Man, this game.... I have to look up every snipped in the internet ! Nothing can be found in the game itself!
WHY is nowhere noted:
- How much damage increase for "Thermal Conduit"? When? At 60% heat = 10% damage ??! At 180% heat = 30% ?!? I have several different google answers - 5 years ago!
- Thermal shock: How much heat? Does it scale with weapon size? Does it effect npcs?! Do Npcs take heat damage ? Is the Heat still capped at 90% "bEcAuSe oF rEaSoNs" ?
- Emmissve munitions. What is the effect? How much increase? Does it affect gimbal / turret? Does it counter chaff ? (I know it doesn't; but it was my very first thought !)
Same about the Impact grenade, or about sequence scrambler or whatever! Frontier NEVER looks back at old stuff and fixes them or GOD BEHOLD adjust some values. Why ever use torpedoes lol
Thermal Conduit starts providing additional damage at 91% giving 1% additional damage per % of heat over 90, capping out at 60% and 150% heat. The heat is measured when the shot is fired, increasing heat over a threshold by performing the shot, does not change the damage of the subsequent shot nor any projectile in flight.
Thermal shock - a fair amount of heat, it is purely damage based, more damage more heat, it does affect NPCs (in that their heat increases making gimbal locks better, but), NPCs don't take heat damage (I may be wrong on this or it may have changed in recent years). The ADDED heat is capped at 90%, i.e. if your target is already at 100% heat, you can add 90% to that.
The reason IS because PvP is a thing no matter how much you like or dislike it, NPCs don't use 'all in' builds, it only became a problem when players started abusing this lack of foresight from FD and for a while it was completely stupid. Whoever had more heat canons won. Suffice it to say, don't use it for any purpose, players will actually often damage you more (see thermal conduit) if you use it on them, and NPCs don't care.
Emissive is applied to shield and hull hits and increases the sensor cross section of the object targeted. Gimbals lose lock on colder objects, the colder, the more trouble they have, 1 bullet of emissive makes a completely 0% heat ship 100% targetable. In any multicannon or gimballed laser heavy loadout, emissive should be in there as it will keep the gimbals locking fully on the targets.
Also, chill out bro, we like that this game isn't for everyone.
