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	Message: : I found the code that calculates how much damage each weapon does. Oddly, : it's calculated on the fly instead of being looked up in any table. : Anyway, the "basic damage" for each weapon/ammo is: 20 Survival : Knife : 30 Walther P4 Pistol : 40 MP-41 Submachine Gun : 65 AK-47 Magazine : 65 AK-47 SABOT Magazine : 80 AK-47 HE Magazine : 200 40mm Fragmentation Cartridge : 400 40mm Projectile Cartridge : 600 40mm HE Cartridge : The basic damage is then adjusted for skill and distance. You get a 20% bonus : for each skill level (0=None, 1=Beginner, 2=Novice, 3=Expert) and lose 20% : for each full sector-width of distance from you to the target. These : bonuses are added, not multiplied. : (The actual calculation is damage = baseDamage + ((skill - distance) * : baseDamage / 5;) : Thus, an expert hitting a target 8 sectors away does 0 damage. Hitting : something at that distance with a weapon you've never used before, so that : your skill level is "none", would do -60% damage. Not to worry, : though; zero or negative damage counts as a hit but has no effect on the : victim's hit points. Because it counts as a hit, it won't hurt your : accuracy rating, and if your skill is "none" you'll get promoted : to "beginner". : An expert can't do positive damage to an enemy more than 7 sector-widths : away. 7 sector-widths is also the light radius of your IR goggles, so you : wouldn't be able to see such a target anyway. And at 8 sector-widths, : hunters turn into onlookers and can't get hit anyway. For a beginner, the : maximum distance at which you can do positive damage is 5 sector-widths. : (Well, 5.999, since the distance is rounded down.) : All of these damage values are in internal units. The Carnage report divides : all damages by 3 (rounding down) before displaying them. : Maximum damage would be at point-blank range with a 40mm HE cartridge that : you're an expert in. You'd do 960 points of damage. That's more than twice : what you need to kill any killable monster except the Blue Meanie on NaL. : (A Greater Nightmare has 450 hit points.) : Besides the variable damage, weapons differ in fire-pattern and attack type. : I'm sure most of the following information is just repeating stuff : everyone has already figured out, but I'll spell it out anyway. If nothing : else, it can confirm your guesses. : Attack type is "Armor Piercing" for AK-47 Sabot, 40mm Projectile, : and 40mm HE. Attack type is "Physical" for all other : weapons/ammo. (There are other attack types used by the crystals, but : that's for another post.) The significance is that Greater Nightmares are : immune to Physical but not Armor Piercing bullets. The Purple Barney, the : Venomous Oozes, and, right up until the end, the Dreaming God are immune : to everything, including Armor Piercing and Physical. Being immune means : that if you hit one, it does zero damage, but otherwise counts as a hit. : The Phantasm is technically also immune to both, but it's also immaterial, : so you can't hit it at all; the bullet just keeps on going. : Fire-pattern for weapons is usually "Beeline": you have to be aimed : right at the monster, and the bullet does whatever it's going to do to the : first hunter in that direction. : Fire-pattern for the 40mm Fragmentation Grenade is "Shotgun": your : aim can be off a little, and you hit ALL the hunters in that approximate : direction. Of course, since damage decreases with distance, it'll : eventually drop to zero and you'll stop doing damage. (The Violet Crystal : also uses the "Shotgun" fire-pattern.) Damage is calculated : separately for each hunter you hit, so firing into a crowd can do awesome : total damage. : The Survival Knife gets its own unique fire-pattern. To hit something, you : have to be aimed right at it, the maximum range is 853 (compared to a : sector-width of 1024), and there can't be any other hunters in between. : Thus, in the unlikely event that you have a Phantasm and a Headless : ganging up on you at extremely close range, you can't stab the Headless : through the Phantasm. (You could shoot him through the Phantasm using any : other weapon than the knife.) Not that this situation is likely to be : commonplace.
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