SLF Plasma Repeater Damage Type.

[Nero Tacitus]

Hi all.

I've been scouring the web to try and determine the properties of the SLF Plasma Repeater, but I haven't been able to find anything substantial, let alone anything concrete, about the weapon's damage type. I was hoping someone (perhaps a dev) could state whether the weapon is A) thermal-kinetic and/or B) absolute damage?

I'm guessing it isn't absolute (that would seem comparably OP), but it would be nice to know for sure, and if not, whether the weapon enjoys the benefits of being thermal-kinetic.

Cheers.

 

[NascentChemist]

While the station menu doesn't say, even in the "read more" section, I imagine it's absolute damage. That would keep it consistent with PAs. And it seems to do great against both shields and hull.

I suppose to truly test it, you'd need to have a player accomplice to experiment.

 

[Blasphemous One]

PA Deals 60% Absolute 20% Kinetic 20% Thermal, SLF PR follows same damage profile, Probably

 

[Nero Tacitus]

Exactly. All we have are assumptions. It would be good if a dev could weigh in conclusively.

I'd be surpised if they weren't thermal-kinetic, but absolute, not so sure. Seems the other fighter types would have a hard time competing if they were.

 

[yolomcbobbinz]

Well it has plasma in the name, think that's a hint

 

[Morbad]

Last time I checked it was behaving like plasma.

I'd be surpised if they weren't thermal-kinetic, but absolute, not so sure. Seems the other fighter types would have a hard time competing if they were.

Plasma repeaters have middling DPS and atrocious projectile speed. They also have enough thermal load to make firing them continually very difficult.

Even if they are 60% absolute, they are pretty well balanced against the other variants.

 

[Truesilver]

I was going to test this myself a while back but was lazy and instead asked Mark Allen, ED's Lead Programmer and 'Damage Supremo'.

By coincidence, the ever-obliging Mark kindly replied last week by PM.

Mark confirmed that when regular plasma moved from its previous 50-50 thermal-kinetic split to its current 60-20-20 absolute-thermal-kinetic split, the SLF Plasma Repeater did not move and remained at 50-50 thermal kinetic.

TL;DR: Frontier have confirmed to me that the SLF Plasma Repeater is still 50-50 thermal-kinetic and has no absolute damage component.

SOURCES

MY PM:

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When plasma moved to its current 60/20/20 absolute/thermal/kinetic split, did the SLF's plasma repeater do the same? Or is it on the old 50/50 thermal/kinetic ... or something else entirely?

MARK'S REPLY:

(...)

It look like the fighters are still using an even kinetic/thermal split. I think it's somewhat reasonable for them to not use the absolute damage - while they're both plasma weapons they're much more puny versions compared to the whacking great cannons elsewhere

With thanks as ever to Mark and his team.

o7

 

[Nero Tacitus]

I was going to test this myself a while back but was lazy and instead asked Mark Allen, ED's Lead Programmer and 'Damage Supremo'.

By coincidence, the ever-obliging Mark kindly replied last week by PM.

Mark confirmed that when regular plasma moved from its previous 50-50 thermal-kinetic split to its current 60-20-20 absolute-thermal-kinetic split, the SLF Plasma Repeater did not move and remained at 50-50 thermal kinetic.

TL;DR: Frontier have confirmed to me that the SLF Plasma Repeater is still 50-50 thermal-kinetic and has no absolute damage component.

SOURCES

MY PM:



MARK'S REPLY:



With thanks as ever to Mark and his team.

o7

Awesome! Thank you.