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‣ Seraph Tempest Missile Launcher Mk. S ‣ ‣ ‣ |
| Seraph Tempest Missile Launcher Mk. S | |
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| Gun Statistics | |
| Class: | Rocket Launcher |
| Direct Damage per shot: | 90 Explosive (12.86 per projectile) |
| Burst Damage per shot: | 90 Fire (12.86 per projectile) |
| Direct Damage per magazine: | 270 Explosive |
| Burst Damage per magazine: | 270 Fire |
| Burst Radius: | 7 meters |
| Effective Vs: | Hull, Balloon |
| Rate of Fire: | 0.75 shots/s |
| Delay between shots: | 1.33 seconds |
| Unload Time: | 2.67 seconds |
| Reload Time: | 8 seconds |
| Magazine Capacity: | 3 |
| Projectile Speed: | 250 m/s |
| Range: | 600 meters |
| Buckshots: | 7 projectiles |
| Jitter: | 1.3 deg |
| Spread radius at Max Range: | 14 meters |
| Size: | Light |
| Movement and Arcs | |
| Horizontal Angles: | 50 deg Left; 50 deg Right |
| Vertical Angles: | 30 deg Up; 30 deg Down |
| Horizontal Turn: | N/A deg/s |
| Vertical Turn: | N/A deg/s |
| Additional Info | |
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| “ | Fires remote-guided missiles; reticle must bet kept on a target to direct missiles towards it. Main missile splits into guided submunitions after 0.25 seconds (50m). Submunitions have random velocity between 150m/s and 200m/s. Submunitions begin randomly detonating after 600m with missiles rarely reaching beyond 1700m. | ” |
—Wilson's Notes | ||
The Seraph is medium range multiple rocket launcher with manual guidance. Each submunitions have large AoE radius damage and capable of setting multiple components on fire, what can be improved with special ammunition.
Common Tactics
The Seraph Tempest Missile is a weapon of fire harassment and moderate kill potential. Key feature of this weapon is guided rockets, what allow to hit small and fast moving ships at distance. Fire as its secondary damage type (and fire stacks originating from its ignition chance) is a universal type of damage and can put considerable pressure to armor on less armored ships like Squid or Stormbreaker as well to balloon.
The guided missiles after launch are always sent to the point where the launcher is directed, regardless of the presence of a crewman on it. This, combined with the low speed of the missiles, requires a certain amount of time to operate with this weapon.
It should be noted that the nominal 600 meters do not accurately reflect the range of weapons. The flight time of individual missiles differs randomly in a large direction, which allows reaching a distance of 1000 meters at least half the missiles with standard ammunition. AI crewmans will never attack the target at a distance greater than the nominal.
Main missle before split into submunitions don't do damage damage to enemy ship. Although the arming distance is small enough, it still can limits the use of weapons on point-blank distance. Also after arming submunition is diverge into a large circle and part of rockets on close distance like 100 meters can be lost and don't hit target due to limited ability to turn.
Usually, this weapons are better used in combination with other disable weapons that allow keep an enemy ship at the safe distance.
Commonly Used Ammunition
Incendiary Rounds
- Has a chance of applying more fire stacks. (Every individual AoE hit of each of the 10 mini rockets receives the added 25% chance of applying fires)
- Clip size unchanged.
- Reduced maximum range and projectile speed, require more time to operate gun.
- Proper use of chemical spray significantly reduces the effectiveness of ammunition.
- Slower projectile speed gives rockets more time to home in before they hit or pass by their target, allowing them to be used effectively at closer ranges.
Update history
2.0.17 Summer Update: Colors of the Wind
- Chances of apply fire stack on direct hit was silently cut down. Only AoE chances left.
26.06.2020 Balance Update
- Clip: 3 (from 2) The changes were aimed at breaking the synergy with charged rounds.
- Missiles per shot: 7 (from 10)
- Down arc: 10 (from 30)
- Velocity: 250 (from 150)
- Range: adjusted to remain 600 for initial detonations.
Balance Update - 19.04.2024
- Fire rate: 0.5/s -> 0.75/s
- Down arc: 10 -> 30