Soaks

If you type gear, you will get a list of the soaks you currently have. They work by subtracting a number (rolled between your soak values) from the damage done by an opponent. You can see your soak values by using the gear command.
Soaks exist for the different types of damage (slsh, stab, beat, shot, burn, elec, acid, irrad, and cold). Additionally there are special damage types that are less common, and are not listed in the gear command. However, they are still able to be soaked (with the exception of wasting damage). They are laser, explode, and wasting.
You can get better soaks by wearing better armor or by getting mutations that enhance them.
To counter soaks, it is better to deal as much aggregate damage of a certain type as possible. This helps to bypass the maximum soak value that the enemy can roll. When a soak overpowers damage, it is displayed as:
[YvE] Your attack bounces off the Enemy's skin/armor.
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