WARDOGS TTK & Damage Calculator

How TTK is calculated

Every player has 100 health. Shots to kill is 100 divided by the damage of one hit, rounded up. Time to kill is the gap between the first shot and the killing shot at the gun's measured fire rate, so a gun that needs 4 hits at 600 rpm kills in 300 ms. The numbers assume every shot lands and the target is inside the gun's effective range, where damage has not dropped off yet.

Armour adds one more rule. Each helmet and vest breaks after a set number of hits, and every hit after that does full damage. That is why HP rounds against a level 4 vest top out at a few dozen hits rather than hundreds.

Which body parts armour protects

Vests at levels 1 to 3 cover the chest and both stomach zones. A level 4 vest adds plates over the groin, upper arms and thighs. Nothing ever covers the forearms, shins, hands or feet. Against a level 2 vest the AK-74 kills in 5 groin hits but needs 7 to the chest, so aiming low beats aiming centre mass until the enemy reaches level 4.

FMJ vs HP vs AP

FMJ is the default and the safe choice. HP doubles flesh damage, which drops the AK-74 to 2 chest hits on an unarmoured player, but armour eats almost all of it: a level 1 vest takes it to 14 hits. AP does a little less to flesh and a lot more through heavy armour, taking the AK-74 from 10 to 8 chest hits against a level 4 vest. Carry FMJ, and switch to AP when you start meeting level 3 and 4 vests.

Headshot damage and helmets

A headshot does about 2.4 times chest damage with an assault rifle, so the AK-74 kills an unhelmeted head in 2 hits and needs 3 through a level 2 helmet. Bolt-action snipers are built around the head: the Mosin-Nagant one-shots a head through a level 2 helmet, and a level 3 helmet takes two shots. That makes the level 3 helmet, at $2,000, the one that stops a Mosin headshot from killing you outright.