N00bish Question about rate of fire and infintry weapons.

[HelpLuperza]

Looking over the GU07 patch, I started to wonder something, do the NC have the fastest rate of fire infantry weapon in the game? How does rate of fire work?

I heard from a friend that the NC have the fastest carbine in the game, and that struck me as odd as one of the TR advanages is supposed to be weapon rate of fire.

Call me a n00b, but I don't know much about carbines, so I don't honestly know which carbine is the fastest or which infantry gun is the fastest in the game. Call me a n00b, but from a design standpoint I am confused especially when it feels like alot of TR weapons.

P.S. Got the stats checked, and understand the G07 change better now, still kind of confused about

[Micro]

The TR still fire the fastest, the NC slowest, and the VS are kinda like in between them two.
The NC weapons compensate their slow fire rate by hitting harder.

[HelpLuperza]

Yeah, I thought what my friend was saying was a little bogus, thanks for checking for me. I know I can always rely on PSU for PS facts.

[Neutral Calypso]

There is a google docs spreadsheet out there which will answer this question for you... if you want to pore over spreadsheet data.

[OctavianAXFive]

Your friend did not mislead you entirely. The NC GD-7F fires at 845 RPM tied for the fastest carbine with the VS Serpent. The fastest TR carbine fires at 800 RPM.

The above carbines do 143 maximum damage and 100 minimum damage.

The Terran Republic have the fastest firing gun, the SMG-46 Armistice at 896 RPMs.

Weapons at 845 RPMs.

Each faction has 2 weapons in this category.

TR:
Tx1 Repeater (pistol)
Cycler TRV (AR)

NC:
GD-7F (caribine)
Blitz GD-10 (SMG)

VS:
Serpent (carbine)
Sirius SX12 (SMG)

800 RPMs.

This is where the TR dominates.

TR:
T7 Mini-chain gun (Heavy Weapon)
LC2 Lynx (carbine)
TAR (AR)
PDW-16 Hailstorm (SMG)

NC:
GR-22 (AR)

VS:
H-V45 (AR)
VX6-7 (carbine)

750 RPMS

TR:
T1 Cycler (AR)
T1B Cycler (AR): burst weapon, speed is based on each burst
Trac-5 (carbine)
T9 Carv (LMG)
MSW-R (LMG)
LC3 Jaguar (carbine)
Trac-5 Burst (carbine): burst weapon, speed is based on each burst

NC:
Carnage BR (AR)

VS:
Orion (LMG)
Eridani SX5 (SMG)

There are a lot of guns in the game so I am going to skip to the end and say that the other categories of RPM for non-MAX fully automatic weapons are:

698
652
600
577
550
526
500
492
451

There are 44 weapons that fall under these rates of fire.

Of those 44

9 are TR

17 are NC

15 are VS

3 are NS

As a whole, the TR arsenal sports more high RPM weapons. The NC supports the least and the VS are somewhere in the middle.

Each faction has weapons in each range, but clearly the TR have a greater variety of fast weapons.

Source: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/...owsperpage=250

Another thing you might be interested in:
http://ps2model-axiom.rhcloud.com/

This link sends you to a weapon damage analysis tool, so you can directly compare weapons and their times to kill.

And if you want to see pretty pictures, here's a great link to weapon recoil heatmaps:
http://forum.symthic.com/planetside-...recoil-charts/

[HelpLuperza]

Cool I think I understand it better now

[Sunrock]

The thing is that RPM does not mean shit if they have slow muzzle velocity when fire on a moving target. Especially when each round have very low damage.