While testing in the Testing Grounds I noticed that the total firerate seems halved if I set it on Chain fire (both from feel and heat generation). So I made the test of ammo usage after 30 seconds of continous fire in Alpine Peaks (to avoid overheating getting into the Calcualtion):
Dual Fire: 184 of 300 Shoots left. 116 Shoots/30 seconds = 3.86/s.
Chain Fire: 239 of 300 Shoots left. 61 Shoots/30 seconsd = 2.03/s
The problemseems to be that Chain fire uses a fixed 0.5 second delay between fire orders to different guns of the chain.
The problem should get lineary worse the more AC/2 you put into one group (granted you run into heat generation problems with this gun pretty fast, due to high Right of Fire).
Workaround: Don't set weapongroups with AC/2 on Chainfire, unless you wanted linearry cut firerate (wich might actually be helpfull for this gun).
Edited by zgrssd, 03 March 2014 - 05:37 AM.