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Garnax

Mon Jun 07, 2004 3:01 am

#1

It looks cooler than the mabari belt.

Worth 5 HAM in my opinion.

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Salomon_Orange

Mon Jun 07, 2004 4:20 am

#2

I'm sorry, but you're wrong man. I wear a padded armor belt, and more often than not, i see the little message pop up on sreen that says "Your Padded Belt absorbs *** damage". They do work.

Salomon Orangge-12pt Rebel Master AS-Retired

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Imaridril

Mon Jun 07, 2004 4:53 am

#3

Salomon_Orange wrote:
I'm sorry, but you're wrong man. I wear a padded armor belt, and more often than not, i see the little message pop up on sreen that says "Your Padded Belt absorbs *** damage". They do work.

The belt slot used to occasionally take hits, and that was one of the causes of the "armor hole bug", however the devs claim they have fixed this now, and I haven't noticed any armor hole hits in quite some time. When was the last time you saw your belt getting hit?

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DirthNader

Mon Jun 07, 2004 5:02 am

#4

I've talked to two people I trust regarding padded armor belts made from "exceptional" acklay hide segments. Both report the belts absorbing damage, acting like a PSG. I've made belts from normal acklay hides (even yellow text hides) and have never seen one take any damage at all.

Beyond that, some folks see them as a good place to put armor attachments due to the high condition if used with acklay hides. To that I say mabari belts, ubese shirts, and ubese bandoliers do an infinately better job at this since they have no condition to decay.

I think there may be a bug with "exceptional" hides in padded belts. Dunno. If I ever get my hands on "exceptional" acklay hide segments, they sure as heck aren't going intoa belt.

The artist formerly known as Ittov

Kaelle_DB

Mon Jun 07, 2004 11:27 am

#5

Could this be done with an ubese shirt?

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DrewBuddhaMan

Mon Jun 07, 2004 12:02 pm

#6

There was some discussionabout whether a padded belt could act as a PSG. I made some padded belts with nightsister shards so the Encumbrance was 0/0/0 and resists were around 15%. with an armor rating of "light".There was no experimentation allowed while making the belts.

I decided to test the belts and see if they provided any protection at all.

Test method:

I dueled with someone who used a low damage kinetic weapon. He hit me about 5 times. His log showed 8 points damage, my log showed 8 and the "floatie" showed 8. this was the case both with and without the belt equipped. To be sure there were no rounding errors (15% of 8 is 1.2 so this shouldn't matter anyway) he switched to a larger sword and we repeated 5 hits with and 5 hits without. The damage was in the 60's and the same numbers appeared in my log, his log, and the floatie, both with and without the belt. Furthermore the damage range seemed to be unaffected by the belt. The condition did not decrement at all through the testing.

Conclusion:

Padded belts provide no protection whatsoever.

The resists are a display bug.

The only purpose for the belt would be for looks.

Dont make one without a nightsister shard. Who wants "clothing" with encumbrance?

For Armor attachments use a mabari belt.

This may be known or suspected my most but hopefully my test will "prove" it to more.

Buddhaman Drew
Master Swordsman
Master Rifleman
Retired Armorsmith

KnightHawk420

Mon Jun 07, 2004 6:44 pm

#7

To do a better test find a profession with a special that does multiple hits all over at once.

I know fencers have "scatter" hit which seems to strike different parts of the body. I dont' think these things will in any way work like a psg though. Psg's deflect armor to ANY area that your hit. While based on what I've read hear that isn't happening.

So maybe it only resists hits going to that particular area whatever it may be.

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DragonScout

Tue Jun 08, 2004 3:17 am

#8

grr. these and all belts should be able to be worn by wookiees. anyone know why they can't? aside from the fact that they are 'armor' and hence not to be worn by wookiees?

Zerathi/Shawn -- the grumpy wookiee of Shadowfire

Salomon_Orange

Tue Jun 08, 2004 4:16 am

#9

I had my belt take quite a few hits last night while pounding geonosians in the geo bunker. I've been searching for yellow cubes like mad to replace my dead scythe. Going to do a factory run of a couple if I can find 7 identical yellow and ideantical hardeners. This is going to prove difficult. Only see red, green, and white drop in quantities over 5.

Salomon Orangge-12pt Rebel Master AS-Retired

Salo Bluee Imperial Pilot Terror

DrewBuddhaMan

Tue Jun 08, 2004 10:32 pm

#10

So it looks like the belt does absorb some damage but only when hit. Like gloves. Since i only did 5 or so hits i just didn't get hit in the belt. That means my 0 HAM padded belts are quite valuable. Just not quite as effective as a PSG.

Buddhaman Drew
Master Swordsman
Master Rifleman
Retired Armorsmith

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