Lasers only deal token damage just before overheating

Bug Report Section Weapons
#1

While testing for overheat mechanics, I noticed that lasers only deal token damage just before they overheat. The damage seems to scale based on volley damage - the more damage your volley does, the less damage you will do in the shot just before fully overheating.

Examples:

 

16:53:30.630 CMBT | Damage Snib -> (bot)Daniel 390.91 Weapon_Laser_Economic_T3_Mk3 THERMAL|PRIMARY_WEAPON 
16:53:30.790 CMBT | Damage Snib -> (bot)Daniel 65.15 Weapon_Laser_Economic_T3_Mk3 THERMAL|PRIMARY_WEAPON 

(overheat)

16:53:34.823 CMBT | Damage Snib -> (bot)Daniel 374.64 Weapon_Laser_Economic_T3_Mk3 THERMAL|PRIMARY_WEAPON

17:34:22.813 CMBT | Damage Snib -> (bot)Michael 398.20 Weapon_Laser_Economic_T3_Mk3 THERMAL|PRIMARY_WEAPON
17:34:23.021 CMBT | Damage Snib -> (bot)Michael 65.15 Weapon_Laser_Economic_T3_Mk3 THERMAL|PRIMARY_WEAPON

(overheat)

17:34:27.037 CMBT | Damage Snib -> (bot)Michael 277.49 Weapon_Laser_Economic_T3_Mk3 THERMAL|PRIMARY_WEAPON

18:20:48.001 CMBT | Damage Snib -> (bot)James 764.25 Weapon_Laser_Basic_T3_Mk3 THERMAL|PRIMARY_WEAPON 
18:20:48.129 CMBT | Damage Snib -> (bot)James 33.59 Weapon_Laser_Basic_T3_Mk3 THERMAL|PRIMARY_WEAPON 

(overheat)

18:20:53.505 CMBT | Damage Snib -> (bot)James 377.92 Weapon_Laser_Basic_T3_Mk3 THERMAL|PRIMARY_WEAPON

12:36:23.894 CMBT | Damage Snib -> (bot)Michael 902.94 Weapon_Laser_Heavy_T3_Mk1 THERMAL|PRIMARY_WEAPON 
12:36:24.022 CMBT | Damage Snib -> (bot)Michael 29.13 Weapon_Laser_Heavy_T3_Mk1 THERMAL|PRIMARY_WEAPON 

(overheat)

12:36:28.470 CMBT | Damage Snib -> (bot)Michael 256.09 Weapon_Laser_Heavy_T3_Mk1 THERMAL|PRIMARY_WEAPON

Other weapon types work correctly. Example:

18:01:46.517 CMBT | Damage Snib -> (bot)Ryan 259.17 Weapon_Plasmagun_Autofire_T3_Mk3 EMP|PRIMARY_WEAPON
18:01:46.789 CMBT | Damage Snib -> (bot)Ryan 259.17 Weapon_Plasmagun_Autofire_T3_Mk3 EMP|PRIMARY_WEAPON

(overheat)

18:01:49.797 CMBT | Damage Snib -> (bot)Ryan 354.53 Weapon_Plasmagun_Autofire_T3_Mk3 EMP|PRIMARY_WEAPON
#2

They should just make you a tester already, cause you are doing more work then the devs themselves at this point…

#3

Isn’t this due to the fact that lasers don’t have to really hit, but do instant continuous damage?

#4

They should just make you a tester already, cause you are doing more work then the devs themselves at this point…

Heh, I guess, but CbA - not can’t be ar… but CensoredbyAdmin will probably just reject them all because the logs are not zipped. :wink:

 

Isn’t this due to the fact that lasers don’t have to really hit, but do instant continuous damage?

Lasers do have RPM, i.e. they behave just like every other weapon. You can confirm this by taking a 60 rpm laser and move it on and off the target - as long as you’re on target when it “ticks” once every second you’ll deal the same damage as if you stay on target.

#5

I know that, but when you go off the target, it instantly deals damage, I have seen it happen several times that I had 3 hits right after eachother, with less than a second itnerval.

 

I may be wrong, but that is what I have noticed.  :dntknw:

#6

I know that, but when you go off the target, it instantly deals damage, I have seen it happen several times that I had 3 hits right after eachother, with less than a second itnerval.

 

I may be wrong, but that is what I have noticed.  :dntknw:

Hmm, never noticed that, but I’m not a laser user, might be worth testing. Does it full damage hits then or does each get hit with a fraction of the damage (if you noticed)?

#7

It only does a fraction of the damage then, like missing 90% of your shot with a projectile based weapon.