Armor Priority?

[Tenshin]

How does the game decide which armor takes priority as primary armor and which is secondary between the body armor and the helmet? I've been testing this out but I'm having a hard time figuring out how the system works precisely. Can someone explain please?

 

According to the wiki it should be last equipped, but this happens very rarely. I've been trying to unequip just one, both, in different order but nothing can give a precise answer. Leaving some time inbetween the swaps seems to increase the chance that the last equipped becomes primary but doesn't always work and can't figure out what the exact interval is. The only sure way is to Save & Quit and reload.

 

"Primary armor, i.e. the armor that absorbs the most damage, is always the last equipped. In order to save one's helmet, he would be to equip the helmet first, then the suit. If a suit is hot switched, i.e. replaced right away, it keeps its positions. However, if there is any moment in which the helmet slot is empty (occurs when a helmet breaks, even if the player has a replacement in his inventory), the helmet assumes the primary slot and the suit has to be taken off and equipped again."

 

I've also been trying to find the answer in the game files but with no success:

-> armor.lua

function Armor:SetTags(tags)

    self.tags = tags

end

 

function Armor:CanResist(attacker, weapon)

    if attacker and self.tags then

   for k,v in pairs(self.tags) do

   if attacker:HasTag(v) then

   return true

   end

   if weapon and weapon:HasTag(v) then

   return true

   end

   end

   return false

else

   return self.tags == nil

end

end

 

function Armor:TakeDamage(damage_amount, attacker, weapon)

    if self:CanResist(attacker, weapon) then

        local leftover = damage_amount

        

        local max_absorbed = damage_amount * self.absorb_percent;

        local absorbed = math.floor(math.min(max_absorbed, self.condition))

        leftover = damage_amount - absorbed

        ProfileStatsAdd("armor_absorb", absorbed)

        

        if METRICS_ENABLED then

FightStat_Absorb(absorbed)

end

        self:SetCondition(self.condition - absorbed)

if self.ontakedamage then

self.ontakedamage(self.inst, damage_amount, absorbed, leftover)

end

 

        if self.absorb_percent >= 1 then

            return 0

        end

 

        return leftover

    else

        return damage_amount

    end

   

end

 

-> inventory.lua

function Inventory:ApplyDamage(damage, attacker, weapon)

    --check resistance

    for k,v in pairs(self.equipslots) do

        if v.components.resistance and v.components.resistance:HasResistance(attacker, weapon) then

            return 0

        end

    end

    --check specialised armor

    for k,v in pairs(self.equipslots) do

        if v.components.armor and v.components.armor.tags then

            damage = v.components.armor:TakeDamage(damage, attacker, weapon)

            if damage <= 0 then

                return 0

            end

        end

    end

    --check general armor

    for k,v in pairs(self.equipslots) do

        if v.components.armor then

            damage = v.components.armor:TakeDamage(damage, attacker, weapon)

            if damage <= 0 then

                return 0

            end

        end

    end

    

    return damage

end

 

Can anyone shed some light on this? Thanks.

 

[DevilXD]

As you can see at the bottom of the posted code, game uses "pairs" to iterate over armors, so it's pretty much semi random...