cool themaic change to buff DUMG and make it unique and interesting

DU is armor penetrating, why not have it deal small damage to multiple layers of armor?

30 damage to first layer, 15 to second layer, then 5 to third or something like that. Have the hull count as two layers, and then it goes out the other side.

 

I like this idea, but don't make it go through the hull. Then make absorbent immune to armor penetration.

There, two researches that become viable again.

 

This actually sounds not bad.

But you should only be able to penetrate one armor plate.
Here's my idea of the numbers.

Don't change the current damage of DU, make the second plate receive 25% damage. If there's no armor then DU will do 125% damage to the hull.

 

Does it go through the tank and hit others?

And does it suffer from momentum, meaning when it slows down its harder for it to penetrate.

 

This was suggested a while back, but as far as I know it needed coding support at the time - the plates are basically set up as joined HP blocks, rather than separate entities.

At least that was the impression I got.

 

Yep, I have the same thought with you, Ikalx.

The code might treats the armor as a whole, instead of individual plates.

Actually I am just suggesting that DU should do 125% damage, that's all.

 

In code, armor is represented as a 4-element array, one for each side. Then a side is represented by a float. 1.0 is one plate, 2.0 is 2 plates, 3.0 is 3 plates and so forth. Then like 1.5 is a plate and a half. Code-wise, it'd end up being a flat increase in damage.

'Sides, it wouldn't matter. There's nothing in the entire game directly based off armor health on a per-plate basis. If you have 400 health on a side and I use a weapon that does 100 damage a hit, whether it hits every single plate on that side or just the outermost one, it'll take 4 hits either way.

 

It'd be just a very little different when the penetration damage hits the hull when you still have armor.
But yeah, it's mostly the same, just a plain damage buff for DU.

 

Instead of number of plates variable, you could use the current array turn it into an array of arrays, and the 2nd level array indices each represent a plate in float on the 1st array's side of tank. The issue with implementing would be having to probably rewrite the entire code that calculates damage and repairs.

 

make it a 2d array so that each element indiacates a plate of armor

arr[side][plate]

 

Yes, and rewrite every single function that involves armor in even the slightest way. Brilliant.

Getting the number of plates is easy. Just either floor it or cast to in and let the compiler truncate.

 

Interesting concept. You could just reduce the damage to the hull relative to the number of plates.with less than 4 plates it will always damage the hull a little but if you have a high number of plates the damage will be insignificant or non existent. I don't think each plate needs to be modelled but I think an armour penetrating bullet is an interesting idea. A weapon that is completely ineffective against a high number of plates, but deadly against few plates while also allowing you to destroy vehicles when their armour isn't completely destroyed.

 

It's also weird that ranged is being researched every game.
Sometimes you need HE instead of Ranged and I found a few comms that just don't understand this.

 

I blame FN for brain washing kids into thinking HE sucks.

 

I get HE when the kids cry about my plasma.