Working on adding different tiers of the blasters in my mod, and I'm looking at some of the "tier 1" guns like Iron Assault Rifle and I'm a little confused at the way they appear in game. In the active item file, it says the base DPS is 10.5. In game is says the Rate of Fire is 9.1 and Damage Per Shot is 1.2 When you shoot something, it does 8 damage most shots, sometimes 15 damage. Why doesn't it say Damage Per Shot 8 or something? I think it's safe to assume the Rate of Fire is based off "fireTime" : 0.11, right? So what does it base the 1.2 Damage Per Shot off of? Base DPS / fireTime? It doesn't seem to be an accurate representation of what the weapon's damage per shot actually is.
Well I'd confirm that, but from the numbers you've given, it is most definitely baseDPS * fireTime, but it is also multiplied by player damage multiplier. I mostly work with guns, but it has been awhile since I've worked on anything, so I kinda forgot
Also note that the damage shown in the tooltip is the calculation of the weapon stats PLUS a modifier based on weapon level. Armor modifiers will not reflect in the tooltiop. 4x for level 6 3.5x for level 5 3x for level 4 2.5x for level 3 2x for level 2 1.5x for level 1
He doesn't, also lower tiered enemies don't either, the lowest tier enemy that has armor that I can think of is the weird chestnut enemy that becomes three little onion looking things when you defeat it (master of description right here). There is like maybe two-three or even four DIFFERENT places where damages is calculated. Usually in the weapon's ability script, the actual range script, and sometimes in certain situations other scripts will add additional calculations (like elemental damage and resistances). Oh... and the player/npc/monster.lua, that's where armor is usually applied if I remember right.
