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Posted by: Ktan Dantaktee
Posted by: superiorarsenal
Gameplay should NEVER be looked at for things like shields strength. The numbers vary wildly and fluctuate based on what is more balanced.
For example, The sniper rifle(based on informaton from real-life rifle with the closest traits the AMR) dishes out about 40 kiloJoules. If 2 shots takes out the Elite's shields on Heroic, it should only take 20 assault rifle bullets to take out the same shield(THey come in at 4kJ appiece). The pistol somehow carries more damage than the assault rifle, even though it has less kinetic energy. Grenades come in between 600kJ and 1MJ, which based on the information from the guns, should rip straight through the shielding, but it doesn't.
NEVER use the gameplay for figureing out shield strength.
1. It DOES only take 20 or so rounds.
2. The Magnum shoots explosive rounds, so... yeah.
1. I'm talking the Elite Major
2. You can't pack a lot of explosives into a 12.7mm round. Also note that energy shields work by DEFLECTING the kinetic energy, so the pistols round won't explode. Considering it is semi-armor piercing, it most likely has a sensor for depth to set off the charge. If it does not get that depth, but it rather deflects, it won't explode when it hits the shielding.
Even if the explosve went off, it would still take about 20 rounds with the pistol. Not to mention grenades give out hundreds of kilojoules, and sometmes the shielding won't fail, but you can shoot it in the head a few times with the pistol, and the shields fall.
Another problem, headshots do more damage to energy shielding. No. If anything, you would have a HIGHER amount of shielding on your head. Energy shields don't work like the human bodies. There are no areas that are more prone to damage, short of lowering the shield strength in an area. If 1 sniper round only drops the shields, then 1 sniper round to the head would only drop the shields.