In Fallout 4, every weapon has a "Fire Rate" statistic. How does this statistic translate to rounds fired per second?
Fallout – How does the Fire Rate stat in Fallout 4 translate to shots per second
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Best Answer
The Fallout wikia provides a helpful explanation of Rate of Fire on this Weapons page.
The article explains:
If that second part is unclear let me use some more definitions. From a Creation Kit forum post:
In simpler terms, Attack Delay is a weapon's charge time, and Speed would be rate of fire if there was no Attack Delay (and no reloading).
To provide some examples:
2 Speed and a 1 second Attack Delay (1/2) makes a semi-automatic weapon fire a shot every 0.5 seconds.
0.5 Speed and a 1 second Attack Delay (1/0.5) makes a semi-automatic weapon fire a shot every 2 seconds.
This calculation
Attack Delay/Speed
returns Seconds Per Attack.10 (seconds)/Seconds Per Attack
returns your Rate of Fire stat and is what's shown on your weapon's description.