Armor icons

[Alan]

I'm about 2/3 of the way through the game, and enemy armor is still confusing me. Two questions:

1. How do you tell if ENEMY armor is conducitve or not? I know there will be a lightning bold after you shoot them, but is there a way to know before?
2. Above each enemy, left of the %chance to hit, is a shield symbol. Sometimes the shield is empty, and sometimes the shield has an explosion at the center. I assume it has to mean something?

[Amanoob105]

Second question first, does what you're seeing look like what's on this page?
http://wasteland.gamepedia.com/Armor_penetration

As for the first one, as far as I know only robots are conductive, no matter how much metal is on (or in) them if they are not outright robots their not conductive.
This is one of the few things I'm not looking forward to when I finnish WL2 and try playing WL2DC.

In WL2 energy guns are awsome, I'm at least half way though the game and if they have an armor of at least 2 I have a gun that can do about 300 points of damage to them. Be they robots or honey badgers, they all gon'a melt.

[Alan]

Originally posted by Amanoob105:

Second question first, does what you're seeing look like what's on this page?
http://wasteland.gamepedia.com/Armor_penetration

As for the first one, as far as I know only robots are conductive, no matter how much metal is on (or in) them if they are not outright robots their not conductive.
This is one of the few things I'm not looking forward to when I finnish WL2 and try playing WL2DC.

In WL2 energy guns are awsome, I'm at least half way though the game and if they have an armor of at least 2 I have a gun that can do about 300 points of damage to them. Be they robots or honey badgers, they all gon'a melt.

No, it's not the armor pen shield in the Ranger Squad stat bar section on the bottom, it's the yellow shield left of the hit % that hovers above each enemy, that sometimes is empty and sometimes as an explosing in it.

Edit: Got a screenshot:
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1086717015

You can see to the left of the 100% is a shield with an explosion in it. Sometimes the explosion is there, sometimes it isn't. That's what has me confused.

[Amanoob105]

Right now its showing it for all enemys, what does it show for a gun that had an AP of less than 6 or even lower?

I suspect that the shield is "has armor" and the explosion is "gun penetrates armor". I can't say for sure as I don't know what armor the enemys pictured have.

[Alan]

Originally posted by Amanoob105:

Right now its showing it for all enemys, what does it show for a gun that had an AP of less than 6 or even lower?

I suspect that the shield is "has armor" and the explosion is "gun penetrates armor". I can't say for sure as I don't know what armor the enemys pictured have.

Just tested that and it looks like it could be right. THanks!