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1. Use a mod that has following content in data.lua.

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   data.raw["player"]["player"].healing_per_tick = 0;
   

2. Make a map placing a small biter not too close, not too far.
3. Start a game of the map.
4. Run the following code from console to get items.

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   /c game.player.insert({ name = "modular-armor" , count = 1 });
   /c game.player.insert({ name = "energy-shield-equipment" , count = 1 });
   /c game.player.insert({ name = "solar-panel-equipment" , count = 20 });
   

5. Equip the modular armor.
6. Put a energy shield and portable solar panels on modular armor. After charging the shield, take off all portable solar panels.
7. Approach the small biter to be attacked.
8. Count the attacks to find out breakpoint of health bar status until the player is killed.

1. By first 17 attacks, the shield is damaged and re-charged quickly by inner battery.
2. By next 143 attacks, the shield is damaged to change from 50 to 0 hp.
3. By next 471 attacks, the player is damaged to change from 100 to 0 hp.
4. By next a attack, the player is killed.

credomane wrote:That is interesting but are the defense values of the modular armor interfering? I dunno how the calculations are done/applied but this is my guess.

When the energy shield is up you are using pure energy to deflect the incoming damage.
When the energy shield is down your are taking the "leftover" damage after module armor's resistances.

My guess is the physical armor of the module armor is reducing the damage that reaches the player. The energy shield doesn't have those resistances so it eats the full power of the biter's attack.

Ranakastrasz wrote:This is a mechanic change between older and newer versions.

In the current version, (To my great irritation) shields benefit from armor ratings from the modular armor it is placed in. (This does not work for vehicles, oddly enough)

It used to be, shields take 100% damage from everything, but once it breaks, armor reduction kicks in to protect your normal health.


So this is expected, and will change to your expectation as soon as you update to v14 something.


If you check the armor rating on the armor you have equipped, you will find that applying the tiny damage from the biter to it will get you the amount of damage you are observing.

Version: 0.13.0
Date: 27. 06. 2016
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    - Armor resistances are applied before the energy shield is used.

kovarex wrote:This is not a bug right?

When the biter is damaging the player, the shield is also being recharged, so part of the damage is absorbed by the shield and the other part by the player.

/c game.player.print(game.player.selected.damage(x, "enemy", "physical"))
or
/c game.player.print(game.player.character.damage(x, "enemy", "physical"))

SoakedCrow wrote:On this condition, the second case is used. The third case has no relation.

When damage.amount = 6, this->decrease = 6 and this->percent = 0.3 the formulas return 0.35.
The damage of the player is 0.212 in game. There should be another formulas.

/c game.player.print(game.player.character.damage(6, "enemy", "physical"))