Bio Engineer Archive
Thread: What Happened here?
So yesturday I get in a PvP fight. I have a full suit of Chitin and a Mk1 shield generator. I use a rifle.
I have 700 health. I get hit with a shot that says it does 730 damage, but I'm still alive with a small amount of health left. I didn't get any message about either my armor or my shield absorbing anything.
What would cause his weapon to only do like 90% damage? If his AR was higher than my AR, it should have done like 125% damage. If my AR was higher than his AR, it should have done like 50% damage. If his damage type hit a vulnerability, he should have done like 100% damage.
What would make him only do ~90% damage?
If AR 1 armor gets hit by an AP 1 weapon, what happens?
I'm wondering if in that case, the base deflection of the armor becomes 0%, plus whatever is listed as the armor's bonus value.
So like an AR 1bone armor helmet with 20% rating to energy gets hit my an AP 1 energy weapon, it still deflects 20% damage rather than 0? And simply doesn't have a message output for this?
what weapon was your opponant using?..
chitin will only protect against certain types of damage
i cannot speak for the shield generator, however.. it's not something i've played with before
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Shield gens are like armor, they absorb based on the AR and what they protect. So even an AR1Mk1 with 5% protection to energy will, like armor, absorb 50% damage from an AP0 weapon.
When everything works, if I get shot in the head for 500 I see:
You get hit for 500
Your Chitin Helm protects you from 250 damage
Your Shield Generator Mk1 protects you from 125 damage
In the case I listed in my original post, though, I didn't get any messages, but I still got some degree of deflection. I had a hit against me for more than I had hit points, I didn't get any messages other than the hit, but I only took something like 90% damage from the shot.
I'm not sure what weapon he was using. But even if it was a heat weapon, and Chitin has vulnerability to heat, I should then see 100% damage, not 90%.
this board used to be all about fixing bugs in the combat medic class and answering people's questions about how to do certain aspects of the profession... now its just a lot of flamehearty people asking for the nerf bat to be swung around and has degenerated to some of the petty arguing i've seen in other boards.
/sniffle
why does this crap have to get on to these boards? I miss my old helpful CM board that had people spouting facts on how to make stimpacks, and what resources make good packs, and how to fix factories, and all sorts of other good helpful info.
