What happens when you overheat a gun?

[Adam_Spokane]

I use a plasma gun with an overcharge ability. It says it will cause overheating for 2 turns but I can't tell what effect that has.

[Zarquon]

it just means you can't use it for that amount of time

[Testo]

it will hurt you

[Adam_Spokane]

It does neither of these things. I use it every round and it is not damaging me

[Adorad]

looks like bugged

[Dust]

Literally nothing right now, sometimes I use the AOE attack three turns in a row and it doesn't overheat at all or whatever. Come back in a patch or two. Or three, for the Owlcat special.

[Carnwennan]

Originally posted by Dust:

Literally nothing right now, sometimes I use the AOE attack three turns in a row and it doesn't overheat at all or whatever. Come back in a patch or two. Or three, for the Owlcat special.

I have had one get hot a couple of times. seems rare though so probably bugged.

[Dust]

Originally posted by Carnwennan:

Originally posted by Dust:

Literally nothing right now, sometimes I use the AOE attack three turns in a row and it doesn't overheat at all or whatever. Come back in a patch or two. Or three, for the Owlcat special.

I have had one get hot a couple of times. seems rare though so probably bugged.

Huh. Maybe it's actually rng ? Eh, probably bugged, yeah.

[King Kitty]

Originally posted by Adam_Spokane:

I use a plasma gun with an overcharge ability. It says it will cause overheating for 2 turns but I can't tell what effect that has.

Like in the tabletop, it gets a 10% chance to blow up in your face. It's not "broken", as people claim, they just don't understand the mechanic. Lifted directly from the rulebook:

"Through inefficient shielding, defective venting, or simply inherent design, the weapon often becomes overcome with the heat of its ammunition or firing methods. On an attack roll of 91 or higher, this weapon overheats. The wielder suffers Energy damage equal to the weapon's damage with a penetration of 0 to an arm location... A weapon with this quality does not jam, and any effect that would cause the weapon to jam instead causes the weapon to overheat."

Owlcat changed the location damage but retained the AC reduction under their new percentile armour system. They also removed the weapon being dropped, and it being incapable of firing- likely because they also removed the weapons getting nearly double damage. Or put another way, balancing. Instead you get a risk of recoil equal to a normal shot (reduced by armour rating) for two rounds.

[Zsrai]

Plasma in tabletop only overheats on a 1 (on a d6); that's about 16% chance. Sounds accurate that it's fairly rare.

[Dust]

Originally posted by King Kitty:

Originally posted by Adam_Spokane:

I use a plasma gun with an overcharge ability. It says it will cause overheating for 2 turns but I can't tell what effect that has.

Like in the tabletop, it gets a 10% chance to blow up in your face. It's not "broken", as people claim, they just don't understand the mechanic.

You're right, but just note that we don't understand the mechanic because it's simply not explained very well in-game. Quote the tooltip for the Plasma Gun's "Plasma overcharge (area attack)":
"Powerful area attack that overheats plasma weapon for 2 turns."
No mention of it being something that you have 10% chance of getting, or anything else, anywhere. It just sounds like you'll get this as a tradeoff for using the AoE attack, and RT being an Owlcat game at release, people are (understandably) making the assumption that this is a bugged mechanic.

[The Seraph of Tomorrow]

In the Table Top, a gun that overheats will hurt you and potentially explode.

In this game it basically just misses its next attack.

[Khloros]

Yeah i dont think the plasma overheat is working at the moment.

[b...]

Originally posted by Dust:

Literally nothing right now, sometimes I use the AOE attack three turns in a row and it doesn't overheat at all or whatever. Come back in a patch or two. Or three, for the Owlcat special.

It tends to blow up adjacent companions every once in a while, but for some reason never the holder

[King Kitty]

Originally posted by Dust:

You're right, but just note that we don't understand the mechanic because it's simply not explained very well in-game. Quote the tooltip for the Plasma Gun's "Plasma overcharge (area attack)":
"Powerful area attack that overheats plasma weapon for 2 turns."
No mention of it being something that you have 10% chance of getting, or anything else, anywhere. It just sounds like you'll get this as a tradeoff for using the AoE attack, and RT being an Owlcat game at release, people are (understandably) making the assumption that this is a bugged mechanic.

They forgot a tooltip explaining it, that much is fair criticism.

Originally posted by Tech-Priest:

In the Table Top, a gun that overheats will hurt you and potentially explode.

In this game it basically just misses its next attack.

You're thinking Warhammer 40K tabletop, this is pulling from FFG's Rogue Trader system. It also doesn't miss the next attack; whether you miss or not is the roll to hit which probably does get modified to some extent (feels like only a -10 or 20 at most), the overheat roll is recoil damage equal to the gun's normal damage in a 3x3 AOE centred on the user.

If it were like the 40K tabletop, your plasma gun detonating would wipe out the entire squad lol.

[Kel'Ithra]

I did notice my RT occasionally took damage when overcharging the plasma pistol.