3.16 Hot Lead Update - Official discussion thread

@Firekid
Lately it seems that there really are certain splashes, this does not always happen, but quite often with bruises, more with Eugene, or it seems to me, because he plays in almost all missions.

For this reason, we ask the developers of the game for help. They will be able to pinpoint the exact reason for this behavior of the walkers and the damage they cause.

Firekid said:

So I wanted to check again to make sure I wasn’t talking rubbish and did 2 test runs taking hits. You can see my results and the figures I’ve based the walker damage on. (If these are incorrect let me know). Most of the time there seems to be the usual +\- 10% damage fluctuation but then there are these spikes which I’m talking about. I’ve got the videos to back up the numbers and all 3 survivors are at 80% Dr. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/147_WC5XzjIq1UNRyqi0iGUF6zNoS40RO-aN74DyYayg/edit

Bit late to this, but I think you get surprising figures due to your base figures being incorrect. A big problem overall with this whole dmg increase theory is that there is no definitive list of walker damage. You have 15,308 as walker lvl 41 dmg and 18,217 as lvl 42, but I think this is not correct. I have logged walker dmg for some time (both before and after the update) and my figures are 16,953 and 20,167 for lvl 41 and 42 respectively. Also you have bodyshot dmg incorrect, it's 50% of regular dmg. I think this explains all of the anomalies you saw.

	Regular
Level	Health	Damage	Body shot	Critical
26	3 524	1 137	568	3 126
27	4 189	1 442	721	3 966
28	4 980	1 693	847	4 657
29	5 921	2 058	1 029	5 660
30	7 040	2 373	1 186	6 525
31	8 371	2 800	1 400	7 699
32	9 953	3 304	1 652	9 085
33	11 834	3 797	1 899	10 442
34	14 070	4 488	2 244	12 341
35	16 729	6 001	3 000	16 501
36	19 891	7 160	3 580	19 690
37	23 650	8 558	4 279	23 535
38	28 120	9 670	4 835	26 593
39	33 435	11 458	5 729	31 510
40	39 755	14 571	7 286	40 071
41	47 268	16 953	8 476	46 619
42	56 201	20 167	10 083	55 459
43	66 823	24 752	12 376	68 067
44	79 452	25 524	12 762	70 190
45	94 469	35 283	17 642	97 029
46	112 323	41 225	20 613	113 370
47	133 552	49 891	24 945	137 199
48	158 793	59 077	29 538	162 461
49	188 805	68 263	34 131	187 722
50	224 489	83 076	41 538	228 459
51	266 918	97 889	48 945	269 195
52	317 365	109 047	54 523	299 878
53	377 347	133 086	66 543	365 985
54	448 666	157 041	78 520	431 863
55	533 463	185 308	92 654	509 598
56	634 288	218 664	109 332	601 326
57	754 168	258 023	129 012	709 564
58	910 176	304 468	152 234	837 286
59	1 066 183	359 272	179 636	987 997
60	1 267 692	423 941	211 970	1 165 837

Thanks! Will use this instead when checking damage numbers 👍