What are armor and weapon types?

[Zsombi]

Hello.

Before I saw the unit database I always thought that for each and every entity the full damage values are directly substracted from the health values. But then in the DB I see types for both armor and weapons.

For example (armor): Structure, Light, Normal, Experimental, Commander;
and (weapons): Directfire, Overcharge, Normal, Direct Fire Experimental, Anti Navy, etc...

Do those in any way affect how much damage value will be taken off of a health value? If they do not affect anything like that then what are they for?

[Wakke]

They indeed do. Examples are overcharge doing less damage vs commanders and buildings, firebeetles being immune to their own weapon, etc...

[keyser]

asf have a special armor to the CZAR beam
depth charge aren't stop by anti-torpedo systeme
but a mantis/monkey lord/pillar........... will do full damage when their shot will hit.
there isn't common armor like in starcrap 2 (light/heavy armor); i think there isn't any difference between an experimental or an light armor (a part from the exception said before : OC, ACU nuclear blast.............)

[ColonelSheppard]

doesnt EXP amor prevent damage from stomping by other experimental units?

[errorblankfield]

That would be an easy way to code how the 'massive' trait works sine the tooltip is something about crushing smaller units.

[rockoe10]

they don't prevent damage in the traditional sense. Think of them as "checks" to do before an event statement is preformed. Fire Beetles are a good example, their armor type was created and used exclusively by FAF to prevent damaging other Fire Beetles

[Zsombi]

I see. Thanks.