Talk:Hi-NRG Plasma Lance

Someone asked what DPX is. It's Damage Per X. Usual shooter jargon is DPS (damage per second), but we don't know what measure of time the game uses when it lists the rate of fire of each weapon. Hence the X. DPX is simply Damage * Rate of Fire. Every lethal weapon in the game has a scale of 1-10 for both of those stats. Each scale also has a base value and a max value that you can only reach by using generic upgrades. So, the base DPX is the base Damage * the base RoF. The "upgradable to..." bit is just the max Damage * the max RoF.


 * The problem being you assume, with no evidence, that the 1-10 bars are actually comparable between weapons, but they're not. For example, the pistol cannot fire at four-fifths the speed of the Laser Rifle while fully upgraded, nor does it do seven-tenths as much damage as the rocket launcher per shot. Even more so for ammo capacity where the pistol's 7 (22 rounds) doesn't even compare to the Heavy Rifle's 7 (100 rounds). Every conclusion you make based on these figures is based on a false premise, and the derived "DPX" figures are meaningless for comparison purposes. 2.24.36.109 18:08, September 6, 2011 (UTC)