What The Hell Is Kinetic Resistance

[Colonel_Camel]

I've finally saved up enough to be able to upgrade my hull. The only question for me is which one I buy. One of them improves my heat resistance (real handy!) at the expense of my "kinetic resistance". So what the hell is kinetic resistance? i.e. What will sacrificing it make my ship more vulnerable to?

Also, why is there (apparently) no wiki or manual or whatever that explains exactly what Kinetic Resistance is? Seriously, this game needs some seriously improved documentation.

[Lywelyn]

kinetic resistance is as opposed to thermal so basically your hull's health pool resistance to damage

but that's a resume,

use your finger and search a bit more next time.

https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php/246086-Official-FDev-Damage-Stats-for-Every-Weapon

[Colonel_Camel]

Considdering that the phrase "kinetic resistance" doesn't show up even once on that page, it's no wonder it didn't turn up in my search results.

[Lywelyn]

you're welcome

[Demesien]

Kinetic resitance I think refers to the damage recieved by kinetic weapons. So anything that uses a projectile bar a few execptions like plasma accelerator's. But Multicannons, cannons, frag cannons etc should fall under kinetic. Basiclly does it shoot metal? Yes, then its kinetic.

[Ctrl-Alt-Eccheccazzo]

Every weapon has a damage source. Cannons, for example, are kinetk, beam laser are thermal and missile has explosive damage (surprise surprise :P). Then there are the plasma cannon, who has "absolute" damage type, who ignore all resistance and do maximum damage.
Shields are more vulnerable to thermal damage but are strong against explosions
Armor is more vulnerable from explosion (a bit less from kinetik) and strong against thermal

Anyway, yes, this game need a proper tutorial, but there are a lot of good tutorials on youtube ;)

[dubpunk]

Originally posted by Colonel_Camel:

What The Hell Is Kinetic Resistance

Some say its a revoloutionary dance group that try to change the galaxy through funky beats and b-boi moves I say its resistance against kinetic attacks..

[cybul]

http://elite-dangerous.wikia.com/wiki/Category:Weapons

[Colonel_Camel]

Man, I didn't even know this game had kinetic weapons. I thought the bad guys just used lasers! That's all they ever seem to shoot at me, anyways.

[Demesien]

Originally posted by dubpunk:

Originally posted by Colonel_Camel:

What The Hell Is Kinetic Resistance

Some say its a revoloutionary dance group that try to change the galaxy through funky beats and b-boi moves I say its resistance against kinetic attacks..

How do I upvote this XD

[Arya]

Originally posted by Colonel_Camel:

Man, I didn't even know this game had kinetic weapons. I thought the bad guys just used lasers! That's all they ever seem to shoot at me, anyways.

That's all they use when you're relatively new. As your Pilot's Federation rank goes up, you'll start to see Multicannons and Railguns join the party. And then damage resistance becomes slightly more important.

Hulls are naturally weak to Kinetic damage, so Kinetic resistance is a good idea. Although that will cost you some jump range and agility, and honestly I wouldn't always put a high priority on it.

You can also improve your Shield Resistance, and that does make a big difference. Shields are naturally really resistant to kinetic, but really weak to Thermal. And so if you buff your Thermal Resist just a little, you get a nice boost to overall toughness. I recommend doing that via Shield Booster, so you can run Reinforced Shields and get a regen and HP bonus as well.

And finally you've got damage on your own weapons. 'Cause all this applies to you, too. At your current level you're probably blowing targets to bits and having a great time. But once you start going into Combat Zones, life changes and damage types suddenly matter. It's important to have both, because Lasers won't do much to hull. And Kinetics won't do much to shields.

[-OrLoK- Слава Україн]

kinetic weapons are one's which "push" you.

bullets/rockets/bombs/fails etc.

it's the "kinetic energy" ( or force) aspect which harms you.

simplified but easy to grasp.

[Arya]

Originally posted by -OrLoK-:

kinetic weapons are one's which "push" you.

bullets/rockets/bombs/fails etc.

it's the "kinetic energy" ( or force) aspect which harms you.

simplified but easy to grasp.

Kinetic: Something solid hits you going fast
Thermal: Something really hot focused on you

[DownSouth05]

Of course knowledge of the word would be helpful. If you were to look it up in a dictionary you would know what it means then have a better understanding of how it applies to the game.

Here try this: Google search "what does Kinetic mean"

kinetic adjective
ki·​net·​ic | \kə-ˈne-tik also kī- \
Definition of kinetic
1 : of or relating to the motion of material bodies and the forces and energy associated therewith

Ok so now we know its a "force" so lets see which weapons are used in Elite. Well there are energy weapons, so that's thermal and explosive weapons so well yea thats explosive and there are slug weapons and guess what, those are kinetic. A slug is a material body by the way :)

[Kittenpox]

Originally posted by Wolfey:

Originally posted by -OrLoK-:

kinetic weapons are one's which "push" you.

bullets/rockets/bombs/fails etc.

it's the "kinetic energy" ( or force) aspect which harms you.

simplified but easy to grasp.

Kinetic: Something solid hits you going fast
Thermal: Something really hot focused on you

Rockets/Bombs count as the 'Explosive' damage type in this game, but you're on the right track otherwise. :-)

[Galon007]

In physics, the kinetic energy of an object is the energy that it possesses due to its motion.