tgstation/-tg-station — pull request #4358 by paprka (2014-08-07 10:24:25+00:00)
Title: Ablative & Reactive teleport armor changes

- Ablative armor can now be toggled and must be toggled on in order to receive the 40% reflection bonus. It spawns toggled on by default, which means newbies won't get confused (this will be changelogged to, no worries.) The main advantage here is that you can EMP/ion rifle ablative vests to turn them off now.
- Reactive teleport armor only slows you down when it's toggled on now.
- Fixed reactive teleport armor mob icon not properly changing when toggled on.
- Added action button (HUD) for reactive teleport armor so you don't have to take it off to turn it on.
- Reactive teleport armor has a little bit of melee and bullet protection, but only because it's pretty visually armored and has downsides.
- Ablative armor is now weaker to ballistic projectiles (-20%)
- Reactive teleport armor is now weaker to lasers (-20%)
- Both armors have a -20% radiation damage weakness, due to their advanced and experimental nature.

Yes, negative values do boost the damage of different projectile/attack types, it's a mystery as to why nobody thought of it sooner, because it's not used anywhere even though it's a great way to balance these things.