Question about penetration and armor quality

[Stoerte]

Just a simple question which I'm still unsure off. The guns show ceratain penetraion numbers dependant on factors like caliber and range. I always thought that the penetation values relate to armor with no quality modifier. So i.e. if a gun shows 13'' of penetration at a given range and I have 8'' armor with +80% quality, which would result in 14,6'' effective armor, than this gun couldn't penetate my armor at this range.

[vanDyck]

In the main menu you can set the % - value of armor quality, so the guns penetration against this % - value is displayed when getting the tooltip for a gun.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3319276638

The slider with the 125% below it.

[glythe]

Originally posted by Stoerte:

if a gun shows 13'' of penetration at a given range and I have 8'' armor with +80% quality, which would result in 14,6'' effective armor, than this gun couldn't penetrate my armor at this range.

That would be the expectation, but then you need to account for the nerfed state of armor.
Partial penetrations only require 30% armor penetration. I refuse to play the game like that so I have that line modded to be 90% of armor penetration is required for partial penetration.

Also be aware there is a 5% variation on penetration so that 13 inches could also be 13.65 inches or 12.35 inches.

[Stoerte]

Originally posted by glythe:

Originally posted by Stoerte:

if a gun shows 13'' of penetration at a given range and I have 8'' armor with +80% quality, which would result in 14,6'' effective armor, than this gun couldn't penetrate my armor at this range.

That would be the expectation, but then you need to account for the nerfed state of armor.
Partial penetrations only require 30% armor penetration. I refuse to play the game like that so I have that line modded to be 90% of armor penetration is required for partial penetration.

Also be aware there is a 5% variation on penetration so that 13 inches could also be 13.65 inches or 12.35 inches.

increasing partial pen to 90% armor sounds good. I've started to use the Dreadnought Improvement Project mod, which als reduced the effectivness of partial pens.

[glythe]

Originally posted by Stoerte:

increasing partial pen to 90% armor sounds good. I've started to use the Dreadnought Improvement Project mod, which als reduced the effectivness of partial pens.

Yea he has partial pens set at 80% which is really close to my number.