Questions about weapons damage stats

[Malek]

Hi everybody,

 

I'm new to the game and i have made a lot of research on this forum and others but there is still a few things i don't undestand about the stats of the weapons.

 

1. What's the impact/meaning of Dmg/Rd, Dmg/sec and Rd/sec?

 

2. Why does some of my soldiers with(for example) heroic capacity with riffle suffer a penalty(in red) to these statistic when they use..riffles?

 

Thank you for your answers!

[Malek]

Nobody knows?

[NKF]

It has been a while since I've been able to play the game (it won't run on my laptop due to the lack of a graphics accelerator), so this puts me at a disadvantage. I'll go by recollection.

 

I'm not mistaken, Dmg/Rd and Dmg/Sec refer damage per round and damage per second. Basically how much damage the weapon can do in a round which is a given amount of time, and how much damage it can do in a second. However I'm not entirely sure if that is correct as I cannot quite remember what Rd/Sec refers to. Rounds per second? It's mainly just a rough idea of how much damage the weapon can put out over certain lengths of time.

 

You'd think they'd put all the terminology used by the game in a glossary of some sort in the game's rather extensive but mostly useless manual (well, I found it useless as it says a lot without actually saying anything at all).

 

I can't explain why the rifles would suffer a penalty when you've got heroic skill in rifles. It might be due to certain equipment, equipment setups, your soldier's speciality fields, race skill handicaps, etc. There could be any number of factors.

 

- NKF