Talk:Telos Boltor/@comment-172.15.16.99-20150903025356/@comment-172.15.16.99-20150903174754

OP here. Ammo economy and ammo efficiency are not the same thing.

Ammo economy is how hard it is to manage the expenditure of bullets vs. how hard it is to collect them.

Ammo efficiency is how much ammo it takes to down a target compared to another weapon using the same amount and same type of ammo.

I said ammo economy is better, and it is. The decreased fire rate may not be much, but it is enough to loewr the amount wasted on overkill, as someone else noted.

To see the difference, look at the Vectis. It has near-perfect ammo efficiency because almost every target dies with a single bullet. That is, 1 bullet for 1 kill is basically perfect ammo efficiency. However, it has mediocre ammo economy because every shot you miss costs you a very large portion of the weapon's total killing power, and finding sniper ammo drops on missions that aren't endless (exterminate mostly) is often quite literally impossible.

In the case of this gun, Ammo Economy is aided by the lower fire rate. But for what it's worth, indirectly, it also has superior Ammo Efficiency. The Truth effect frequently kills 10-20 enemies without spending a single bullet. That more than compensates for the slightly lower Ammo Efficiency of the 10% lower direct damage.

So like I said, my Boltor Prime will be collecting dust for the forseeable future. Sorry, idk what the math says, but actual usage says this gun is better, period.