Armor Details

theclam

<div class="IPBDescription">Need some info</div> So, I want to know how much armor helps.
For Aliens I know that 1 Hive makes Armor = 2 Health, 2 Hives make Armor = 2.5 Health, and 3 Hives makes Armor = 3 Health.

What are the stats for marines?
Do the marines get 2, or 2.5, or 3 Health for each point of armor?
Does Heavy Armor make your have 3 Health instead of 2?

Thanks.

a_civilian

For marines, 1 point of armor is always worth 2 points of health.

im_lost

Another little bit of info. With one hive, 70% of damage goes to armor; two hives, it is 80%, and 3 hives, it is 90%. I don't know what it is for marines.

theclam

I know that 95% of damage goes to armor for HA but i don't know for LA.

Thanks guys, this is the info i needed.

BlueNovember

1 hive: 1 armour= 2 health
2 hives: 1 armour=2.5 health
3 hives: 1 armour=3 health
4 hives: armour has 100% absorption (Altered in b5 though)
5 hives: When you heal your armour, your MAX health increases.
6+ hives: Unknown. I assume it increases the amount by which your max health increases per armour point healing?

Edit: Corrected values. TY a civillian.

Carapace in no way effects armor absorption, only amount of armor.

In combat, damage absorption is set to 2 hives.

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Rines. Well, let's work it out.
Vanilla rine: 100 25
Skulk bite takes you down to 75 0, as we all know
Skulk bite damge is 75.

100 - 75 is 25, so that's the damge done to health.
Damage absorbed by armour = 75-25 = 50.

thrfr %age damage absorbed by armour = 50/75 * 100 = 66% (ie, 2/3 of the damage.)

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im_lost

<!--QuoteBegin-BlueNovember+Sep 7 2004, 11:13 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (BlueNovember @ Sep 7 2004, 11:13 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> Rines. Well, let's work it out.
Vanilla rine: 100 25
Skulk bite takes you down to 75 0, as we all know
Skulk bite damge is 75.

100 - 75 is 25, so that's the damge done to health.
Damage absorbed by armour = 75-25 = 50.

thrfr %age damage absorbed by armour = 50/75 * 100 = 66% (ie, 2/3 of the damage.)

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Actually, that tells you that it absorbs <i>at least</i> 66% of damage, since the marine runs out of armor. Looking at <a href='http://www.cri-hacks.com/damage/index.php' target='_blank'>http://www.cri-hacks.com/damage/index.php</a>, however, I was able to determine that a marine loses 22.5 hp and 26.25 ap from a bite. This means that 30% of the damage goes to health, and 70% goes to armor. Note that this percentage does not change with armor upgrades.

Edit: typo

a_civilian

<!--QuoteBegin-BlueNovember+Sep 8 2004, 03:13 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (BlueNovember @ Sep 8 2004, 03:13 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> 1 hive: 1 armor=1 health
2 hives: 1 armor=2 health
3 hives: 1 armor=3 health <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
No, it's definitely 2, 2.5, 3.

BlueNovember

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