Possible universal base-damage change? Armor instead of weapon damage?

[vTemporalZEROv]

So I play Warframe a lot and the way damage works in that game is similar to Fallout 4, but much more dramatic, and I was thinking.. instead of changing the damage and stats of every weapon from every mod, what if you changed the way armor is calculated in the game? A 10mm pistol does garbage damage to most late game enemies and I personally don't like that.

 

Let's say the armor of the enemy is around 20, pretty basic I'm aware but its just a thought, obviously limb damage will be multiplied according to realism, but at 20 armor, it removes a flat.. idk... 4% damage? I was thinking something like every 5 armor reduces 1% damage taken in. And falls off the higher it gets, capping at around 95% reduction. I am wondering if it is possible to make the game change the way armor is calculated? Was thinking of using entry points that check armor or something.

[EveningTide]

There is a GMST you can play with called fDamagetoArmorPercentage.

 

fPhysicalMaxDamageReduction

Edited November 1, 2016 by EveningTide

[vTemporalZEROv]

Ahhhh fantastic, those are the direct mitigation and cap lines? Any others that may affect it?

[EveningTide]

I don't know, I just pulled up the Game Settings window and typed "Damage" in the filter box and just went down the list to see if I could find something that might be useful to what you want.

 

You can't do anything with GMSTs at run-time though.