Hey Tchey,

There's a brief description of these in the manual in the vault, but here's a recap for you.

Anytime you see something like "deals 50 Hack over 5 seconds" it is referencing the damage type hack. It is just saying that it deals a bonus 50 damage of the damage type hack over 5 seconds.

For status effects, EMP deala bonus damage to shields and can stun, Fire makes a target attack faster but take double damage, Cold slows their movement and attack speed but grants them bonus armor against Smash damage, and Acid or Corrode is just its own type of damage that deals a DoT.

Hope that helps you.

Weird.  Well at least you have the info you need until that gets sorted out. ^.^

I haven't actually come across spike damage weapons in game, and it isn't specifically listed in the manual. I'm guessing that it is another damage type like hack or smash, but again, that's just a guess.

Is there any reason it's not just Acid damage that procs an Acid DOT that does Acid damage?

Hm that sounds fancy.

Well I suggest making sure that all the damage types and names are well laid out!

In Warframe there is (or was) a mod which stated "+7.5% Laser Resistance". Laser wasn't a damage type in the game. People thought it might be Radiation resistance, since that's the damage type that Corpus weapons deal, but it turned out that the mod did absolutely nothing.

Also in warframe Corrosive is a damage type which procs a Corrosive debuff lowering enemy armor. If I recall right, the game says Acid in places where it means corrosive, and it's generally very confusing.

Fair enough. If it's confusing, we'll change it. That's what this whole process is for.

Just because Warframe made some mistakes doesn't necessarily mean that we'll do the same;)

For the record, these are the plans:

• 5 damage types: normal, heat, cold, emp, and acid.
• Heat can proc Fire, which is a state where a unit's actions go faster and the unit takes more damage.
• Cold can proc Frozen, which is a state where a unit moves slower. Still debating whether it needs more armor in this state.
• EMP can proc Stun, which is a state where a unit is fully incapacitated. EMP damage also cuts through shields faster (2x currently)
• Acid can proc Corrosion, which is a state where a unit continues to take damage over time.
• Armor blocks damage, but at least 1 point of damage is given for a successful hit. That can be higher for weapons with trample damage (unblockable damage).
• Resists block procs. Procs can currently be fully blocked by a resist.
• There are other combat effects like Knockback, etc.
• Fire, Frozen, Stun, and Corrosion are all states a unit can be in. We think it will be fun to create some interactions between these states. Currently, they're not really in there... Hot turns off Frozen, and Cold turns off Fire, but that's it. We're going to explore other things like Frozen slows down/reduces Corrosion or EMP prevents heal. Stuff that would make combat and weapon effects more interesting and combo based.

Yeah, that's the kinda stuff we're looking at.

Knockback, armor rend (permanently break armor, at least for that instance of the Servo), turning off shields, etc. are also easy stuff to do.

We had silence (disable powers for a time) in. It was mostly just annoying for both sides and confusing with stun. Everyone always picked the stun gear instead.