Rifleman Archive

Quick question... I've been around serveral Master Sharpshooters the last couple days, and noticed that they were laying down Strafe2's at an extremely fast pace. I'd say close to pistol speed. I was just wondering how they do that with guns that have speeds between 6 and 10 seconds(They were using t21's). I know the speed bonuses arent THAT much. Do you guys use speed powerups or what?

Actually, the speed bonuses *are* that much. Masterscan fire specials at speeds roughlybetween 1 and 2 seconds.

masters have a +90% speed bonus. Any weapon with under a 10 sec ROF will fire normals at once a second. Specials take usually 2-3 seconds.

If the master is also a master marksman, they have a +95 and can fire most specials at the speed cap.

Yeah, what Daishar said. Master Rifleman gets +90 to rifle speed.

all the mods are not linear they are on a curve the higher up the scale you the more the effect for the fewer the points. the +5 speed difference between master marksmen and non master is effectively doubling the ROF for rifle masters. this is true for defense mods taming etc. the higher up you go in numbers the greater the effect per point. true for all classes not just rifle

Actually, the mods are very linear. The results appear to make them seem more effective but this is just a fluke of the math.

At 90% speed reduction a master will fire a 5 sec weapon every second, and any special with a dealy of x2 at the cap as well. A 3x delay special will still take 2 seconds.

With a 8 sec ROF weapon, the auto is at the cap, a x2 special at 2 seconds (1.6 rounded up) and an x3 at 3 seconds (2.4 actually). This is the same time for speed 6-10 weapons.

At 95% a 5 second weapon fires at the cap still, with x2 delay at the cap and x3 at the cap as well.

An 8 second delay weapon will fire auto and x2 delay at the cap, and x3 at 2 seconds (1.2 actual).

Since most of the rifle specials use a x2 delay, the extra 5% appears to have a greater effect, but this is the result of a linear progression.