There is a 5x critical chance with the Ratslayer. I have decent luck, finesse etc and I kill stuff a lot with the Ratslayer.

This means when I get a critical strike I hit with 5x23, gun in perfect condition. That's 115 per hit. It's hitting a little harder than the Anti-materiel rifle. As you can get to almost 100% criticals quite easily it's a give away in the same class as the 'weapon repair kit', another easily achieved resource.

Once you understand how these things affect the game it makes for a much different strategy than seems obvious at first.

There is a 5x critical chance with the Ratslayer. I have decent luck, finesse etc and I kill stuff a lot with the Ratslayer.

This means when I get a critical strike I hit with 5x23, gun in perfect condition. That's 115 per hit. It's hitting a little harder than the Anti-materiel rifle. As you can get to almost 100% criticals quite easily it's a give away in the same class as the 'weapon repair kit', another easily achieved resource.

Once you understand how these things affect the game it makes for a much different strategy than seems obvious at first.

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Really! I posted and it hung. This is the result. Hi ho.

Err your math is wrong. Critical chance doesn't modify damage, it simply makes them more likely.

The Ratslayer deals 23dmg and an additional 23dmg on a critical hit. That's 46dmg per hit or 57dmg with the better criticals perk. No where near 115.

Correct. The x5 crit multiplier does not affect crit damage, it affects your characters critical chance. So if you had 20% crit chance (achievable with 10 luck, finesse perk, and recon beret), when you use the ratslayer, that crit chance would be boosted to 100% (20 x 5 = 100).

Thanks for correcting that. I had originally thought about what you said but had read on another forum it was 5x23.

I think that I was a bit confused because after running up luck and critcal favoring stuff I was just exploding Lakelurks a lot but I was always in sneak and that x2 on top of the 46 critical shot is a 92.