Is this armor/shield level damage adjustment still valid?

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https://wiki.kronosaur.com/modding/shie ... curves1.01

This was done on 1.01, in 2014.

Is this chart still valid for making shields and armor?
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Yes. The only (minor) change since then is level 10 armor takes slight damage from laser and kinetic instead of being outright immune.
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PM wrote:
Tue Jul 21, 2020 2:34 pm
Yes. The only (minor) change since then is level 10 armor takes slight damage from laser and kinetic instead of being outright immune.
Thank you, but it seems I have another question.

How do all of these armor/shield modifiers work anyway? For instance, level 6 amor has initial 60% damage reduction against particle, while level 7 has 40%. These values do not show up on the game as we all know.


If that level 6 armor also has 150% damage resistance (which is displayed in-game), how does it do well against level 7 armor without any resistance? So... like..

(Raw particle damage / (100% + 150%)) X 60% = (RAW / 2.5) X 0.6

I guess this is it, right?
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The game does not show resistance as resistance, but as additional hit points percentage instead. For example, particle at 40 would appear as +150% (because 100 / 0.4 = 250, and 250 - 100 = 150). Also, the rare vulnerabilities like -25% or -50% are a much bigger deal than they appear.

That tripped me up for quite a while.
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