Dealing with high DR

[Nereidalbel]

No need to make the DR lower or the horrible crap that is ablative. Laser weapons have at least an Armor Divisor of 3, and that brings effective DR down to 35. Should power armor be immune to dinky little guns that have barely been maintained for 200 years? Absolutely. Should lasers and blasters be a threat to the meat in a can? Also yes.

Originally Posted by Highland_Piper

None of us has played a modern or sci-fi setting before so it's a learning process.

Get used to looking at the Armor Divisor on your weapons. The reason DR gets so high is that weapons develop higher AD instead of constantly going for more dice of damage. This also lets you shoot the guy without armor, and not create a fine, red mist or turn them into a pile of ash.