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Incendiary Rounds
ZnC:
--- Quote from: Extirminator on January 27, 2015, 07:20:25 am ---Now let's do the calculating again,
Greased wasn't affected by the fire ignition chance mistake, so we can count on it being 4.8 fires per second still.
Recalculation for incendiary:
shots/sec: 11.669
fire ignition chance: 18% + 25% (0.18+0.25=0.43)
fires/sec: 11.669*0.43=5
Incendiary will ignite 5 fires per second.
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Wow, I never thought it would actually be 25%, that would indeed make incendiary have higher ignition rate and be much better than greased. Thanks for sharing. *thumbs up*
However, in the recent 1.3.9 patch, it says: "Skill descriptions now draw directly from configuration (so they can't get out of sync with the actual effects)." So I'm totally confused right now.
Edit: I've test it and it does seem like it is 20%. Considering it applies to Direct and Secondary damage I have about 40% ignition chance firing at dummy balloons on the gatling.
ShadedExalt:
In either case, Incendiary is still the best flamer ammo. New flamer meta...?
ZnC:
--- Quote from: ShadedExalt on January 27, 2015, 08:16:11 am ---In either case, Incendiary is still the best flamer ammo. New flamer meta...?
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After running a test (which I actually did before), I stand my ground that Greased is the better flamer ammo because of ignition rate and range.
Extirminator:
--- Quote from: ZanC on January 27, 2015, 07:55:04 am ---However, in the recent 1.3.9 patch, it says: "Skill descriptions now draw directly from configuration (so they can't get out of sync with the actual effects)." So I'm totally confused right now.
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Yes, it made me quite confused too, however, ever since the change for the fire ignition to be 25%, there wasn't any noted change, nor since when Queso checked it out in the code there was any change.
I am not sure what EXACTLY is going on either.
--- Quote from: ZanC on January 27, 2015, 08:22:29 am ---
--- Quote from: ShadedExalt on January 27, 2015, 08:16:11 am ---In either case, Incendiary is still the best flamer ammo. New flamer meta...?
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After running a test (which I actually did before), I stand my ground that Greased is the better flamer ammo because of ignition rate and range.
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A subtle change of 0.2-0.5 fire stacks per second could not be easily tested and experimented without a substantial amount of measurements and accurate means of time measuring. I highly doubt you could prove something like that with the random nature of the random.
ZnC:
--- Quote from: Extirminator on January 27, 2015, 08:26:26 am ---
--- Quote from: ZanC on January 27, 2015, 08:22:29 am ---After running a test (which I actually did before), I stand my ground that Greased is the better flamer ammo because of ignition rate and range.
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A subtle change of 0.2-0.5 fire stacks per second could not be easily tested and experimented without a substantial amount of measurements and accurate means of time measuring. I highly doubt you could prove something like that with the random nature of the random.
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Well I tested it by spawning 108 test dummies, firing a single incendiary round at all their balloons - 44 of them caught fire (40.74%). I ran this test a few months back and got similar results.
My assumption is that the flamer doesn't have secondary dmg type, so it only applies the 20% or 25% only once to direct dmg.
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