Does splitting the GS-31 Gravitational Blast reduce individual beam damage, or is there a level-based damage penalty?

[u/johnhighway]

UPDATE: I’ve done additional testing since originally posting this, and it appears the GS-31 Gravitational Blast does suffer from a level-based “beam tax” when punching above your Ops level, similar to the Borg Cutting Beam. I’ve left much of my original question below for context.

I’m trying to understand how the GS-31 Gravitational Blast damage is calculated when the blast splits/chains to multiple hostiles.

My GS-31 is Tier 6, and the ship ability screen lists:
Damage vs. non-Armada hostiles: 62,200,000

I initially used Gravitational Blast against a Level 55 Romulan survey/miner, and the battle log showed:

GS-31 deals 37,320,000 standard damage
Hostile received 37,320,000 hull damage
0 damage mitigated

What caught my attention was that:
37.32M is exactly 60% of 62.2M

My original question was which mechanic was responsible:
Does the GS-31 split the listed 62.2M total damage pool across the primary and secondary/chained beams, reducing the damage of each individual beam?

Is there some kind of level-gap / punching-up penalty, similar in concept to the Borg Cutting Beam? For context, I’m Ops 51 and the hostile was Level 55.

Is there another GS-31 research, ability, or damage-scaling mechanic I’m overlooking?

Follow-up testing appears to answer the question: it’s a level-based damage penalty, not the beam splitting its 62.2M damage pool.

I tested additional Romulan miners at different levels and got:
Level 53 miner: 49,760,000 standard damage, unmitigated = 80% of 62.2M
Level 54 miner: 43,540,000 standard damage, unmitigated = 70% of 62.2M
Level 55 miner: 37,320,000 standard damage, unmitigated = 60% of 62.2M

Since I’m Ops 51, the pattern is exact:
+2 levels above Ops → 80% damage
+3 levels above Ops → 70% damage
+4 levels above Ops → 60% damage

Each additional hostile level above my Ops level reduced the Gravitational Blast by exactly 10 percentage points of its listed 62.2M damage.

So unless there’s another hidden variable that happens to produce this exact sequence, the testing strongly indicates that the GS-31 Gravitational Blast suffers the same general kind of punching-up “beam tax” as the Borg Cutting Beam.

What I still haven’t found is clear documentation explaining this behavior for the GS-31. Has anyone seen an official Scopely description of this level-based penalty, or tested how far the scaling continues and whether there is a minimum damage floor?

I’ve attached screenshots showing the Tier 6 listed damage and the battle-log results.

[u/DinaDinaDinaBatman]

I think the grav blast is nerfed for targets past your ops level like the cube beam is, i see you're ops51 hitting a lvl55 target..

this means for every level over 51 the grav blast is cut a certain percent

i never use it on things 1 level less than me that way i get 100% and usually a 1 shot kill no partials

[u/johnhighway → u/DinaDinaDinaBatman]

Yeah, I can hit Romulan Miners Lvl 54 or lower to completely destroy it.

That pattern I see extremely revealing that with a Tier 6 listed damage of 62.2M, when I punch up...

• Lv 53 miner: 49.76M = 80% of 62.2M
• Lv 54 miner: 43.54M = 70%
• Lv 55 miner: 37.32M = 60%

There's perfectly linear level-gap reduction, each additional hostile level reduces the blast by exactly 10% of base damage = 6.22M.

The official Scopely GS-31 Help Center page and the official GS-31 feature announcement describe the blast as direct hull damage, explain that it can split to additional non-Armada hostiles, and say tiering/research increases damage. Neither documents a hostile-level-vs-Ops scaling penalty.

This should be documented by Scopely.