Grimlock swords?

[Francis Crawford]

2 of the 3 Grimlocks have a sword accessory, whose benefit is “+10% weapon cooldown”. This confuses me for two reasons:

A. I’m not aware that Grimlocks have any kind of weapon cooldown.
B. When there is a weapon cooldown, then increasing it would be bad. -10% would be a benefit, but +10% would be a drawback.

Does anybody know what the Grimlock swords actually do?

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[Optimus_Pig]

A. They all have cooldowns. It used to be much more obvious, but I think the cooldowns have been reduced.

B. It should be a bonus of some sort. All of the accessories are listed in terms of +X% The question though, is does it mean you can fire for 10% longer, or is the cooldown reduced by 10%?

[Rowdypup]

@franciscrawford the term “Weapon Cooldown” refers to when Grimlock (or any Transformer really) uses their attack (i.e firing a lazer) for a long period of time (with no rests) and then must stop to “reload” so they can attack again (best tested on the Walking Mortars)- as the sword that you mentioned reduces this by 10%, so Grimlock can now “reload” (unnoticeably) faster, but he will still have to rest every now and then

[Francis Crawford]

Thanks, @Optimus_Pig and @Rowdypup.

I rechecked, and the overheating possibility is indeed mentioned in one of the descriptions. Further, I forced the issue and indeed got weapon unavailability.

Still, given how good the Grimlocks’ weapon availability generally is, this feature seems to be only one step above total uselessness.

[sheepybach]

Sorry Not Grimlock but same sort of thing.
Bludgeon in the comp running now there is Reflector + 20% CLIP SIZE. What is that akll about please???

[Drover’s Dog]

Living in a country where owning a gun is not allowed generally I can only assume that it means you get 20% more bullets before reloading. E.g if it took 5 shots before waiting for a bit before firing another 5 you now have 6 shots.

[sheepybach]

Snap no guns here either in God’s Own Country WALES. Bludgeon has a constant fire rate any way. Ah well thanks for reply. I may go for it and then I’ll find out.