there must be something wrong about the Jackal?

[supernils]

So my experiences with the Jackal (Sortie): first time when it was new: it was squished like a fly with a random squad. So next day I tried solo, not a problem, AT ALL. The legs took maybe 5-7 Chakur shots (+riven)

Today it was Jackal Sortie again so I just took a random loadout for a "little challenge", Ash, corrosive Dread, viral Nikana... and it was a completely different world, I had no chance. Didn't destroy a single leg. Dread didn't do like anything. Tried slashing legs with the melee stealthed, nothing. Also his machine gun would just melt me.

So I thought, OH did they actually buff him? Cool.

Then I changed loadout, Zephyr, Acceltra radiation 2 Forma or so, 7 mods. And wtf? Legs MELTING in not even a second. How? Radiation is like, plus 50%? 75%? It felt like 20 times the damage.

Might this be bugged or what's wrong about my perception?

[-Kittens-]

Zephyr

Z's damage is beyond broken on AoE weapons.

[Kontrollo]

I haven't tried to fight the new version yet and you didn't describe your whole loadout, so I don't have the full picture, either:

Jackal has Robotic health and Alloy Armour. If you fought him once with a Radiation weapon, that's several multipliers against its health/armour (1.25 * 1.75) and on top of that, Radiation also affects the effective armour value in the formula, I like to call that the armour ignore term. That's -75% of the base value there. So you have quite a bit more than just the 1.75x multiplier that you expected.

Additionally, maybe someone brought Corrosive Projection? Or something else that reduced effective armour? Can't really say without more information.

[supernils]

20 hours ago, Kontrollo said:

Additionally, maybe someone brought Corrosive Projection? Or something else that reduced effective armour? Can't really say without more information.

yeah good point I just checked it, I have Corrosive Projection on Zepyhr too, I didn't have it in the other loadlout