Aimed Shot Firing Tests for Rifle Types:
by: Tekkor / Date:7/23/01

Ok fellow agents this is actually the first article on the site. Some of you may be familiar with the discussions going on in our message boards about whether Concealment effects the chances of critical hit on Aimed Shot.

I will be conducting more tests on this to confirm with better accuracy and will post a new article with the results. However this article is about something I found very interesting tonight while logging Aimed Shot results with 2 different rifles. Let me first give you my stats that I had during all these test shots:

Tekkor / Lvl 26 Agent
Concealment 210
Rifle 182
Aimed Shot 208
Sense 95
Agility 93

Items of note on person:
Following NF's: +20 to rifle, +20 aimed shot, +20 run speed, +4 dmg, +63 concealment.
Extra items: Low light targeting scope QL 20, adds +3 to critical chance.
Implants: Various implants giving +'s to Rifle, sense and aimed shot.

Ok that covers my whole setup. Now here are the 2 rifles used for these tests:

The target for the 2 tests were Yellow con Large Chirops and Yellow con Kea Reets. They were all about 1 to 2 level below even on using "T" to con. The area was behind Galway Castle near zone line to Clondyke.

Here were the results on Aimed Shots:

What does it mean?:
Ok...so here is what I get out of all this. First of all certain rifles are made for sniping more so then others. Even though the Gripo has a higher critical damage total (155) compared to Tsak (38) the Tsak consistently gets higher damage Aimed Shots.

Barrel Length:
One thing to note on this and I have never seen anyone else note this. If you notice both rifles have a range of 30m. However the on player graphic for the Tsak has the long extended barrel while the Gripo has a short assault rifle look to it. This could be a key issue with Aimed Shot. The rifles with the extended barrels could be meant for Aimed Shot.

Extra Data:
As you can see in test results above the Tsak had 4 of 6 shots hit over 100. The Gripo only had 2 and they were low 100's at that. One thing in the Gripos defense though is it may not be best at Aimed Shot but that guns kicks major freaking arse after that. During this test I had 3 normal shots with the Gripo for 299 damage! 3 times in 12 creatures!!

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So it would appear a great combo would be to have Tsak to start fight off and then once creature gets to you go to Gripo.

Recharging:
One other key item that I am not sure many understand correctly. I think many people believe the Recharge stat on weapons is only in regard to it reloading. Now while this may be true that is not all it has to do with. The Gripo Aimed Shot comes back available like 4 times faster then the Tsak. I swear the Gripo aimed shot is back in like 30 sec I would guess. The Tsak takes about 1:30 I would estimate. Sorry I didn't time it.

In closing:
I hope you guys got some info out of this. I sure did. It appears that certain rifles are much better suited for Aimed Shot then others. I will in the future do some more tests with a wider range of rifles. I have a MTI SL70 I can use next time. Just some final comments from me on the 2 rifles I used.

The Grippo is a crazy mean arse gun. It rips through creatures and your ammo like baby shi....errr um well real fast. The gun does great damage. However it seems not to be the best gun to use aimed shot for at least from my tests.

The Tsak is a very nice gun as well. Many I have talked to consider it the 3rd best gun behind the Stigma and Gripo respectively. I have not had a Stigma yet so I am not sure on it. However I can say with pretty strong confidence the Tsak is the much superior Aimed Shot rifle over the Gripo...while the Gripo is the far superior medium to close range gun.