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ovinspaceovinspace Member Posts: 310
edited April 2014 in The Academy
In the tooltip it says TS 2 gives 3 torps and TS3 4torps per target, the animation shows twice that number of torpedoes going to the target but I get the hits as per the tooltip.

In the wiki it says TS3 gives 8 torps per target for normal torps and 4 for special, I've tested this with white photon torps and it still give the lower quantity actually doing damage.

Anyone know what the screen should be showing and the game actually processing?
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  • grouchyotakugrouchyotaku Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited April 2014
    Does it really matter???

    The number of Torps you see on the screen is determined by your STO Client program...

    The number of hits, and resulting damage is determined by the STO Servers...

    And on my own machine, a Romulan Hyper-Torp with Torp Spread 3 against a angry mob will routinely produce more Torps then what the graphics display is capable of showing. I don't really care how many Torps I see as long as that mob gets toasted with the Plasma Splash from all those Hyper-Torps...
  • virusdancervirusdancer Member Posts: 18,687 Arc User
    edited April 2014
    ovinspace wrote: »
    In the tooltip it says TS 2 gives 3 torps and TS3 4torps per target, the animation shows twice that number of torpedoes going to the target but I get the hits as per the tooltip.

    In the wiki it says TS3 gives 8 torps per target for normal torps and 4 for special, I've tested this with white photon torps and it still give the lower quantity actually doing damage.

    Anyone know what the screen should be showing and the game actually processing?

    There appears to have been a change - where the VFX (and STOwiki) were not updated to reflect those changes.

    STOwiki's player run - somethings are not updated.
    Tooltips...ahem...they can do with some work.*
    What you see visually - can depend on quite a few things.
    The actual combat log will show along the lines of what you're doing.

    I can't say 100% that TS is doing what it should - can say part of the Tooltip matches up with the combat log better than STOwiki and the VFX.

    *I put an asterisk there, because this is literally what the tooltip says from Available Skills.

    Photon Torpedo - Spread III
    Torpedo Spread damages up to 5 enemies, your main target, and up to 8 more.


    Okay, let me get my fingers ready to work this out here...ready to start counting fingers.

    Torpedo Spread damages up to 5 enemies. Okay, that's five fingers...nice and simple. Wait, there's an additional explanation.

    Your main target and up to 8 more. Okay, so 1...2...3...4...5...6...7...8...9...one plus eight more, that's nine!

    Torpedo Spread damages up to 5 enemies...your main target and up to 8 more - or 9 targets?

    Yeah, tooltips can be a trip. :(

    But if you look further down, you'll see a X Kinetic Damage x4 per target (for TS3) whether you're looking at Quants or Photons. Course, there's nothing there for Chronitons...love the tooltips!

    But yeah, it's basically a case that the tooltips need to be cleared up - the VFX need to be cleared up - then somebody could clear up STOwiki.
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