Stats on Rix combat drones and TF plasma gens

Weylin · Post by **Weylin** » Sun Jun 28, 2009 11:12 am

Combat Drone 1 2 and 3 will be referred to as CDI II and III
Heavy Combat Drone will be labeled as HDC1 & 2
Plasma Gen and Heavy Plasma Gen... obvious enough.

TL;DR

CronoDroid wrote:QUOTE (CronoDroid @ Jun 29 2009, 05:28 AM) CD3: Best pound for pound weapon in the game.

PlasGens: Cheese.

damage per shot
CDI: 6 regular damage. "Missile" damage type.
CDII: 6 regular damage. "Missile" damage type.
CDIII: 6 regular damage. "Missile" damage type.
HCD1: 6 regular damage. "Disruptor" damage type.
HCD2: 6 regular damage. "Disruptor" damage type.
PlasGen1: 40 regular damage. 0.1 Area damage. 10m Radius. "Minefield" damage type
PlasGen2: 50 regular damage. 0.1 Area damage. 10m Radius. "Minefield" damage type
PlasGen3: 60 regular damage. 0.1 Area damage. 10m Radius. "Minefield" damage type
HvyGen1: 70 regular damage. 0.1 Area damage. 20m Radius. "Missile" damage type
HvyGen2: 90 regular damage. 0.1 Area damage. 20m Radius. "Missile" damage type

damage per second
CDI: 12
CDII: 13.33 (repeating of course

)
CDIII: 15
HDC1: 10
HCD2: 12.5
PlasGen1: 80
PlasGen2: 100
PlasGen3: 120
HvyGen1: 140
HvyGen2: 180

damage total (provided all shots hit)
CDI: 120
CDII: 120
CDIII: 144
HDC1: 120
HCD2: 150
PlasGen1: 200
PlasGen2: 300
PlasGen3: 420
HvyGen1: 280
HvyGen2: 450

Arming time
CDI: 3
CDII: 3
CDIII: 2
HDC1: 4
HCD2: 3
PlasGen1: 4
PlasGen2: 4
PlasGen3: 4
HvyGen1: 4
HvyGen2: 4

Inactive Lifespan
CDI: 20
CDII: 20
CDIII: 20
HDC1: 30
HCD2: 30
PlasGen1: 15
PlasGen2: 18
PlasGen3: 21
HvyGen1: 7
HvyGen2: 7

Lifetime if all ammo is used within the active period.
CDI: 10
CDII: 9
CDIII: 9.6
HDC1: 12
HCD2: 12
PlasGen1: 2.5
PlasGen2: 3
PlasGen3: 3.5
HvyGen1: 2
HvyGen2: 2.5

rate of fire
CDI: 0.5
CDII: 0.45
CDIII: 0.40
HDC1: 0.6
HCD2: 0.48
PlasGen1: 0.5
PlasGen2: 0.5
PlasGen3: 0.5
HvyGen1: 0.5
HvyGen2: 0.5

ammo
CDI: 20
CDII: 20
CDIII: 24
HDC1: 20
HCD2: 25
PlasGen1: 5
PlasGen2: 6
PlasGen3: 7
HvyGen1: 4
HvyGen2: 5

spread
CDI: 0.008
CDII: 0.005
CDIII: 0.003
HDC1: 0.01
HCD2: 0.01
(Plasgen and HvyGen have perfect accuracy)

speed
CDI-III: 1200mps
HDC1&2: 800mps
PlasGen & HvyGen 1000mps

range
CDI-III: 1200m
HDC1&2: 800m
PlasGen1: 218m
PlasGen2: 218m
PlasGen3: 272m
HvyGen1: 163m
HvyGen2: 163m

CronoDroid · Post by **CronoDroid** » Sun Jun 28, 2009 6:28 pm

CD3: Best pound for pound weapon in the game.

PlasGens: Cheese.

BobtheHobo · Post by **BobtheHobo** » Sun Jun 28, 2009 6:45 pm

I've always wondered whether plas gen 3 or hvy plas 2 was better.

Given the fact that they have roughly equal total damages and plas gen 3 has a greater range and a longer life span you'd think it might be considered better. But I think in most cases it's the damage per second that matters most and hvy plas's is much greater.

I don't really know, I guess the real kicker is that for every plas gen a TF ship carries they can carry 2 hvy plas gens.

Weylin · Post by **Weylin** » Sun Jun 28, 2009 7:41 pm

main problem is the horrible range on plasma gens. So easy to keep out of there range in a dog fight.
And they lack that insta-kill property of someone zooming through it if you try and camp.

So the main course of action when going against TF is to go as fast as possible.
So, unless theres like 6 active plasma gens, an interceptor can probably speed through and survive.

On the upside, you take more damage than in a minefield if you go slow, but they only shoot one target at a time...

fwiffo · Post by **fwiffo** » Sat Jul 04, 2009 5:25 pm

thanks very much weylin for these numbers. for a long time i always suspected hvy plasgens was way better than reg plas gens for miner killing and in all my tests, they seem to support my experience. the difference between 163m and 218m is nothing when you're dealing with miners and now i can see that indeed hvy plas gen is better than plas gen2.

in fact, if you had a hvy scout and dropped all 4 hvy plasgen2's next to a reg bios miner, it would take it down to 1% hull!

how's that for awesome

lexaal · Post by **lexaal** » Sat Jul 04, 2009 5:33 pm

If you use your 3 gat 3 guns on the miner and your gunner is hitting it too, it will probably die before you can drop all 4 plasgens.

Weylin · Post by **Weylin** » Sat Jul 04, 2009 10:51 pm

Make sure to reference the damage table to see effectiveness on different targets.

Even though the heavy drones apparently do less damage than the combat drones, they do 4x that amount against heavy hull and shielding.

Drizzo · Post by **Drizzo** » Fri Jul 10, 2009 12:53 pm

iyou guys would enjoy the old TF where all the damage from a plasgen was done at once, making it a proximity bomb.

Post by **pkk** » Fri Jul 10, 2009 1:13 pm

Drizzo wrote:QUOTE (Drizzo @ Jul 10 2009, 02:53 PM) iyou guys would enjoy the old TF where all the damage from a plasgen was done at once, making it a proximity bomb.

It was called Prox Explosive, not Plasmafield Generator.

Drizzo · Post by **Drizzo** » Fri Jul 10, 2009 1:22 pm

Hush you keeper of secrets!

Stop cataloging me with your brain!