Talk:Aphid/@comment-31187322-20170130084636/@comment-27829019-20170130125310

Well compare it to a weapon like Magnum- you have to STAY out of cover for a continuous amount of time in order to do damage. two salvoes is only ~21 seconds which would translate to ~1500(damage per missle)x8(missles)x4(weapons)x2(vollies)= 96k for the 21 second double volley (at somewhere between lv8 and 9), wheras for 21 seconds, Magnum is 1500(damage per shot) x2 (rough number of shots per second)x4(number of weapons)x21(number of seconds fired continuously without being blocked/no misses) = 252k damage (at somewhere between level 8 and 9), which makes sense wheras for aphids you pop out for literallly less than a second to deal a 'massive' amount of damage (such as a Death Button) while magnums you must stay in the open to deal maximum damage (I did both my calculations assuming you used 4 light hardpoints, such as the Patton, you will not do 252k damage with a single light hardpoint in 21 seconds lol)