Armor %?

[grizzled jacinth]

Can anyone explain in simple terms how the small 4% Damage resistance of various items actually works. I understand it's a lot more than stated, but why? Cheers!

[safe reef]

Ok so the protection is says on your character on the left is a TOTAL of all your currently equipped armor a lot of people just thinks that’s your total armor each part of your body (hands legs chest and head etc) each piece of clothing/armor reduces the damage you take from the gun by a percentage for instance an assault rifle does 50 damage without damage drop off which is also calculated you have to look that up as I don’t know the damage drop off range for each gun anyway if a assault rifle user hits you the reduction in damage comes from the armor and clothing so your hoodie AND your piece of armor is subtracting a % of the damage that ak did to you with a metal chest piece and a hoodie the damage reduction is about 6% 50 of 6% is around like 44 so same way with any other piece of your armor

Hopefully that wasn’t too nerdy

[icy bear]

Does armor/clothing matter to where it as to where u get hit.... ie u only have lower clothing and armor and get hit somewhere where don't have? Does the protection u have cover whole body

[safe reef]

No that’s only the case with full body suits hazmat and the new Halloween costumes

[sly eagle]

No , it's not like pc. Any armour piece protects your WHOLE body, gloves can protect head and pants can protect torso.

[safe reef]

No it doesn’t bro please look it up before you make false claims this is facts look it up on the wiki

[brisk python]

You are wrong. It is the same as pc

[sly eagle]

How do u know ?

[sly eagle]

How do u know?

[safe reef]

Bc it says on the wiki facepunch also stated that as well and by just simply testing it

[brisk python]

You’re correct, but your argument is not good. Rust console isn’t owned by Facepunch

The armor percentages are wrong. Don’t listen to them. For example, a full metal face mask reduces all damage to your head by 50%. Idk why they changed the percentage, but it is still the same as pc

[sly eagle]

If it is the way your saying then the game is poorly made as it dosent show separate pieces on the projectile protection and also the % of armour it gives is wrong.

[safe reef]

Ik it’s owned by D11 but what I am saying is it’s the same on both platforms so

[safe reef]

It’s prob like that so people know exactly what’s the cumulative total of there armor

[safe reef]

No lol a face mask reduces it by like 10% it’s how you don’t get one shot by a bolty/L9

[sly eagle]

The other guy said a metal face mask does 50% whereas in the game it's under 10% , everyone has a diffrent view and I blame it all on d11 for not making it so you can see protection separately

[safe reef]

Well what I can do you is do some simple math does it take 4 headshots with a ak to kill a full metal? No

[safe reef]

But yea they should clarify it

[brisk python]

The projectile protection used to show up correctly on console. About a year ago, it said the actual projectile protection. For example, the metal face mask is 50%, hoodie is 20%. They updated it about six months ago, and it changed the values. It still does the same protection, the numbers are just weird for some reason.

[brisk python]

It does block 50% damage. An l96 does 80 damage. With a headshot, is does 160 damage. Since the metal face mask blocks 50% of damage, 50% of 160 is 80. You take 80 damage when you get headshot by an l96 while wearing a metal face mask

It is the same as pc

[brisk python]

Just look up the values on pc. They match the values on console. The numbers on console are just messed up

[safe reef]

The headshot multiplier is 2x? I didn’t even know that thought it was like 1.5