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Laser pistol overkill?
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Sat Jul 14, 2007 10:54 amby Ramrider
I never noticed before, but having just lost Firewall in three attacks, I spotted that he lost 38% from a laser pistol. I checked the weapons roster.
How come a laser rifle deals "light to heavy damage", a laser
cannon deals "light to heavy damage", but a laser
pistol does "very heavy to devastating"? Seems a bit backwards to me...
Re: Laser pistol overkill?
Posted:
Sat Jul 14, 2007 3:18 pmby Supercollider
Ramrider wrote:I never noticed before, but having just lost Firewall in three attacks, I spotted that he lost 38% from a laser pistol. I checked the weapons roster.
How come a laser rifle deals "light to heavy damage", a laser
cannon deals "light to heavy damage", but a laser
pistol does "very heavy to devastating"? Seems a bit backwards to me...
Yup sounds about right, good job the weapons are getting fixed for V2
Posted:
Sat Jul 14, 2007 3:28 pmby Tammuz
it's just fluff. there's alot worse issues with the weapons than what their called
do you really expect the mods to grade EVERY SINGLE weapon so that it's all nice and doesn't have the little issues. just off the current weapons situation the stat combinations make 100 weapons, 21 possible recharges for each of those weapons, thats a possible 2100 seperate weapons,it's not important that their names all follow a nice hierachy, we'll try, but it won't be perfect
in v2 we'll have special effects too, so that'll boost the numbers even more.
Posted:
Sat Jul 14, 2007 3:44 pmby Ramrider
Blimey... that's a lot of gubbins.
What do you mean by "21 possible recharges", though?
Posted:
Sat Jul 14, 2007 3:56 pmby Tammuz
well you know how it says short recharge? that just means the recharge is greater 0, there are 20 different lengths of time that a short recharge weapon can have as it's recharge time, that plus the one length of time No Recharge weapons have, makes 21.
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Sat Jul 14, 2007 4:20 pmby Ramrider
Ah, with you.
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Sat Jul 14, 2007 4:25 pmby Tammuz
but it needs to be cut, anything with a recharge over a minute really isn't worth bothering with.
Posted:
Sat Jul 14, 2007 7:56 pmby Flashwave
Or, we could just go ith forcing the same amount of energy out of a smaller barrrel. Hence, more kick.
Re: Laser pistol overkill?
Posted:
Sun Jul 15, 2007 11:10 pmby steve2275
Ramrider wrote:I never noticed before, but having just lost Firewall in three attacks, I spotted that he lost 38% from a laser pistol. I checked the weapons roster.
How come a laser rifle deals "light to heavy damage", a laser
cannon deals "light to heavy damage", but a laser
pistol does "very heavy to devastating"? Seems a bit backwards to me...
killed prowl with 1 hit in the original movie
Posted:
Sun Jul 15, 2007 11:37 pmby DISCHARGE
Tammuz wrote:but it needs to be cut, anything with a recharge over a minute really isn't worth bothering with.
unless it's really cool!
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Sun Jul 15, 2007 11:50 pmby steve2275
i always did pretty good with a l p
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Mon Jul 16, 2007 8:22 amby Ramrider
Oh, I'm not knocking laser pistols. I've just shuffled Twitch's stats last night, so he could have enough Firepower to carry one, and aside from getting a thorough drubbing from the Sharkticons when I went to bed (I think mostly because we had too many newbies on the team - at high level 2, Twitch was the second most senior, with a level 7, 2 level 1s and two level 0s rounding it out. I don't think we stood much chance, to be honest), he seems quite happy with it. Most characters at his level can be taken out with two or three shots. The laser pistol rocks.
I was just questioning why it was so much more powerful than the equivalent rifle, and even cannon. The question's more or less been answered.