Slight Metal Slug verse-wide downgrade

[SamanPatou]

Really quick revision.

Currently the entire verse reaches the High 8-C rating because the M1 Abrams is the strongest war machine to be comparable to what the characters can destroy.

However, a recently accepted calc downgraded its durability from High 8-C to 8-C, and so the entire verse should follow this revision.

 

[DarkDragonMedeus]

The High 8-C/8-C durability thing shouldn't really even be seen as a durability rating. That's like saying humans have 9-B durability because that's the energy required to destroy their entire skeletons and you don't scale from something that overkills you. So that is something that should be listed as a footnote required as the energy required to overkill the Abrams.

Anyway, 1st paragraph off topic aside. This looks good.

 

[SamanPatou]

Right, I also noticed that the destruction animation doesn't feature complete annihilation of the tank, and the M1 is a rather recent model, and the games feature vehicles inspired by those from WWII.

Maybe a downgrade to 9-A, or even 9-B, is required? Not many weapons can actually annihilate a tank in a single shot anyway (at most it's two iirc) and total destruction isn't shown. The second highest feat that can be achieved with a couple of shots is this, which honestly I don't think reaches 9-A.
There are many giant robots and machines throughout the series, but all require many hits in order to be taken down and their "after-death" sprite shows their overall "body" being wrecked to the point it cannot function anymore, but not full destruction.

 

[SamanPatou]

Speaking of 9-A, the main characters' strongest weapons and vehicles can fire missiles or generate explosions that can "kill" (read it as "wreck to the point they don't work anymore and explode") tanks (although not M1 Abrams) with a few shots, and some real life explosives are rated as 9-A, but I don't know if any of these two things can either qualify or be used for a safe comparison.

Also, some enemy robots and war vehicles (boss battles) can release several types of missiles, some very large, but I once again don't know if they can be assumed to be 9-A or just rated as "higher".