Overheat Vs. Short Circuit

[lessthanoff]

Am I missing something here, or is Overheat just objectively worse than Short Circuit in every way? Or maybe it's a glitch?

Overheat: 29 Damage every second ; Total duration: 2 seconds (pretty sure this used to be 5 seconds, but now it is saying 2 seconds) ; Upload Time: 2 seconds.
Total Damage = 58 over 2 seconds

Short Circuit: Instant 78 Damage; Adds damage for mech-type enemies and drones; Upload Time: 1.5 seconds
Total Damage = 78 instantly, or more for robots

They both take the same amount of ram, and it's faster to use short circuit, so in what universe would I ever want to use Overheat over Short Circuit if it's less damage, takes longer to do less damage, is slower to upload, and costs the same amount of ram?

https://imgur.com/a/REJAGDd

https://imgur.com/a/ondPxQS

[Vexillarius]

Overheat duration is 8 seconds not 2 seconds like in your post. You were looking at upload time. Overheat goes up to 13 duration at rank 4 as well. Overheat is really good. When you apply stuff like the 40% damage bonus from the cyberdeck and other perks its super economical and really strong.

[lessthanoff]

Origineel geplaatst door Vexillarius:

Overheat duration is 8 seconds not 2 seconds like in your post. You were looking at upload time. Overheat goes up to 13 duration at rank 4 as well. Overheat is really good. When you apply stuff like the 40% damage bonus from the cyberdeck and other perks its super economical and really strong.

Did you not look at the pictures I linked?

[adobo]

There's two things happening with overheat, the quickhack itself doing damage and the burn status effect. It doesn't actually count the burn damage there.