Laser Guns stats

[Harbipower]

I really have my Problems with Weapons Loadout in this X part.

I miss the bars where its exactly told how much

1. Shield Damage &
2. Hull Damage

they make.

The MW Indication tells us the Power, ok but this don´t help out. Even in Enzeklopedia there is nothing to find. But maybe im blind...

I had standart turrets @ beginning and wanted more.

Bought a Nova for double Blaster and equipped 2 other Laser types now.
Both made the shields down so fast but the hull is soo worse.
Of course i tryed a mixture then but still its not what i want.

I don´t even want to buy new set up, fly away, fight for testing and come back to Dock 2 test the next and so on if thye can impement that bars as in X3 quite easy i bet.

So someone can tell how i can figure out what kind of damage those guns do? (let out rocket launchers, I know they are the hull killers but 2 expensive for me @ moment to refill rockets over and over again. I just want Laser guns for now)

Help me, pls.
THX

[lock]

On my screen when you are BUYING the weapons/shields/engines an so on, you select what you want to try, look at the bottom and you will see the way the green bars are, select another weapon/shield/engine or whatever where the other one has been brought already (you will get the money back when you upgrade or downgrade, then decide which is better.

To me, I have most MK2 or MK3 and a mixture of either or both with combat ready weapons, the shearbolts are excellant for tearing through the Zeon type X series ships and all their "queen guards) .

I will get no missiles and use either pairs of shearbolts or quads of shearbolt weapons, it will cut through any ship that even is facing you if your shields are of MK3 quality.

There are many combos on alot of ships that you will just have to experament with, some ships do well with fighting while others are pieces of heavy junk that will be a total loss when you are fighting...not all ships are equal, and others are not meant to fight with.

Forget about the all travel type, there is too much play to keep it in control to fight in mho.

Usually if you are in a combat type of engine, your turn around is quicker, which will enable you to turn around sharper, which will give you an edge in getting behind and tracking the enemy and you can then beardown on his tail feathers...poof!

[DrSuperGood]

Hull and shield are in energy. Weapons are in power. With some basic physics you can convert weapons power dealt over time into energy. This energy gets removed from first the shield and then the hull. When hull energy reaches 0 the object dies.

With exception of EMP missiles and Ion Cannons, all weapons deal equal shield damage as they do hull damage. Those exceptions deal a lot of shield damage, but practically no hull damage.

That said the encyclopedia is not giving one the entire picture as to the true power output of each weapon. Below is a quick table I made that is accurate except for Shard and Laser which I need to do in game experimentation to confirm their mechanics.

M guns
Beam Mk2: ????dps @ 4364m
Pulse Laser Mk2: 247.7dps @ 5018m
Shard Mk2: 73 to 219dps @ 3686m
Chain Mk2: 368dps @ 4800m
Plasma Mk2: 1055dps @ 6448m
Ion Mk2: 24hdps/1652sdps @ 4617m

S guns
Beam Mk2 ????dps @ 3000m
Pulse Laser Mk2: 155.7dps @ 3110m
Shard Mk2: 60 to 180dps @ 2305m
Chain Mk2: 213dps @ 3000m
Plasma Mk2: 550 @ 4024m
Ion Mk2: 32hdps/1024sdps @ 2880m

DPS is effectivly the normalized power unit. So to put it in perspective to kill a tough ship like a Xenon I it would take a single M Plasma Mk2 over 10 minutes of continious, unmodified fire.

[Harbipower]

thx for this.
So my fault has been i installed 2 Ion Cannons in the Elite.
Shields down in sec`s but hull in felt minutes. Unluck.

Over time i got a Nemesis 5 Slot with Pulse, Shard and Plasma this works great at the moment.

Your list is worth like Gold and helps much to understand new weapon informations.
Thank you very much

[Sentinel]

Here's a complete list: https://roguey.co.uk/x4/weapons/

[Harbipower]

Originally posted by Sentinel:

Here's a complete list: https://roguey.co.uk/x4/weapons/

looks great, much thanks