Ship Builds & Load Outs Ships Incendiary Rounds

[Sebastian Rooks]

I was comparing ships in Coriolis and noticed in the weapons that incendiary rounds is part thermal and part kinetic damage. I was told it has no kinetic damage, it's all thermal. I'm wondering if they changed something or has it always been that way?

I think this might shed some light on the subject:

Weapon Damage Splits Unraveled

The partition of the different types of damage (i.e. thermal, kinetic, absolute) has been determined for Railguns, Incendiary Multi-Cannons, and Plasma Accelerators. The community has long suspected that Railguns have a damage partition of roughly 60% thermal and 40% kinetic, with different...

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Rook o7

 

[L M P]

I think this might shed some light on the subject:

Weapon Damage Splits Unraveled

The partition of the different types of damage (i.e. thermal, kinetic, absolute) has been determined for Railguns, Incendiary Multi-Cannons, and Plasma Accelerators. The community has long suspected that Railguns have a damage partition of roughly 60% thermal and 40% kinetic, with different...

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Rook o7

Both pages are dated April 19th 2019 so the information is current. Is this something that was changed recently or has it always been like that?

 

[Krash]

I crossed a threshold yesterday with my build by adding a c1 OC/Drag frag to my loadout. Now I take noticeable heat damage during combat. It doesnt cause malfunctions but it may if my opponent hits me with heat inducing special effects.

• 4A MULTI-CANNON / OVERCHARGED / AUTO LOADER
• 4A MULTI-CANNON / OVERCHARGED / INCENDIARY
• 3C PACIFIER FRAG-CANNON / OVERCHARGED / INCENDIARY
• 2D FRAGMENT CANNON / OVERCHARGED / INCENDIARY
• 2D FRAGMENT CANNON / OVERCHARGED / INCENDIARY
• 1E FRAGMENT CANNON / OVERCHARGED / DRAG MUNITIONS [new]
• 1G BURST LASER / LONG RANGE / SCRAMBLE SPECTRUM
• Total DPS = 956

 

[Starman 1966]

Switch the huge incendiary MC to corrosive shell. Heat fixed, additional hull softening and will run out of ammo at the same time the huge autoloader does.

 

[Bob Lighthouse]

Yeah, that’s the catch. If you use efficient weapon on one of your guns it will keep all of your weapons cooler, that might do the trick, but no promises. I've tried reducing heat by using the thermal spread experimental effect on the power plant, thrusters and frame shift drive, but nothing I've tried so far works as well as a single efficient weapon. If some one knows of a more effective way to reduce thermal load, please tell me what it is! (Saying don’t use incendiary rounds or use a heat sink launcher doesn’t count.)

Armored powerplant w/thermal spread will do way more than a single efficient weapon, or any of those other mods.

 

[Bob Lighthouse]

Switch the huge incendiary MC to corrosive shell. Heat fixed, additional hull softening and will run out of ammo at the same time the huge autoloader does.

This is a great bit of advice.

 

[L M P]

Armored powerplant w/thermal spread will do way more than a single efficient weapon, or any of those other mods.

Thanks! I’m going to try that out on my FAS since it’s got power to spare.

 

[Sebastian Rooks]

Both pages are dated April 19th 2019 so the information is current. Is this something that was changed recently or has it always been like that?

I honestly can't answer that question with any degree of accuracy. I'm not sure anyone could, without having tested the same weapons and effects, in the past. Frontier doesn't willingly volunteer information either. But yes the info is indeed current.

Armored powerplant w/thermal spread will do way more than a single efficient weapon, or any of those other mods.

+ 1. Even without thermal spread, G5 armored does wonders with heat issues.

 

[L M P]

After the updates I've noticed that I can now put weapons on my FDL that used to make it overheat badly. I don't know if the other ships are the same. I plan to test some of the other ships to see if this is true for them as well.