Turns out the medium plasma accelerator is, as I suspected, indeed not functioning as it's supposed to. An exert from a discussion I was having with Mark Allen:
"Yeah the plasma accelerator damage was set a bit strangely - each one was doing a different damage type... some copy paste errors there. Has already been caught and should be fixed for 1.5 though."
Pretty excited to give the thing a go in the impending beta. I'd certainly love to have plasma accelerators become a practical choice for smaller craft.
10% to shields, 140% to standard armor. Want to test C2 plasmas in beta, now? I'm available at the founders world. In-game name is Frenotx.Thanks so much - that's hugely helpful! Interesting that thermal does 100% damage to standard armour. I don't suppose the values vs shields/standard armour for explosive damage got mentioned too?
Thermokinetic weapons have a thermal component, and a kinetic component. Just think of it as two discrete attacks (a thermal one and a kinetic one) happening at the same time. Rail guns have fabulous penetration, so as the hull wears down on your target, there is an increasingly high chance that your shot will pierce the hull, and hit something. You can hit subsystems other than the one you're targeting- including subsystems that are already at 0%. If your shot pierces the hull, the majority of the damage goes to whatever module gets hit, instead of the hull. The end result is that rail guns aren't great at destroying hulls, since a lot of their damage ends up just hitting stuff inside. They are great for taking down shields and sniping modules, though.Hey, could anybody clarify how hull damage works for railguns? I know it is thermal/kinetic, so in theory, same damage against shield and hull...
I tried yesterday a 5x railguns configuration on my Python:
- Yep, quoted at 43 MJ of shield damage per shot, it did not take long to take down the shield of this dangerous NPC Python.
- But against the hull, targeting the power plant, sometimes I took almost 30% of his hull nailing the 5 shots, sometimes, less than 10%... I thought that I had hit some sybsystems, which took damage instead of the hull, but when the hull dropped to 0% (and it took me a lot of shots, much more than for dropping his shield), his power plant was damaged at 60% only.
- And yep, my temperature rose to nearly 400% (I did not use heatsinks) in the end, but I lost only about 10% hull and between 10-40% of various modules. So not a bad setup when you do not plan to score many kill (in PvP bounty hunting for instance).
- Tried against some low rank Adder/Sidewinder's, and surprisingly nailing the 5 shots did not take them down.
Oh, BTW, I do confirm that 3 C3 Plasma Accelerators do the expected damage to hull
Oh, they have changed this in 1.5 you mean?
Because without accurate data, how would you know what does what? Have you ever seen a RPG without stats / numbers? And since FD does not provide any accurate numbers...
Graphs are a hand way of visually comparing various weapons, and making more intelligent decisions when trying to fit weapons for a specific purpose / feel.
Yes, they were bugged. A "copy paste" error by the devs, apparently. It has been resolved in 1.5, so they're now doing the damage that they're supposed to.Oh, they have chaged this in 1.5 you mean?
So far, plasm had been tested at 27 MJ per shot...did FD double that? Was it bugged previously?
Damn, almost a year to fix that..? Oh boy...
Well the problem is that it "worked", it's just the damage was wrong. Since the data provided in-game is pretty limited, it's a little hard to pick up on these things- especially when the numbers are on a weapon that's not terribly popular to begin with.
That, is exactly what I was dreaming about when I used to fly my lightweight paper shield Cobra at conflict zones, flying around 450 m/s spotting Pythons and Anacondas that happened to have lost their shield...
Great suggestions!
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