Khobai, on 03 October 2015 - 04:36 PM, said:
uh what? clan gauss and IS gauss do the same exact damage.
the reason why the crab is red is because the direwolf's gauss are closer to eachother and more likely to hit the same location
while the crabs gauss are spread apart and more likely to hit different locations
its a hardpoint location issue not a weapon issue
While that's true, it's not the main reason for the difference in damage.
A typical dual gauss crab runs 2 gauss rifles, and 3 er large lasers. You can run different weapons, but this gives you the biggest alpha strike realistically possible with a roughly std 300 engine. This does a total of 57 damage. A typical dire wolf setup with dual gauss is 2 gauss rifles, 2 large pulse lasers, and 4 er medium lasers. You can add even more medium lasers but it quickly becomes unbearably hot. The typical setup does 84 damage per alpha strike... So where does the extra damage come from? The lasers of course. The dire wolf 84 pt alpha is only 30 gauss damage, but is 54 laser damage (or more, up to about 98 total damage if you are ok with scorching hot builds).
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