Damage Modifiers (Apocalypse)

A unit's natural or worn armor which is resistant to, or susceptible to, certain effects or damage.

Damage Effects

Ammunition damage effects are categorised as technologically basic, as in Standard, or as advanced effects in Exotic, which are typically researched or invented technologies. Other damage types are also possible.

Standard

Armor Piercing
Uses kinetic force which is applied to a very small spot from a long needle-shaped projectile onto a target allowing it to 'burrow' through the 'skin' (eg: protective armor-plate, vehicle body, carapace, etc.) of the target by the action of momentum.

Explosive
A fast expanding pressure shockwave which damages anything nearby by concussive force.

Incendiary
A thick flammable liquid which is spread over a target by a weak explosive, then ignited to damage anything over short time.
(see below Flames and Spread'

Laser Beam
Light (photons) concentrated onto an extremely small spot on a target to inflict heat damage and eventual burn-through to 'cook' anything by extreme temperatures.

Plasma
Localised extreme heat to burn something so quickly that it etches away a target by 'evaporating' its molecular chemistry.

Exotic

Distruptor Beam
An alien energy beam based on sub-atomic particles impacting a target to 'disassemble' its molecular chemistry.

Enzyme and Entropy
An alien corrosive chemical and toxic enzyme mix designed to dissolve metallic items and biological organisms by 'splashing' over a target.

Anti-Alien Toxins and Anti-Alien Gas
An X-Com developed injectable or aerosolized liquid toxin designed specifically to kill the micronoid organism within the body's of all alien lifeforms. Advanced versions are more efficient.

Non Lethal

Smoke
A natural effect of fire or a purposely designed grenade to spread dense smoke to limit visiblity. Any unprotected unit within a thick cloud will very slowly be overcome and may fall unconscious.

Stun
A type of specific, non-lethal effect designed to incapacitate an entity without causing injury.

Non Weapon

Falling Damage
An effect of the battlescape only. It is either a heavy object (eg: building collapse) falling onto any unit underneath or any unit that has fallen from, or purposely jumped, off an elevated structure of some sort and has impacted the ground.

Flames and Spread

A fire, irrelevant how it started, will burn in a battlescape tile for 55seconds maximum, completely destroying any feature within and leaving dirt or bare floors behind after it self extinguishes. If a fire is capable of spreading, each new tile on fire will slowly build up flames for 12 seconds before it is ready to spread.
An agent on fire will be engulfed in flames for 5seconds only, but if moving, may cause spot fires to other flammable objects.

Damage Modifiers

An entity which has been affected by any of the Damage Effects, listed above, will have a certain percentage rating on how well that unit resisted (low percentages), or how much extra (higher percentage) that unit was affected.

• A damage modifier will always start at 100% since most lifeforms are susceptible to some form of attack.
• X-Com armor can be mixed. A body part which is affected will be using that armor type. Explosives, being area effect will have different percentage values according to any mixed armors and will be calculated as one total to apply to a unit's decrease in health, if any.

Damages Chart

Hybrids and Android are classed as Human.

Numbers are percentages:
Minimum = 0 (invunerable), Maximum = 200 (deadly).

• 100 or less = Resistant.
  

eg: a value of 40 is 'takes x0.4 damage'.

• 100 or more = Vunerable.

eg: a value of 175 is 'takes x1.75 damage'.

Damage Type	Human	Megapol Armor	Marsec Armor	Disruptor Armor	Disruptor Shield 1	Security Station	Alien Egg	Multiworm	Hyperworm	Chrysalis	Brainsucker	Anthropod Skeletoid Megaspawn	Spitter Popper	Micronoid	Psimorph	Queenspawn
Smoke	100	0	0	0	N/A	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Incendiary	100	40	20	10	N/A	100	100	100	150	100	100	100	100	100	100	100
Stun Gas	100	100	100	100	N/A	0	60	60	60	0	60	60	60	0	60	80
Alien Gas	0	0	0	0	N/A	0	100	100	100	0	100	100	100	100	100	100
Explosive	100	100	80	60	50	100	100	100	150	100	100	100	100	100	100	100
Armor Piercing	100	100	100	100	50	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	20	100	100
Laser	100	100	100	100	50	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	40	100	100
Plasma	100	100	100	100	50	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	50	100	100
Disruptor	100	100	100	100	50	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100
Entropy	100	100	100	100	100	50	100	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Stun 2	100	70	50	10	0	0	0	50	100	0	60	60	100	50	40	80
Toxin A	25	30	30	30	N/A	0	100	100	100	100	100	60	60	0	60	60
Toxin B	25	30	30	30	N/A	0	100	100	100	100	100	80	80	50	80	80
Toxin C	25	30	30	30	N/A	0	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100
Falling Object	100	100	100	100	40	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100

1 - Smoke, Stun Gas, Incendiary, Alien Gas, Toxin A/B/C will completely bypass any Personal Disruptor Shield.

2 - Used by the Stun Grapple only and blocked by a Personal Disruptor Shield.

Note: Psionic susceptibility, which is not mentioned in the chart, is calculated on a per-unit-attribute basis. Psi-Defense of the victim is the 'base percentage chance of success' of the imminent psionic projection whereas the projector's Psi-Attack value influences the final percentage chance (the number you see when resting the mouse cursor over unit to be manupulated). The cost of Psi-Energy is all the same for a type of projection and does not become more expensive the more resistant a victim. The duration then only matters once the projection is successful. Duration is determined by the remaining Psi-Energy.