Bridge officer weaponry comparison

Weapons fire at a different rate on bridge officers. Roughly every 5 seconds. The secondary fire of the weapons waits for cooldown but also some other condition. ie. dual pistol secondary only fires at extreme close range.

• Plasma Piercing Beam Rifle Mk XI [CrtH]x2 [Dmg] (mk ix from vender in sphere equipment room, can be upgraded) (secondary cd= NA, uses plasma fuel)
• Compression pistol (secondary cd=4 sec)
• wide beam pistol (secondary cd=4 sec)
• dual pistols (secondary cd=5 sec)
• High density beam (secondary cd=6 sec)
• split beam (secondary cd=6 sec)
• Sniper rifle (secondary cd=8 sec)
• pulsewave (secondary cd=8 sec)
• Full auto rifle (secondary cd=8 sec)
• Blast assault (secondary cd=12 sec)
• minigun (secondary cd=12 sec)

• 4 tactical bridge officers with exactly the same training, battle strategies I, and target Optics I
• Test conducted on nimbus scorpions
• Captain does not fire, only Boffs
• 5 minutes of battle

• Plasma Piercing Beam Rifle Mk XI [CrtH]x2 [Dmg] total damage = 56.7k, Giant scorpion dps = 340
• pulsewave total damage (close range) = 52.5k Giant scorpion dps = 218
• Blast assault 42.8k
• Minigun 38.7k
• Full auto 35.0k
• dual pistols 32.8k
• High density beam 32.3K Giant scorpion dps = 120
• wide beam pistol 31.7k
• split beam total damage = 20.9k Giant scorpion dps = 144

• Compression pistol total damage=28.4k Giant scorpion dps = 145
• sniper rifle total damage = 27.4k Giant scorpion dps = 138

• plasma flamethrower (very short range) 19.9k
• dyson exp. rifle 13.8k
• maco rifle mk xii 10.2k
• adapted maco mk xii 8.7k
• Nelen Exil's Wide Beam Pistol Mk XI [Dmg] 8.4
• Shattering Harmonics Crystalline Sword Mk XII 2.2k

• Pulsewave has very good knockback abilty which interrupts npc attacks for a moment. May be the best crowd control at close range.
• Plasma piercing seem to be best at taking down large target through boff attack command. Good crowd control but no repulse.

• Will test mk xi version of plasma fueled weapons when upgrade system is in place. (Plasma repeater, plasma charged burst, plasma piercing) (mk ix vender at sphere equipment room)
• Fluidic Antiproton Wrist Lance