(02-04-2015, 04:28 PM)Apl_Juice Wrote: I'm curious though, for those of you folks who fight with armor: how would you handle being shot at? Is that something you could block with a shield? Does you armor save you, or do the bullets pierce through?Well, I would personally treat it like kevlar: it stops the bullet from going through but you're still going to feel the blunt force of the bullet itself on some level. Really good armor would distribute the force so evenly that it's like getting hit with a small, thrown sandbag instead of a tiny 500m/s metal rock. Emphasis on "small"; unlike what the movies would tell you, a bullet cannot send you flying on its own, though they can certainly rock you.
ARR's opening cinematic has the Warrior being peppered with shots and immediately needing healing, but aside from losing his helmet, he and his armor seems to stay in one piece. I'm not saying that is law, but is that something anyone else considers?
This is especially relevant for Ironworks armor; as far as I can tell, they are not made out of the simple materials other armors in the game are made out of. In fact, I would hazard a guess that they are made out of a synthetic fiber weave in the style of real-world composite armors, just looking at how they are textured. Not that that many people are wearing those ICly, I just thought it was something interesting to point out.
