Kallas Hallytyr
Skullbreakers
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Posted - 2014.12.20 04:57:00 -
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TL;DR
Heat is building up too quickly on the small railgun.
(From another thread:)
Kaeru Nayiri wrote:I'm really not sure, honestly. Rails can be complicated. The true DPS is hard to calculate, yet it's the weapon where DPS matters the most. Even the heat seems to go down faster in the bottom half of the circle making things harder to figure out. We have no idea how fast it cools down, whether it's really variable or just display, how heat is calculated (besides knowing it's over time and not per shot)...
According to the numbers of the Railgun (ie, heat build-up) the current turret is either firing too slowly or the heat is building up too quickly.
By the numbers, a small railgun should get about
Heat build-up: 10 per second
Max Heat: 100
Charge up time: 0.2s
Fire interval: 0.65s
First shot; 0.2s charge up (0.2 elapsed)
Second shot; 0.65 interval (0.85 elapsed)
10 heat; 1s
Third shot: 1.5s
20 heat; 2s
Fourth shot; 2.15s
Fifth shot; 2.8s
30 heat; 3s
Sixth shot; 3.45s
40 heat; 4s
Seventh shot; 4.1s
Eighth shot; 4.75s
50 heat; 5s
Ninth shot; 5.4s
60 heat; 6s
Tenth shot; 6.05s
Eleventh shot; 6.7s
70 heat; 7s
Twelfth shot; 7.35s
Thirteenth shot; 8s
80 heat; 8s
Fourteenth shot; 8.65s
90 heat; 9s
Fifteenth shot; 9.3s
Sixteenth shot; 9.95s
100 heat; 10s; overheat
Seventeenth shot; 10.6s - doesn't fire due to overheat
Sorry for that wall, but apparently the small railgun is either firing too slowly or heat is building up too quickly.
By the current state of the game, a railgun will get eight shots, with the ninth overheating the weapon and takes around five seconds to fire that amount: which is roughly accurate to the above, insofar as shots fired is concerned. But the heat build-up in that case is far too high: 5.4s of firing should only yield 54 heat (or 60, if the game does not consider digits.)
To look into the rate of fire issue, here's some math:
Fire Interval is 0.65s; that's gives us a Rate of Fire of 92 (60/0.65 = 92.307) shots per minute.
In 5.4s, minus the 0.2 charge up time for 5.2s, we have 8 shots; which matches with the 0.65 interval.
60/5.2 = 11.538 'sets' of 8 shots = 92(.304)
So, from that I conclude that ROF/Fire Interval is not the issue, and the issue lies with the heat build-up.
If we flip the heat build-up to being per shot, there's still something wrong: 10 heat build-up per shot and 9 shots fired should be 90 heat, meaning an overheat should be applied to the tenth shot (assuming once 100 is reached it overheats, and not when it breaches 100.)
So, assuming that my ideas are correct, I'd say that the heat build-up of the small railgun is twice as fast as stated: whether that's a bug or not, I am unsure, but I felt that this should be brought to the attention of folks and CCP.
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