Talk:Weapons/@comment-7259910-20150528232120/@comment-24055167-20150531180548

DPS - how much damage per second can a weapon do. Fish + Trigger Fingers + Ultra Mutation is not a weapon guys. Super Plasma Cannon sure does massive damage but per second ? What is it's reload time 6 seconds ? Add the amount of damage it can do with a single shot and divide it by 6 and that would be it's DPS more or less (if all projectiles hit and if all plasma explosions hit).

There probably are weapons that can do more damage over a second but it's hard do establish that because many weapons in this game do damage from X to X and it all depends if you hit precisely with them to get that max X of damage and if all the projectiles or whatever will hit the target. Which is why even if you had a raw calculated DPS of each weapon it wouldn't be 100% correct and wont give you any useful information.

A simple damage the weapon can do with a single shot and it's reload time gives you a better idea of it's potential imo. Even if a weapon does massive damage it's also limited by it's ammo use in which case some weapons are more ammo efficient then others and sometimes that's more important than just DPS. If you wanna calculate those things go ahead, see how that helps you when you play the game.

Mutations and Characters that change your reload time have nothing to do with how good the weapon is on it's own. Here i kill the Throne with Plant in 4 seconds http://www.twitch.tv/gieron666/c/5626906 and ? Does that mean Laser Minigun is the best weapon ever ? Nope.

"Super Plasma Cannon is the best. That's like 83 damage per second, and on top of that you can see how it totally overkills it. Not many weapons can say the same."

Ultra Revolver does 18 damage per shot, has 0.1 seconds reload time. It's DPS would be 18/0.1 = 180 dps for 1 Ammo and 5 rads.

Super Plasma Cannon if i calculate it raw has 309 dps for 24 ammo. (12.8 dps for 1 Ammo) That's when every projectile and Plasma Explosion hit and do max damage.

If each projectile hits the target only once (the lower X of damage) the dps changes to 107. (4.5 dps for 1 Ammo)

Useless info when you're ingame :)