PAYDAY 2 – Grace Period – Armor Gating & Breakpoints

Introduction

For this guide, I would try to provide brief details regarding grace period, armor gating & breakpoints.

Grace Period

What is grace period?

It’s a system of the game that blocks incoming damage of equal or lower amount for a short time after getting hit by a shot.

1. How long it last?

0.4. seconds for Overkill below.
0.3. seconds for Mayhem above.

2. How it work?

Upon being hit and taking damage, the game remembers the damage, and subsequent attacks during this cooldown are completely ignored if they do not exceed the previous damage.

1st Attack – 100 damage
2nd Attack – 90 damage
Total Damage Receive – 100
Reason – 2nd attack deal lesser damage than the first attack.

1st Attack – 90 damage
2nd Attack – 100 damage
Total Damage Receive – 190
Reason – 2nd attack deal more damage than the first attack, hence it was applied all together.

Grace Period & Dodge

Major change in update #146

Grace Period Changes

In the patch today we have a fix for an issue that caused players to actually take more damage from damage reduction skills. What the change actually does is fixing the system called grace period. It’s a system of the game that blocks incoming damage of equal or lower amount for a short time after getting hit by a shot. The system will now correctly block the incoming damage, even when using damage reduction skills. This will also cause the dodge to not trigger on a shot that would have been blocked by the grace period.

1. How it work before Update #146

If grace period procs (Even on dodge), the player can just dodge again and re-proc grace period. Possibly causing an infinite grace period and dodge chain which technically breaks the game.

2. How it work after Update #146

No longer can dodge while grace period active and must take the shots.

Armor Gating

What is armor gating?

A mechanic in Payday 2 that prevent excessive damage from being applied to health as long as you have armor remain.

1. How it work?

See the example below.

Total Health – 230
Total Armor – 1
Damage Receive – 225
Total Health Remain – 230

Total Health – 230
Total Armor – 0
Damage Receive – 225
Total Damage Health Received – 5

2. Is there any enemy unit that bypass armor gating?

Sniper

3. Is there a guide that provide more lengthy details?
 

Breakpoints

What is breakpoints?

Number of shots require to take down an enemy AI or player.

1. Is there a guide that provide more lengthy details?

Yes, for enemy AI.

2. Do player have breakpoints? If so, how it was calculate?

Yes, player have their own breakpoints and varied based on perk and skill choices. I would use Armorer perk as an example for this case.

Difficulty – Deathwish
Enemy damage – 60

Perk – Armorer
Armor Point – 280.5

Total shot player can withstand – 5
Total damage from enemy shot – 300
Total damage player receive – 280.5
Reason – Armor gating, rest of damage was negated.

2. What happen if damage reduction is add?

Frenzy skills is pick – 25% damage reduction
Underdog skills is pick – 10% damage reduction
Enemy damage – 60

6. * 0.75 * 0.90 = 40.5

Enemy damage after reduction – 40.5

Total shot player can withstand – 7
Total damage from enemy shot – 283.5
Total damage player receive – 280.5
Reason – Armor gating, rest of damage was negated.

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