BH is the first skill i am getting, along with Supply MAx Increase and Sprinting Reload. im saving point 4 for when i reach Rank 2. so as to get a jump start and classes, and getting Downed Fire probably when i hit 20.

Fixed.

Without knowing what additional damage a Headshot does I wouldn't make the assumption that OHKs on lights will be rare even with the extra 20 hps from BH and buffs from medics. I wouldn't say they'll be overly common either, but I don't see them being completely negated by the perks, if that damage number is accurate and there is additional damage done for headshots.

NOW it's fixed

Meh, i don't think that the lower tiers matter all that much, other than slowly integrating all the different game elements to new players, so I just said 20. It takes a few days tops to reach 20 based on the numbers I have heard (10 hours till lvl 15).

If it isnt an OHK, then the headshot damage increase would be really whimpy. 120+20(BH)+20(Medic Buff) = 160

If a headshot with the Barnett cant do 160, then that means its less than a 1/3 increase in damage. Wouldn't even be worth it to aim for the head.

Edit: whoops, didnt mean to doublepost

I doubt you can "save" points. I do kind of wish that we weren't required to choose *four* of the Universal abilities, but at least I like enough of them that I won't find that particularly troublesome.

How do we know these aren't headshot stats?

Devs specifically stated you'd need to headshot an unbuffed Light to kill them.

Because the guy who wrote the game guide had the game in his hands and is writing it to be as clear as possible. If his guide is that misleading, its useless. They probably justified it with battle hardened.

if i can't save point 4, then i will get Combat Intuition and learn to use it.

This is what I'm figuring, meaning that a light taking a HS from the Barnett is likely going to kill them no matter what, and a light taking a body shot when he's unbuffed will do the same. Looking at the difference in damage from the Barnett to the Drog I would say it's fairly clear they know that the Barnett isn't going to be a weapon of choice for the majority of players and so they're okay with the damage boost.

I would love more concrete numbers on all this though, since what you have estimated would mean that a HS would drop an unbuffed Heavy as well.



Base damage is more useful information than HS damage, so they usually make base damage their primary focus when writing guides. Normally we get a "HS bonus" or "HS Multiplier" stat.

And the information about the HS to kill an unbuffed light may be outdated, or was one dev saying one thing when another had something else going on. A lot of people think they said "no snipers" but clearly there are snipers, and others heard "No OHKs" but they've found their way in as well. Information gets interpreted in different ways.

Yeah

Multiple devs have clearly stated "no OHKs" and "minimal OHKs" and "our bolt action rifle will maybe, MAYBE OHK an unbuffed light."

Richard Ham's comments about snipers have been blown out of proportion to sound like there are no snipers. And one of the other devs directly said "no snipers," but he then went on to give a VERY detailed description of a long-range camping OHK sniper and saying THAT is his definition of sniper, but anyone with a different definition is going to be fine.

Yeah, the Richard Ham rant that is often quoted here is mostly him saying that snipers will not be able to dominate the match like they can in other games.

We can't really say anything about Battle-Hardened's performance until game comes out, but a few months into MAG's release we realized how important Increased Health skills were. I'm anticipating it to become a necessity.

In MAG, with level 3 Improved Health (which increased base HP a total of 20%) you could only be OHI body-shotted by .50 cal SRs whilst wearing Light or Improved Light Armor. Whereas if you had none at all, you could be OHI body-shotted by .50 cals whilst wearing Light, Improved Light, Medium, Improved Medium or Heavy armor... leaving only Improved Heavy as a safe haven, which was paid DLC armor anyway and took a LOT of saving up for in-game.