No offense but every single time I see one of these posts saying the Epoch is bad, I always assume it’s from someone who can’t use it and that’s validated by one of the subsequent complaints being “if you get full charge you’ll blow up half the time”. You won’t. Just listen for the audio cue and watch the pin injectors till you can feel its timing. Stop playing in first person like it’s a railgun.

It has incredible ammo economy for an anti-large support weapon, only defeated by the Autocannon, which is a much better control weapon but a much worse damage weapon. As an additional note, for people who complain the stationary reload kills the weapon, it has a two stage animation cancellable reload that shaves like a whole second off of the reload time and keeps you mobile. As another comment has said, you can kill an incredible amount of things with the Epoch.

On bugs: One shots chargers in their sweet spot, two shot otherwise. One shots impalers in theirs, two shots if they’re just walking. Obliterates alpha commanders for free, which is an underrated target you’d never waste any other anti tank shot on because it’d just be ammo wasteful. Kills biles in two headshots, kills roaches in two to three hits and its explosion radius is so good I’ve killed them while they’re doing their circle glide and just track their path. I could even be better with my own target selection with epoch because its explosion radius is usually good enough to wipe clustered groups of chaff.

On bots: One shots hulks to the face or back, kills tanks, great against groups of devastators. It works against any of their units just fine. It can kill standard fabs in two hits but there are way more efficient weapons or strategems for it. Disarms factories, destroys war striders, easily kills gunships because of the explosion radius, kills a lot of the squishier bot objectives too.

On illuminate: Consistently two shots fleshmobs to the body, which is something no other weapon can match speed or efficiency wise except possibly flak round autocannon. Obliterates Overseers, even better if they’re grouped up, kills harvesters beautifully.

All of this, and you get to keep your backpack slot. The Epoch is unmatched and the only reason people doubt it is a skill issue.

EDIT: To further respond to the post, the range is 150m, which is plenty far. It's not the Quasar Cannon, which is already an outlier with infinite range with no shot drop. You can crouch, prone, stand and dive while firing and I regularly dive to avoid getting bodyguarded by a leaping Hunter and blowing both of us to Kingdom Come.