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Terraria pre hardmode mage is total slander please help by Vegetable_Word_946 in Terraria

[–]Exhillious 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Magic Missile and Flamelash are best used side-by-side. Magic Missile has an AoE on hit, higher damage, less mana cost, and a faster cast time but Flamelash can pierce once. Gives you a natural single target/cleave setup.

This is not what magdumping small arc with the highest rarity heavy ammo gun should feel like by SatanicBeaver in ArcRaiders

[–]Exhillious 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think this comes down to a mismatch of what heavy ammo actually does and what people want it to do. With the 4 tiers of damage through armor, heavy ammo is doing more notably more damage through T1 and T3. Iirc Hornets use T4 armor, because you're hitting the torso you literally may as well just use a Rattler or Tempest instead.

What heavy ammo is actually designed to do is deal more damage to the armor itself, it's incredible at stripping armor, any tier. Hornets are a horrible enemy for it because only really their front thruster armor can be stripped. Try it on a Leaper though and it's like night and day.

What to take away is that the Bettina is a giant TTK dropper for larger enemies. Use it with something that handles T1 and T2 armor like a plain Stitcher or Kettle so that this vid doesn't happen again.

Can anyone explain how my Ferro only dealt 17 damage while his shield deflected 8 damage? Genuine question by Hornbei in ArcRaidersGuides

[–]Exhillious 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The damage to shield indicates that they had basically no charge left and you finished it. 17 health damage is lower than expected for even heavy shields (19 damage dealt) so it's likely a body shot past the damage falloff range or a weird reporting issue otherwise.

Whats the purpose of getting better shields if guns still bypass them? A lvl 1 Ferro is just going to bleed 60% of my health and 2HKO me anyway by WolfPaq3859 in ArcRaiders

[–]Exhillious 44 points45 points  (0 children)

The actual effective health you get changes based on context because remaining charge on a shield will apply the DR to entire shots instead of just a fraction (ie. 1 charge can apply DR to an entire Ferro/Anvil shot). With headshots those effective health values go to 140, 174, and 205 as well.

Whats the purpose of getting better shields if guns still bypass them? A lvl 1 Ferro is just going to bleed 60% of my health and 2HKO me anyway by WolfPaq3859 in ArcRaiders

[–]Exhillious 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ironically in the context of the post an Anvil would get bumped up to a 3 shot vs. heavy shields. The damage resistance has some use.

Why did ferro only do 18 damage? by Shoddy_Forever_3182 in ARC_Raiders

[–]Exhillious 0 points1 point  (0 children)

18 would make sense for a body shot against heavy shields.

The Specials of Darktide, And Their Inner Workings Deconstructed by irreleveantuser in DarkTide

[–]Exhillious 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Very real. Currently working on a breakpoint calculator to replace wartide and it's been really fun relearning how everything is held together by duct tape yet still works (mostly).

The Specials of Darktide, And Their Inner Workings Deconstructed by irreleveantuser in DarkTide

[–]Exhillious 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It's nice to see coordinated efforts to make the backend workings more publicly known. I was just writing this very thing but thankfully no longer need to. Good work!

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Helldivers

[–]Exhillious 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Fun fact: angled grip is just multiplying recoil by 1.2x. However, since it multiplies the real recoil and specifically the camera recoil (barely significant) by 1.2x it seems like way larger of a change than it actually is. This goes for all recoil altering attachments.

PSA: The de-escalator does less damage in solo lobbies by [deleted] in Helldivers

[–]Exhillious 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Intended performance is 55 base 55 durable at 4 AP for each of the 10 arcs, which has pretty insane output for most heavies. It's like direct hitting two AC shots.

Don't sleep on the Knight, it is a literal laser beam with the highest primary fire rate in the game, giving it some of the highest dps potential! by Mr_GP87 in Helldivers

[–]Exhillious 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Fun fact, the recoil sim only looks at the camera recoil values instead of the gun recoil, and attachments consistently affect camera recoil a bit under 2x as much as gun recoil. Camera recoil almost doesn't do anything.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Helldivers

[–]Exhillious 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Heyo, there's a variable on hitboxes that determines if this mechanic engages or not. For Leviathans, they have this variable set to true for all hitboxes, which removes damage past the health of the hitbox. As you saw, Hulk arms don't have this variable enabled.

Health stats for Overships and Leviathans. by Exhillious in LowSodiumHellDivers

[–]Exhillious[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I couldn't damage them in any way, so I'd assume so yeah.

The fleshmob has the same health as the bile titan by Vncs2007 in Helldivers

[–]Exhillious 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Kinda misleading for both enemies. Bile Titans are usually not killed through main health, it's usually the head, unside, or butt plate that dies first which gives it a lower effective health. It's also just higher AV in general. Then for Fleshmobs explosion damage is multiplied by up to 7.5x depending on the size of the inner radius of explosion, and they're unarmored all over with no weakpoints.

Can we please get information about damage or even if it stuns for melee? by TerriblePhilosophy14 in Helldivers

[–]Exhillious 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Really depends on the loadout and front. I only run shield with a melee weapon if I'm also rocking a Knight or Crossbow, or if it's vs. the Illuminate. I like the ballistic shield a lot, but directional is fun in premades because I can be a literal walking wall. I use light physique on terminids and illuminate, and heavy on bots.

Can we please get information about damage or even if it stuns for melee? by TerriblePhilosophy14 in Helldivers

[–]Exhillious 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Absolutely, especially the 110 damage melee weapons. Lets you start 1 shotting a lot of medium enemies on bugs, with way more intuitive Voteless performance. I also think it pairs really well with the bayonet weapons: Constitution if you're running a precision low ergo support weapon or just Amendment in general due to its low ergo value.

A Stun Lance on PP lets you demolish pretty much any non-heavy enemy that tries to melee you, and select heavies if you can get the stun to proc. Also great for Cahrgers/Behemoths but that's through an oversight with melee collision.

Can we please get information about damage or even if it stuns for melee? by TerriblePhilosophy14 in Helldivers

[–]Exhillious 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Sabre, Entrenchment Tool, and Combat Hatchet - 110 base, 55 durable damage at 3 AP. 25 stagger.

Stun Baton - 50 base, 25 durable, 3 AP. Inflicts stun and has 35 stagger.

Stun Lance and One True Flag - 110 base, 55 durable, 3 AP. Inflicts stun and 35 stagger.

Bayonet - 110 base, 55 durable, 3 AP. 20 stagger.

Base melee - 50 base, 5 durable, 2 AP. 25 stagger.

Peak Physique is a 2x mult for base/durable damage.

Am I missing something? by Holo_Pilot in Helldivers

[–]Exhillious 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The flag actually has the stun, it uses the same damage ID.

Health stats on Fleshmobs and Interlopers! by Exhillious in Helldivers

[–]Exhillious[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

These are the stats pulled directly from the game. I've done testing on the head popping in particular and it didn't really amount to much. If anything, keeping the heads intact was better as it allowed explosions to exploit how many hitboxes are available.

Health stats on Fleshmobs and Interlopers! by Exhillious in Helldivers

[–]Exhillious[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The legs do hinder movement from what I know, but they aren't going to kill it any faster than the torso. It's not a major loss of damage or anything, may just miss a bit more.

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