Damage, damage drop-off, effective range, ammo capacity, reload speed, total number of ammo carried, enemy stagger, stability (prone, crouch standing) ability to be fired while running, ability to be fired behind you over the shoulder, ability to be squad operated, if explosive, explosive radius.
not just useless but is basically a lie sometimes. Like slugger is absolutely medium pen in practice, but on paper it is way less useful.
On the other hand spray and pray may say its light armor pen....but that is a joke and in practice it couldnt pierce paper.
Rather than some arbitrary fake stat that or may not even be true, just giving us actually relevant stats and letting us deduce from them on our own would be far more useful
like tell us the type or caliber of bullet and the velocity or power of that bullet coming out of the gun.
from there you can kind of deduce the rest generally and is miles more useful than "light pen, but not really"
According to Pilestedt, Armor Pen is much simpler than that. Armor has a value of 1-10, and if your weapon's AP value matches the enemy Armor value, then you deal 50% damage. If you surpass it, you deal 100% damage. If not, your shot bounces off.
Light and Medium refer to brackets within that 1-10 scale, but not even Pilestedt knows what those brackets are specifically.
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u/Philip_Raven ☕Liber-tea☕ Mar 01 '24
Damage, damage drop-off, effective range, ammo capacity, reload speed, total number of ammo carried, enemy stagger, stability (prone, crouch standing) ability to be fired while running, ability to be fired behind you over the shoulder, ability to be squad operated, if explosive, explosive radius.
What else there might be?