Vehicle Cover[]
This concept may not have been explained properly, seeing as how recent edits have apparently missed the point. Vehicle cover works in two ways:
- Most vehicles in the game have a special passive ability called "Vehicle_Cover_Ability". This makes them 25% harder to hit whenever behind Heavy or Light Cover.
- British vehicles have a different ability that helps them when they are in holes made by a creeping barrage. This is not yet explained in the article itself, but will be soon.
- Furthermore, each weapon in the game has various modifiers against targets in cover. These modifiers are applied regardless of the target's type, it only cares what type of cover the target is hiding behind. These penalties are usually much more severe than the above, often causing accuracy reduction, damage reduction, penetration reduction, and suppression reduction.
If this is not explained well in the article, please see if you can rephrase the article. If you have found additional modifiers that should be explained, please explain what they are and where you found them, in this talk page.
--Headrock 01:16, September 17, 2011 (UTC)
I didn't know that creeping barrage cover was actually applied to the game.
However, as I repeat, only 4 vehicles can receive 'weapon cover modifier', which are 150mm Nebelwerfer, 50mm Pak, 57mm AT, and Sherman Crocodile. This is shown in AttribArchive as 'receive weapon cover modifiers'
I have confirmed this with CheatMod using 2.602 AttribArchive that while other vehicles don't receive any weapon modifier from cover, Sherman Crocodile could bounce off Panther's 75mm easily, and also take only 50% damage (While it got 100% more damage from sticky bomb on road)
- Good job on identifying that. But there's an issue: I'm using 2.301, and all the vehicles are flagged as receive_weapon_cover_modifiers: FALSE. That includes the 4 vehicles you mentioned.
- I guess the modifiers were enabled specifically for them at some point (possibly to make these better ambush weapons... but if so, why the M4 Crocodile?). This is odd. In either case, I understand what you're trying to say now, but now I'm not sure the article explains it properly. I'll make an edit - see if you agree with it and let me know.
- --Headrock 12:34, September 19, 2011 (UTC)
- P.S. remember to sign your edits with ~~~~
- Ummmm... Now that I'm trying to write all this down, I've realized that the information shouldn't be here at all, given what you've discovered. This has nothing to do with Penetration whatsoever - if anything it has to do with Cover, an article I haven't even started writing yet.
- I'm going to remove the entire "Vehicle Cover" section from this article now. In the future, when the Cover article is created, we'll put the relevant information there.
- --Headrock 12:46, September 19, 2011 (UTC)