Hi, how frequently do weapons shoot? Where is the info about this? I know there is dps and cooldown parameters, but according to my observations this has nothing to do with how frequently they fire.

Nope, DPS doesn't exist, is a calculated value, all we have is flat damage per shot and cooldown, but as I explained on the bug, cooldown doesn't hold water if preparation + shooting time exceeds it.

Yeah in beams is not such a big deal, also doesn't translate 1:1 in loss of DPS, because you could fit in just as much shots with minor differences in values. But blowing an enemy ship sooner than later may mean less damage taken too.

Ninakoru wrote:

Nope, DPS doesn't exist, is a calculated value, all we have is flat damage per shot and cooldown, but as I explained on the bug, cooldown doesn't hold water if preparation + shooting time exceeds it.

But if you multiply DPS with cooldown you get the flat damage. Therefore to me it seems that cooldown is used here as duration, because beam do continuous damage. It then follows that a cooldown value should be another parameter with larger value eg: 8 (in case of beams). But for lasers this doesn't make sense, since they don't have duration (fire time > 1 sec). Or do they? Anyway, do you think this will be fixed by the devs, or they are out? Do they read these forums, this is a huge bug effecting the whole laser weapon palette. They are useless this way.

Bitula wrote:

Ninakoru wrote:

Nope, DPS doesn't exist, is a calculated value, all we have is flat damage per shot and cooldown, but as I explained on the bug, cooldown doesn't hold water if preparation + shooting time exceeds it.

But if you multiply DPS with cooldown you get the flat damage. Therefore to me it seems that cooldown is used here as duration, because beam do continuous damage. It then follows that a cooldown value should be another parameter with larger value eg: 8 (in case of beams). But for lasers this doesn't make sense, since they don't have duration (fire time > 1 sec). Or do they? Anyway, do you think this will be fixed by the devs, or they are out? Do they read these forums, this is a huge bug effecting the whole laser weapon palette. They are useless this way.

I mean, the DPS and cooldown make sense in the weapon card, but on the real game, well, you discovered yourself something is wrong.

If Preparation time is 2s, and Fire time is 1s, Cooldown 6s, the fire rate will be 6s (that would be the normal situation): 2s preparing, 1s firing, then 3 more secs in wait due to cooldown value. I hope it makes sense now.

We don't know if Amplitude will ever assign resources to fix the game. There's a community mod that fixes it among other smaller issues, and you can manually patch the game with it to avoid disabling achievements (Community Fixes mod on Steam).

I just thought that the intention behind the 8 sec hardcoded value is to separate calculation method for continuous and non-continuos weapons, and including lasers was an oversight. Anyways thanks for the info. I will wait for a while and if official fix will never happen I'll install the community patch. It would be though dissapointing if they leave the final version of the game with such a major bug in it.

Its fixed in a beta branch:

https://steamcommunity.com/app/392110/discussions/0/4331980330827122876/

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• Fixed an error where Lasers and Beams did not fire on the intended cooldown

Still not out of Beta?