Support Weapon Penetration

[Forblaze]

How do I know how much Penetration a given support weapon has?

The Liberator Penetrator for example clearly says it has medium armor penetration. But I don't see where it says how much penetration, for example, the anti-material rifle has.

[Xeonzs]

don't trust the descriptions, the spray and pray for example says it does light armor, but can't even dmg eggs of nests.
Meanwhile the slugger says light armor but can do medium armor, so can the plasma gun (forgot name).

many of the descriptions are wrong, just like personal shield says it has lifetime once activated, but you never activate it, it's always on till it is damaged too much and then comes back after a few seconds, they also don't mention it protects you from melee and things like poison.

Just try things, best way to know for sure in the current state of game.

[Forblaze]

Originally posted by Salah al-Din Yusuf ibn Ayyub:

it tells you in the stratagem discription what kind of armor it is effective on, vehicle armour is medium, if it talks about tank armor its heavy

What about "light vehicle armor" as opposed to just "vehicle armor"? Anti-Material Rifle vs Recoilless Rifle as an example. Surely those aren't the same.

[Flo]

Originally posted by Forblaze:

How do I know how much Penetration a given support weapon has?

The Liberator Penetrator for example clearly says it has medium armor penetration. But I don't see where it says how much penetration, for example, the anti-material rifle has.

As far as I know, there's only 2 things : armor or no armor. Bullets can't hit armor, explosives can, and that's about it, there's no such thing as "penetration"

[Forblaze]

Originally posted by Flo:

As far as I know, there's only 2 things : armor or no armor. Bullets can't hit armor, explosives can, and that's about it, there's no such thing as "penetration"

There's got to be something to it though. The Liberator Penetrator does less damage, has more recoil, and has less capacity in exchange for the bump up from light to medium armor penetration.

[MetalHev]

Originally posted by Flo:

As far as I know, there's only 2 things : armor or no armor. Bullets can't hit armor, explosives can, and that's about it, there's no such thing as "penetration"

That's completely wrong. There are multiple levels of armor, the anti-material rifle for example can pierce all bug armor except for charger legs. Explosives deal increased (10x) damage to squishy parts like charger butts.