Why Gatling Laser strikes hit with no damage?

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Why Gatling Laser strikes hit with no damage?

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Just look at the screenshot - a simple enemy, I thought they must be hit with huge damage, but "no damage" for three tries..
Bugged?
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Re: Why Gatling Laser strikes hit with no damage?

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Don't you have finesse trait? That decreases your damage. And metal armor has high laser resistance.
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Re: Why Gatling Laser strikes hit with no damage?

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Not 100% sure how Fallout works under the hood, but I thought it was something like this:

The Gatling Laser fires 10 shots per burst. Each shot has to make its own check against the DT of your opponents armor. Metal armor has a very high DT and resistance against laser weapons.
Edit: To clarify a bit: say each shot does 5 damage and the DT of your opponents armor is 6, then you're doing 10 x (5 - 6) = -10 damage, negative damage is not possible so you do 0 damage.
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Re: Why Gatling Laser strikes hit with no damage?

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Thank you guys, seems you were right with metal armor, because I just test it on Julian's men (leather armor) - it works fine, have a triple kill per shot))
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