How is Armor penetration a lost tech?

[Handbanana]

We have known about armor and how to penetrate it for hundreds if not thousands of years so explain to me how in a scenario that is supposed to be 200 years in the future we somehow forgot how physics and armor penetrating rounds work?

[ulzgoroth]

Yeah, pretty happy that armor does armor things like making a mockery of typical small arms.

...Though I'm early enough that I have very little access to anything but small arms and support bombardment. Except the one time I found a railgun. Fortunately also early enough that the best-armored bugs have big gaps in their armor.

[cinless]

Anti materiel rifles don't work against modern tank armour in real life, it barely worked in WW2 if you knew the weak spots really well and had a very steady hand.
In real life, just as in the game, they're used in situations where a rifle won't cut it but a dedicated anti tank weapon is overkill.

The recoilless rifle has the same job in game as it has in real life, and if you want the future tech AP solution the railgun is right there.

[kknd]

Originally posted by cinless:

Anti materiel rifles don't work against modern tank armour in real life, it barely worked in WW2 if you knew the weak spots really well and had a very steady hand.
In real life, just as in the game, they're used in situations where a rifle won't cut it but a dedicated anti tank weapon is overkill.

The recoilless rifle has the same job in game as it has in real life, and if you want the future tech AP solution the railgun is right there.

Plus, the man portable Autocannon doesn't have the armor penetration to punch through Charger armor, but the turret version does. Reflecting that a human firing platform has all these frustrating engineering limits on what stresses you can put them under.

[mweaver776]

Planets are rich in Iron and Titanium, not Tungsten.

[kknd]

Originally posted by mweaver776:

Planets are rich in Iron and Titanium, not Tungsten.

I would have thought they'd be using Depleted Uranium personally.