Good idea.
Wondering about a BURST-FIRE assault that fires so long as you hold the icon down, then needs a manual reactuation to fire more rounds. E.g. -starts at 5 attacks a second, so if you hold it for 5 seconds, 25 attacks, hold for 10 seconds, 50 attacks, all usually 3 v 2.
So taking on a reasonably big stack of defenders, say 20-200. you would probably want at least two bursts. first, at 5 assaults a second for maybe 2,3, 4 seconds, , then pause and see the damage, see how you are doing, if things look good , you may finish it off one attack at a time, or fire another burst or two until its all over..
If you are looking to use burst fire on big defender stacks, say in the hundred or maybe even a thousand defenders, (how often is that?).you ramp up burst fire to 50 or more assaults a second. Or keep the fully automatic alive.
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Automatic firearm
[spoiler]An automatic firearm is a firearm that continuously chambers and fires rounds when the trigger mechanism is actuated. The action of an automatic firearm is capable of harvesting the excess energy released from a previous discharge to feed a new ammunition round into the chamber, and then ignite the propellant and discharge the projectile (either bullet, shots or slug) by delivering a hammer/striker impact on the primer.
If both the feeding and ignition procedures are automatically cycled, the weapon will be considered "fully automatic" and will fire continuously as long as the trigger is kept depressed and the ammunition feeding (either from a magazine or a belt) remains available. In contrast, a firearm is considered "semi-automatic" if it only automatically cycles to chamber new rounds (i.e. self-loading) but does not automatically fire off the shot unless the user manually resets (usually by releasing) and re-actuates the trigger, so only one round gets discharged with each individual trigger-pull.[1][/spoiler] A burst-fire firearm is an "in-between" of fully and semi-automatic firearms, firing a brief continuous "burst" of multiple rounds with each trigger-pull, but then will require a manual re-actuation of the trigger to fire another burst.
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