Specifically, do they proc “per swing” or the game calculates it seperately for every enemy hit?

Yes and no. It’s per swing, but it will then crit on every enemy hit, potentially giving you multiple crits (which may proc talents or blessings).

Great and important question! They’re always counted per attack. So either all targets hit with the same swing / shot / explosion / puff of flame etc get crit… or none of them will. Naturally this greatly affects talents etc. since slow but big AoE attacks are no more likely to get even a single cr…

On melee it’s per swing. You don’t have to hit anything. You will get a crit swinging at open air. You can verify this yourself with Perfect Timing talent on the psyker tree. You can gain stacks without hitting anything. For ranged it depends on the fire rate, but same deal. You can crit without h…

And some crit proc effects have an undisclosed internal cooldown, for example, the recon’s crit for 5 shots at a time, but only procs infernus and shock trooper once.

It’s not just shock trooper that got nerfed with an internal cooldown, the crit salvo on weapons changed too, AFAIK the Steam guide is up to date. The Recons now have a crit chain of 2. P.S. Note that some weapons have an inherit crit bonus and others a -2 penalty, add that to the archetype base c…

Well that figures. :joy: While I’ve played since release, I’ve only been active here on Fatshark forums for a few months I think. DoT’s like basically everything else was just stuff I had to go and test and figure out on my own. But it’s no surprise if that stuff is hidden behind random posts and no…

Oof. Recon definitely holds its title of most nerfed weapon in the game.

[image] Tempest_yo: To further elaborate on the fire rate statement; you get crit batching mechanics based on the fire rate. Doesn’t seem to have a mathematical formula attached to it to determine how many crits are allowed per single proc based on fire rate, but as an example Recon Lasgun VId s…

How do criticals work?

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There was a dev post regarding dots and exponential scaling a year ago, still worth a glance.

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