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I picked up a stacak with +61

Any with Acc around +60 is are most likely bugged. Since the fix +14 is the highest i've looted or heard of.

Is there any circumstance where any of you would actually use that +14 scope? The accuracy bonus is far below what is craftable, and with the speed bonus calculation issue, the advantage is negligible. Looks like trash to me...

Well with a +14 scope your crafted weapon would have +15 Accuracy with a speed bonus of around -0.72. If you know your gonna have this speed bonus with the barrel you can put an extra point or 2 into lower the SAC in the powerhandler construction and not worry about speed as much there. PRE-CU scopes i have yield +17 Accuracy with a 0.0 Speed. So your basically trading a decrease in Accuracy of +2 for -0.7 speed. I'd say that may be a bit more valuable.

Im trying to get as many as these as possible, I think the extra speed is a great trade off for a few points off accuracy and besides when I do my lowspeed scopes they come out with lower acc and a speed penalty.

These new scopes are perfect for High DPS weapons.

While not as valuable as a lot of other enhancers, they are still a nice addition to weapons if you know where to use them

that speed bonus is everything........ the accuracy you lose isnt much at all but it gives you a chance to tripple cap the weapon with the right powercells(cap speed damage and SAC) with a pre CU stock and -8 SAC powercells i hit the SAC cap on the assembly roll. then damage cap on the exp with a couple points left over for speed then slice the speed down to the cap (or very near) so id say yeah its way worth the 2-3 accuracy points your losing IMO.

orad

I made some super 948 dmg dlt44xt's with +47 scopes...powered up to over 1100 and sliced.

then they hit for 1 dmg...

DO NOT USE THE DAMN LOOT SCOPES.

I used some old +65 or so scopes in making FWG5's some of the nicest pistols I have seen/made.

The best scope I've seen post publish 22 are +14 in accuracy.

As far as I know, the old scope work properlyonly in kinetic weapons using feed mechanism. They convert them from kinetic to energy. All other weapons are converted to blast and do either do 0-1 pts of damage, or only the elemental damage.

If the accuracy bonus is over +14, doa test on a bad ass Featherweight that you will be able to resell... If it's not converted to energy, then you can try on energy weapons.

I've seen old scope with accuracy bonus from +23 to +73...

Message Edited by Pitzz on 08-22-2005 02:31 AM

yeah since the patch. Highest I've seen are +14 scopes. and ONE set of +43's. But those may be older stock. not sure.

And at least on the newly lotoed scoeps. The damage type change issue doesnt seem to exist. At least I havent run into it using the +14 post patch scopes. Alas dont have any of the pre-patch ones to try out.

Arent the scopes still broken though. I made a Mark II the other day fora a buddy and he told me it was hitting for 1 point of damage and he was upset. I didnt charge him for it, but it was the principle. Anyways I have used +64. I have read the cap is +65. But I could be wrong on that