Topic: Weapons: The Math
Hey all. I've decided to make a small compilation of the pure stats of all the diffirent weapon types. Do note that this is without taking external factors into account and as such don't make any conclusions without considering those. I myself make no conclusions, I will however make some notes.
All stats are purely from the weapons with no skills or any other bonuses with the average 2 damage type ammo.
Format is as follows:
Weapon: <DPS> DPS @ <Optimal Range>m + <Falloff>m for <Accumulator use per second> acc/sec with <Alpha Damage> alpha
Missiles:
Small Missiles: 4,66 DPS @ 150m + 0m for 0,1333 acc/sec with 35 alpha
Medium Short Missiles: 7,5 DPS @ 150m + 0m for 0,1428 acc/sec with 105 alpha
Medium Long Missiles: 5 DPS @ 330m + 0m for 0,1428 acc/sec with 70 alpha
Lasers:
Small Lasers: 5,5 DPS @ 150m + 100m for 1,25 acc/sec with 22 alpha
Medium Short Lasers: 11,26 DPS @ 175m + 100m for 5 acc/sec with 56,32 alpha
Medium Long Lasers: 7,33 DPS @ 325m + 100m for 5 acc/sec with 44 alpha
Magnetics:
Small Magnetics: 5,94 DPS @ 120m + 50m for 0,6 acc/sec with 29,7 alpha
Medium Short Magnetics: 12,47 DPS @ 150m + 75m for 2,6667 acc/sec with 74,8 alpha
Medium Long Magnetics: 8,8 DPS @ 290m + 75m for 3 acc/sec with 88 alpha
Guns:
Small Guns: 8,25 DPS @ 75m + 125m for 0,3125 acc/sec with 26,4 alpha
Medium Short Guns: 17,6 DPS @ 125m + 200m for 0,25 acc/sec with 70,4 alpha
Medium Long Guns: 11,83 DPS @ 200m + 250m for 0,25 acc/sec with 94,6 alpha
Notes:
Most Weapons more then double their DPS from Small to Medium Short, Missiles have just over a 50% increase. From Short to Medium Long most weapons see about a 33% increase. The Missile increase is merely 7%. Medium Short Missiles however do offer an alpha strike that is at least 40% higher compared to other Medium Short weapons. Long Missiles have an alpha strike that is only higher then that of Lasers.
Most Weapons see their acc/sec increase from Small to Medium. Guns acc/sec decreases.
Magnetics and Lasers seem very similar yet lasers use almost twice as much acc/sec. I do not know if the bots compensate for this. This seems mostly caused by the lasers higher rate of fire.
Guns have vastly superior DPS, this is most likely compensated by bot bonuses. Guns DPS is about 50% higher.
Again, none of these notes take into account any bonuses from bots and skills.