Can we get a clairification on the armor change and beams?

[SUPGAMER-11459]

awhile ago geoff goodman was talking about changing winston’s, zarya’s, sym’s, etc. primary fires on iddqd’s stream but at the time he was taking more about the tickrate. is the 20% reduction more like DAMAGE - (0.2 * DAMAGE) = 0.8 * DAMAGE or is it 0.2 * DAMAGE? if its the former, then this is a BUFF to beam weapons because since they do many instances of low damage within a second and they were under that 6 damage threshold which meant that their damage was halved.

[Hypercype-1308]

There was a post made about it. Will find it and link it.

EDIT:

These patch notes

Hey there! Armor used to have a varying effect on damage over time and beam type weapons based on how damage instances were handled by the server (it’s not the server tick rate, some weapons have different update rates). This meant that Winston’s primary fire would hit the maximum 50% damage reduction against armor because it had a faster damage update rate while Zarya’s beam would lose a flat 15 damage per second (after the armor change from -5 damage per hit to -3). So the general results …

Basically,

• Winston deals more damage
• Moira deals around the same damage
• Symmetra and Zarya deal around the same damage at low charge but less damage at high charge.

[Hige-1101]

sym deals a tiny bit more without charge, roughly the same at level 2 and less damage at level 3, that’s pretty much it