Integrating penal troops in the early game

Jump back to quoted post27 Aug 2013, 11:11 AMNullist

Hai, Warfish-san.

Penal Vet 1 ability is same as Cons, Tripwire Flare.

Jump back to quoted post27 Aug 2013, 12:55 PMLeiwoUnion

That could be a bit better.

Jump back to quoted post27 Aug 2013, 09:54 AMNullist

First there is a roll to hit. Weapon accuracy / range / cover modifiers.
If there is a hit, armor gives a concrete % roll against a hit. If the roll is below that %, the hit is ignored = no damage.

Im not sure, but I think a 1.0 Armor value means a 10% chance to block the hit.

I dont know whether range reduces weapon damage, but as I understand it, a hit+failed armor roll does full weapon damage at all ranges. Its just less likely to roll a hit vs farther targets, because the accuracy is reduced.

I also dont know whether small arms can scatter on a miss, and perhaps re-roll on another model hit by the scatter.

Different infantry units also have different penalties to accuracy when firing while moving.

Ive heard some speculation that Ostrruppen should be "better in cover", but I think that is just fluff from the tooltip and that there is no actual special benefit.

Another common myth, is that there are crits in small arms combat. There are not. Lucky chained hits and several weapons firing at the same model can result in "crit-like" results, but they are not crits, just a lucky RNG chain.

Also, for completeness sake, cover modifier is reduced to 0 when under 10 units from the target (except in buildings).

Thats how I think it is. Im sure Ace4sure, Crawler or a Dev etc can confirm the formulas.

Jump back to quoted post27 Aug 2013, 23:46 PMEndeav

There ARE crits with regards to small arms fire, flame throwers have between a 10 to 15% chance PER MODEL HIT to instantly kill that model. Coh 1 also had headshot crits where you would instantly kill an enemy model, not entirely sure if that is present in CoH 2.