Talk:Punch Through (Mechanic)/@comment-72.193.67.162-20130821174737/@comment-11753608-20130824023318

Maybe it is not new. What I am theorizing at this point is that only weapons that have "Trace Damage" listed actually work with punture - or what most people call "hit scan" weapons. In the early game, only the bullet weapons did this. But now we have the continuous weapons that also do Trace with different damage types. So, it seems it may not be linked to damage type but whether it is hit scan or projectile. This is underscored by the fact that some bullet damage weapons like the Supra do not work with puncture because their bullet damage is projectile not trace. Maybe this is unremarkable information to people but one thing that I noticed which I find odd is that the shade and wyrm have projectile damage while the deth cube has trace - making it the only sentinel that can use puncture. So, if you use a projectile weapon, throw shread on your deth cube instead ;-D