[http://sourceforge.net/p/ufoai/bugs/2090 Item 2090] imported from sourceforge.net tracker on 2013-01-28 19:18:54

In file src/game/g_combat.c:536 (trunk rev 23981, which is HEAD at the time of this writing) it seems like that splash damage does not take armour protection into account, only distance. Nowhere in the code is spldmg[1] being used (the random part of the splash damage), so I believe this is also not taken into account.
I have not verified this bug in-game (too dificult to set up reliably), only by code inspection, so I might be mistaken.
--dumper
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====== c-oreills (2010-04-22 18:34:30) ======

Armour is taken into account, but you're right, spldmg[1] doesn't seem to be.

On g_combat.c:534 splash damage calls G_Damage, a generic damage function which checks for armour starting on line 351.

A grep for spldmg[1] doesn't show it anywhere in the source, but this seems to be intentional - from inv_shared.h:124:

vec2_t spldmg; /**< G_SplashDamage(), currently we use only first value (spldmg[0]) for apply splashdamage effect */

Therefore I don&#039;t think this is a bug, but would possibly be valid as a feature request to implement the random component of splash damage.
====== dumper (2011-01-07 01:19:13) ======

I filed this bug long ago and just remembered about it. I am closing it now because it is not really a bug, and may divert attention from more necessary tasks. Thanks, c-oreills.