Ballistic vest and moose stompings

[Bean]

I’ve wondered if the vest would protect your survivor from a moose stomping, and I finally tried it out on a moose wandering the swamp in front of the prison. Equipped bearskin coat and all the other protective items, with the vest in the outer accessories slot and the “Armored” buff active.
Then I tagged the moose with an ill-aimed arrow and waited for the inevitable.
Result: I took 10% damage from the stomping, which is pretty incredible considering I just got repeatedly stepped on by a thousand pound animal! However, I still got the Broken Ribs debuff. So that’s 80 hours of recovery time. Drat!
Anyway, the more you know and all that!

[cattivision]

Thank you for trying this and posting your results. What difficulty was this on please?

[caphe_boda]

thank you for testing this.

[MadBone12]

80 hours? I thought it was 120 for broken ribs. Has this been changed?

[wilky]

Originally posted by MadBone12:

80 hours? I thought it was 120 for broken ribs. Has this been changed?

The wiki says 120 hours. I wonder if the ballistic vest specifically reduced the debuff from 120 to 80?

[iwasa]

Never been stomped by a moose but I recall that the base affliction of broken ribs takes 120 hours (5 days) to heal. Maybe the ballistic vest has a reduction in broken rib duration associated with it? It would make sense since there would still the instances where the character didn't have it on when stomped by a moose.

[MadBone12]

Originally posted by wilky:

Originally posted by MadBone12:

80 hours? I thought it was 120 for broken ribs. Has this been changed?

The wiki says 120 hours. I wonder if the ballistic vest specifically reduced the debuff from 120 to 80?

Originally posted by iwasa:

Never been stomped by a moose but I recall that the base affliction of broken ribs takes 120 hours (5 days) to heal. Maybe the ballistic vest has a reduction in broken rib duration associated with it? It would make sense since there would still the instances where the character didn't have it on when stomped by a moose.

This would be interesting. But I also wonder if difficulty plays a role. Isn't the treatment length for parasites different depending on difficulty? Never heard that this might be the case for broken ribs but this could be new. Or as suggested above, the vest decreases the damage, requiring less heal time.

[Bean]

Sorry it may have been 120 hours. The vest did reduce the damage very significantly. Stalker difficulty. I like guns.