Tyler Valentine, on 21 January 2016 - 11:01 AM, said:
I'm pretty sure you can not take a critical hit without losing all of your armor... like 98% sure. Did you look at your paper doll right after it happened? Any damage? Screenshot?
Affirmative. We both repositioned after the exchange, and I was able to confirm that none of my armour was breeched.
Khobai, on 21 January 2016 - 11:07 AM, said:
ammo explosions can crit through armor, thats the only thing in the game that does
did you have an arm or leg get blown off that contained ammo? if your arm/leg was blown off it was an ammo explosion that transferred directly into your side torso internals.
another thing about crits is that a gauss rifle can do 14.9 damage to armor and 0.1 damage to internal structure and can still crit out 1-3 components. so it could very well look like your structure wasnt damaged on the ragdoll but you still suffer crits anyway because of like the 0.1 damage that got through.
My arms were fine. I'm definitely aware of the crit mechanics, and none of the armour on my 'mech was stripped, just damaged after the shot. So that 0.1 damage should not have logically gotten through to crit anything.
I
would log a support ticket, but I don't recall the exact date and time of the match - without that, I imagine there's not much that can be done to examine that specific incident.
I
am starting to think that hitting the exposed weapon barrel can damage the weapon directly. Not sure yet. Perhaps I shall do some science later.
Khobai, on 21 January 2016 - 12:12 PM, said:
well people do aim for it on the atlas. because the atlas is basically a walking joke without its ac20.
I dunno, man. I run A/C20, 2 LPL, and 3xSRM6+Artemis on my D-DC. It still hurts with just the left side intact. Less finishing power, I will admit, but with Artemis on those SRMs, you can really do a lot of work.
Edited by Funkmaster Rick, 21 January 2016 - 12:17 PM.