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[Noobzorz]

I was just badly damaged by someone at 40M by PPCs, his only three weapons, with no one else nearby and no missile shake.

I would have shrugged this off as just MWO being weird, except that someone else mentioned something like this last night. I thought he was a crazy person, but now I'm wondering. . . is min PPC damage not working properly?

[SuomiWarder]

Don't know. Haven't shot anyone with non ER PPCs at close range in quite a while. Will try to remember to test.

[Tikkamasala]

Iirc the ppc damage scales linearly from 0 at 0m distance to maximum at the minimum range.

[hammerreborn]

Tikkamasala, on 26 March 2013 - 11:46 AM, said:

Iirc the ppc damage scales linearly from 0 at 0m distance to maximum at the minimum range.

What this guy said. Its a linear decrease from 90 in damage.

[General Taskeen]

If you get up in their face, it won't do any damage. If you stay outside of 0m, the PPC will still do some damage between 1 and 90m. And sometimes it is enough to kill you. That's how the PPC works from canon, it comes with a field inhibitor that degrades the damage output to prevent damage to the Mech firing it.

If they added true field inhibitor functionality, the person using a regular PPC would be able to turn it off and do full damage between 0-90m, but risk damage to their Mech.

[Noobzorz]

Thanks very much to the guys who answered my question.

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Edited by miSs, 26 March 2013 - 12:25 PM.
quote clean-up

[POOTYTANGASAUR]

General Taskeen, on 26 March 2013 - 11:49 AM, said:

If you get up in their face, it won't do any damage. If you stay outside of 0m, the PPC will still do some damage between 1 and 90m. And sometimes it is enough to kill you. That's how the PPC works from canon, it comes with a field inhibitor that degrades the damage output to prevent damage to the Mech firing it.

If they added true field inhibitor functionality, the person using a regular PPC would be able to turn it off and do full damage between 0-90m, but risk damage to their Mech.

I would love this but i have a feeling erppcs would become obsolete because everyone would just risk it

[Cato Phoenix]

3 PPCs will still do around 12 damage at 40m, which is more ouch than an AC10 still.

[Aym]

Sometime in the last 9 months PPC minimum range was set to do decreased damage under 90m in the same way lasers do decreased damage past their "max" range. So a PPC shot at 45m does half damage, zero damage at zero meters, and full damage at 90+ until they get to max range, then the damage drops off again.

[Felicitatem Parco]

ERPPCs do not have any minimum range, and that's part of the balancing that comes with their very high heat generation. ERPPCs generate about 40% more heat than a normal PPC, so that extended long range damage and the lack of a short-range penalty comes at a hot price.

[RLBell]

By shooting things in the training grounds, below about 40m, PPC's do very little damage. Inside 20m, they may not even do a single point, each.