Fury said:
Mind explaining what ammo type you used and what you were shooting on? I might be able to calculate the correct damage then
I had Sulik wearing Leather Armor, with DT 2 and DR 25%.
I shot him with a .44 Magnum, loaded with .44 Magnum JHP. The weapon's damage rating is 12-18. The ammo's DMG MOD is 2/1 and its DR MOD is 20, just like in original Fallout2.
Therefore, the non-critical damage per shot should range from:
12 times two, minus two, minus 0.45 times 22 rounded down = 13
to
18 times two, minus two, minus 0.45 times 34 rounded down = 19.
I know this is how it worked in the original. In this Restoration Mod, it doesn't. This weapon, and others that benefited from good ammo stats in the original, no longer do as much damage as they did in the original. Yet the armor stats, the weapon stats and the ammunition stats look exactly the same as in the original game.
The reverse is true of the 14mm Pistol. Its damage rating is still 12-22, and the ammunition's DMG MOD is still 1/2 and its DR MOD is still -50. With the DMG MOD halving the weapon's damage, the weapon should under no circumstances exceed 11 hit points of damage in a non-critical hit. Yet it somehow does, consistently, do much more damage than should be possible.
All this strangeness is happening in fights vs all critters, not just when I shoot my own NPC to test it.
What bothers me is that these damages make no sense. The ammo stats seem to stand for nothing in this Restoration Mod. In the original game, the uselessness of most AP ammo was clearly a slip-up on the part of the developers, but at least one could calculate the damage that any given weapon (except the ones such as the .223 Pistol with negative DT mods that the game did not document) would do, provided that one knew the stats of the gun, the ammo, and the armor that the target was wearing. Now, with the meaning of the ammo modifiers seemingly lost, the only way to find what works against what is to test, test, and test.
I am not opposed to the fixing of the AP ammo problem, which seems to have taken place here, but I would very much prefer if the changes were such that one can see them in the item stats. Now, all I know is that the modifiers cannot be trusted anymore, and that if I am to determine what gun to use in a given situation, I simply have to test all options extensively, instead of just doing the math.
