What Does Puncture Mods Do?

[Mr.Mango]

Like the title is saying, what are Puncture mods doing?

Or am I just missing some crazy english meaning in there because It's not my native tongue?

[Altale]

They puncture anything within the number given, in meters. So 0.1+ puncture means it can go through 10cm of anything and do full damage.

[DigitalMaster]

bullet passing through something

at the moment its pretty useless, the 0.1 stands for 0.1 meters

[PhiZero]

Probably not contributing to the answer, but does Grineer armor require something more than a 0.1m puncture?

[DigitalMaster]

yes, but no exact amount i can tell

[Satori_Mind]

Probably not contributing to the answer, but does Grineer armor require something more than a 0.1m puncture?

Grineer armor requires armor piercing damage. Puncture won't help except against obstacles and those grineer shield guys. It costs a ton of mod points and does almost nothing. I say don't bother.

[OrtuOcelot]

Probably not contributing to the answer, but does Grineer armor require something more than a 0.1m puncture?

Your best bet against Grineer is to use AP mods, puncture seems to be a mod made to shoot through objects to hit the target, not necessarily ignore armor, hence AP mods. I find the pistol AP mods very good, paired with my AkLato, it works awesomely with the Gorgon as well.

[Inconmon]

Puncture is awesome. I use it with paris and line up multi-kills. Nothing more satisfying than one arrow killing 3-4 enemies.

[Numbahs]

Puncture is awesome. I use it with paris and line up multi-kills. Nothing more satisfying than one arrow killing 3-4 enemies.

You don't really need Puncture for that though, Paris will do it on its own.

[Garth_Tremor]

Doasn't puncture also give the ability for a bullet to pass through a enemy and hit another one behind him?

[CaligoIllioneus]

Yes, but keep in mind that it is 10 centimeters, which is nothing. The enemies have to be hugging each other...you need to rank up the mod twice to get it to 0.2 and I think the furthest it goes to is 0.3

[kaminokage]

I'll just Copy/Paste it from my topic:

Yes, it is ridiculously overcosted and underpowered. Puncture mods in closed beta were several meters each so you could slap one on, fire once, and hit multiple enemies in a row through each other, which was probably a bit much. Or you could stand behind a box and shoot enemies through it, which also was a bit much. But as puncture works now the only uses I know of for it are to shoot shield Grineer (who aren't very hard to deal with anyway) and for Saryn to more consistantly hit her Venom balls. Maybe if you max one you can shoot though a single enemy if it is one of the thinner ones (moa heads, Corpus crewmen maybe?).

It feels like one of those times where two people decided independantly that puncture needed to be nerfed, so one went in and made it really really expensive and the other went in and made it barely useful at all and they never told each other about it. But I dunno, maybe there's still some reason I don't know about for why it's so ridiculously expensive.

Personally, I'd like to see them remove the ability to shoot through world objects like walls and boxes, keep it very expensive, and bump the distance back up to where you can always shoot through at least one enemy, even thick ones. Then people could choose to slot more damage mods for versatility or slot puncture for big packs.

Edited April 7, 2013 by kaminokage

[Mr.Mango]

Thanks for all the replys guys!

Guess I just sell all puncture mods and keep 1 for every type of weapon, might be useful if they decide to patch it some day again.

[kaminokage]

Don't sell them. Don't forget that it's a RARE mode & u can use them 2 upgrade another RARE mods + they might get boosted in the future :P

Edited April 8, 2013 by kaminokage