Forum:Critical damage and critical chance

Now i was wondering a bit bout how the dmg of the guns is calculated. Looking at the wiki here, eg the Gobi Campaign Scout Rifle does 61 dmg and 60 crit dmg.

K Thats 121 dmg on critical strike, 242 on a sneak attack critical and 484 on a sneak attack critical IN THE HEAD (200% dmg i believe). At least, thats what ive deducted from reading on this wiki. Correct me if im wrong pls.

But now the trouble start. Due to several perks and the use of .308 Hand Load, my Gobi does 111 dmg atm. I was wondering if the critical strike remains the same, or that it scales with base dmg.

Considering i have the better critical perk, the dmg would be:

static crit dmg: 111 + 90 = 201 critical strike, 402 sneak crit and 804 sneak crit headshot. variable crit: 111 + 110 = 221 crit, 442 sneak crit and 884 sneak crit headshot.

not a huge difference, but im playing fallout fanboy here, i wanna know :D

About the crit chance

I have the built to destroy trait, finesse perk and luck 10. This puts my base crit chance at 18%. With Gobi u get a x5 critcal multiplier, which means u have a 90% chance to crit outside VATS. I read that in FO3 VATS gave +15% critical chance, dunno if it applies here aswell, i assume so. That means 100% crit chance in VATS.

But for weapons with lower crit chance, id like to know what the exact number is, when additional crit chances are added (eg via cloathing). The 1st Recon Beret gives +5% crit. Im wondering if this is applied before or after the multiplier. More clearly: i have 18% base crit chance, im wearing the beret, does this mean that i have 23% base chance, or is the +5 not added to base chance, but after the multiplier?

Example: a weapon with a x2 critical multiplier: When fired outside of VATS, do i have 23x2=46% chance to crit, or is it 18x2+5=41% The difference gets bigger with higher multiplier, take x3: 23x3=69%, 18x3+5=59%

So, which is it? Or am i getting it all wrong :D

Anyway, sry to hurt ur gamerbrainz with this crap, im just curious, not like im gonna play more or less of this game after finding out ^^

Sincerely,

NeedPants 145.118.115.63 16:51, November 2, 2010 (UTC)