Talk:Trident/@comment-30675626-20170104062631/@comment-26289935-20170105020013

Burst DPS is the damage a weapon does with one push of a button. Some weapons have high burst damage (e.g. Orkan), and some have low burst damage (e.g. Punisher).

Cycle damage is the total damage a weapon does in a full cycle (cycle = firing period + reload). So some weapons that don't do high burst damage have a higher cycle damage instead (e.g. Molots have a greater cycle damage than most burst-damage weapons).

Cycle DPS is te damage a weapon does in 1 second. To calaculate this, you first take the cycle damage, and divide it by the cycle time (in seconds).