Question about mortar resists.

Why does the rifleman have 0 mortar resist, while engineers and scouts have 0.10 or whatever?
I understand the gren buffed resist, but ffs, why do engies and scouts endure mortars better than riflemen now.

 

riflemen have it coming

 

All the extra rifle ammunition the riflemen carry poses a safety hazard. When a mortar goes off near him, the powder in the bullets explode and damages him.

 

ammunition exploding outside a barrel for whatever reason gives the same effect as a loud firecracker

totally harmless unless you hold it in your hand

 

Cause the rofflewhore kills so much faster?

 

As usual, the developers made a bunch of big changes when they should be making small ones.

 

Lol no.

 

Maybe it has to do with the fact that roflmen have extra armour in place of the 4th weapon.

 

I would call you stupid, but I suppose you don't have any way of knowing that the rifleman "armor" is a farce. The scripts resists values for riflemen ARE the armor... the 4th slot item is supposed to be a graphical indication that rifleman have an innate resist that is listed in the scripts.

 

That's random. As I understand it, only gren's should have any kind of resist, the rest should have 0 like the rifleman...otherwise that just puts them on a level playing field, which shouldn't happen.

 

Which is for bullets not explosives.

 

I know you're in love with the new mortar (other than the particles). I agreed with you that in 2.24 riflemen were too dominant for various reasons, but the changes were too extreme, and it makes little sense that the rifleman has LESS resists than all the other classes.

 

It's actually the old mowtar. I dunno if I agree with less explosive resists than other classes but riflemen taking that amount of damage is perfectly fine..

 

The reason is because I didn't know they had that. I had no idea that in the SVN at the time, the engineer and scout resists were 0.1. Had I known, I'd have set them to 0, or the rifleman to 0.1. I just assumed they were all 0 besides rifleman, so I dropped the rifleman's down and buffed the gren's.

I never even realised until you just mentioned it.

 

4th slot used to be hardcoded 10% resist to everything afair, dunno if its still in.

 

Nope. All rifleman hardcode 10% reductions were removed with the introduction of infantry resists. It's far easier for scripters to balance that way.

 

Alright then, I was just surprised to see this implemented.

 

If the next version isn't the proposed script team overhaul of everything then I'll fix it. Thanks for pointing it out.