At some point someone changed the armor system to always block, which I
understand, because RNG is annoying, but they didn't lower the armor
values to compensate.
Right now a basic security officer blocks 50% of all melee damage. It
would take 7 hits from an esword/punches from a Juggernaut to reliably
down an officer, and just a single stun baton to down a guy with an
esword.
It takes 20 hits from an inactive baton to crit a basic officer, 8 hits
from an arblade, etc.
In short, melee is completely awful as soon as someone throws on a basic
vest. It makes melee weapons impossible to balance because even if
they're strong enough to crit a random med doctor in 4 hits they're limp
noodles vs a helmet. We can't move away from "I stun you lose" combat if
stun weapons are 8-20 times as effective as anything else.
I lowered the values around half for melee and tweaked laser resist a
bit as well (again, it shouldn't take 10 lasers to down someone vs their
one taser). I'm not overly attached to these values, nor are they
particularly deeply thought about, I just wanted to get a conversation
on git started where everyone would see it.
KorPhaeron
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