User:Studenterhue/Armor

How Armor Protects You

Though there are six body regions (head, torso, arms, legs) that can be targeted, there's really only two for the purposes of armor, "head" and "chest". Thanks to some interesting coder decisions, the game considers attacks aimed at the legs and arms to be attacks aimed at the chest and thus applies the armor values of the chest region. As you might expect, attacks aimed at the head sensibly consider armor of the head region. It's good news for you, because it's less vital parts to worry about.

Anything in the head, ears, eyes, and mask/mouth slot is considered to be the "head" region, while anything in the (exo)suit, jumpsuit, shoes, gloves, and hand slots are considered part of the "chest" region.

However, additional armor is not always a good choice. Melee and ranged resistance (and by proxy stamina damage reduction) doesn't stack or multiply; the game just takes the highest value of all the pieces considered. So if you, say, get some body armpr that grants -5 melee resistance, then find a shield that grants -9 melee resistance, you have -9 melee resistance, not -14. However, this doesn't apply to heat, cold, and viral resistance. They do stack.

Melee Resistance

Melee damage is reduced by a simple subtraction:

Melee damage received = Raw melee damage - melee resistance value

This applies to all damage types (e.g. brute, burn), except stamina damage, which is calculated differently.

For example, let's say you're getting whacked in the chest by a fire extinguisher, which has a raw damage value of 10, while wearing an armor vest, which has a melee resistance value of 6. Based on this formula, you'll receive 4 (that's 10-6) damage, which in practical terms is pretty good. If you've 100 HP, that means that with armor, they'll have to land 25 hits to put you into critical condition, compared to 10 without. Easy, no?

Ranged Resistance

Ranged resistance is a bit more complex than melee resistance, though the math is still accessible. The formula is simply:

Ranged damage received = Raw bullet damage / (Ranged resistance value + 1)

This applies regardless of whether the bullet was kinetic or energy-based and regardless of the damage type inflicted by the bullet, with one major exception: stamina drain follows a different formula that's dependent on proportion of damage reduced.

For example, suppose someone is shooting at your chest with an energy gun on lethal, which does 45 damage, while wearing an armor vest, whose ranged resistance is 1. You receive 45/(1+1) = 22.5 damage, meaning the armor essentially halved the damage.

In practical terms, this means ranged protection is actually percentage-based, but because of the equation used, it's not a linear, one to one relationship. There's some diminishing returns involved; the first bit of ranged protection reduces damage by a lot, but every additional bit offers less and less protection. Plug in some values yourself, and you'll see it:

0.5 → Formula simplifies to Raw damage/1.5 → 33% of damage blocked
1.0 → Formula is Raw damage/2 → 50% of damage blocked.
1.5 → Formula is Raw damage/2.5 → 60% of damage blocked.
2.0 → Formula is Raw damage/3 → 66% of damage blocked.

Stamina Damage Reduction

Armor also reduces the amount of stamina drained in an attack, based on the proportion of damage blocked to damage of the attack. For example, if an attack does 10 brute damage and 40 stamina damage, and your armor blocks 5 brute damage, then your armor also reduces the associated stamina damage by 50%. Thus the attack drains only 20 stamina.

Heat Resistance

definitely reduces damage to due fires--maybe phasers, lasers, and other things that do burn too

Cold Resistance

talk about 100% resistance granting immunity to space
temperature still changes I think, so you might still benefit from cryoxadone 
maybe reduces damage due to freezeburning yourself?

Viral Resistance

mostly used for determined whether you'll get infected with a pathogen or virus

Radiation Resistane

basically more radiation resistance reduces amount of tox damage radiation does per second and change of mutation. have no formula for this

Explosion Resistance

uh I have no clue how this one works

Armor Statistics

Head Slot

Name	Image	Melee Resistance	Heat Resistance	Cold Resistance	Radiation Resistance	Viral Resistance
Helmet	/ /	5	10%	10%
Blast Helmet		9	10%	10%
Biohood		1	10%	10%		50%
Syndicate Hat		6	5%	10%
Very Syndicate Hat		6	5%	10%
75-Gallon Hat	TBA	3	10%	5
Bio Hood		1	10%	10%		50%
Blast Helmet		9	10%	10%
Bucket Helmet		2	10%	10%
Butt			5%	10%
Cent. Comm. Hat	TBA	4	5%	10%
Class II Radiation Hood		1	10%	10%	50%
Command Diving Helmet		4	5%	20%		50%
Commander's Cap		4	5%	20%		50%
Crown	TBA	3	5%	10%
DetGadget Hat		3	5%	10%
Elite Helmet		8	10%	10%
Engineering Space Helmet		4	5%	20%		50%
FB-8 Environment Hood	TBA	1	10%	10%	50%
Firefighter Helm		4	10%	10%
Fruit Basket Hat		1	5%	10%
Gold Laurels	TBA	3	5%	10%
Hair Clips	TBA	1	5%	10%
Hard Hat		5	10%	10%
HoS Hat		7	10%	10%
HoS Beret		7	10%	10%
Industrial Space Helmet		4	5%	20%	50%	50%
Industrial Diving Helmet		4	5%	20%	50%	50%
ME-3 Helmet	TBA	4	10%	10%
Nanotrasen Heavy Helmet	TBA	4	5%	20%		50%
Nanotrasen Helmet	TBA	8	10%	10%
NASSA Space Helmet	TBA	4	5%	20%		50%
Beret, all colors		1	5%	10%
Nanotrasen Beret	TBA	1	5%	10%
Prisoner's Beret		1	5%	10%
NT Bio Hood	TBA	2	10%	10%		50%
Obsidian Crown	TBA	1	5%	10%
Riot Helmet		10	10%	10%
Apprentice's Cap		1	5%	10%
Royal Apprentice's Cap		1	5%	10%
Specialist Combat Helmet		4	5%	20%		50%
Specialist Combat Helmet (infiltrator)		4	5%	20%		50%
Specialist Combat Helmet (firebrand)		4	5%	20%		50%
Specialist Combat Cover		4	5%	20%		50%
Specialist Welding Helmet		4	5%	20%		50%
Constable's Helmet	TBA	4	10%	10%
Space-American Football Helmet		6	10%	10%
SWAT Helmet		7	10%	10%
Wizard's Hat (all)		1	5%	10%
T.U.R.D.S. Helmet		7	10%	10%
Vaguely Greek Helmet	TBA	7	10%	10%
Welding Helmet/Mask		4	10%	10%
Carved Pumpkin	TBA	1	5%	10%

Exosuit Slot

Name	Image	Melee Resistance	Ranged Resistance (% of damage blocked)	Heat Resistance	Cold Resistance	Radiation Resistance	Viral Resistance	Explosion Resistance
Armor Vest	/ /	6	1 (50%)	5%	10%
Ancient Armor	TBA	6	1 (50%)	80%	80%
Apiculturist's Suit		2	0.5 (33%)	15%	15%		50%
Firesuit		3	0.5 (33.3%)	50%	20%
Armored Firesuit		6	1.5 (60%)	50%	20%
Paramedic Suit		3	0.9 (47.37%)	25%	25%		50%
Armored Paramedic Suit		5	1.9 (65.5%)	25%	25%		50%
Bathrobe	TBA	2			25%
Bomb Disposal Suit	File:Bombdisposalsuit.png	9	2 (66%)	5%	10%
Captain's Armor	File:Caparmor.png /	7	1.5 (60%)	10%	5%
Chef's Coat	TBA	2		10%	5%
Class II Radiation Suit		3	0.5 (33.3%)	15%	15%	50%
Command Winter Coat	TBA	2		5%	35%
Commander's Great Coat		8	3 (75%)	20%	50%		50%	3
Engineering Space Suit		3	0.5 (33.3%)	20%	50%		50%
FB-8 Environment Suit	TBA	3	0.5 (33.3%)	95%	30%	50%
Head of Personnel's Naval Coat		6	1.5 (60%)	5%	10%
Cardboard Box		1		33%	33%
Heavy Armor		12	3 (75%)	5%	10%
Heavy Firesuit	TBA	4	0.8 (44.4%)	65%	5%
Hoodie		2		5%	25%
Head of Security's Cape		7	1.5 (60%)	5%	10%
HoS Jacket		3	0.7 (41.2%)	5%	5%
Industrial Space Armor		2	0.5 (33.3%)	25%	75%	50%	50%	3
Industrial Diving Suit		2	0.5 (33.3%)	25%	75%	50%	50%	3
Labcoats, all		2		15%	15%
Logo Jackets, most	TBA	2		5%	20%
Logo Jacket, GTM		2		5%	25%
Long Sleeved Shirt	TBA	2		5%	15%
Long Sleeved Logo Shirts, all	/	2		5%	15%
Museum of Lunar History T-Shirt	TBA	2		5%	5%
NT-SO Combat Dress	TBA	3	0.5 (33.3%)	20%	50%		50%
NT-SO Heavy Operative Combat Armor	TBA	9	2 (66.6%)	25%	75%	50%	50%	3
NT-SO Armor	TBA	8	1.5 (60%)	5%	10%
Overcoat and Scarf		2		5%	5%
Johnny~~		2		5%	5%
Plastic Jacket	TBA	2		5%	10%
Research Winter Coat	TBA	2		5%	35%
Scarf	TBA	2		5%	10%
Sneaking Suit	TBA	6	1.0 (50%)	5%	10%
Snow Suit	TBA	3	0.5 (33.3%)	20%	50%		50%
Snow Suit	TBA	3	0.5 (33.3%)	20%	50%		50%
Space-American Football Pads		8	1.5 (60%)	5%	10%
Specialist Operative Combat Dress		3	0.5 (33.3%)	20%	50%		50%
Specialist Operative Espionage Suit		3	0.5 (33.3%)	20%	50%		50%
Specialist Operative Medic Uniform		3	0.5 (33.3%)	20%	50%		50%
Specialist Operative Engineering Uniform		3	0.5 (33.3%)	20%	50%		50%
Specialist Operative Marksman Suit		3	0.5 (33.3%)	20%	50%		50%
Specialist Operative Firesuit		3	0.5 (33.3%)	100%	50%		50%
Specialist Heavy Operative Combat Armor		9	2 (66.6%)	25%	75%	50%	50%	3
Coat		2	0.5 (3.3)	5%	5%
Wizard Robe (all)		2		30%	90%
Absurdly Stylish Cape	TBA	2		5%	5%
Suicide Bomb Vest		6	1.0 (50%)	5%	10%
SUV Suit	TBA	4	2.0 (66.6%)	20%	50%	50%	50%
Waistcoat	TBA	2		10%	10%
Worn Jacket/Faded Trenchcoat		2	0.5 (33.3%)	5%	5%

Other Slots

Name	Image	Melee Resistance	Ranged Resistance (% of damage blocked)	Heat Resistance	Cold Resistance	Viral Resistance
Most jumpsuits		1		5%	5%
Balaclava		2		5%	5%
Barrier, deployed		9	1.5 (60%)
Breath Mask		2		5%	5%
Cleaning Gloves	TBA			5%	3%
Cleats				5%	5%
Fingerless Gloves				3%	3%	10%
Flimsy George Melons Mask	TBA	2		5%	5%
Galoshes				5%	5%
Gas Mask		2		7%	7%
Gold Ring	TBA			3%	3%	10%
Ring	TBA			3%	3%	10%
Titanium Ring	TBA			3%	3%	10%
Mechanized/Mechanised Boots				5%	5%
Mechanized/Mechanised Diving Boots				5%	5%
Military Boots	TBA	1		10%	10%
Sacred Sandals				5%	5%
Viking Hauberk	TBA	1		5%	40%
Wrestling Boots	TBA			5%	5%
Yeti-Fur Earmuffs	TBA				80%
Moeblob Mask	TBA	2		5%	5%
Clown mask and wig		2		5%	5%
Horse Mask		2		5%	5%
Wrestling Mask		2		5%	5%
Fake Moustache		3		5%	10%
Skull Mask		2		5%	5%
Batmask And Batcape	TBA	2		5%	5%
Mime Mask	TBA	2		5%	5%
Inquisitor Mask	TBA	2		7%	7%
Hunter Mask		2		5%	5%
Aurora Belt (off)			TBA	TBA	TBA
Aurora Belt (on)			TBA	TBA	TBA