Question 1

Where does the data come from?

Accepted Answer

Straight from the game files. I built my own pipeline that extracts each patch's data, filters out what the site needs and runs it through a hand-built model - then diffs the result against the previous patch, so every change is caught and reviewed before it ships. If the data fails its consistency checks, the site simply doesn't update until I know why. No hand-copied wiki or sheet values - and every update is logged in the changelog at the bottom of the page. The model itself is checked against the game: I shoot friends in my hangar or test things in AC when applicable. But the numbers you see are computed from the datamined files.

Question 2

What is Impact Force?

Accepted Answer

Impact Force is the damage bonus a crafted weapon carries, and the damage table is built around it. Every armor row shows the minimum Impact Force that removes one shot-to-kill: base against standard armor, max crafted against a target crafted to the +10% standard, premium against the best-mitigation sets in that tier. The fabrication bench takes it one step further: tell it which materials you already have and it works out whether it is in reach - and what quality the remaining materials need. I built this because the answer was missing everywhere else: I could work it out myself, but it meant clicking through scattered sheets and pages, and I wanted everything on a single page. As far as I can tell it is still the only place that models it. Recipe sites list blueprints and their modifier ranges; other FPS calculators give you a free-form damage percentage slider with no material model behind it. Solving the actual value - per material, per quality, and carrying crafted armor mitigation through into shots-to-kill and TTK - is what this site is for.

Question 3

Which numbers are estimated rather than datamined?

Accepted Answer

Most of them are read straight from the files, but a handful cannot be: Semi-automatic time-to-kill assumes a cap between 600 and 720 RPM, because it's more realistic for gaming: the game files carry no such limit, but an average gamer with the finger spamming the mouse button does, and without it every semi firing weapon would read as fast as its mechanical rate. Three counts come from playing rather than parsing. The Custodian's charged burst fires 11 shots and the files still say 8. The Salvo's charged shell throws 8 fragments, a count that appears nowhere in the records at all; 8 is what I measured. Anywhere burst, charge or pump timing is not fully exported, the TTK carries a tilde to say so.

Question 4

Do undersuits and armor stack?

Accepted Answer

No. On any body part your armor covers, only the armor's damage mitigation counts - the undersuit underneath doesn't add anything on top. A Heavy chest piece protects like Heavy, full stop; the undersuit beneath it isn't quietly stacking extra resistance. The undersuit only matters where you have no armor - bare arms or legs fall back to its lighter protection. I tested it live (4.8.1): shot a friend in the torso and read the damage straight off their 100-point health bar.

Question 5

Why doesn't the Scourge Railgun one-tap Super Heavy armor?

Accepted Answer

Because Super Heavy Armor caps a single hit at 45 damage per damage type. Every other tier: light, medium, heavy, heavy utility, flightsuit, undersuit - has that field set to zero. It is the only armor with a damage cap in the files, and two weapons in the roster are big enough to reach it: the railgun and the Boomtube Rocket Launcher. The cap lands after the armor's damage multiplier and before the body-region multiplier. So the charged shot is mitigated from 24000 down to 3000, capped to 45, and then a headshots ×1.5 takes it to 67.5. The railgun's 60-point blast is a separate hit that never comes near the cap, so another 7.5 gets through on top and that blast is the whole difference between two shots and three. I found it in the files and then measured it, wearing Super Heavy Armor and taking a fully charged railgun each time: a headshot left me at 24% health, a torso shot at 46%. Solving both together pins the cap at 44 give or take the HP rounding, which is the 45 the files say. The model now reads 78.75 to the head and 52.5 to the torso, a point or two under what I actually took, so expect some drift, depending on how the game feels at that moment. The Boomtube is the proof that the cap is per damage type and not per hit. Its rocket bursts for 20000 Physical and 21000 Energy at once: capped as one hit that is 45 and a torso shot leaves 53% health, capped per type it is 45 + 45 and leaves under 10%. A friend in crafted Super Heavy took one to the torso and was left standing at 1%. The model now reads 92.5 to the torso and 138.75 to the head - one rocket to the head drops Super Heavy, one to the body does not, and it is the only armor in the game a rocket does not kill outright.

Question 6

Does the ParaMed AA Support actually heal faster?

Accepted Answer

Yes, and by more than the 25% usually quoted. It is exactly 1.5x: a standard ParaMed heals 4 HP per uSCU of gel, the AA Support 6. Same gun, same flow rate, stronger agent. The potency sits behind a ConsumableSubtype - all I can see is that the AA Support's agent and Hemozal's are siblings under the same parent type, adjacent in the table, so it is a variant of the same drug rather than a different class. So I measured it instead: three self-heals, each starting at exactly 48% health, sampled at 10 fps against the health readout and the gel counter. The same 52 HP cost 9 uSCU on the AA Support and 14 on a standard gun, twice over, with the second standard run picking up exactly where the first left off on the same vial. The raw 14:9 works out at 1.56, but that is inflated: both runs hit the 100% cap and wasted the last partial tick. 4 and 6 HP per uSCU - 52 HP needs 13 uSCU at 4 (I saw 14) and 8.7 at 6 (I saw 9). Beam duration confirms it independently. Gel drains at about 10 uSCU per second, matching mSCUPerSec in the files, so the flow rate really is identical and the difference is purely potency: 40 HP/s standard against 60, or 1.3 seconds against 0.9 to put the same 52 HP back.

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