Plasma burster

Type: Destroyer weapon.

For ship type: Destroyer

For ranks: 8-12, 11-17.

Munitions:

Description

Fires short bursts of explosive shells, generating a 30 m. cloud of highly active gas at the impact location, dealing EM damage.

Over 3 s., the cloud's radius grows to 210 m. and then the cloud dissipates. During this time the cloud's damage decreases.

The cloud deals 167% more damage to destroyers.

Characteristics

Parameters are shown without ship bonuses and modifiers for the 1 weapon.

The rate of fire increases depending on the number of weapons mounted on the ship, result is increased damage per second.

Some damage parameters are rounded to integer values.

Parameters	Plasma burster 12					Plasma burster 17
	Mk.1	Mk.2	Mk.3	Mk.4	Mk.5	Mk.1	Mk.2	Mk.3	Mk.4	Mk.5
DPS (EM)	588 dmg./s.	+22.5 dmg./s.	+22.5 dmg./s.	+18 dmg./s.	+17 dmg./s.	611 dmg./s.	+22.5 dmg./s.	+22.5 dmg./s.	+18 dmg./s.	+15 dmg./s.
Damage (EM)	392 dmg.	+15 dmg.	+15 dmg.	+12 dmg.	+11 dmg.	407 dmg.	+15 dmg.	+15 dmg.	+12 dmg.	+10 dmg.
Max. cloud DPS (EM)	1178 dmg./s.	+44 dmg./s.	+44 dmg./s.	+36 dmg./s.	+32 dmg./s.	1222 dmg./s.	+44 dmg./s.	+46 dmg./s.	+34 dmg./s.	+32 dmg./s.
Min. cloud DPS (EM)	578 dmg./s.	+44 dmg./s.	+44 dmg./s.	+36 dmg./s.	+32 dmg./s.	622 dmg./s.	+44 dmg./s.	+46 dmg./s.	+34 dmg./s.	+32 dmg./s.
Rate of fire	90 rounds/min					90 rounds/min
Critical chance	5%					5%
Critical damage bonus	75%					75%
Projectile speed	6000 m/s					6200 m/s
Firing range (max.)	4400 m.					4400 m.
Spread (from-to)	1-0 deg.					1-0 deg.
Overheating/cooling	1.5/0.5 s.					1.5/0.5 s.
Cost	Manufacturing	225000	450000	1050000	Manufacturing	Manufacturing	675000	1350000	3150000	Manufacturing

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