Surgical Damage

Surgical is one of the 8 Damage types inflicted by certain Weapons. It is a particularly effective damage type against ships such as the Kalthi ships and the AI ship Pax Astralogica. There is a wide range of weapons that do surgical damage including the Liposuction, Love Cylinder and the X-Surgical Laser.

Using surgical damage is tracked, and when something dies, the bonus is proportional to the percent of surgical damage used to kill up to 75%, so and last hit weighted 25%. For attacking players and bots causes additional durability damage to items on board. For AI, it increases the onboard drop rate scaled by tech x3.

For Augmenters Base chance is 4.5% to drop. 4.5% * (1.0 + surgical bonus) + (SKILL_PIRACY * .0005)

Surgical bonus up to double (1.0). Weighted 75 percent on total surgical damage and 25 percent on last shot being surgical. A a maximum bonus of 10.2 percent with Piracy 22 and 100% Surgical Damage per Aug equipped on the enemy ship.

A critical hit delivered with surgical damage will increase weapon recoil on the affected ship for a few seconds.