The damage number on the missiles for alpha titan do not match the description of said damage. Neither do the cooldowns or description of said abilities. For each. Needs fix.
#Display/description Glitch with Alphas abilities. Missiles also do not deal proper damage.
raw zealot
Display/description Glitch with Alphas abilities. Missiles also do not deal proper damage.
quick belfry
tl;dr
- Firestorm does an accurate amount of total damage, but damage numbers with framerate is not precise, the description is vague to the degree of causing confusion surrounding how much total damage it should do, and therefore the described damage per 'hit' is obscure
- Homing Salvo is bugged. It has the same issue that Suppressor had until this season's update #1407222897566679160
Listed damage
Homing Salvo
- 1917 shields
- 6367 to armor
Firestorm - 1841 "per tick"
Firestorm
Knowns
- 17 numbers of 24,576 appeared on screen
- 7,478 dmg on killing blow appeared on screeen
- 2.286s ttk according to recording
- "Armor Damage +30 cycle gear" appeared 4 times
- Firestorm lasts 5s
- Firestorm does 90 total hits
Analysis
First, attempting to calculate how much damage was done:
- Method 1: "Armor Damage +30 cycle gear" is granted per 100k damage, meaning somewhere between 400k and 500k dmg was dealt
- Method 2:
17 damage numbers * 24576 dmg + 1 damage number * 7478 damage= 425k dmg - Method 3:
1841dmg per tick * 90 ticks * 6 modules / 5s duration total * 2.286s ttk= 454k damage.
Given the recording fps can have a margin of error Method3 and Method2 are reasonably close enough, and are both within Method 1's range of acceptability.
Conclusion
- Saying it does "1841 damage per tick" is correct in a sense, but is confusing, as it doesn't say how many total ticks there are (90), nor how long each should last (
5s/90=0.055s) - The damage numbers that appear in game are not synced up with how often the actual hits occur. This isn't a new issue though, and other weapons have it with various fps.
Potential solutions
Any of these would suffice
- List # of ticks (90)
- List duration of each tick (0.055s)
- Instead of listing damage per tick, list total damage to each module (
1841 * 90 = 165k) thats dealt over 5s - Instead of listing damage per tick, list damage per second to each module (
165k / 5 seconds = 33.1k)
Homing Salvo
Knowns
- Damage numbers show 2200 for both shield & armor in about 80% of numbers that appear. There is some inconsistency in the remaining 20%. Not certain of why. I see some evidence that the missiles do splash damage, wherein they could arbitrarily deal different amounts based on how many modules are in range. But that theory doesn't add up given the other 80% of the time they take exclusively 2200 per tick, both on shields and armor
- Default damage of each missile's direct hit is precisely 2200 damage
- Level-specific damage of each missile at level1 is supposed to be 6367 to armor and 1917 to shields (also seen in recording)
Analysis
Suppressor had the same issue. Its level specific damage reduction of 33% to 42% resist was not being applied, and its default resist of 80% was applied instead. The level-specific duration seemed to apply correctly though. This was fixed for suppressor this season release. See#1407222897566679160
Homing Salvo seems to have the exact same issue, but for both parameters (armor dmg & shield dmg), unlike suppressor which was only for one parameter (resist) and not the other (duration)
Potential solutions
Apply the exact same fix to Homing Salvo that was applied to Suppressor this update.
Good job noticing the issue @raw zealot . Given there haven't been any homing salvo changes for a while, this must have been bugged for a long time and just not noticed. And hopefully they can make the Firestorm description more clear regarding the damage numbers.
@rare latch mind peer reviewing?
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quick belfry
Well that was quick as hell.
rare latch
Well that was quick as hell.
