How is the weapon damage perk cards calculated?

[Seithan]

Anyone knows?

[Arcanix]

Try this calculator. its crude but will give you an idea.

https://akarnokd.github.io/rng-76/weapons.html

[Seithan]

Thank you. Although its hardly what i'm looking for, I did a test (as I did ingame), trying to calculate the damage done before and after the weapon perks (which is a total of 60% allegedly increase). On both cases, ingame and from the web calculator, the weapon increase is anything but 60%. Actually its much less.

In game, my fixer gains around 9% damage increase per perk card (3stars -> 20%), while on the web calculator, the difference goes upwards to 15.7%.

While there is a big disparency between those two tests (which i believe that ultimately, BETHESDA must be calculating the damage starting with a true barebone weapon/character (no cards, no buffs, no specials probly, nothing), it still is misleading, cause 99.9% of the players will consider each 20% damage increase perk ( x 3) at face value, which is not.

[Arcanix]

The calculator got the job done.

[Seithan]

Yeah i get it, it supposingly gets the job done. But the question is HOW. How is the calculation happening. Gonna ask in the git instead, cheerios for the heads up.

[Hefutoxin]

Originally posted by Seithan:

Yeah i get it, it supposingly gets the job done. But the question is HOW. How is the calculation happening. Gonna ask in the git instead, cheerios for the heads up.

EVERYTHING is applied to the BASE damage of the weapon. So picking up a 20% perk isn't going to increase whatever your current damage is by 20%.

[Arcanix]

Range and bullet numbers and spread affects damage. Armour and resistances of the guy youre shooting at affects damage done.

Often damage buffs is not additive but diminishing returns. Wasnt always that way.

If you want the very specific numbers of all that, then the calculator have it mostly right. But since the PITT update is not there then its not perfect.

Math doesnt mean all that much, when all is said and done crit builds rule the day. Crit is RNG based not a theory of general relativity.

[Mooman]

As mentioned boosts are off the base damage for the unmodified weapon. The catch is the UI can't tell you that value as you cannot remove all mods.

This is where I use the datamines on nukacrypt. Here is the base curve damage values for combat rifles that The Fixer is based off (The Fixer parts/bonuses are mods added to a combat rifle).

https://nukacrypt.com/database/json/0014941D

"EDID": "CT_Weapon_CombatRifle_BaseDMG",
"CRVE": "Weapons\\Weap_CombatRifleDMG.json",
"curve_data": {
"1": 0,
"5": 0,
"10": 0,
"15": 0,
"20": 28,
"25": 28,
"30": 32,
"35": 32,
"40": 36,
"45": 36,
"50": 40