its really apparent on a few enemies that have limb HP less then the max HP drop of disabling said limb (like the lair targets that drop 400 max HP on their 150HP shells) but it can also pop up if a blast destroys multiple limbs of an enemy dealing more max HP damage by limb destruction then it does raw damage to any individual limb (these enemies will always have max HP= current HP post blast before the first bleed tick when this occursâŚmost commonly happens on tritons as they have more and generally weaker limbs)
a certain special mission enemy also highly relies on the limb HP damage =< max HP lost. with its eyes dropping max HP far more then the amount of damage they need to receive to hit disabled status.
max HP drops drop strength in a similar fashion (10 max HP drop = -1 max str =1 less paralysis âchargeâ needed to trigger full paralysisâŚand for players = -1 carry weight)
I was reluctant to mention Stamina because, TBH, I have never experienced the penalty from the soldiers being tired or exhausted (my guys & gals need healing way before they need R&R), and I have found no reliable, precise information on at what point that happens.
Beause of probablity distribution. In below picture imagine that value of 300 is center of aiming reticle and value of 400 is border of outer circle. Most probable is that bullet will fly in the middle of that range.
To be more specific. When you fire first thing randomly generated is angle between 1 and 360 at which bullet will fly in that aiming reticle (I suppose that each angle has the same probability). Next on that angle is generated specific point (bullet trajectory) according to gauss distribution. So with this distribution it is most probable to hit in the middle of the radius - and what is there? You have there border of inner circle. @UnstableVoltage explained it somewhere on this forum⌠or maybe on some introduction to aiming on PP youtube channel.
Thatâs correct. Itâs based on a bell curves thatâs intended to decrease the chances of a highly accurate or inaccurate shot. In other words, the projectiles are more likely to land closer to the inner ring and less likely to hit the bullseye or the outer ring.
Do I understand correctly that the red ring(50%) in the picture is the line with the highest degree of hit?
Or a ring with a high degree of hit - transparent and not shown to us?
Thanks a lot to @VOLAND for writing such a great guide.
About the question of @MadSkunky. We do not want to pin it, because we want only the official announcements to be pinned. Which are currently patch notes and Canny.
But I have another suggestion. Currently, I am working on the official Phoenix Point Wikipedia. We want to include player guides written by players in this Wiki. So if Voland agrees I will put this guide there as Volandâs guide or whatever will be the name.
Just read your guide and I think youâve done a great job and itâs packed full of good suggestions. The one thing I didnât necessarily agree with was your stance on diplomacy where you say itâs a bad idea to raid the havens.
I personally feel that you donât need the support of all 3 factions to win the game, you just need the support of 1 or 2 and you can make do without the other one.
By raiding one as part of diplomacy missions for another, you can rapidly progress to allied status with the faction youâre trying to win with - itâs a more proactive approach that allows you to reach allied status in less time. I havenât gone to war with another faction but I donât want to wait for relations to build up through haven defences etc.
I understand building aircraft is also a good idea as stealing aircraft are dangerous missions and if youâre playing it ironman then youâre taking a big risk - but if youâve got a strong enough squad then itâs worth doing - I tend to build one aircraft and take any more that I need off other factions, the diplomacy penalty isnât that severe, itâs just that you need a strong squad to pull it off.
I think itâs definitely worth getting technicians for the electric reinforcement âI WINâ button, but you donât even need to keep on side with NJ to do that, just find friendly NJ havens on the map that have technicians to sell, and recruit them - their most useful skill has no requirements for technician equipment, and you can reverse engineer for equipment anyway.
Besides the diplomacy thing, I think this guide is superb.
Hopefully I will have time to continue working on this and if anyone has any more comments, or even wants to cover some pending, or new topic, all will be very welcome and appreciated.
@noStas thanks for the tips on formatting, hopefully I will get to it at some point.
here is the code with the correct size for the pictures, and you can edit the text in your own way.
 
approximately, zones:
red - 60%
pink - 30%
blue -10%
yellow ring - our standard ring at 50%
Sirens. You need to talk about Sirens. The most common points that come out of the forum are:
How does MC work?
How do you neutralise a Siren (target her head)?
You need to warn people about overextending themselves and getting caught out by that sneaky little Siren hiding on the other side of the wall, who can MC your WP-depleted soldiers without even seeing them.
Thatâs a marvelous idea & so far, a superbly composed âGuideâ for every players, new & experienced.
As indirect references for future needs or simply for curiosity, you might want to examine this GFX work of mine that goes through the âResearch cycle(s)â by offering complex FlowCharts and reveals other gameplay details in a tight comprehensive manner.
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