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[ManDaisy]

I have never been head shot by artillery before. Sure my mech has been hit and the head has taken damage, but never enough to kill me. Skimping armor on the head is like skimping armor on the legs back before they made the penalties more severe.

Be honest, anyone with FULL head armor ever die from artillery?

[A banana in the tailpipe]

ManDaisy, on 28 May 2014 - 11:12 AM, said:

Be honest, anyone with FULL head armor ever die from artillery?

Every single time for me.

[Mcgral18]

Yep, arty is 40 damage. Max armor gives you 33 HP.

[Suko]

Last night I got arty and airstriked within 15 seconds of each other. After I limped away, I saw my cockpit armor was gone and internals were yellow. I do have full armor on my cockpit though and the VLOG mentions that splash damage does not transfer, so if you take a headshot, it was from a direct hit by a shell. So....take it for what you will.

Edited by ShadowVFX, 28 May 2014 - 11:19 AM.

[-Natural Selection-]

I have issued out about 30 headshots with arty. Not sure what their armor situation is, but I do know if you are in a ball or camping for a good amount of time I am dropping some bombs on ya

Edited by Dozier, 28 May 2014 - 11:20 AM.

[Deathlike]

Achievement: Collect Headshot Achievements With Multiple/Massive Use Of Artillery/Airstrikes

Mcgral18, on 28 May 2014 - 11:17 AM, said:

Yep, arty is 40 damage. Max armor gives you 33 HP.

Math is hard, amirite?

Edited by Deathlike, 28 May 2014 - 11:22 AM.

[ManDaisy]

I see... I guess it isn't just people being cheap on the head armor then.

[Vweegit]

ManDaisy, on 28 May 2014 - 11:12 AM, said:

I have never been head shot by artillery before. Sure my mech has been hit and the head has taken damage, but never enough to kill me. Skimping armor on the head is like skimping armor on the legs back before they made the penalties more severe.

Be honest, anyone with FULL head armor ever die from artillery?

Yep. Finally got killed this way just last night. Full cockpit armor. I laughed, actually. Seeing as it has only happened once, I can't see all the fuss.

Edited by Vweegit, 28 May 2014 - 11:48 AM.

[Gyrok]

ManDaisy, on 28 May 2014 - 11:12 AM, said:

I have never been head shot by artillery before. Sure my mech has been hit and the head has taken damage, but never enough to kill me. Skimping armor on the head is like skimping armor on the legs back before they made the penalties more severe.

Be honest, anyone with FULL head armor ever die from artillery?

EVERY SINGLE TIME. I get head shot with artillery, I die. Reason? Math works in this world: Cockpit Armor = 18 + Internal = 15 = 33 Total points of structure/armor. 1 Artillery shell = 40 points of damage. You do the math...or I can for you 40>33.

Dozier, on 28 May 2014 - 11:19 AM, said:

I have issued out about 30 headshots with arty. Not sure what their armor situation is, but I do know if you are in a ball or camping for a good amount of time I am dropping some bombs on ya

Glad they are nerfing it soon...

[Roadkill]

I've never been killed by Arty/Airstrike, let alone headshot by one.

I have taken head armor damage from one before, though, but it obviously wasn't a direct hit. I carry full armor on the head on just about every Mech. (Exceptions being lights where it really doesn't matter.)

[NKAc Street]

ManDaisy, on 28 May 2014 - 11:12 AM, said:

I have never been head shot by artillery before. Sure my mech has been hit and the head has taken damage, but never enough to kill me. Skimping armor on the head is like skimping armor on the legs back before they made the penalties more severe.

Be honest, anyone with FULL head armor ever die from artillery?

Yes, every time.

[Mystere]

Gyrok, on 28 May 2014 - 11:50 AM, said:

Glad they are nerfing it soon...

To 35 damage.

[wanderer]

ManDaisy, on 28 May 2014 - 11:12 AM, said:

I have never been head shot by artillery before. Sure my mech has been hit and the head has taken damage, but never enough to kill me. Skimping armor on the head is like skimping armor on the legs back before they made the penalties more severe.

Be honest, anyone with FULL head armor ever die from artillery?

Sure have. 40 damage, direct hit = head destroyed. It doesn't happen OFTEN, but I've had a Battlemaster dropped that way, and I've gotten kill shots on enemy 'Mechs with arty that blew their noggins clean off.

[Malleus011]

I've been headshot by artillery about twice as often as headshot from direct fire, which is what makes it so annoying.

[MonkeyCheese]

I have been headshot once by a strike and it was in my awesome when I already had no armor and yellow internals on my head.

Only mech I skip out a decent amount of head armor on is my locust but hey getting head shot in that has to be so much more rare than headshot death by a consumable..

[Varik Ronain]

Anytime I have died to art is has been my head gets poped. I have never been one shotted like others here but I have had 2 art strikes drop on me. The first put my head at orange and the second finished me off.

[Rebas Kradd]

I drive a medium much of the time, so I don't suffer from arty/air.

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[Mcgral18]

The coming arty nerf is bringing their damage down to 35.

Still enough to cockpit every mech. I'm not exactly sure why they are even changing it...

But every stat they changed was a small number. I suppose they might actually start not changing things 400%.

[Funkadelic Mayhem]

people complain because head shots are hard with weapons. So they lower their head armor to fit in more/heavy weapons thinking they are safe. They get head shotted by arty and call foul. When in fact they have next to no head armor.

Edited by Funkadelic Mayhem, 28 May 2014 - 09:15 PM.

[Mcgral18]

Funkadelic Mayhem, on 28 May 2014 - 09:15 PM, said:

people complain because head shots are hard with weapons. So they lower their head armor to fit in more/heavy weapons thinking they are safe. They get head shotted by arty and call foul. When in fact they have next to no head armor.

Or max head armor.