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You're counting your DPS from your weapon when you're at the lowest possible weapon power setting... Put eight bars into your guns and you'll do six times as much damage as you're showing there. You also have far more health than they do, can recharge your shields, and can dodge their shots while they can't dodge yours. |
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The weapon power level discrepancy is a fair point. I loaded a close save and tried to replicate the situation. Increasing power from min bar to max bars did increase damage to 600%. However, check out the difference between these two screen shots. The first screenshot is taken a little while later in game play, but not much, just me screwing around testing things. The ship classes are different, Dragonet in the second, Lancer in the first. But the ship stats are almost identical, except for the DPS. The DPS of the Dragonet is 11 times the DPS of the Lancer (8.9k versus 98k!). I'm sitting around 700k combine shields and hull. I thought it might have been a technology upgrade that is supposed to grant an 110% bonus to damage with a misplaced and ended up granting a 1100% bonus. I still think that is the case, but I can't find the technology that would do it. |
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Draco provided a hilarious example from the forum, I've attached his save and a screen shot.. Here we have an enemy ship with 500k hull, 16 million shield strength, and deal 8.5 million DPS. Each shot does a nice 2.2 million damage. Our ship has 200k health and shield. |
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Alright, now those assassins I'll agree with. |
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After playing around a little I was able to defeat the Assassin mission. Once the fighters were killed, the flagships were just too slow and (more importantly) their shots too slow to hit me. So I just ground away at them. Spreadshot did a total of 300k a round. However, switching to max strength Energy Blaster did ~500k a round (unlisted 300% multiplier against these ships). After which it took 200 rounds to kill (if I failed to dodge once I was dead at 2.2 million damage per shot). If I didn't have an energy weapon, it would have taken 600+ turns to finish. The end combat result was 8000 credits (from a x2 multiplier) plus a mission bonus of 260 credits. I don't think that the mission results match the mission difficulty, which again suggests the combat stats are not intended. |
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It's not an unlisted multiplier, it's a 2.5 second round. It still did more damage than that would indicate, but it's not an unlisted 3x multiplier. |
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Thanks! * The ship stat bonuses from the Mark levels are now a more sane progression. It's still something good to keep up with, but the numbers no longer get to just ridiculous amounts anymore. Though on Mark VII there is a very severe jump and that one is intended to be kind of cataclysmic (it's really not expected to happen often at all). |
- Anonymous
