cyborgwalrus Posted January 10, 2013 Posted January 10, 2013 Bought the Snipertron today and while doing a mission I noticed that Corpus Crewmen and their Snipertron variants are immune to headshots.You can see the bullet hit their helmet but it doesn't deal any damage. Is it a bug or a feature that isn't mentioned anywhere?
Arcalane Posted January 10, 2013 Posted January 10, 2013 They seem to have weird head hitboxes in general. I can't reliably get Lex headshots on them either.
ApokalypsBZH Posted January 10, 2013 Posted January 10, 2013 Their heads are immune to damage, but I think you can hurt them with puncture mods.
Rusalki Posted January 10, 2013 Posted January 10, 2013 I think their helmets are immune to damage that isn't armor-piercing. Might have to test it again.
Mimterest Posted January 10, 2013 Posted January 10, 2013 It's not that you can't headshot them. It's that their head is protected. As soon as I put 32% armor penetration to my Latron, it started one-shotting every Corpus Crewman if I shot their boxhead. even the high level ones in Pluto. If you don't have armor penetration, you must have accidentally hit a soft spot, aka their suit/torso :)
Arcalane Posted January 10, 2013 Posted January 10, 2013 Well that would certainly explain it. I find it kinda funny, actually. Grineer have tough bodies but squishy heads, and Corpus have tough heads but squishy bodies? Could do with some kind of ricochet effect so that it's more apparent that you're not doing any damage. I thought their head hitbox was just broken and my shots were going straight through it.
cyborgwalrus Posted January 10, 2013 Author Posted January 10, 2013 Ok thanks guys for clearing that up. It seems I better get myself some armor piercing mods then.
Sikab Posted January 10, 2013 Posted January 10, 2013 Corpus faction is immune to dmg where they have armor equipped. But any other part takes 100% dmg (brown part). they also die pretty fast.
Ryme Posted January 10, 2013 Posted January 10, 2013 That's is very cool how they've differentiated each faction. It would really be nice if they could put in an intro mission for each faction the first time you start encountering them, to introduce these tidbits though. I was about the file a bug report on Corpus models having faulty hitboxes.
Mortarion Posted January 10, 2013 Posted January 10, 2013 Lol was wondering why my gorgon wasnt headshotting those suckers. Makes sense tho, those helmets seem rather heavy. It would be funny if they added a trip mechanic to the Corpus crewmen, cuz with those helmets I would imagine they are rather top heavy.
Arcalane Posted January 10, 2013 Posted January 10, 2013 (edited) Their heads are immune to damage, but I think you can hurt them with puncture mods. After some testing with my 3m Puncture-modded Braton, this seems to be true. My shots to their heads were doing about half damage compared to hits to their body. So, if you want to headshot them, get AP or Puncture. Still, that seems odd to me... my Lex can dish out ~200 damage headshots and almost one-shot shatters reinforced glass that none of my other ranged weapons can even scratch (I've tried hitting it with the Braton, Gorgon, and Latron), but bounces off Corpus helmets? Armour and AP mechanics must interact weirdly... Tried again. My Lex is punching through their armour, but only doing about a third of its normal damage on headshots (26 head vs 73 body). Curious, especially since the head is the weakpoint on the Infested, and Ancients have resilient bodies but squishy heads. I guess the infestation ruins the effectiveness of the armour? Edited January 10, 2013 by Arcalane
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