[Idea] More Weapon Information

[Denelo]

could we add the ammount of EMP a weapon does to a target (by draining the targets core, i believe Pulses and Debilitators have this ability) to the wiki

Easy way to figure it out. The energy damage of a weapon is its shield damage minus half its hull damage. For most weapons, that's zero. Only pulses do energy damage. For those, it's basically they're shield damage, though if you need exact numbers subtract half their hull damage from that.

Basically, here's how damage works in Freelancer. There are two numbers. Hull damage, and energy damage.

Hull damage: How much damage the gun does the the hull.
Energy damage: how much damage the gun does to the power core.

There is no shield damage entry in the .ini files. Instead, shield damage is always half the hull damage plus energy damage. So for instance, Splitters look like this:

Hull damage: 500
Energy damage: 0

This means that it does 500 hull damage per shot, 250 (500/2 + 0) shield damage per shot, and 0 power core damage per shot.

Let's take a look at the Imp. Debilitator I now.

Hull damage: 40
Energy damage: 628

So from that, you can get its shield damage (40/2 = 20, 20 + 628 = 648). However, it takes 628 energy from the target's power plant every time it hits as well.

See?

So basically, the easiest way to get the number you're looking for is to look at the weapon's shield damage. If the shield damage isn't half the hull damage, it does energy damage.