which weapon does damage to shields and hulls?

[swi7ch]

i don't understand the difference between beam or shard or pulse and there's absoultely no info about this in-game

or maybe the weapons are all cosmetic since they don't have stats?

[Ghola]

there are stats for weapons in the encyclopedia. there seems to be no difference between shield and hull dmg as of now.

[HunZolka]

Don't think that's right. According to the Encyklopedia the Ion weapon should be very powerful then, but it barely does anything to hull.

[RandomPhenomenon]

Originally posted by Ghola:

there are stats for weapons in the encyclopedia. there seems to be no difference between shield and hull dmg as of now.

There is.

Originally posted by Playbahnosh on Egosoft Forum:

- Ion shreds shields but does next to nothing against hull
- Chaingun/Bolter shreds hull, but does next to nothing against shields
- Beam laser is hitscan but has low damage and range overall
- Pulse laser is not hitscan, better damage but higher heat
- Plasma is really strong, especially against shields, but projectile speed is abysmal, it's only good against stationary targets or capitals
- Flak is good against clouds of small fighters, but underpowered, usually slotted in turrets on large ships. Don't use it as a main weapon.
- Dumbfire missiles are dumb. Only against slow or stationary targets.

Tested this myself, the Ion guns deal significantly more damage to shields, however relatively almost no damage to hulls. Unfortunately the in-game encyclopedia lacks any info about detailed weapon statistics yet....

[Kennedy]

Originally posted by HunZolka:

Don't think that's right. According to the Encyklopedia the Ion weapon should be very powerful then, but it barely does anything to hull.

Yes, with the ion cannon, the shield of smaller ships is gone after 1-2 hits, but it takes ages to get the hull to 0%. Now, I use a repeater? (the minigun) and that's way more useful for shredding hulls. I guess, the ion cannon should be used to take down massive shields and a different weapon for the hull.

[Han Swolo]

Can agree. Ion gun kills shields. Hull will take forever. But I’ve found that a nemesis with 5 multicannons are pretty much all you need for most targets 😆