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So , i am very lazy and didint bother to check for similar threads about this topic but , what do u guys think of the RAH ? i for one think its brilliant for 1v1 for example , given that u will only be shot in 1 or 2 rezistances the RAH boosts alot in them , and if u get hammered in only one its even better . but i may be stupid .

So i'm curious what u guys think , is it viable for 1v1 or 1v2 even ?


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Reactive is awesome.

never happened to me before =S

unless the target was actually shooting me with equal amounts of damage for both of course.

I don't understand the problem, if you're being shot with two damage types at equal proportions, surely you want it to be 30/30 on each?

Most of the time, the proportions aren't totally equal. For example, if you're being shot by scorch, you'd really rather have 50/10 EM/thermal resist than 30/30

It shifts in 2%-steps and two resistances at a time. If there is only 1% left to shift will the last one be a 1%-shift.

It can certainly take on any setting, but because it always wants to shift two at a time will it get locked into a resistance pattern that does not exactly match the incoming damage pattern.

I will give an example... You are being shot at with hybrid antimatter charges, size L with 20 thermal + 28 kinetic damage. The RAH will start with all-15% and changes to 13%/17%/17%/13% on the first cycle, because there is no EM and explosive damage. This repeats on until it is 1%/29%/29%/1% and finally 0%/30%/30%/0%. At this point can it no longer move resistances from EM and explosive to thermal and kinetic, and it gets stuck. It will not detect that there is more kinetic than thermal damage and therefore will it not shift into a more ideal 25%/35% setting.
Only if now the antimatter charges stop and your ship is being shot at with kinetic missiles or perhaps Wasps will it start shifting resistances away from thermal to kinetic, because there is no further thermal damage.

It means that you can see it taking on various settings, but it is often not a setting that matches the incoming pattern perfectly. In case of Scorch as Zane pointed out is there quite a difference between the incoming damage pattern and the resulting resistance pattern of the Reactive Armor Hardener.

It is however not a major issues, but an imperfection we need to accept and not expect too much from it. It still does a good job when it provides a 30%/30% resistance or any other setting. It also means that when in doubt an EANM II can be the better option.

The RAH always looks at the damage after resistances. The lock ups can easily be verified with lasers and hybrids, but can happen with anything as soon as the two lowest incoming damages types have 0% resistance.

With three damage types can it alternate between them if these are not too different and will then work its way slowly to a perfect setting (or rather alternate between two or three nearly ideal settings).

What matters is the cycle time of the RAH and how much damage is incoming between each cycle. As long as lasers and warriors deal damage within a cycle will it shift the resistances to EM/thermal, and for each time only the warriors hit will it shift some of the EM/thermal resistances onto explosive, only to move it back again as soon as the lasers hit again.

With Pulse Lasers having a relatively high fire rate will there be many shifts towards EM+thermal and only few going towards explosive. Beam Lasers have a lower fire rate and here will one see more likely an equal amount of shifts to each sides.

You will have to test it to know for sure.

If the mod didn't get that 30/30 split going it would be way over powered!

Maybe they did it the way they did it for a reason.

IIRC the reason had more to do with calculus cost than the functionality being OP.

Looking forward to the T2 version, meanwhile I fit the RAH on pretty much every non-frig I fly.