What is DPS, Damage, and APS?

[Belle Delphine Targaryen!]

Apologies for the silliness, but seeing how they're displayed from top to bottom when a weapon's hovered, is it safe to assume DPS is the most important, then Damage, and finally APS?

Thank you!

[directorguy7]

Originally posted by Cyberpunk 2077's still #1!:

Apologies for the silliness, but seeing how they're displayed from top to bottom when a weapon's hovered, is it safe to assume DPS is the most important, then Damage, and finally APS?

Thank you!

DPS: Damage Per Second.
Damage: How much damage you do with ONE hit.

So you look at how fast you can attack with the damage, and you have your Damage Per Seconds.

With this game, how I play, which is very stealthy/Sniper, I prefer the damage stat over DPS. If you miss a shot, your DPS is now lower. I usually dont miss as I tend to not put myself in situations where its hard to hit the enemies (eg. they are not alerted.)

That said, I do keep a SMG that I have setup to provide pretty good damage, but with its really high rate of fire its DPS is very very good. This gun is if a mission goes totally tits up and I need a gun to get bullets down range fast and now.

All said, I find the weapon info cards really cumbersome, with its focus soley on DPS, which is not the end all, be all stat for weapons.

[Dave]

its weird cuz some weapon got really high based damage but lower dps

[Uber Conan]

Originally posted by Cyberpunk 2077's still #1!:

Apologies for the silliness, but seeing how they're displayed from top to bottom when a weapon's hovered, is it safe to assume DPS is the most important, then Damage, and finally APS?

I'm not familiar with APS. Do you mean ADS? That's Aim Down Sight time. The amount of time it takes to bring your weapon up to your eye so you can look through the scope or iron sights.

Originally posted by Dave:

its weird cuz some weapon got really high based damage but lower dps

Weapons with high damage but lower DPS should mean that they get less than one attack off per second. This is usually associated with slow shotguns or sniper rifles.

[Tamika]

APS is Attacks per Second. Some weapons are faster than others. They can have a high base DPS but be a slower weapon or a lower base DPS but be fast and put out more than a slower weapon.

[Crowkeeper]

Cyberpunk 2077 still #Garbage!

DPS - Damage Per Second.
Damage - The range of damage per hit.
APS - Attacks per second. (I assume)

[Ash]

Originally posted by Uber Conan:

I'm not familiar with APS. Do you mean ADS? That's Aim Down Sight time. The amount of time it takes to bring your weapon up to your eye so you can look through the scope or iron sights.

Thank you for the explanation. Was confused with 'ADS -X%' on the scopes too.

[Gaz Blackheart]

must be one of your first rpgs asking questions like these...

[karel2501]

As others noted: DPS is how much damage you can potentially deal in one second (assuming that you land every hit).
Damage is how much you deal per each hit landed.
APS is Attacks per Second, meaning how many times the weapon can attack in one second. Or in other words, weapons fire rate.
So, basically:
DPS = Damage x APS under ideal conditions.

The fact that DPS can be lower than Damage is because some weapons attack slower than 1 shot per second. Keep in mind that APS also calculates in reload time. So weapons with slow fire rate, and lenghty reload-times, can actually have significantly higher Damage than they have DPS (Damage x APS (lower 1) wil logically lead to DPS lower than Damage.

As in most games that use these values, DPS tend to be a very misleading stat and usually a poor indicator of how well the gun performs, because it's a "ideal" calculation under which you hit every single shot fired - which in weapons with high fire rates is often not the cause.

Personally, I tend to prefer higher Damage even if the DPS is lower, because I can usually control the real performance of the weapon better. DPS is really only useful if you like to spray enemies from close distance with a hail of bullets.

Ultimately, it's more about how the gun "feels" to you. I've been often using weapons that had been stat-wise quite subpar, yet had the right amount of accuracy, recoil controlability to much greater effect than guns with considerably higher stats, but less comfortable handling.

[Belle Delphine Targaryen!]

Originally posted by karel2501:

As others noted: DPS is how much damage you can potentially deal in one second (assuming that you land every hit).
Damage is how much you deal per each hit landed.
APS is Attacks per Second, meaning how many times the weapon can attack in one second. Or in other words, weapons fire rate.
So, basically:
DPS = Damage x APS under ideal conditions.

The fact that DPS can be lower than Damage is because some weapons attack slower than 1 shot per second. Keep in mind that APS also calculates in reload time. So weapons with slow fire rate, and lenghty reload-times, can actually have significantly higher Damage than they have DPS (Damage x APS (lower 1) wil logically lead to DPS lower than Damage.

As in most games that use these values, DPS tend to be a very misleading stat and usually a poor indicator of how well the gun performs, because it's a "ideal" calculation under which you hit every single shot fired - which in weapons with high fire rates is often not the cause.

Personally, I tend to prefer higher Damage even if the DPS is lower, because I can usually control the real performance of the weapon better. DPS is really only useful if you like to spray enemies from close distance with a hail of bullets.

Ultimately, it's more about how the gun "feels" to you. I've been often using weapons that had been stat-wise quite subpar, yet had the right amount of accuracy, recoil controlability to much greater effect than guns with considerably higher stats, but less comfortable handling.

Great explanation! Thank you!