I like ARC9 but like better optimized than what? the only base that runs worse at all is MW

blew up a grenade in my face and my suit went into the negatives??

No modern warfare weaponry is better

I don't get or care for the ARC9 hate because it's pretty good and works nicely(definitely better optimized, it's necessity is arguable... but what mod or weapon base is really necessary?) Oh well...

can you add settings plz so we can change stuff thx

arc9 is just too ambitious for its own good

i agree, ARC9 is garbage
ArcCW is better

ok

unoptimized and unnecessary

why is arc9 garbage i dont use the mod just asking

im not gonna bother with calculations since the old suit armor system is still partially in effect,
you don't shed blood if hit while protected

@Big Floppa
Makes sense. I don't know lua and don't have a way of opening the addon that lets me see its lua, so I'm just asking these questions plainly:
Does damage affect the penetrative capability of a bullet? If so, how much?
How much does the number of armor points affect it? What is the minimum and maximum protection against 20 damage?
What do you mean by "You don't bleed while protected"?

@Gunslinger ☢
works just fine with counter strike source weapons (the one which I calculated DR from for this mod), don't use ARC9 and other sub-human garbage weapon bases as they tend to have horrible damage values

the less armor points you have, the worse the damage protection is

Against an SMG-equipped Combine Soldier starting at 100 health and 200 armor, armor broke at 42 health. With the addon disabled, it broke at 40 health, which could easily be up to the random damage variance addon I have.
How much has damage protection been increased?

Very well done. Thanks for this.

Armor stops damage based on percentage so it scales.

the player still takes 20% of the damage while the remaining 80% is taken by the armor itself, this is fine for HL2 damage values which can go from 2-10, but does not work well with custom weapon packs for gmod because addon devs want high damage, 20% of 60 is still 12 damage per hit ignoring armor damage itself.

its more of a problem with weapon packs than the system itself basically.