03-05-2013, 09:11 AM | #1 |
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Difference Between Imp and Pi++
I have never understood where, if at all, these two damage types differ. Is it just a convention where Pi++ is understood to be large caliber bullets, or is there something I'm missing?
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03-05-2013, 09:18 AM | #2 |
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Re: Difference Between Imp and Pi++
Some old discussion: http://forums.sjgames.com/showthread.php?t=21899
(And when people say that the wide arrowheads with cutting edges are what an Imp broadhead arrow represent, I keep wondering what Willowleaf arrows doing Cut damage represent then?) Last edited by vicky_molokh; 03-05-2013 at 09:23 AM. |
03-05-2013, 09:19 AM | #3 |
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Re: Difference Between Imp and Pi++
Different ammunition types can shift pi damage up and down the 'size' ranges.
e.g. Armor-Piercing [HT.167] "reduce damage type: pi++ becomes pi+, pi+ becomes pi, and pi becomes pi- (no effect on pi-)." |
03-05-2013, 09:26 AM | #4 | |
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Re: Difference Between Imp and Pi++
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03-05-2013, 10:34 AM | #6 |
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03-05-2013, 11:23 AM | #7 |
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03-05-2013, 11:28 AM | #8 |
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Re: Difference Between Imp and Pi++
Flexible armor per se has no change in behavior, but most TL 7-9 flexible armor has higher DR against piercing than against impaling.
You lose the ability to distinguish between them for purposes of armor. |
03-05-2013, 11:32 AM | #9 |
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Re: Difference Between Imp and Pi++
See the "High- and Ultra-Tech Armor Table" on p284-5 of the basic set, especially note 1. Modern flexible armour intended to keep out bullets is less effective against stabbing weapons to the extent that armour manufacturers make quite different anti-stab vests, which you'll find on p67 of High-Tech.
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03-05-2013, 03:34 PM | #10 |
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Re: Difference Between Imp and Pi++
They are spelled differently .
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