Shipwright Archive

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Brilyn wrote:

It's got nothing to do with the beams of light.

1 gun, 1 shot, 2 beams of light = 1 hit.

1 gun, 1 shot,4 beams of light = 1 hit.

1 hit = 2000 points of damage.

Bearing in mind that we can't see under the hood of the game, as far as I know it doesn't matter if one of those beams *visually* misses. Because that's just the graphics, not necessarily the game-engine calculation.

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So in this case in the interceptor where there is 1 gun and 4 beams of light then if 1 beam hits then its 2000 points... if 4 beams hit its 2000 points.

I see people complaining about convergance of the guns on the Int and the X-wing in particular. If it doesn't matter how many beams hit then the way the ships are now with the wide dispersal is better than if they converged. The Int is like a shotgun compared to the advance's rifle.

Can anyone else confirm if this is true?

so as long as one bolt hits, it does full damage? so if both hit, it ignores the second one?? try lining your ship up with friendly and shooting for one hit at close range. you will hear the beep and see a little x in a circle marking where you hit. no aim it just right to get two hits, you will hear the beep sound play TWICE and see two of the x markers. now the game is regestering two hits sometimes and one hit other times. now the real question is if the game ingnores the second hit, or deals damage for both. if it deal damage for both, the question is if the individual bolt damage is divided by two, divided by the number of bolts fired by the weapon, or is the whole damage for the weapon on each bolt. now i may just be smoking something, but my nova seems to hit alot harder than the gun i put in it should. so i think that either the full damage is done per bolt, or its divided by two, but since my nova fires four bolts, it does double damage. if thats the case, im going imp and flying an interceptor!

i guess another posibily is that the min-max damage is determined by if you hit with both bolts. like a single hit does the min and a double hit does the max.

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ExcaliburCH wrote:
In my simple equation..

2 guns, 2 shots, 4 beams of light = 2 hits

cheers
Exi

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I could be wrong, but here's my understanding. (from an X wing perspective.)

I have Two guns.
Gun 1: ion (2600 damage)
Gun 2: disruptor (2600 damage)

When mounted it's configured:
1a--2b
2a--1b

Both guns fire 2 bolts (A and B), so i have 4 bolts total.

If i fire and:
hit my target with bolt 1A, i score 2600 damage.
hit with both bolts 1A and 1B, i still score 2600 damage.
hit with bolts 1A, 1B, 2A, and 2B, i score 2600 damage X 2.

Now the fun part is..
if i hit with only bolts 1A and 2A, i still score 2600 damage X 2.

In short, two bolts, one gun. I read a post somewhere that essentually said if one bolt hits, they all hit. Im assuming that they were refering to the bolts a single gun produces.

Oh ya, as to weapon damage and math.

Take your min/max damage stat, and mulitply it by the modifer.

A blaster for example that does 1500-2600 damage with a .420 mod vs shield and armor acutally does 630 - 1092 damage.

The issue with convergance hasn't got anything to do with the amount of damage per shot...

It's about the blasters not hitting wide all the time. Pilots want thier shots to go where they're aiming... not around the ship they're fireing at.

Which is what happens far too often.

It's a visual, feel and consistancy issue.

Well.. I don't know how many weapons Tie Interceptor has mounted but the xwing can mount up to three weapons. Don't ask me, where the last weapon is hidden, because I didn't mount a third one 'till now.. but for the other two weapons. They are for the four guns at the wings. Which means two pair for two weapons.

i.e.

One pair has 1200 and the other has 1100. That makes a total of 2300. Now you also have to bring in, which part of the ship will take damage. Shield or hull.

In my simple equation..

2 guns, 2 shots, 4 beams of light = 2 hits

cheers
Exi