Armor Percentages?

[Big [REDACTED] Marty]

I've played Factorio for a while, but I haven't been able to figure out what the values the armor stats tell me. For example what does 2/20% Fire mean? 2% reduction in dmg, or 0.1% reduction? Also why is it in the form of a fraction? Any help would be lovely.

[Rokani]

Its -2 base damage and -20% damage.
So you take say 20 fire damage but the armor makes you take 14, 20-20% = 16-2 = 14.

[Big [REDACTED] Marty]

Thank you, I wonder why they devs choose such a strange way to show armor stats.

[AlexMBrennan]

Also why is it in the form of a fraction?

Because the (somewhat improper?) use of a slash to delimit lists is not entirely unheard of.
"x/y" is also a lot shorter than "damage tolerance = x; damage resistance = y"

[Big [REDACTED] Marty]

Mr Brennan x/y may be shorter, but to a scrublord like myself, it is very unhelpful if you don't know what the numbers mean in the first place. I would have prefered the longer version over something that is, to me at the very least, overly simplified to save space.

[Varenvel The Festive Dinosaur]

it actualy makes lots sense and for lots players are very intuative

it can make less sense if you never played RPG before

[Big [REDACTED] Marty]

Yeah, I don't play RPGs, I don't see how you would know what the numbers meant unless some one told you, BUT maybe I'm just crap :)

[Varenvel The Festive Dinosaur]

Originally posted by Admiral Dugaul:

Yeah, I don't play RPGs, I don't see how you would know what the numbers meant unless some one told you, BUT maybe I'm just crap :)

Thing is its very intuative , just not everything is as aparent at first glance for nomgamer , most stuff in factorio is very easy and very intuative , tho then again , game suffers a bit from not explaining its mechanics well , there is tutorial but...it explains the game , not the mechanics

even me who played back in day 250hours , when i seen good video about lots tips , i not knew even 75% of them , mostly becouse game never explains it

i think hopefuly they will make help menu of some sort who will explain most of them

[Big [REDACTED] Marty]

yes, never leave an importnat mechanic up to guess work, especially armor
but the future is full of things to come