Effective armor is used to calculate armor or screen penetration, similar to AP (Armor-Piercing) shells. HE shells do not have normalization and cannot ricochet. Could you tell us about effective and nominal armor for the new damage mechanics? How does it work? Does normalization work for HE shells? And what about ricochets? Situations like this should never happen. We plan to remove situations with illogical critical hits to internal modules as part of reworking the damage mechanics. What about the well-known situation of setting the engine on fire after penetrating the Commander's cupola? We will closely monitor the extent of critical damage caused by HE shells, analyze the obtained data after the tests, and adjust the final settings to keep critical hit chances at the same level. It may seem that critical hits are more frequent during HE shell tests on the Sandbox server, however, this only happens because of the increased number of shots with HE shells. The statistics for the amount of critical damage to internal modules and crew members should remain the same on the regular server. Will the frequency of critical hits inflicted by HE shells to internal modules and crew change? The only difference between them is that HESH shells have higher penetration values as compared to HE shells of the same caliber. The mechanics of HESH (High-Explosive Squash Head) shells and standard HE shells will be identical. What is the difference between HE shells and HESH shells in general?

Also, HE (High-Explosive) shells are now able to penetrate screens, tracks, and small obstacles. We are switching from calculating damage at the weak spot within the shell-burst sphere to a new model based on the point of impact. Could you briefly summarize the differences between the old HE damage mechanics and the new ones?

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