Thread:Tsurugi Matsuda/@comment-1987992-20120621074646/@comment-4133512-20120621113609

I've done a comparison to all 8 of X's Special Weapons in X5 and found some interesting points:

For C-Shot, Tri-Thunder, Goo Shaver and Ground Fire. Energy usage for each shot is 1 unit/shot for unarmored X, and 0.75 units/shot when using Fourth/Falcon/Ultimate Armors, which translates to a 25% reduction of Weapon Energy usage.

But for weapons that uses >2 units/shot (applies to Wing Sprial, Spike Ball and F-Laser), the reduction in weapon usage when using Fourth/Falcon/Ultimate is reduced by 33% instead!

But all its weapons have a common feature: If X equips any of the Armors that can use special weapons, the maximum shot capacity automatically increases by 50% regardless of how much the energy usage for each weapon is. So it should be safer to focus on maximum shot capacity increment by 50%. Even the japanese wikipedia page of this game also did not mention weapon energy decrease rate in detail, just stating a 'slight decrease'. Maybe they also noted the varying decrease in weapon energy usage too.