(2 of 3) The Turned [mega-post] – Damage, armor, and health

[MoltonMontro]

@anon67155151

IMO if you have 3 physical damage types you should have 3 physic armor types. This would allow more leeway with clothing and armor design, and you would be able to do things like have football armor giving good impact armor, but with bad slash/puncture and thick leather jackets giving good slash and puncture damage but little impact damage.

I considered it, but while it’d make a fair amount of sense it does convolute the system a bit further (especially since it’d mostly be in PvP or Bandit NPC combat where it’d be the most relevant).

Making one physical armor type for any material would work by:

• Slash dealing great unarmored damage, but suffering from the entirety of the physical armor multiplier
• Puncture dealing decent unarmored damage, but suffering from most of the physical armor multiplier
• Impact dealing moderate unarmored damage, and basically dealing the same damage regardless of any armor

With various other things factoring into how useful each weapon actually is, such as attack speed / range / stamina usage / alternative attacks.

@RainOfPain125

Would blasts knock you unconscious far greater than typical physical damage? Would blasts greatly affect your movement speed, maybe so far as to make you limp or crawl? Would you need special healing items for burns and explosive blasts? Would moving your body into a body of water soothe the burns?

The intention for blast damage is really just for the knockback/knockdown effect, but personally I envisioned it as being combined pretty often with slash damage (the shrapnel) which would cause bleeding potentially, and possibly thermal damage (the heat) which could cause burns.

@RainOfPain125

but you never explained how you would “heal” from it.

I tried to pull back from mentioning specific medicine since the section was more about armor types. One of the medicine suggestion posts probably mentions burn kits, but you could probably just wait for the status to expire too.

@RainOfPain125

Furthermore, it would be very cool if players could extract and exploit resources of acid to use it against other players.

The curated content “Acid Gun” from Belgium was what came to mind, and I considered suggesting it but didn’t.

I imagine that any entity could take acidic damage though, including other non-acidic zombies, so it’d actually be relatively useful (with the exception of easy friendly-fire and self-damage).

@RainOfPain125

All of the armor you suggest would be even cooler if you could make make-shift varients of all of them.

I support makeshift variants of most items just because it helps with some of that progression, even if there’s a big leap between the makeshift and conventional versions.

For clothing specifically, it helps with adding more content that’s actually using some of the more niche armor types. For some armor, it might make more sense for them to be multipliers rather than “does have immunity” or “does not have immunity”.