Is medium armour pen any use?

[Metalliferous]

I feel like there is only like 2 enemies in the game that have any medium armour and even the weapons don't feel particularly good against them

[Lyrdian]

DING DING DING, we have a winner.
Just run the guns that feel good to you, and use impact grenades or shoot weakpoints. Or run the Quasar before the devs nerf it into the stone age.

[[STG] Dante]

medium armor pen doesn't even work. medium armor weapons bounce off the hive guards armor. They serve 0 purpose.

[Kashra Fall]

Uh
Hive guardian
Bile warrior
Heavy raider
Heavy devestator
Devestator
Scout strider

Seems like more than 2 =P.

[Hand's Hermit Permit]

Medium armor penetration bugside lets you penetrate head armor of mature bile spewers in 7+. You'll need something that can do this because light penetration just bounces off their heads and does nothing. Hive guards can also have their forelegs cut off from medium armor penetration making them much easier to take on from the front, and you can headshot them.

Botside I don't know what advantage it gives. I try not to use anything other than plasma scorcher these days. It's really busted against them. Expect a nerf for this eventually once the tryhards find out about it.

[Eagle_of_Fire]

Originally posted by Metalliferous:

I feel like there is only like 2 enemies in the game that have any medium armour and even the weapons don't feel particularly good against them

It has been hinted that it might become important against the third faction.

[StormhawkV]

It depends what kind of medium armor pen it is. Since we don't get reliable info we can only compare one weapon with it to another that also has it. Hiveguards have medium armor and the MG-43 can pen them. The butt of a Bile Titan also has medium armor but you need the new HMG to pen it. So it's hard to say. The only thing I was told is there are 9 levels of armor in the game but the UI doesn't tell us about them.

[erandomone]

Medium armor pen is pretty solid, for what it's used for. I run the Liberator Penetrator against bugs a lot, and it's pretty solid at breaking through limb armor and opening up damage for the folk on the team without a high-pen support weapon

[Hand's Hermit Permit]

Originally posted by Deep Rock Galactic:

Originally posted by Kashra Fall:

Uh
Hive guardian
Bile warrior
Heavy raider
Heavy devestator
Devestator
Scout strider

Seems like more than 2 =P.

It would be idiotic to shoot any one of these with your primary outside their weak spots, which you can do with a light pen, except the hive guardian

Bile warriors have no weakspot for light penetration.

[Kashra Fall]

Originally posted by Deep Rock Galactic:

Originally posted by Kashra Fall:

Uh
Hive guardian
Bile warrior
Heavy raider
Heavy devestator
Devestator
Scout strider

Seems like more than 2 =P.

It would be idiotic to shoot any one of these with your primary outside their weak spots, which you can do with a light pen, except the hive guardian

Crippling a devastator instead of outright killing it is hilarious though. Just chases you around to try and punch ya! Just saying what has med armor is all.

[Pindie]

I really doubt Arrowhead would allow Diligence to punch trough front of a Strider.

[Hand's Hermit Permit]

Originally posted by Pindie:

I really doubt Arrowhead would allow Diligence to punch trough front of a Strider.

It can cut through the legs and disable the walker part.

[Kashra Fall]

Originally posted by Pindie:

I really doubt Arrowhead would allow Diligence to punch trough front of a Strider.

Front of the strider isn't med, it's heavy. The crotch is med.

[Pindie]

Originally posted by Hand's Hermit Permit:

Originally posted by Pindie:

I really doubt Arrowhead would allow Diligence to punch trough front of a Strider.

It can cut through the legs and disable the walker part.

And let me guess, it takes multiple shots and you burn trough the ammo quickly?

[gothicpando]

yes full auto lib pen...they lowest mag count rifle maybe in the whole game...much wow...big thought there arrowhead...

[Kashra Fall]

Originally posted by Pindie:

Originally posted by Hand's Hermit Permit:

It can cut through the legs and disable the walker part.

And let me guess, it takes multiple shots and you burn trough the ammo quickly?

Was 3 slugger shots.