Newcomer / Intro Burst rate of fire property on burst lasers

[b1th0ven]

There's property in burst lasers, burst rate of fire, alongside with rate of fire
Does it mean there's a burst mode for burst lasers? How to engage this mode? Or what does it mean?

 

[aRJay]

Burst lasers are a bit like a shotgun and fire multiple pulses each time so you get 4 pulses of energy released 4.8 times per second.

 

[b1th0ven]

So it's like sequence, one click, one package of 4 pulses?
And between packages rate is 4.8 and between rays inside "package" rate is 19? Am I getting it right?

 

[aRJay]

Hold the trigger down and 4.8 times a second you get a burst of 4 packets of energy so in a second you deliver 19 packages.

 

[SlickPBW]

OMG. Just shoot them and play.

 

[d8veh]

The statistics don't mean very much. Burst lasers do a bit more damage thean pulse lasers and draw a bit more power. They also seem to be better at penetrating hulls to snipe powerplants.

There are many other more important factors than the basic stats for determining how effective weapons are. The time they stay on the target, the time that they fire until the capacitor is empty and the drop-off range are all much more important.