Damage types: Do they work?

[Burnov]

When specifying special damage types, how do they work?

Does special damage only apply critical hits?

Does poison damage work?

Also how does the knockdown multiplier work?

 

[requiem_for_a_starfury]

No, Yes, Can't remember.

Special damage has to bypass any armour protection for that damage type otherwise it won't do that extra damage.

 

[Burnov]

Aha!

Is there a way to define a particular weapon or ammunition to consistently bypass armor?

 

[requiem_for_a_starfury]

Well it's mostly down to the armour resistances. Poison will bypass leather and metal armours but wearing environmental you'd take the normal damage but not get poisoned.

You can try playing around with the ammo variant. I.e fmj, ball, jhp etc which have different penetration properties. I can't remember how and if the ammo variants affect the special damage effects though.