By the way, one possible reason for this oddness is that the fire rate mentioned in the UI includes reload times (even though the description in the UI says it excludes reload times). 

Of course I could be wrong.. this theory is based on just looking at these two weapons (fragment gun and missile rack), but if this theory is correct then I strongly recommend going back to the original approach of mentioning fire rates excluding reload time). That is much more valuable info so having it readily available is better.

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Hello! Could you please update us on whether you have the latest 3.240 version of the game? Previous versions may impact the correctness of this stat.

UPD: the calculation includes the reload time, so the stats are correct.

Thanks, CrystalDrew. That clears things up and is indeed what I suspected (see my 2nd post).

However I disagree that they are "correct", since the fire rate is explicitly described in the UI as excluding reload time.

There are two ways to fix this

• Change the description to read "including" reload time.
• Just revert the calculations to what they were 1 year ago. A year back the stats were perfectly fine. There was nothing wrong with how they were calculated, so I don't understand why they were changed (twice).

I strongly recommend the second fix. Fire rates that include the reload time are not as useful for us players when we are evaluating weapons.

Apart from what I've mentioned in my last comment, thermal lance 6 has impossible stats.

• Fire rate in stats (including reload time, per your update) = 274 rpm
• Fire rate in seconds = 274/60 = 4.57 rps (including reload time)
• Number of rounds in magazine (in stats) = 75
• Time to empty magazine = 75/4.57 = 16.4 seconds including reload time
• Reload time in stats = 22.5 seconds

The time to empty the magazine, since it includes reload time, should have been greater than 22.5 seconds.

I haven't checked other beam weapons.

Also, FYI, here's the case number for issues I had raised with the last stats update that was made a few months ago - 5797367. Both sets of changes have to be reverted for the fire rates and related stats to return to normalcy.

Hello! Thanks for your input. It's likely that the team will use the 1st option, but it's not a priority now. Stay tuned 👌

Thanks, CrystalDrew. I'd like to understand why this change was necessary in the first place. What problem was there in the original "exclude reload time" stats that this new approach is actually solving? If it's a question of priority/effort, it should be just as easy to revert back to the earlier approach.

Secondly, even with the understanding that the stats include reload time, the stats for thermal lance 6 are clearly wrong (see a couple of comments back). I haven't tested other recharging type weapons but it's possible this will be a problem for other recharging type weapons as well.

Hi, moderators. Please see my comment from 2 days ago - 1) What problem in the original stats are these new stats trying to solve? 2) The new stats have a bug with at least one weapon - thermal lance 6.