Talk:Karak Wraith/@comment-83.251.160.98-20181213214100/@comment-2600:1700:2060:45A0:4868:9159:24AE:4AF8-20190210202507

The impact damage could be explained as hollow point tip rounds, which have terrible penetration against most armor due to their design to mushroom out on impact, in the real world, the effect can leave rather large internal and on occasional, external wounds. But likely for balance sake, impact is reserved for shields.

Just my two cents.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollow-point_bullet