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After a massive testing session with an EZ weapon damage/range test dummy I have finally figured out how weapon damage/range works.
On the Weapon form:
RangeMin (default 256) is a game unit base
RangeMax (default 256) is a game unit base
DamageBase set to 100 for baseline testing (no other damage omods or perks in a normal damage game)
Out-of-RangeMultiplier set to 0.5 for testing
Usually the barrel Omod will then add the range multipliers:
fminRange (long barrel default 9) which multiplies Weapon:RangeMin * (fminRange + 2) for the game unit range at which full damage starts to drop off
fmaxRange (long barrel default 16) which multiplies Weapon:RangeMax * (fmaxRange + 2) for the game unit range where the Out-of-RangeMultiplier is fully in effect.
The calculation holds across ~20 different RangeMin, RangeMax, fminRange, fmaxRange value tests.
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Example A (using values above)
Range Damage
0 100
2816 99 = RangeMin 256 * (fminRange 9 + 2) starts damage reduction
3712 75
4608 50 = RangeMax 256 * (fmaxRange 16 + 2) damage reduction cap (DamageBase 100 * OoRMult 0.5)
48000 50
Just for fun using a projectile configured for 65000 game unit range, the weapon kept doing the out of range mult damage cap of 50 damage out to 48,000 game units with uGridsToLoad set to 25 before my game world falls over.
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Example B
Weapon:RangeMin 1024
Weapon:RangeMax 2048
Weapon:DamageBase 100
Weapon:Out-of-RangeMultiplier 0.5
Barrel Omod fminRange 1
Barrel Omod fmaxRange 1
Range Damage
0 100
3073 99
4607 75
6139 50
48000 50
Note: trying to only use the weapon form values and setting fminRange and fmaxRange on an Omod to zero produces odd results.
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Example C
Weapon:RangeMin 1024
Weapon:RangeMax 2048
Weapon:DamageBase 100
Weapon:Out-of-RangeMultiplier 0.0
Barrel Omod fminRange 1
Barrel Omod fmaxRange 1
Range Damage
0 100
3073 99
4608 50
5375 25
6140 0
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TL;DR
(1) Full weapon damage (Weapon:DamageBase+OMOD:iAttackdamage) stops at Weapon:RangeMin * (OMOD:fminRange + 2)
(2) then stright line damage reduction to
(3) Minimum weapon damage (Weapon:DamageBase+OMOD:iAttackdamage) * Weapon:Out-of-RangeMultiplier at Weapon:RangeMax * (OMOD:fmaxRange + 2)
(4) to projectile range.
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