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Damage types are properties of weapons that determine how effective they are against armor and shields. All weapons do full damage to the hull.

Note that damage against armor is further reduced by up to 85%, depending on the weapon's per-shot damage and the target's armor strength.

High Explosive[]

Damagetype high explosive

High Explosive weapons do 200% damage to armor and 50% damage to shields. They are thus most effective at destroying the armor of targets with shields down. High Explosive damage is used by most missiles, many ballistic weapons and the High Intensity Laser.

Kinetic[]

Damagetype kinetic

Kinetic weapons do 200% damage to shields and 50% damage to armor. They are best used to overload enemy shields but can also be used to target the hull once armor has been dealt with. Kinetic damage is used by many ballistic weapons, the Sabot SRM and Graviton Beam.

Energy[]

Damagetype energy

Energy damage is equally effective against all targets, doing 100% damage to shields, armor and hull. It is used by almost all energy mount weapons and the ballistic Mjolnir Cannon. Many energy weapons also have advantages such as being constant damage beam weapons or secondary effects, however, beam-type energy weapons only apply soft flux when dealing damage to shields, unlike other damage types.

Fragmentation[]

Damagetype fragmentation

Fragmentation weapons do 25% damage to both shields and armor, and are thus ineffective against protected targets. However, they generally have very high DPS and are thus extremely dangerous to thinly armored, unshielded targets such as missiles and fighters, as well as (some) ships which have had their armor stripped away by damage. The Vulcan Cannon, Thumper, Salamander MRM and Stinger-class Proximity Mine do Fragmentation damage.

EMP[]

Main article: EMP

EMP is a secondary damage effect that disables weapon & engine components without harming shields or hull. It is mostly found on certain energy damage weapons such as the Ion Cannon, Mjolnir Cannon and Tachyon Lance, although the Hypervelocity Driver and the Salamander MRM series of missiles also do EMP damage.

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