Sybaris Is Acting Weird. Or Is It?

[NoeleVeerod]

Today I put my 4th Forma on the Sybaris, a weapon that I like a lot but that sometimes I fail to put to good use.

As usual, I went on Draco to level it up as fast as I could, and went ahead and shot a couple enemies, even though I knew the damage would be insignificant.

 

Then the weapon shells out a 2k/3k critical damage on an enemy and kills it, and I'm baffled.

 

Is it some sort of hidden feature, or was something going wrong? I wasn't being buffed by anybody, and the only status the enemies were being inflicted was Radiation by Oberon's Reckoning.

[Oraeas]

if its a headshot the damage would be significantly higher and crit will just make it even higher

[--Q--JoeTheBanshee]

It is a very well rounded weapon. Like KeyBlades said, could be a headshot crit. It's my favourite primary, sometimes it just hits really hard.

[AceRogue]

*Sits and wait for a sybaris prime with overall enhanced crit potential and maybe larger magazine capacity*

[MechaTails]

Sybaris has nasty overkill damage. I think I only have like 2 forma on it and it pops everything like a grape lol

[TheBrsrkr]

*waits for Sybaris buff to clip size that actually makes sense*

[[DE]Momaw]

Then the weapon shells out a 2k/3k critical damage on an enemy and kills it, and I'm baffled.

 

I'm baffled too.

 

Base damage: 70

Crit mult: x2 (140)

Head shot crit: x4 (560)

 

Shouldn't be possible to see numbers higher than this without some kind of bonuses going. Even with 4 Rifle Amps, that still only gets you to 1,164.8.  And Sybaris isn't particularly slash biased so it wouldn't have massive damage buff from a team using 4 Corrosive Projections.  Banshee weak points would explain a lot but you say no effects were active.

 

(unless you meant 2k for both shots in the burst i.e. 1k per bullet, in which case we have a workable solution)

 

*waits for Sybaris buff to clip size that actually makes sense*

 

*waits for Magazine Warp mod to have +10% mag size per rank*

Edited May 6, 2015 by Momaw

[--Q--JoeTheBanshee]

*Sits and wait for a sybaris prime with overall enhanced crit potential and maybe larger magazine capacity*

 

Honestly I'm expecting Sybaris Prime or Vectis Prime with Banshee Prime, and needless to say I am brimming with anticipation.

Edited May 6, 2015 by --Q--JoeTheBanshee

[MechaTails]

Looking forward to Dex Sybaris next year

[Hatzeputt]

 

I'm baffled too.

 

Base damage: 70

Crit mult: x2 (140)

Head shot crit: x4 (560)

 

Shouldn't be possible to see numbers higher than this without some kind of bonuses going. Even with 4 Rifle Amps, that still only gets you to 1,164.8.  And Sybaris isn't particularly slash biased so it wouldn't have massive damage buff from a team using 4 Corrosive Projections.  Banshee weak points would explain a lot but you say no effects were active.

 

(unless you meant 2k for both shots in the burst i.e. 1k per bullet, in which case we have a workable solution)

 

 

*waits for Magazine Warp mod to have +10% mag size per rank*

Several frames grant damage amplification in one form or the other, maybe the guy was affected by Rhino roar, maybe the target was affected by a Banshee's sonar, maybe a total eclipse Mirage was standing close to the guy etc. etc.. At a certain point in game you should know about other frames capabilities and how the mechanics work but I guess in the age of farmville frame people just skip through frames and never actually play them and the result you can see in threads like this.

 

I doubt the op played draco alone so the "weird" behavior was most likely the result of a team mate or three granting buffs the op did not realize.

 

Also pics or it did not happen!

Edited May 6, 2015 by Hatzeputt

[Ironlixivium]

Click bait can be annoying, it's sad how it's necessary to get veiws though

[NoeleVeerod]

I'm aware this doesn't seem to make sense, so yeah, I'll bring some proof.

Hotfix 16.4.5 kicked in, and it said something about inconsistent crits when scoring headshots (*). That might be what I was talking about. I'll bring an unranked Sybaris to Draco next time, and of course if it happens again I'll post a video (I believe I might be too slow to screenshot the numbers, I tried doing that the first time).

 

And no, I wasn't playing alone. But I'm dead sure I wasn't being buffed, or that the target wasn't being affected by any power.

 

(*) EDIT: taken from Hotfix 16.4.5 thread at: https://forums.warframe.com/index.php?/topic/453342-hotfix-1645/?p=5044991

 

• Fixed crits on enemy heads giving inconsistent crit numbers depending on what ‘part’ of the head you hit.  Headshots on enemies will now properly do a 2x damage multiplier regardless of what spot has been hit.

Edited May 6, 2015 by Vintovka