Critical Hit Calculations

[CetaiMonk]

I'd like to take a stab at writing my own utilities for managing weapons and doing comparison analysis. Does anyone know how frequently critical hits occur? Is it a simple percentage of times a weapon is fired?

[telanon]

Its a percentage on the hit. I think each weapon has a crit modifier that can increase the amount of crits.

Seek out CaptFallout (RK1) he wrote a good util on calcuating damage for weapons, he may have more insight.

-Ballpin

[XtroXtreme]

I think it was a small chance with a bonus depending on how much your skill is above oponents evade skills.

[______________Yazule]

well "theoretically" it is 3% for players, plus any enhancers (nano's or items), plus the evades factor wich is WORKING now woo hoo... sorry, dont think you can define it til you understand the #'s behind evades, which is a "mysterious" thing.

[______________Lictor]

I read somewhere that it's something like :
base 3%
+ nano bonus
+ equip bonus (low-light scope)
+ (attack skill - evade skill)/10
Now, I'm unclear if there is a max cap (ie, can it reach 100% if evade is real low?) or min cap (ie, does low attack skill vs high evades => 0%)...

[____________Nutbar03]

The formula I saw was attack skill/Evade skill. A ratio instead of straight difference.

So if attack skill is double evade skill then
AS/ES = 2
2/10 = 20%
plus the other factors you listed.

[______________Yazule]

hey nutbar, where did you see the formula.. do they have any validation or is it just 'intuition'?

[Cheddar]

Originally posted by Cetai
I'd like to take a stab at writing my own utilities for managing weapons and doing comparison analysis. Does anyone know how frequently critical hits occur? Is it a simple percentage of times a weapon is fired?

You should look at Vampi's old guide if you want a headstart. His spreadsheet doesn't include critical hit calculation, but there's some info for the formula on the page.

http://home.austin.rr.com/shakti/weapeval.htm

[____________Nutbar03]

This is quote from Vampi's page, which quotes the Sybex guide:

According to the Sybex guide, your chance of scoring a critical is always at least 3%, increasing by an additional 1% for every 10% by which your Attack value exceeds your opponent's evade value. So if your attack value were exactly twice that of your opponent's evade, then you have a 13% chance of scoring a critical on any given attack.

[______________Yazule]

Thanks bro, send me a tell when your looking to test those chairs, we buff you up good