Goonhub
12-06-2016, 03:21 PM
(This post was last modified: 12-06-2016, 03:23 PM by Superlagg. Edited 1 time in total.)
I think that e-guns are arguably better murderguns than Spackers. Why?
Going off of the released code, a Spacker blast of buckshot does 80 brute damage between point blank and 3 tiles away, after which it loses 20 damage per every 3 tiles it travels (or it travels another 3 tiles before it loses damage, I dunno). This means it'll put an unarmored human into crit with 2 shots and kill them in about 8 within 3 tiles, adding another 2 shots to kill up to 6 tiles, and several more as distance increases. It also causes a buttload of stun if your target is within 9 tiles, blows them across the room if they're within 3 tiles, and at any range causes them to bleed all over the place. It can fire 8 shots before needing to reload, which can be done quickly on the spot if you have ammo.
The damage and stun is reduced, from what I can tell, by 1/3 if you're wearing a biosuit, 1/2 in an armor vest, by 3/5 in the captain's armor or an armored biosuit, and by 2/3 in the EOD suit or an armored paramedic suit(!). It is also very loud and unmistakable for anything else, is available only to traitors and those who hunt them, and has a neat suicide for when you get bored of killing people.
I'm not going to talk about the explosive shells because those are just unfair, also I haven't made sense of the explosion code yet.
An Energy Gun's laser bolt does 60 burn damage between point blank and 6 tiles away, after which it loses 5 damage per 6 tiles it travels. This means it'll take 2 shots to put a human in crit and kill them within around 12ish shots between 0 and 18 tiles. The gun can fire about 8 of these before the battery runs out, which can only be recharged at a powered charging station. The bolt can also fly through windows, has a 9/10 chance to hit people lying on the ground (or 1/10, one of those), and glows a pretty red.
The damage, as far as I'm aware, cannot be reduced by armor, though I think gene-dweebs with Thermal Resistance can ignore the damage. It can also shoot taser zaps, which I forget if it uses less energy this way. Its fairly quiet and sounds like any other energy weapon, including Security's and the AI's taser, and the station starts with at least two of them, either of which can be scanned and mass produced with, I think, a regular old device scanner.
While it may do less damage and be far less spectacular than the Spacker, what I think puts the e-gun ahead in most practical applications is its combination of versatility, armor-piercing damage, and relative ease to obtain (just knock over the captain). If you manage to make a bunch of them in Mechanics, you can load up your backpack with e-guns and run around with more or less infinite ammo, able to shoot two of them at once and put anyone who gets anywhere near you into crit with one click. And it kills the fuck outta blobs.
I remember one night when Nora Tram managed to murder half the station with a flash and a backpack full of e-guns. They'd flash someone, drag 'em somewhere vaguely secluded, then unload a pair of e-guns into that person. Death happened within seconds and it was hilarious.
Again, this is all data pulled from the public release, so it might not be completely accurate, but it should be close enough to make sense.
Going off of the released code, a Spacker blast of buckshot does 80 brute damage between point blank and 3 tiles away, after which it loses 20 damage per every 3 tiles it travels (or it travels another 3 tiles before it loses damage, I dunno). This means it'll put an unarmored human into crit with 2 shots and kill them in about 8 within 3 tiles, adding another 2 shots to kill up to 6 tiles, and several more as distance increases. It also causes a buttload of stun if your target is within 9 tiles, blows them across the room if they're within 3 tiles, and at any range causes them to bleed all over the place. It can fire 8 shots before needing to reload, which can be done quickly on the spot if you have ammo.
The damage and stun is reduced, from what I can tell, by 1/3 if you're wearing a biosuit, 1/2 in an armor vest, by 3/5 in the captain's armor or an armored biosuit, and by 2/3 in the EOD suit or an armored paramedic suit(!). It is also very loud and unmistakable for anything else, is available only to traitors and those who hunt them, and has a neat suicide for when you get bored of killing people.
I'm not going to talk about the explosive shells because those are just unfair, also I haven't made sense of the explosion code yet.
An Energy Gun's laser bolt does 60 burn damage between point blank and 6 tiles away, after which it loses 5 damage per 6 tiles it travels. This means it'll take 2 shots to put a human in crit and kill them within around 12ish shots between 0 and 18 tiles. The gun can fire about 8 of these before the battery runs out, which can only be recharged at a powered charging station. The bolt can also fly through windows, has a 9/10 chance to hit people lying on the ground (or 1/10, one of those), and glows a pretty red.
The damage, as far as I'm aware, cannot be reduced by armor, though I think gene-dweebs with Thermal Resistance can ignore the damage. It can also shoot taser zaps, which I forget if it uses less energy this way. Its fairly quiet and sounds like any other energy weapon, including Security's and the AI's taser, and the station starts with at least two of them, either of which can be scanned and mass produced with, I think, a regular old device scanner.
While it may do less damage and be far less spectacular than the Spacker, what I think puts the e-gun ahead in most practical applications is its combination of versatility, armor-piercing damage, and relative ease to obtain (just knock over the captain). If you manage to make a bunch of them in Mechanics, you can load up your backpack with e-guns and run around with more or less infinite ammo, able to shoot two of them at once and put anyone who gets anywhere near you into crit with one click. And it kills the fuck outta blobs.
I remember one night when Nora Tram managed to murder half the station with a flash and a backpack full of e-guns. They'd flash someone, drag 'em somewhere vaguely secluded, then unload a pair of e-guns into that person. Death happened within seconds and it was hilarious.
Again, this is all data pulled from the public release, so it might not be completely accurate, but it should be close enough to make sense.