What Does Explosive Ammo Do?

[Jaevwyn]

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is it extra damage? i have noticed it can stagger enemies a little which is nice, just wanna know whats its actually doing other than feeling great for popping robots heads with.

[Seraphclad]

Escrito originalmente por Velxra:

At high tier difficulty explosive ammo does basically nothing. In fact it mostly gets yourself killed in cqb. Same for impact grenade.

Enemies do not get more health in higher difficulties

[Soyak Striker]

What is with all these weapons meant to deal with armor doing nothing to armor?

[Frostea]

It explodes.

[Kashra Fall]

Explosive doesn't "Explode" armor, it staggers the target and also does extra damage to weakpoints.

Armor destroying weapons such as the EAT can destroy armor and it is explosive, but it isn't a standard projectile.

[Akameka]

it does nothing.

Seriously, it will stunlock (only light ennemies lol), and can destroy limbs... but it takes forever to kill anything, and why would you want to stunlock an ennemy for 4 seconds when you can instant kill him with a single shotgun hit ?

And doing 100% more damage on weak point ? Right, I just sacrified 50% of my DPS to get an increase of 100% damage. Simple math : 100 -50% = 50 50+100% = 100.
So I kill exactly as fast, but only if I shoot at weakpoint. Greaaaat.
Also, the 320 BPM is just a big fat lie. this thing has 180 BPM at max.
So it's even worse than that.

What is with all these weapons meant to deal with armor doing nothing to armor?

Because they don't do enough damage. In fact the medium pen liberator loses just enough damage for the medium pen to be the exact same thing than without it. And the SMg is already a better liberator.
The few who does have pen and damage, however ( scorcher/dominator) are actually okay, but they are locked behind the last page of each warbonds type.

[Noun]

Explosive damage deals full damage to "Fleshy" areas, so insect bellies essentially. Otherwise any hits to those locations deal 10% damage.

Anyone mentioning armour is also wrong, explosive damage does not in any way assist with armour. It specifically only does something when hitting fleshy bits.

[Dimwit Donald (very high IQ)]

It kills yourself when you're operating a terminal and accidentally press the mouse button.

[Seth Abercromby]

Explosion damage has bonus damage against certain enemy hitzones. For example the abdomen on a charger resists most damage, but is weak to explosive weapons. The explosive liberator isn't great though, it lacks a few of the features that allow the better options to excel. Since it doesn't have an AoE splash it can't go around armor like the grenade launcher, and since it's only light penetration instead of medium penetration like on the dominator, it can't exploit critical weakpoints on the robots, in particular the radiator on the back of hulks. You can use it to have an easier time killing the goo slugs of the bugs though since their massive body is typically resistant to damage, but once again weak to explosions.

[Akameka]

Escrito originalmente por Electronic Old Man:

It kills yourself when you're operating a terminal and accidentally press the mouse button.

oh dear ! I didn't even knew about that XD

[Tekkarath]

Sadly the +100% damage boost to weak points is negated by the decreased fire speed, they're just all around worse and pretty much everyone agrees.

[like50bugs]

I just use the Slugger shotgun, it staggers. Kills Spewers just fine, kills hive guards. Doesnt kill you up close when hunters are all over you xD.

[Babyfaced Beauty]

Explosive damage does additional damage to soft weakspots like bile spewers and underside of chargers/bile titans. Like about 60% more.
Your HE and impact grenades do explosive damage.
Your Concussive Liberator, Plasma rifle and shotgun does explosive damage.
Grenade launcher, EAT, Recoiless rifle, Spear does explosive damage.

The JAR5 does NOT do explosive damage despite being classified as an explosive weapon. It makes more sense to call the railgun an explosive weapon as it literally blows up in your hands on unsafe at full charge, and does explosive damage then (which can be resisted by fortified armour).

Fortified armour reduces explosive damage received including from these explosive damage weapons by 60%.

Most explosive damage weapons also have significant 'knockback' from their projectiles, able to stop most moving targets. They also ragdoll the targets significantly on kill.

[Chubby Cox]

Escrito originalmente por Akameka:

it does nothing.

Simple math : 100 -50% = 50 50+100% = 100.
So I kill exactly as fast, but only if I shoot at weakpoint. Greaaaat.

I have some more "simple math" questions for you. What is 100% of 50%? What is 100% - 90%? And finally, what is the difference between 100% of 50% and 100% -90%?

Yeah I agree the weapons are garbo, just too funny to not comment on.