


The main difference is that lower health armours drop in their overall armour percentage much quicker, so become far more affected by lower penetration bullets. This is not directly related to the overall health of individual armour either, as a bullet will equally pass through a 35 health armour kit and a 200 health armour kit if it has a high enough penetration value. The lower the percentage of armour left on a target, the higher the chance of a bullet penetrating. A bullet with a pen value of 79 isn't going to do any more damage to a target wearing level four armour than a bullet with 45 pen (outside of one tricky condition which we will get to later), so you also don't want to be wasting high-value bullets on low armoured targets.įurthermore, bullets either have enough penetration to bypass the armour, or they will do an imbalance of armour damage and flesh damage as only 'part' of the bullet passes through. While higher numbers are obviously better, they do reach a point of diminishing returns when going against various armour types. It ranges from zero all the way to 79, with higher numbers progressively being more effective. 357 updated April 14th 2022: New caliber (.Escape From Tarkov penetration is a value attached to every bullet in the game that determines its effectiveness in passing through the various classes of armour.

CHANGELOG: Jul 16th 2023: Ammo table updated May 29th 2023: Ammo table updated April 12th 2023: Ammo table updated February 10th 2023: Ammo tier list added February 6th 2023: Ammo table updated January 17th 2023: Add Accuracy column January 14th 2023: Rework table, Add trader prices January 11th 2023: New Map added December 29th 2022: Gun Builder updated December 28th 2022: First Guide added Added Streets of Tarkov map December 27th 2022: Ammo Data Updated Semptember 21th 2022: Gun Data Updated July 20th 2022: Spanish language added July 12th 2022: Maps added June 30th 2022: Charts updated for v0.13 April 19th 2022.
