Bug or intended? Assault Lv3 charge barely does damage

The assault's Lv3 charge does almost no damage when it doesn't grapple. That means if the assault is flying or if the target is in the air.

I tested it against bots versus the Lv2 charge. Lv2 in the air took off about 1/3 of a blackjack's health. Lv3 did maybe 1/10.

I hit a no-armor assassin with a Lv1 bomb, which put her at about 1/3 health. Hit with Lv3 charge while she was jumping, and she took a little damage but still survived.


I found these lines in HostileBalance.ini, leading me to believe that this is probably a bug (meaning that these values are NOT taking effect properly), and the Lv3 charge should be doing the same damage as Lv2 against players, and insta-killing bots.

BAL_A_CHARGE_DMG_B=300
BAL_A_CHARGE_DMGVSFOD_B=500

BAL_A_CHARGE_DMG_C=300
BAL_A_CHARGE_GRPL_DMG_C=450
BAL_A_CHARGE_DMGVSFOD_C=5000

Sorry for the kinda off topic question, but does this mean you can do serious damage to a Jackbot with charge 3?

And I remember reading a topic on the 360 forum about the reduced damage with charge 3 against players. You get a grapple throw though if I'm not mistaken. It pays off if you can go for a ring out, otherwise...

No, it doesn't. IIRC, there is a seperate damage value for generic bots (Fodder) and Jackbots (Boss, or something like that). You can easily see that when comparing Ground zero to Headcrabs. Headcrabs do a ton of damage against Jackbots and ground zero doesn't, while the damage vs bots is rather similar.

Oh well...

headcrab adds 2000 damage, don't forget (think that goes for all enemy types, except turrets, but maybe turrets too)

Intended.

Proof?

I really don't feel like digging up the post/s but I do know it has been discussed a lot and is a known fact among most XBox players.

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