Were there also changes to the armor and shields system?
Todd PapyStar Citizen Live Game Director
Well, it was more that there were changes to basically the ballistics and the lasers or energy weapons and how those work with the armors and shields. So it's that the ballistics will be able to pass through the shields, with some damage that's sloughed off from there, and then it's supposed to be that the ballistics basically chew through the armor quicker. So we've done some tuning and then we will do a little bit more rebalance associated with that. We're not to the final stage where we're going to have the physicalized damage, which was the end goal for this, and making sure that the armor feels the way that the armor should. But this is a step in the direction.
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