Talk:Weapons/@comment-25185689-20141018031818

Can we have some clarification on how Laser Brain affects lightning weapons? It's quite clear for laser weapons (the beam gets wider, lasting a bit longer for more damage) and plasma projectiles (the orb is a bit larger upon shooting, increasing its damage potential in flight), but even for those it'd be really nice if, say, we had an idea of how Laser Brain affects their maximum damage potential per shot (and it's worth noting, I guess, that the mutation doesn't affect plasma explosions, which explains why it has no effect on the Ion Cannon).

With Lightning it's less clear, since it does damage every other frame... does the mutation increase the damage per hit to 8 or 9 or does it increase the duration of the lightning by a frame or two to add 7 damage? Because in the latter case especially, that'd result in a substantial boost to a lightning weapon's damage potential. Can anyone chime in to give us a clue on this? Thanks.


 * Edit: Also, there's no clarification on whether damage from multiple lightning rails stacks, the most notable example being the Lightning Shotty. Is it just designed to cover a large area around you in lightning rails? Because it's hard to believe that it could do anywhere from 56 - 112 damage to a single enemy in one shot (after all, the table says 7-14 x 8). It seems even more implausible to test it given the unpredictable nature of the lightning rails. I fired it at Big Dog, but it's impossible to quantify the damage if some rails always miss and you're not sure if the ones that hit are doing 7 or 14 damage. This, along with the nature of the Lightning Rifle (which spawns two rails end to end), seems to suggest the damage does not indeed stack.