Rate of fire ?

[The Masked Frogue]

Hi all,

I bought the game a couple of days ago and i m having a lot of fun with it (can't wait for the final release ^^).

That being said, i still have some trouble understanding some aspects of the game.

For exemple, i don't understand the rate of fire stat.

In most games that i ve played, the higher the rate of fire stat is, the faster it shoots. But in SPG2 i m kinda confused with this stat. I ve noticed that railguns have a lower rate of fire score compared to plasma guns for exemple.

For exemple i ve seen railguns with a 0.2 ROF versus plasma guns with a 0.7 ROF. As i ve said, in many other games it would mean that the plasma gun is shooting faster than the railgun. But i also know from previous experiences that railguns usually shoot fater than plasma guns.

So how does the rate of fire stat works exactly please ? Does the smaller your rate of fire score is, the faster your weapon shoots (that would be confusing compared to many other games using a rate of fire stat) ? I d like an official answer to be sure about it.

Thanks in advance.

[BigRowdy]

I think it means how long in seconds it takes to get a shot off. So 0.2 would mean basicaly 5 shots per second. don't quote me on this, I'm not a developer but the ufo series of games list their rate of fire in this way, so that could be it. :)

[fivemilesmile]

I came to understand this as (since it is a sort of Eastern-European way of thinking - which is also mine) that one shot per x.y seconds, so the said railgun shoots one round in every 0.2 seconds, meaning 10 shots per 2 seconds. The plasma in turn shoots 1 round in every 0.7 seconds, meaning 10 shots in 7 seconds.. I was thinking on to make an additional column with a different fire rate, for example x rounds in one second in the wiki.

[ifandbut]

Has this been confirmed that the rate of fire stat is "X seconds per shot" and not "X shots per second"?

I would prefer an over all DPS (damage per second) stat in addition to damage per shot and shots per second stats since DPS is really what matters.

[Syrris]

It's "X seconds per shot". A rail gun with .2 most certainly does not take 5 seconds to shoot a single projectile.

DPS isn't the only consideration when dealing with weapon mounts. Power capacity and power per shot is also a big factor in the effectiveness of a weapon, especially larger/longer battles where you can't count on victory by burst.

[ifandbut]

True. So can we maybe get those stats added to weapon tooltips?

DPS
Power Per Second
Shots per full charge