Allow Sabot, AP and Heavy heads to do some internal thump damage (from least to most)

[white glen]

The APS kinetic heads, outside of allowing for better penetration or performance for APCHEM shells, do little for actually interesting game mechanics. Chiefly, I feel as though purely kinetic rounds outside of sand are far too ineffective for anything other than hole punching. Integrating thump damage into the kinetic heads allows for a greater variety of applications for kinetic shells and allows for more variety for other shells as well.

Also, high caliber kinetics will actually feel like throwing huge lumps of metal at something instead of needles that end up just being shitty PAC or pierce lasers.

the end goal of this, obviously, is to punt a 500m 8 meter kinetic shell at 2km/s and split a target in half

[steady grove]

you have thump for that

and poking holes can be very effective

[turbid marlin]

lol high caliber kinetics are indeed shitty pierce lasers. true that

[white glen]

thump really only affects the surface and poking holes is lame

[steady grove]

shoot again

this really doesn't make sense

a shell made for poking holes is bad at doing things other than poking holes

well, yeah

[white glen]

i mean i wish they didnt just poke holes

when a projectile passes through an object, it doesnt just continue forwards, it transfers at least some of that energy into what it's passing through

obviously the effect wouldn't be nearly as potent as, say, APHE or APFrag, but it would be nice if the damage they dealt was spread more as they went in or through

[steady grove]

maybe, but this would just make them worse at their job

and worse at their new job than the alternatives

[white glen]

fair enough, i suppose

[scarlet juniper]

AP Capped Heavy Heads and Composite Armor Piercing Heads used to, allegedly, have a chance of fragmenting post armor

I don't know if that was ever implemented

But it was definitely removed

And before it was removed it was definitely in the head descriptions.