Accuracy Guide
Battletech game is all about shooting enemy mechs, right? And in order to kill and not get killed you need to shoot more accurately than your enemy. This guide explains how shooting works in RogueTech, which modifiers exist and how they stack together.
Overview
A firefight in RogueTech is like a tug-of-war game: the base accuracy to hit a target is 80% and all your and your enemy actions and decisions provide either positive modifiers or negative modifiers and the goal is to have the sum of the all the modifiers to be as high as possible.
Important notice: to reflect the actual information in the game, through this guide a modifier which reduces accuracy comes with a "+" sign, and modifier which improves accuracy comes with a "-" sign.
RogueTech has a very convenient UI to manage accuracy of your units:
- In the bottom right part of the screen there as a list of weapons with calculated accuracy.
- Hovering mouse cursor over any number will open pop-up with detailed calculation of weapon accuracy for the current target.
- Pressing TAB will switch targeting between available targets.
- Whenever you aim at a target, the aiming line can be of different colors:
- Red: frontal
- Red and Yellow: frontal attack with obstructed target (+2 to hit modifier)
- Blue: flanking attack (-1 to hit modifier)
- Purple: flanking attack with obstructed target (+1 to hit modifier)
- Green: rear attack (-2 to hit modifier)
Modifiers Overview
| Category | To Hit Modifier |
|---|---|
| Mech Movement | Moved: +1
Sprinted: +2 (cumulative) Jumped: +3 (cumulative) |
| Target Movement | For each Evasion Pip: +2 |
| Height difference | +1 for each level the target is higher
-1 for each level the target is lower |
| Target Angle | Shooting from the side: -1
Shooting from the back: -2 |
| Visibility | Target is obstructed: +1
No visuals: +5 (cumulative) |
| Range | Minimum: +8
Medium: +2 Long: +4 Max Range: +8 |
| Fire modes | Indirect: +5 |
| Sensors | No sensor info: +7
ECM Shield: +1 for each point |
| Pilot skills | Gunnery: adds 1% for each point
Cautious: +1 Reckless: -1 |
Range
Weapon Tooltips list 3 ranges: Minimum, Optimal, and Maximum. All ranges below the listed minimum suffer the listed +8 penalty. Short and Medium ranges are between Minimum and Optimal, while Long and Maximum (also referred to as Extreme Range) are between Optimal and Maximum. Most (but not all) weapons have the divide between Short/Medium and between Long/Extreme at the halfway points in those ranges, but some weapons - such as Snubnosed PPCs and Artillery - have different behavior.
Weapon damage falloff begins at optimal and reaches its maximum value at the end of the weapon's range.
Evasion Pips
In RogueTech mech movement speed is represented by small chevrons - Evasion Pips. The table below shows the number of Evasion Pips a mech gains for a certain distance travelled.
| Distance Travelled, M | 30 | 80 | 140 | 210 | 280 | 330 | 390 | 450 | 510 | 570 | 630 | 690 | 900 | 960 | 990 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Evasion Pips | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 |
By default each mech can gain maximum 4 Evasion Pips from movement. This limit can be increased by various pilot skills and equipment traits.