Question about particle beam weapons.

[Don Cool]

So, was thinking of getting a decent gun for Andreja, the problem being that she specialises in "Particle Beams", so I just found a particle beam shotgun .... what is it then? A particle beam weapon or a shotgun? ... or both?

[Col. Kurtz]

I stand corrected! I was thinking about her EM ship weapon skill.

[fauxpas]

Most guns fall under two categories.

[DANEDANGER]

As i figured it, it is a gun that shoot pellets of particles. Every particle shreds trough a body and causing instant mutating effects basically killing the target.

[blumoose]

All weapons have two categories.
Damage method: ballistic, laser, explosion, particle beam
Weapon type: pistol, rifle, shotgun, grenade, heavy

There's not much that really helps grenades tbh (since they don't scale well and only have one skill that affects them), but my understanding is that the demolitions skill does help heavy weapons like the bridger.

[Neialeis]

Originally posted by fauxpas:

Most guns fall under two categories.

This.

A laser rifle is both a laser weapon and a rifle, and will benefit from both skills. Same for particle shotguns, etc.

[blumoose]

Originally posted by DANEDANGER:

As i figured it, it is a gun that shoot pellets of particles. Every particle shreds trough a body and causing instant mutating effects basically killing the target.

It's not DNA damage that kills you with particle beam weapons. A bunch of high energy particles will just kill cells outright by breaking apart molecules and such. Nasty.

Anatoli Bugorski is an example of someone who had his head in a particle accelerator by accident: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatoli_Bugorski Thankfully he managed to survive.