Chart: Best guns to kill Astronaut

[Tom852]

Hi

I wanted to check a few guns, and how proper they are to kill the Astronaut. I basically was interested if there is maybe something similar as there is with George. We know, the FAMAS gets a huge damage multiplier on George. So I just tested a bit.

10% Life Increase

For my calculation, I first tested, if his life increases indeed by 10%, as the zombies helth does.

Result:

11-->18: 10.0% life increase per round

11-->42: 11.5% life increase per round

Maybe something changes a bit in higher rounds, since the measurement was done quite accurate. Don't know. I just assume 10%.

Headshots, Backpackshots, Inside / Outside = More damage?

Result: No. All guns I tested (Python, Famas, Dragunov) showed no difference. Relative to his life increase, absolutely the same amount of shots is needed. You rather need more shots when you are going for the head, due to a few misses!!

Test environment:

Solo

Close shooting range

Killed him in same round as he spawned

Only stomach shots (see above), for M&S Ground shots.

All Guns are upgraded, all though I use the downgraded names!

Table explanation:

It shows:

[*:tqp3da8w]How many shots are needed to kill him in Round 30.
[*:tqp3da8w]The ammo needed to kill him, in relation to the respective gun's max ammo.
[*:tqp3da8w]The highest round, that one full ammo set of the respective gun suffices to kill him.

Personal Conclusion:

Rank 1: Ray Gun. Fast and nice ammo, nice damage. Winner in all categories. It's the gun for him.

Rank 2: LMG's (including high ammo AR's, so, the galil maybe) are the insider tip. Due to high ammo count and nice base damage, 1 ammo set is able to kill him even in higher rounds. But it is slow!!! Hard to put it therefore on Rank 2... Use only if speed of killing doesn't matter at all. (Killing at crawler time or so...)

Rank 3: Python. The second insider tip. Fast, nice damage, average ammo count. Recommended if speed of killing matters.

Rank 4: The M&S kills him really fast due to the high damage and fire rate, but has not a nice ammo count. Recommended only if speed of killing matters a lot! Also doesn't need proper aim, such as with the ray gun. Excellent choice for a moonwalking astro.

Rank 5: Snipers have also a cool damage [same as Cobra, M&S, Ray], but they shoot too slow. And the 10x headshot multiplier, which is the highlight of the sniper, is just gone (unlike at George, where the headshot difference can be noticed well). Therefore not recommended.

Rank 6: Average AR's (Commando, Aug, and worse) are not suited to kill him. They are not outstanding anywhere. Not recommended.

Rank 7: SMG's and other such things are completely inappropriate.

Further thoughts:

The result shows clearly: Everything that is different to a normal zombie is, that the headshot multiplier is removed. Anything else stays. So we can easily say: What works well on zombies, works well on the Astro. If a gun is quickly out of ammo on zombies, it will be the same for the astro. If a gun does a nice damage on zombies, same for the Astro, and so on.

So the M&S will kill him quick, but the M&S will also run quickly out of ammo. The HK emptied on him will do a ton of damage, but it will also take a while.

So you can deduce, what other guns do and what not.

Gun Charts: viewtopic.php?f=53&t=9270

Measurement results:

Calculated results, how many gun shots are needed to kill him in solo with a 1k Damage Gun (Ray, Python, Sniper, ...)

Rd,	A Life,	Shots w/ e.g. Ray

10	4362	5

11	4798	5

12	5278	6

13	5806	6

14	6387	7

15	7025	8

16	7728	8

17	8501	9

18	9351	10

19	10286	11

20	11314	12

21	12446	13

22	13690	14

23	15060	16

24	16565	17

25	18222	19

26	20044	21

27	22049	23

28	24253	25

29	26679	27

30	29347	30

31	32281	33

32	35510	36

33	39060	40

34	42967	43

35	47263	48

36	51990	52

37	57188	58

38	62907	63

39	69198	70

40	76118	77

41	83730	84

42	92103	93

43	101313	102

44	111444	112

45	122589	123

46	134847	135

47	148332	149

48	163165	164

49	179482	180

50	197430	198

51	217173	218

52	238890	239

53	262779	263

54	289057	290

55	317963	318

56	349759	350

57	384735	385

58	423209	424

59	465530	466

60	512083	513

61	563291	564

62	619620	620

63	681582	682

64	749740	750

65	824714	825

66	907186	908

67	997904	998

68	1097695	1098

69	1207464	1208

70	1328211	1329

71	1461032	1462

72	1607135	1608

73	1767849	1768

74	1944633	1945

75	2139097	2140

76	2353006	2354

77	2588307	2589

78	2847138	2848

79	3131852	3132

80	3445037	3446

81	3789540	3790

82	4168494	4169

83	4585344	4586

84	5043878	5044

85	5548266	5549

86	6103093	6104

87	6713402	6714

88	7384742	7385

89	8123216	8124

90	8935538	8936

91	9829092	9830

92	10812001	10813

93	11893201	11894

94	13082521	13083

95	14390773	14391

96	15829851	15830

97	17412836	17413

98	19154119	19155

99	21069531	21070

100	23176484	23177

[owner_101]

Ray Gun PaPed.

[Ehjookayted]

Good work, Tom! I really enjoy your research; this should be useful. Brains for you.

EDIT: I have to spread reputation first. I will be back!

[Tom852]

Thanks, don't worry about the brains ;)