Rifleman Archive

Although doing headshots will give you the best xp, when it comes to helping your group it's useless because everyone else is mostly attacking health. I find that strafeshot (you get it with novice rifleman) does more damage than regular and overcharge, and it hits random pools (which because of the relative body sizes I pressume, hits roughlyhealth 50% of the time, action 35% of the time and mind 15% of the time)

I also heard that strafeshot2 does massive damage... does it do more than headshot3?

Also, is the chance of scoring higher shots on your rifle (ie hitting 280 base damage most of the time on a 12-319 damage rifle)decided by your skills at all? Or is it just random?

And is headshot3 better than headshot2? Ive heard people say that it's damage increase over Headshot2 is only slight but the HAM costs are much higher. Should I use it? I don't want to have hotkeys for both HS2 and HS3on my toolbar because theres hardly any space.

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Strafe Shot 2 is superior to Head Shot in many ways.

yeah i kno... sucks that it only comes with master, since you wont need XP anymore....

and is headshot3 better than headshot2? And does your rifle skills have any effect on your chance of scoring higher or lower in your rifles damage range? Sorry for being repetative

Head Shot 3 is better damage, but its only slightly more damage, were theres significant HAM costs. No, getting master does not increase your damage, well in a way it does. But thats through different styles. Getting master does not mean your Head Shot 3 will be better then a Novice Rifleman with 2 lines in Sniper.

ok

so i shouldn't use headshot3 then right? I have it hard enough as a human with 500/500 focus/willpower stats.

Can't wait for sniper shot tho No more running into groups of enemies during pvp battles to get the deathblow in..

yea i use hs2 now instead of hs3, cuz the cost is just horrible on hs3 and it doesn't do that much more damage. im not sure how much damage strafeshot 2 is supposed to do but i know for a fact its stronger than any headshot, but it hits a random pool. startleshot2 i do have and i hit for about 1700+ damage with that plus its AoE =) so i imagine strafeshot2 is even better than that.

Thank Flyojumper for the numbers.

Head Shot2: Damage x2.5, Time x1.75

Head Shot3: Damage x3.0, Time x2.0

Startle Shot2: Damage x4.0, Time x?.?

Strafe Shot2: Damage x5.0, Time x?.?

I don't use HS3 anymore, I don't like the extra HAM cost and delay.

Does anyone have the numbers on flushing shot 1, and startle shot 1? O.o

Actually i found supression fire very useful for grouping. Its not top notch damage BUT it uses way less mind than rifleman specials so you can fire much longer.

Flushing Shot1: Damage x2.0, Time x2.1

Startle Shot1: Damage x2.0, Time x2.1