[Proposal] Armour Refactor

[PowerfulBacon]

I just want to make a note that we should probably start looking to refactor how armour functions, it is getting far too out of hand now with so many different armour values.

The current flags are:

• Melee: Direct attacks
• Bullet: Bullet attacks
• Laser: Laser weapons that deal lethal damage
• Energy: Ranged stamina damage (Merge with stamina)
• Bomb: From explosions
• Bio: For disease spreading (Not actually used for armour and typically either 0 or 100, make this a flag instead)
• Rad: Radiation protection
• Fire: How much damage taken when set on fire, only used for when items take damage and inside take_bodypart_damage
• Acid: Acid rain, acid burn (Too specific)
• Magic: I don't even think this one is used (Unused)
• Stamina: Stun batons only (Redundant)
• Consume: How clothes take damage when eaten by moths (Too specific, use integrity instead)
• Bleed (Added with new updates, wounds on TG)

Some stats that rely on multiple can sample and take an average from multiple. For example, energy can be a combination of laser and stamina.

In the end we should have something like:

• Melee: Direct attacks
• Bullet: Bullets
• Laser: Lasers
• Stun: Ranged energy weapons, stun batons
• Bomb: Explosions
• Environmental: Fire, Radiation, Acid

Biological resistance becomes a flag used for sealed suits. Fire is currently based on bodytemperature anyway and is only used erronously

Why?

Armour is so bloated that is makes it annoying to modify, and it has so many useless flags that aren't being used the way that they sound like they would be used which just leads to confusion. No player wants to compare armour by looking through an entire page of stats that are completely useless.

[PowerfulBacon]

Alternatively, a more complex armour system could feature something like

• Blunt Resistance
• Penetration Resistance
• Energy Absorption Instead of the direct damage types, which would be an approach that more relies on describing what the armour would be like.

[BlueHNT]

Alternatively, a more complex armour system could feature something like

• Blunt Resistance
• Penetration Resistance
• Energy Absorption Instead of the direct damage types, which would be an approach that more relies on describing what the armour would be like.

You could technically also take in the direction which SS14 went in with blunt, slash and piercing under brute and similar. Though that would probably bring you back to where we started.

Penetration resistance I believe should be a thing though. Which would make armor piercing rounds reasonable and would make bulletproof armor also reasonable against it. Though the balance of that sounds like hell.

[Pockets-byte]

this sounds good- I'd like to see more than just three characteristics from a serious armor rework though

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[Tsar-Salat]

actually i probably should not be the arbiter of whats a design goal yet lol