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Re: FYI: Descent weapon totals

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From: bpi... Brendan
Date: Tue, 07 Feb 1995 06:56
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Jason G Fourier <jf...@andrew.cmu.edu> wrote:
:Thanks for coming up with the info, I hadn't thought of doing it.
:
:Excerpts from netnews.alt.games.descent: 3-Feb-95 FYI: Descent weapon
:totals by John Caruso@nova.umuc.ed
:> We were really surprised to see that there's so little difference between
:> the different laser levels.  Level 3 lasers *seem* so much better...but
:> it still takes 5 (full) hits to take out a fresh player, same as it does
:> with level 1 lasers.
:
:Another bit of info that could be useful is how much energy each weapon
:uses when you fire.  I know that flares use a lot.  Also, it could be
:useful to know how the different difficulty levels effect damage levels.

Flares?  I was under the impression that Flares used one point of energy
each, and did one point of damage per...
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