How much damage does the train do?

krausr79 · Post by **krausr79** » Sat Sep 05, 2015 8:50 am

I'm mostly interested in knowing how much to the player. Is it physical damage? I've heard that armor helps? Is it based purely on train speed, or is there a mass part to it? Does it push you out of the way or is there a chance of a double hit? In general, how much sheilding is needed to be safe?

Post by **Klonan** » Sat Sep 05, 2015 11:25 am

the ipmpact damage (i believe) is a function of speed and inertia, so a small fast train will do less damage than a huge slow one. As for exact figures? I have no idea.

The damage type is Impact, not physical, so armour won't really help, but power armour shields are really helpful for surviving renegade locomotives

Peter34 · Post by **Peter34** » Sat Sep 05, 2015 4:27 pm

Klonan wrote:the ipmpact damage (i believe) is a function of speed and inertia, so a small fast train will do less damage than a huge slow one. As for exact figures? I have no idea.

If the game goes by real-world physics, and scales the damage with the kinetic energy, then the damage will be linear with the mass (or "weight", in layman's parlance) of the Train, but will quadruple each time the speed is doubled.

Klonan wrote:The damage type is Impact, not physical, so armour won't really help, but power armour shields are really helpful for surviving renegade locomotives

I didn't know that. So, basically, even if you're the stay-at-home guy in a coop MP game, you'd still want to put at least the cheapest shield into your Modular Armor, just to give yourself a chance to survive encounters with Trains?

Boogieman14 · Post by **Boogieman14** » Sat Sep 05, 2015 4:54 pm

I know from experience that 4 Mk2 shields are enough to survive the encounter. It might be doable with less, but I don't have any empirical reports on that.

Rage · Post by **Rage** » Sat Sep 05, 2015 5:07 pm

Boogieman14 wrote:I know from experience that 4 Mk2 shields are enough to survive the encounter. It might be doable with less, but I don't have any empirical reports on that.

Not with the trains I've built, I've had times where I've bailed from a big train and high speed with I think at least 10 Mk2 shields and still died.

Boogieman14 · Post by **Boogieman14** » Sat Sep 05, 2015 5:53 pm

Ok, fair point, I should qualify that with the kind of trains I run

I tend to use one loc with two or three wagons.

bobucles · Post by **bobucles** » Sun Sep 06, 2015 1:09 am

Wouldn't there be some point where you just bounce off the train and it keeps going?

Boogieman14 · Post by **Boogieman14** » Sun Sep 06, 2015 1:27 am

From what I've seen, if you survive the impact, the train will have stopped, if briefly.

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