weapons stat question

[rpc]

when it says that this elemental damage is very usefull against armor and the other is against shields which is the difference which enemy has shield and wich has armor ? and about robot what are they weak too ?
thx for help

[iR34P3R]

For your 1st question,U can identify an enemies health bar type by noting it's color.Yellow means armor,red means flesh and blue means shields.

And for your 2nd question robots are weak to corrosion or corrosive elemental damage.Some robots may have a shield before their armor.Robots always have armor as their main health bar,non-elemental has reduced damage on it,fire has little to no dmg,shock doesn't work well,explosives can get the job done but not very well,corrosion however wrecks them.

[Gila]

flesh = red HP bar (weak to fire)
armor = yellow HP bar (weak to corrosive)
shield = blue bar above the HP bar (weak to shock)

there are some exceptions, like shields with elemental resistance (on higher difficulty levels) or some mobs having some elemental resistance in general (like corrosive skag is almost immune to corrosive damage)

there are also some mobs with some reflective surfaces (for example, Nomads with huge spiked shields), but in these cases, explosive works

[rpc]

thx a lot but i cant see the bar color of the enemy this bar is only for boss ?

[ShinkuTear]

Health bars show up when you aim at the enemy.

Proper Boss class enemies have a red bar at the top of the screen, but this means nothing, as there are Armored Bosses, but their bar is still red.

When you aim at an enemy, you'll see something like... "Bullymong 11" and a red bar. In that particular case, it would a Level 11 Bullymong, and it is a Flesh enemy.

[rpc]

i must be drunk but i only see a number that is the level and 2 bars and 1 is blue and the other one is red and the blue it must be the shield i presume because it goes down before the red

[ShinkuTear]

Originally posted by rpc:

i must be drunk but i only see a number that is the level and 2 bars and 1 is blue and the other one is red and the blue it must be the shield i presume because it goes down before the red

And those bars are on every enemy in the entire game with no exception.

Yes, you break their Shield before you can damage them, which is just how it works for you.

[rpc]

sp if i dont see a blue bar it means is only flesh and yellow+red means armor enemy ?

[MR2_Pilot]

Originally posted by rpc:

sp if i dont see a blue bar it means is only flesh and yellow+red means armor enemy ?

You got it :}
Only thing not mentioned is that some bosses when shielded reflect your bullets back at you, you have to use shock to lower their shield or shoot them only in their weak spots when their shield is lowered.

[iR34P3R]

Originally posted by rpc:

sp if i dont see a blue bar it means is only flesh and yellow+red means armor enemy ?

Not quite,let me say this in the simplest way possible,YELLOW is an armored enemy,some armored enemies may have a shield.The shield will absorb a limited amount of damage and then go down,leaving the enemy only to his health or armor.But the shield can regenerate if he is left undamaged for some time,Same goes for RED enemies.
Blue=Shield.
Blue+red=Flesh enemy with a shield.
Yellow=Armored enemy.
Yellow+blue=Armored enemy with a shield.

If you don't see a blue bar then the enemy is unshielded,
Some enemies have shields with resistance to a certain element and in OP levels a shield that adpats to the last element hit by ( adaptive shield),however does not adapt to shock.Some enemies also have resistance to elements or even immunity with their health bar,like a fire skag,shows red bar but completely or almost immune to fire and so forth.Understand now?

[rpc]

thx again so no yellow+red ?

[iR34P3R]

Originally posted by rpc:

thx again so no yellow+red ?

No bro yellow+red is nothing,u may think that armor and flesh can be used together but no,flesh enemies can wear armor plating that block bullets but this wont make them an armored enemy.It'll just give em more protection.