This brings up a few questions:

A.) Are damage ratios against Shields (such as body and head shots) any different than Armor?
B.) Why does the weapon affect the percentage of headshot damage, rather than the dropsuit being fired at? The Scrambler Pistol being an extreme case.
C.) Why does the GEK start at 110% from 0-40m, rather than 100%?
D.) Why does the HMG start at 95% from 0-40m, only to get lower and effectively never doing full damage on body shots?
E.) Why is there no clear indication of the weapon's effective range(s) listed on their attributes in the market?
F.) Why is there no clear indication that a certain weapon will do more or less damage to shields or armor listed on their attributes in the market?

Feel free to discuss.

A) Yes, some weapons do more armour damage others do more shield damage. Also shield and armour have better resists against some weapons.

B) Scrambler pistols do more headshot damage because of the "lore" of the weapon. They scramble neurons.

C-F) can't answer these.

A was more in reference to the damage ratios of the different places of being shot.

What I mean to say is: Does a headshot against Shields do more/less damage than a headshot against Armor?

B was meant to convey that a weapon should do more/less damage against the dropsuit specifically, rather than the weapon doing more damage itself. Basically, a scout has less shields/armor than an Assault suit, so the Scrambler Pistol would have a harder time punching through.

These are then more difficult questions to answer. Much of the mechanics behind weapons has largely been obfucated by the devs either intentionally or unintentionally.

Much of what people are posting is basically done through, what you have done, datamining, extrapolation and guess work.

To be honest I can't accurately answer those questions now that you have calrified. Perhaps people who have delved into the realm of dust spreadsheeting will be able to shed some light, or a dev maybe.

Sorry I couldn't be more help.

Laser is definitely OP, all somebody has to do is look at me for 1/16th a second and 90% of my health is gone. Glad CCP is nerfing that garbage.

i haven't yet played dust enough to test it, but i've been playing eve for almost two years. your damage type has a lot to do with the damage received by the target.

B) Scrambler pistols do more headshot damage because of the "lore" of the weapon. They scramble neurons.

well i just got done with a round were the top four people (on the opposing team unfortunately) were using HMGs going roughly

42-2
35-2
31-1
10-1

and won by a landslide so i deem that gun horrifically overpowered and anyone who says otherwise obviously hasn't run into many heavy's.

well i just got done with a round were the top four people (on the opposing team unfortunately) were using HMGs going roughly

42-2
35-2
31-1
10-1

and won by a landslide so i deem that gun horrifically overpowered and anyone who says otherwise obviously hasn't run into many heavy's.

Or you were in a team where nobody had a clue how to counter Heavies.

When there are a lot of Heavies on the enemy team, it helps me to increase my K/D majorly.

ya, i once danced around a heavy with a scout/shotty drop but thats not something id every really use because my team mates and i are very team oriented and you cant squeeze much teamwork out of a scout, logi or assault is my typical pick and its a close fight every time i just dont win most of em

ya, i once danced around a heavy with a scout/shotty drop but thats not something id every really use because my team mates and i are very team oriented and you cant squeeze much teamwork out of a scout, logi or assault is my typical pick and its a close fight every time i just dont win most of em

Through testing it's figured that a GEK-38 Assault Rifle does 110% damage from 0-40 meters.

Use teammates as a distraction while sneaking around to flanking positions, or set targets up with a couple of hard hits before disappearing and letting your teammates shoot your weakened target(s) in the back.

If you're using a Scout and going off to lone-wolf it, you're not being as effective a Scout as you could be.

Very interesting thread, but I'm wondering, how did you test this part? And how did you arrive at the 95% damage for the HMG?

I can go into numbers/dork/testing mode on occasion, and it'd be interesting to tests parts of this myself. (Not as easy in DUST as it is in EVE, since you can't spontaneously PVP with friends...)