Rifleman Archive

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damnthatwook wrote:

i've heard that strafe shot 2 can do massive damage, but when i use it, it sucks. whats the trick?

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ok... now please give us the stats on your rifle

what you are hunting

and if you use a power up and what stats on that if you do.

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Waste93 wrote:

You might want to give some hard numbers so we can look at what may be happening.

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damnthatwook wrote:

yes i am master.

i usally use master head shot. it seems to do much better than strafe shot 2.

my gun is not 'uber' by any standard

my t21 is like 550 max dam,

my dxr6 i think is around 330.

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StrafeShot2 is a random pool white HeadShot3 is a Mind pool hit. So though SS2 has a much higher damage multiplier you may also be hitting each pool spreading the damage around. So HS3 can be a better specials.

Also you probably aren't speed capped with SS2 if you are only Master Rifleman. Which means you are probably shooting SS2 at a little over 2sec depending on the speed of the rifle. However HS3 has a much lower delay mod. So you are getting twice as many shots off since that is probably firing at the cap.

Which gives a comparative damage of about 6X with HS3 which is all targeted at a single pool compared to SS2 which is at 5X and spread over the three pools.

That assumes firing at a single target. As the number of targets increases so does the effectiveness of SS2 in the example since you are hitting each target as opposed to just a single one.

Hope that helps out some.