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Vell0cet
SVER True Blood
General Tso's Alliance
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Posted - 2014.03.18 20:15:00 -
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Looking at the SDE the mFireMode0.effectiveRange = 11,000.0 and the mFireMode0.absoluteRange = 25,000.0 for the wpn_laserrifle_am_std.
Does anyone know what units they're in?
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Vell0cet
SVER True Blood
General Tso's Alliance
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Posted - 2014.03.18 20:35:00 -
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Aero Yassavi wrote:What about the shortest effective range?
I'm not sure what attribute that's stored in. There's nothing I can see with an obvious name for this value.
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Vell0cet
SVER True Blood
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Posted - 2014.03.18 21:04:00 -
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I just uploaded a CSV of the laser rifle data on Google Drive. You should be able to open it in Excel or any other spreadsheet app.
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Vell0cet
SVER True Blood
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Posted - 2014.03.19 00:09:00 -
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So, the million-dollar question is, will this be enough range to get the job done. I would have liked the effective to be more like 120-130ish personally. I'm willing to wait-and-see though.
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Vell0cet
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Posted - 2014.03.19 01:53:00 -
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Garth Mandra wrote:Vell0cet wrote:So, the million-dollar question is, will this be enough range to get the job done. I would have liked the effective to be more like 120-130ish personally. I'm willing to wait-and-see though. The main issue at the moment is not being able to compete with rail rifles. An effective range of 120m should be plenty to compete. If I recall correctly effective range should be about 30% damage efficiency. This will probably turn the long range meta from RR dominance to LR dominance. Depending on the mysterious changes to short range LR damage this should give the LR back its niche. If the laser suddenly becomes useful in short range and CQC then it'll just be the RR once again. No sign of an optimal range number in Vell0cet's csv unfortunately.
I hope you're right. If a LR is sitting at 100-110m going 1v1 against a RR, then the LR should win 99% of the time, if it can't then it needs more range until it can. For me that's the litmus test for LR viability. It has a TON of drawbacks (which I'm totally fine with) that make it difficult/situational to use, it needs to be dominant in some aspect to make up for this or you will always be better off choosing something more versatile.
As for the optimal range, I didn't find anything. My SQL-fu isn't that great , so maybe it's hidden in another table somewhere that I didn't find/notice. In all likelihood that stuff is hard-coded into the game because that weapon has such unique behavior that creating attributes (rows in the database) that would be blank for every-other weapon would be pretty wasteful.
I don't want a close-range buff to be honest. I like it having a long range niche that keeps it from being OP or the FOTM.
@John Demonsbane: As for the drop off to absolute range, I'm sure it's rather abrupt (like it is now when something gets out of your effective range), unless they made an exception for this weapon we haven't heard about. As a reference, the RR has the same absolute range.
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Vell0cet
SVER True Blood
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Posted - 2014.03.20 19:00:00 -
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alten hilt wrote:As a scout, I really fear the return of the laser beam of death! I can't even tell you how many times I died to a single swipe of a Viziam Laser Rifle prior to 1.0.
The cloak should allow you to engage in CQC much more easily now though. It should be interesting to see how it all plays out. I know I'll be paranoid about getting shotgunned/knifed when I'm rocking the LR.
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