Deadlock DPS Calculator

The formulas

Damage per bullet is base × (1 + weapon damage %) + flat damage. A headshot multiplies that by 1 + 0.65 × (1 + hero crit bonus scale) × (1 − target crit reduction), which is 1.65× for most heroes. The average bullet blends body shots and headshots by your headshot rate.

Fire rate bonuses add together. Slows stack multiplicatively, 1 − (1 − s₁)(1 − s₂)…, and are subtracted from the bonuses. The total can't go below −50%. A positive total multiplies your base fire rate by (1 + total); a negative total divides it by (1 + |total|), so −50% leaves two thirds of your fire rate, not half.

Magazine size is (base + flat ammo) × (1 + the sum of ammo % bonuses), rounded up. Shots per magazine is the magazine divided by the ammo each shot uses, rounded down.

Burst DPS = average bullet × bullets per shot × shots per second. Sustained DPS = damage per magazine ÷ (time to empty the magazine + reload time).

Worked example

With the starting values, a 10-damage bullet with +30% weapon damage does 13 per body shot and 21.45 per headshot. At a 20% headshot rate the average bullet is 13 × (1 + 0.2 × 0.65) = 14.69. At 10 shots per second that's 146.9 burst DPS.

The 30-round magazine empties in 3 seconds for 440.7 damage, then the 2.5-second reload follows, so sustained DPS is 440.7 ÷ 5.5 = 80.1.

Fire rate examples: +10% and +18% bonuses with one 25% slow give 28% − 25% = +3%. Two 40% slows give 1 − 0.6 × 0.6 = 64%, which is capped at −50%, so you fire at 1 ÷ 1.5 = 66.7% of your base rate.

Built-in data vs. your inputs

The only game data built in is the stacking rules (from the Deadlock Wiki's Fire Rate and Ammo pages, checked November 2026), the 1.65× headshot, and the hero headshot modifiers and headshot reductions shared with the Deadlock Damage Calculator. Every weapon stat comes from you, because they change most patches. Enter reload time as shown in your stats panel, since how reload-time reductions stack isn't documented.

Not modeled

Damage falloff (use the damage calculator to find your per-bullet damage at range and enter that), spin-up weapons, alt-fire, misses, conditional item procs and temporary buffs, active reload, and abilities that refill or change ammo. Sustained DPS assumes you always empty the magazine before reloading.