AP Rounds deal more damage than they should

[Crab_Spider]

Bug Description: On aliens, AP rounds are dealing significantly more damage than they should, with slugs placing Elite Hunters and Mature Praetorians at half of their health.


Steps to reproduce:
1. Play as an alien, preferably an Elite/Ancient T2
2. Be shot with an AP round
3.

[MrJJJ]

Preety sure its intentional, AP smg rounds for example deal less damage to runners than a normal SMG round does.

[Crab_Spider]

Preety sure its intentional, AP smg rounds for example deal less damage to runners than a normal SMG round does.

They're dealing MORE damage.

[MrJJJ]

They're dealing MORE damage.

Yes, and i think thats intentional, although the hunter one makes me suspicous, and mind you that SLUG deals as much damage as BUCKSHOT if no additional buckshot hits

[Steelpoint]

This is something only the admins can investigate due to the nature of it.

I would imagine AP rounds deal more damage to higher tank and tier xenos and less damage to lower rank and tier xenos.

[Challenger]

I thought AP dealt less damage but removed the possibility of "your exoskeleton helps absorb some of the damage!"

[caleeb101]

I thought AP dealt less damage but removed the possibility of "your exoskeleton helps absorb some of the damage!"

I thought this too. That it just bypassed armor to have a 100% chance of doing direct damage and not being absorbed/deflected.

[Trench007]

They should technically deal less damage, due to the nature of their exit wounds (i.e leaving a nice small hole on both sides of the target). Which, is far less brutal anatomically than say hollowpoint or non-AP rounds (i.e wreaking havoc tearing and smashing through everything as the bullet expands greatly).

[dylanstrategie]

We're not gonna publicly disseminate statistics like damage and all, yeah

I'm pretty sure everything is set up properly, I'll let Apop investigate if he needs to

[apophis775]

Admins can't investigate this, it's controlled by text file on the remote box. I'll look into this, but I doubt it.