rifle ammo

[Doc✪Hollywood]

Question:

Does the damage decrease over (long) distance with Standard or Homing Ammo?

(All I can say from my feeling is that homing ammo is a lot weaker and needs considerable more shots to kill. [Given that the bullets do curves the kinetic energy can't be high either].

And as for Turbo Ammo: This ammo is so much scattering like shatter rebar, that this question becomes irrelevant - damage is zero if you miss your target)

Of course I could run some test but thought some players might know anyway.

[mcb0ny]

Rifle is hitscan (at least with default ammo), so i don't think range would play any part in damage dealt. Not that i ever bothered to test it ;]

[Doc✪Hollywood]

Originally posted by mcb0ny:

Rifle is hitscan (at least with default ammo), so i don't think range would play any part in damage dealt. Not that i ever bothered to test it ;]

Yeah I bother with such things. Especially when you need many cartridges for one single animal. Homing ammo even seemed to need a full cartridge more and the default ammo, even though the homing cartridge has even 5 shots more inside.

I only used rebar up to now and I find this rifle ammo ... yeah, well, maybe I need get to used to like with every weapon first. So far though I am not impressed.

Default rifle ammo single shot burst over long distance is what seems to be the most useful so far. Only that way, as sniper rifle, it's superior than rebar gun I find ATM.

But then I train months with rebar gun and amunition types and with the rifle just this night. Just wanted to hear around what other people think about this piece of equipment.

[Porked!]

All rifle and rebar ammo types don't have damage fall off at all. Rifle ammo are pretty weak, however, with each of them dealing 5/4/3 damage for normal/turbo/homing respectively. Couple that with spread, you'll definitely feel that they're much, much weaker at longer ranges since you'd have to tap-fire or they'd just keep missing, including homing ammo.

But, meh, I've moved on to nobelisk now, specifically clusterlisk for single targets/tight caves and nukelisk for rad hogs. One-boom, one-or-more-kill all the way. Oh, and pulselisk+basher when I want to get somewhere in an instant, too.

[Doc✪Hollywood]

Originally posted by Pokie!:

All rifle and rebar ammo types don't have damage fall off at all. Rifle ammo are pretty weak, however, with each of them dealing 5/4/3 damage for normal/turbo/homing respectively. Couple that with spread, you'll definitely feel that they're much, much weaker at longer ranges since you'd have to tap-fire or they'd just keep missing, including homing ammo.

But, meh, I've moved on to nobelisk now, specifically clusterlisk for single targets/tight caves and nukelisk for rad hogs. One-boom, one-or-more-kill all the way. Oh, and pulselisk+basher when I want to get somewhere in an instant, too.

Thank you very much!

Are saying even with homing ammo you should tab or they will increasingly miss the target, especially at larger distance?

I tried the pulsnobelisk to my feet trick but didnt work well in update 8. Put like 5 on the ground, stepped on it and striked them with basher. I think I didnt get higher than 30 - 50 meter. That was not even close to travel the map.

I use the pulse nobelist especially vs big hogs on mountain tops, they fly very good.

[Porked!]

Originally posted by Gordon✪Gekko:

Are saying even with homing ammo you should tab or they will increasingly miss the target, especially at larger distance?

For me, its recoil and high fire rate will often make it fire at angles that will make the shots correct themselves too hard, and into the rocks and trees they go.

So, yeah, you can safely lump them up with the rest of the ammo types.

Originally posted by Gordon✪Gekko:

I tried the pulsnobelisk to my feet trick but didnt work well in update 8. Put like 5 on the ground, stepped on it and striked them with basher. I think I didnt get higher than 30 - 50 meter. That was not even close to travel the map.

I usually put 8-10 for a quarter of a map range, and 15 to cover entire map. Make sure you put them all on the exact spot so you can have easier time aiming to your destination.