video like that?
Personally, I would like to ask for guides for both the red rider and the Rebawoo combos.
Greetings.
Hello.
Yeah my guides have had good enough performance so I will be making more. Currently I am making a beginners guide to generals on the PC Network Test, should be released on Saturday or Sunday. After that I will be making one for the Sazabi, but much more in depth than just combo guides.
I think Rebawoo is a good idea. I don't know how much time there will be between them but one for Geara Doga and Rebawoo should be coming in the future. I am not good with the Red Rider so I am not sure if I can make a quality guide for it, but I will consider it.
@@avenger1_gbo260 Thank you. I will be eager to see your guides and learn more.
Talking about red rider, I am thinking of MS which has a lot of weapons, either melee or long range, and thst you combo with.
Since red rider has 3 weapons, that is why it came to my mind.
Greetings and have a nice weekend.
Is it bad that I came up with a config nearly close to this after getting the first 4 steps of tuning done? Good lord my brother in GBO2.... Great round nonetheless.
Never used the PZMK2 but it looks great. Have you ever tried playing the Guncannon Mass Production type?
I haven't played MP Guncannon in quite a while but I do remember it being fun. I might try it out with an overtune shooting build for 450 or 500 cost.
@@avenger1_gbo260 Ah. Give the old suit a go. She may not have aged as well as i hoped but she's still reliable.
Me: Can I have the suit?
RNG Gods: NOPE!
Underrated.
Me for every suit I actually want.
Bandai decided to go 'screw it' and released a demon with power acc, HA, melee controller 3, 145 walkers, 225 boost speed, a gun that stuns in like 12 bullets and has considered fast fire rate, etc, etc. Ah yes, the smell of kampfer, scrum galluss and fear, all in the palm of our ps controllers.
so... does this thing just straight outclass schuzrum gallus? just as i was started to like that suit...
That kapool really said screw it defense is the best offense
Me: watching you dash right at Kapool "huh Maybe adding as much hp and leg armor as possible is the way to go"
Me watching you hit kapool 10 times for lackluster damage and he backs up out of the attack strings "ah thats why I focus melee damage instead"
This makes the Alma Zaku look like a kitten.
"Jesus christ... Jesus christ!... JESUS CHRIST!!!!" Feel bad for that methus pilot lmao
Man the Psycho Zaku does shit load of damage at 500, Had Melee Defense 3 and 2 and had one just destroy my Health with a full Dual Axe combo as a General with around 30 Melee defense, I haven't seen a Buff for it maybe it's people who went full melee damage
Fast Boi!
Wait how do you do a 4 hit combo? I thought max was 3,did that change?
This suit has the skill: melee combo controller lv3, so it has 4 swings. With both weapons
This thing looks sick. Don’t have a PS4 though so I doubt I’ll be able to get one when PC release finally happens.
did u get it
Aye scarlet scar, good taste
Oh no its on land now !!!
I feel stupid for having passed on this suit. I hate about 80% of all Thunderbolt designs, and I saw this as just another TB MS with an overly bombastic playstyle to match Thunderbolt's overly bombastic overall style. I suppose it didn't help that I didn't really encounter any in queues, so I couldn't really gauge its speed, but I love high speed raids. I guess I'll just have to get lucky.
When was this suit offered?
The suit is ridiculously fast
Fast at dying XD , as long as we dont get caught lacking we're good
is this worth the 190 recycle ticket avenger?
The one in recycle tickets store is different and space only, but still strong.
@@avenger1_gbo260 alright thx, im kinda new to this game. seems like the same ms. My bad
I ran into a game where I lost 95% of my HP (max 20400) after getting hit by the axe 4 times. Is this even possible?
Ain't way those combos are insane
these 8 hit melee seems as fun as stupid, i'm kinda broke on tokens thanks to the atlas but now i wanna roll for this zaku, may the gacha gods be with me
Wish you luck I went in and left with a narrative so I hope you at least get the suit.
I hope that's the end of Thunderbolt for a while at least
I have a feeling that we will get some more. This thing has a variant with armour and some weapons from the destroyed Full Armor Gundam, and there are some grunts like Ground Gundam and Bull-G to add.
Went in trying to get this suit left with a narrative and not it thank you and your weird rates bandai.
A decent flanker and punisher looks like. But those short reaches, low melee damage make it a target for tackle city especially against reliable teammates that have their eyes open. Something like this unit would be have benefitted from stealth so much
I'd prefer if they didn't give stealth abilities to suits with charge up heavy melee attacks.
What the hell is a ten-hits combo are they serious??
just some walking meat grinder
Most people backslide out of melee combos. Not with this monster especially with that 4 piece.
I thought I was seeing things!! Overwhelmingly offensive!!!
They wouldnt called psycho for nothing, look at them legs going
Ooooh this thing suuucks...that melee damage is absolutely terrible 😮
😮 want
Holy hell that heavy attack is weak
Shit was that like only 3k damage from a heavy attack? Damn that is low as hell
No need for that when you can swing left and right with lvl 3 melee controller and 2 melee options
I'M SORRY???
UHHHH
NOT EVEN 40 SECONDS IN I BLINKED AND THEY GOT DELETED WHAT THE FUCK JUST HAPPENED
Its cool but i bet you wear out your melee finger VERY quickly
this thing is busted
overtuned as fuck busted as hell
it makes punchy gallus look tame honestly
i mean your grenade stuns and can be tossed while boosting and you have the bazooka mg grenade and the mg has insanely good build stun
this thing is terrifying
The Melee damage is gross, it will be tough to move in and deal with a support with defenses like that and low damage output
TBH it seems busted at first glance but the melee damage stops it from being op. It has basically absolutely 0 burst damage, it needs to do long combos to do the same damage that other raids do in quick combos.
@@avenger1_gbo260 true because for some reason it builds dmg per hit bs losing it
Not Psycho Zaku, its Psychopath Zaku
Tho nesds s an hevi nearf
It’s honestly not that bad, the worst I’ve seen it do is one combo someone in a 1v1, but that will rarely happen in 5v5 match
TBH I think it needs a slight buff. Buff the base damage on the melee weapons by like +200 or +250, then it has some actual burst damage.