Simple DPS Meter

See how much damage you are doing!  Amaze your friends, cow your enemies, show those losers on Skype who's the boss!

March 1, 2025

This mod provides a simple but very customizable display of damage done in the game.

Features

• []Displays damage per second and total damage done.

  []Displays damage done to targets with large amounts of health.

  []Damage calculations can be reset while playing from the Pip-Boy's Data tab.

  []With SFE installed, a simple report of damage can be written to a file ("dpsmeter.txt" in Fallout 76's data directory).

  Details

  This mod works by tying into UI events.  The Damage Numbers option in Fallout 76 settings must be turned on for this mod to work.  This mod does pick up numbers that cannot be seen on-screen.

  This does mean that the numbers can be affected by lag and such.  But the general purpose of this mod is to compare weapons, which should work well with a good sample size, and potentially track how much damage you have done during a boss encounter.

  To calculate Damage Per Second, the biggest question is when do you stop?  At some point a cutoff needs to be reached so that the damage you have done can be divided by how long you took to do the damage.  Fallout 76 does not provide a built-in method of knowing when a fight has ended and many of the longer fights have lulls.  So this mod checks how much time has passed between hits and pauses the calculations after a certain (configurable) amount of time has passed.

  In regards to the high damage targets, I cannot tell what kind of creature you are damaging.  There is currently no way to distinguish a Radroach from a Scorchbeast Queen.  The mod tracks the 100 most recent creatures you have hit and how much damage you do to each.  When the damage passes a certain (configurable) threshold, the amount of damage done to that creature will appear.

  Update

  Version 1. 5 changes the interface in a significant way.  If you prefer the old format, add/edit the "aligned" option in DPSMeter.ini.

  Installation

  Note: the Damage Numbers option in Fallout 76's Display settings must be turned on for this mod to work.

  To write reports to the output file, this mod requires the latest version of SFE.  The rest of the mod will function regardless.

  Manual Installation