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worth explaining how exactly bonus damage is calculated?

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Jakusio (talkcontribs)

the recent Source SDK update allowed me to go through and determine exactly how the Axtinguisher's bonus damage is calculated, but the equation written out is pretty messy and doesn't deal in whole numbers. is it worth adding to the article somewhere, or at least giving a brief synopsis of? the current wording of "This base damage increase is equal to the damage the target would have taken from afterburn, ignoring damage penalties to it from weapons like the Degreaser" roughly describes it well enough, though the actual damage bonus is not the same as what the afterburn damage would have been.

to elaborate: the damage bonus begins at 20 for 0.5 seconds of afterburn duration or less, and for every 0.5 seconds/additional tick of afterburn after this, damage is increased by 3.1579, all the way up to 80 at 10 seconds of afterburn (the maximum). the damage bonus is added to the base damage of the Ax (43.55) and multiplied by 1.35 due to the mini-crit.

0.5 seconds of afterburn would result in 4 damage, much less than even the un-multiplied 20 minimum damage bonus. plus, the mini-crit multiplier makes the damage bonus per tick 4.263165 (greater than afterburn's 4 damage per tick), so the bonus damage is always higher than what the target would've taken from the afterburn.

Jestie (talkcontribs)

I think its worth adding somewhere in the Trivia section!

Profiteer (talkcontribs)

Sounds good, though you need to make it clear and short, since its a trivia

GrampaSwood (talkcontribs)

This should not be in trivia