Various tiers of critical hits.
When a weapon deals a critical hit (or "crits"), the damage is displayed as a yellow, orange or red number on the HUD instead of the usual white coloring. Bear in mind that critical hits on shields are still blue and attacks benefitting from the stealth damage bonus are always yellow, even when they don't crit.
Critical Hit Chance
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Each weapon has a base chance to critically hit, which can be increased through mods and various buffs.
Relative IncreasesEdit
Most increases to crit chance are relative to the base chance. Multiple of these stack additively with each other:
E.g. putting Point Strike and Critical Delay on a Braton results in:
Absolute IncreasesEdit
A few effects grant absolute amounts of crit chance. This includes Maiming Strike, 
Arcane Avenger, Cat's Eye and Covenant. These are applied after relative bonuses.
As an example, a Braton with Point Strike (relative) and Arcane Avenger (absolute) has a crit chance of:
Blood RushEdit
Blood Rush and the Gladiator Set Bonus are unique in that they are a relative increase applied after all others and even after absolute ones.
- [Base Crit Chance × (1 + Relative Bonus) + Absolute Bonus] * (1 + Blood Rush × Combo Multiplier)
- = (0.05 × (1 + 0.6) + 0.3) * (1 + 1.65 * 1.5)
- = 1.3205 = 132.05%
Critical hit chance can surpass 100%, for further information read Crit Tiers.
Critical Damage MultiplierEdit
When a critical hit occurs, that hit's damage is increased and the damage value's color is changed to yellow. The stat describing by how much a crit is strengthened is displayed in the arsenal as a multiplier.
E.g. putting a Vital Sense on a Braton will result in a multiplier of:
- Base Crit Multiplier × (1 + Relative Bonus)
- = 1.6 × (1 + 1.2)
- = 3.52
Crit TiersEdit
| Modded Crit Chance | Crit Tier & Coloration | |
|---|---|---|
| x = 0% | No hit can crit | Tier 0 |
| 0% < x < 100% | Chance for a yellow crit | |
| Tier 1 | ||
| x = 100% | All hits yellow crit | |
| 100% < x < 200% | Chance for an orange crit | |
| Tier 2 | ||
| x = 200% | All hits orange crit | |
| 200% < x < 300% | Chance for a red crit (tier 3) | |
| Tier 3 | ||
| x = 300% | All hits red crit (tier 3) | |
| 300% < x < 400% | Chance for a red crit (tier 4) | |
| Tier 4 | ||
| x = 400% | All hits red crit (tier 4) | |
| 400% < x < 500% | Chance for a red crit (tier 5) | |
| ... | ||
| ... | ... |
When a weapon achieves a crit chance higher than 100%, every attack will crit but it also gains a chance to deal an even stronger crit. As the critical hit chance increases, the tier of critical damage does so as well.
Although the coloration remains red after a certain point, crit tiers continue to increase.
E.g. putting a Point Strike on a Lenz will grant it a crit chance of:
- Base Crit Chance × (1 + Relative Bonus)
- = 0.5 × (1 + 1.5)
- = 1.25 = 125.00%
This means it will have a chance of 25% to trigger an orange crit, while all other hits (75%) will yield a yellow one.
In addition, each mod of the Vigilante Mod Set has a 5% chance to increase a critical hit's tier by 1. This effect stacks with other Vigilante Mods installed, up to a 30% chance with all six Vigilante Mods equipped.
The critical damage multiplier for these can be calculated as follows:
- 1 + Crit Tier × (Modded Crit Multiplier − 1)
As an example, an orange crit for the Braton with Vital Sense will instead get a multiplier of:
- = 1 + 2 × (1.6 × (1 + 1.2) − 1)
- = 6.04
Critical HeadshotsEdit
This picture displays a headcrit dealing 4x regular headshot damage using an unmodded Lex.
Certain body parts on enemies, most notably heads, will receive additional damage when struck. This location-based damage increase is usually a 2.0x multiplier, but if the strike is a critical hit, then it receives an additional damage bonus. For yellow crits, this is another 2.0x multiplier on top of the location multiplier and the crit multiplier but in general, it uses the formula:
- Total Damage = Damage × Headshot Multiplier
- × (1 + Crit Tier × (2 × Modded Crit Multiplier - 1))
The Headshot Multiplier is 2.0x in almost all cases. The bonus damage from headshot crits is specific to heads and not generalized to all special body parts. The MOA, for example, has a "fanny pack" which normally receives 3.0x damage, but does not receive any additional multipliers from a critical hit. The Jordas Golem, however, has a 1.0x multiplier on his engines, but still receives quadruple damage if critically hit. Corpus humanoids do not receive headcrits, instead only taking the normal 2.0x headshot damage even after their helmets are removed.
| Damage Mechanics | |
|---|---|
| Offense | Critical Hit • Damage • Enemy Body Parts • Multishot • Punch Through |
| Defense | Armor • Health • Shield |
| Damage Types | |
| Physical |  Impact •  Puncture •  Slash
|
| Elemental |  Cold •  Electricity •  Heat •  Toxin
|
| Combined |  Blast •  Corrosive •  Gas •  Magnetic •  Radiation •  Viral
|
| Unique |  Tau •  True •  Void
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| Critical Hit Mods | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Rifle | Chance | Point Strike • Critical Delay • Argon Scope | |
| Damage | Vital Sense • Hammer Shot • Bladed Rounds | ||
| Shotgun | Chance | Blunderbuss • Critical Deceleration • Laser Sight | |
| Damage | Ravage (Primed) • Shrapnel Shot | ||
| Pistol | Chance | Pistol Gambit (Primed) • Creeping Bullseye • Hydraulic Crosshairs | |
| Damage | Target Cracker (Primed) • Hollow Point • Sharpened Bullets | ||
| Melee | Chance | Blood Rush • Maiming Strike • Sacrificial Steel • True Steel • True Punishment | |
| Damage | Organ Shatter | ||
| Weapon Augment | Deadly Sequence | ||
Start a Discussion Discussions about Critical Hit
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Hypothetically, if I had a 10% crit. chance rifle and a multishot mod on it, then what would my new crit chance be? Post the equation please.
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So basically more shots equals more crit chance... -
The person above me. Technically speaking sort of. It'll increase the chance of you getting a crit in any given scenario. However y...
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Argon Scope on crit weapons below 30% crit chance
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Oh boi, impressive. I remember doing some similar inequality calculations and also ended up with some negative result which I was then too stu...
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I tried to compare argon scope and bladed rounds but came to a completely different conclusion... Assumption: all shots made are headshots,...
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