Reduced ranged damage multipliers

[macrosblackd]

In an effort to reduce the number of turret insta kills, I've drastically cut the damage multipliers for criticals and headshots.
This will definitly need to be play tested to gauge effectiveness.

[Zireael07]

Should fix #5797 too. Great job, macro!

[macrosblackd]

I should also note that this only reduces the extremely high damage numbers. Most non critical shots will still look the same.

[KA101]

Looking for more commentary before merging (specifically, whether people mind losing the ability to deal high-damage crits/headshots); I haven't shot anything (in a non-debug situation) in a While, so no real opinion personally.

[Lain-]

The whole throwing deal could use a rebalance, but for now I think headshot damage nerf should be sufficient. This works two ways too, reduce crazy turret headshot damage and make it harder to 1-shot zombie with crit throwing.

[BimKirstie]

+1 for this, no need for players to be able to deal high-damage headshots (this has been moaned about here: http://smf.cataclysmdda.com/index.php?topic=5216.0) and I think it'd definitely help balance out ranged.

[kevingranade]

We're moving away from "you took/dealt X damage" messages. Also this is going to print two messages when the player is hit, it should generally only be one message per event.

[macrosblackd]

Would wrapping this in a check for self aware be acceptable?

[kevingranade]

Yea the crit mulltiplier is probably a bit out of hand, I don't think we've touched it ever since starting DDA, and plenty of other stuff has shifted.
The OTHER issue is that crit damage is applied pre-armor, this lets headshots easly bypass helmet armor when they shouldn't.

[macrosblackd]

I actually toyed around with applying the multiplier after armor
absorbs the initial amount but it basically destroyed any amount of
damage that could be done. In particular, wearing any amount of power
armor effectively made one invulnerable. It was only after playing
around with that did I look at nerfing the crit modifiers themselves.
Also, I don't seem to see any where that armor penetration is taken
into account. How exactly does armor penetration work?

On 2/1/14, Kevin Granade notifications@github.com wrote:

Yea the crit mulltiplier is probably a bit out of hand, I don't think we've
touched it ever since starting DDA, and plenty of other stuff has shifted.
The OTHER issue is that crit damage is applied pre-armor, this lets
headshots easly bypass helmet armor when they shouldn't.

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[kevingranade]

That's the problem, I don't think there IS an armor pen value, you just have to out-damage it.

[Lain-]

I assume that for now this can be a temporary solution?

[Zireael07]

^^ Agreed, let's merge this and work on the armor part later.

[KA101]

Waiting on the message fix Kevin requested.