does it not block scorpion shots anymore? i put my shield up and a scorpion bots shot went clear through it and my build… im guessing this is a bug? unless there was an update that i dont know about?
I may be wrong but I though it never entirely blocked scorp shots due to their perk.
Scorps do overpenetration, they do approximately 15% more damage than their “normal” damage because they always have some penetration even after 100% of their damage is done. And it does the same on shields : 100% of their damage goes to the shield and they still have around 15% left for your build (which usually does not do a lot of damages).
if it doesnt block the full damge then it will go through and do the remaining damage
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in the past it would completely block the entire shot. once it hits the shield thats it. both shots usually do a little over 500 damage, the shield only has 500 hp so it would fully absorb both shots. now it goes right through the shield and damages your build?
it seems a bit odd to me, though the scorpion is supposed to be a piercing gun. still they are behaving differently then guns used by players. scorps used by players stop after a certain distance or hit the cab. but it seems now they are giving even bots the ability to penetrate through an entire build like bosses do. idk how to feel about that honestly…
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idk, i assume when the scorp does for example 550 damage then you would get 50 gamage through the shield. i havent use nova in a while tho and never tested if it actually did that
but thats the issue… i only seen ONE scorpion hit me. it went directly through my shield and through my entire build. the shield shouldve absorbed its damage completely and have less then 250 hp for one last shot but the other shot wasnt ready as his reload was off. so i have no idea why the shot passed through the shield.
also no the shield doesnt work like that. itll absorb up to 500 damage then vanish. so the scorpion has over 500 damage but the shield will negate all that damage even if its over the threshold. this works on a shot like the scorpion because it needs 2 shots to go over 500 hp. now for a weapon like the mastodon its different. lets say you got 2 mastodons and your doing a charged shot, that first shot that heats will hit the shield, since the 2 shots combined do over 500 damage the shield breaks. then the second set of shots can hit your target doing normal damage.
the scorpions are the same as the typhoons, they also do over 500 damage with 2 typhoons so itll absorb that hit and go down but negate all the damage that wouldve hit you.
there is an argument that the left over damage should pass through but the shield has a 6 second cooldown timer on it if the shield breaks. from what i remember they used to be more broken then that. especially in the age that didnt have reload boosters and the hadron.