Well, then any large weapons causing large explosive damage in Firefall should have killed us in one shot. Sticky naids from engineer? Why is this allowed?
Just saying you can't expect reality out of everything. As easily as you say it cannot we can easily put something in its place to say it can.
If you can find a reasonable excuse for allowing players and enemies to survive 5 explosive devices attached to their person I am all ears for being much more strict on realism. Until then it is worth being loose.
The lore friendly excuse in the case of players that would be the baseline energy shields the suits had (was really obvious given the effect that the players suit used whenever you exited combat on higher graphics settings) which when they failed that is also when you were downed. With large explosive damage having a tendency to overkill you and not even allow a chance at a revive sometimes. Chosen also had this with their frames.
The other not so lore friendly excuse being that they went with a vertical progression system where the health bars simply got bigger. Making things spongier.
Early CBT it really was not hard to get obliterated by a few hits, for player and NPC alike. Unless you were in something armored like the Dreadnought. Which even it went down to enough firepower (especially headshots). If we did not have the vertical system and had values around early CBT then 1, maybe 2, sticky grenades would of been enough to kill most anything not a dreadnought type or big enough to have redundant organs to help let it survive a bit longer.
The pvp excuse for why less damage would be "safety" settings to help prevent accidental deaths and make the matches more enjoyable by having them be longer.
Sticky nades from the Bastion? I guess they wanted something like mine gameplay to fit the whole turtle down in one zone design of the Bastion but ran into issues so they went with a sticky grenade launcher (something the community often requested).
I am fine with reality not being strictly super heavily enforced, provided what is enforced is basic common sense. Which for me, and my friends, the omniframe breaks the rules and fails the requirements for a frontline designed mecha.
By it having a head, a torso with arms that end in hands, a humanoid form, and walking/running in a bipedal manner already humanizes the mech. The pilot humanizes it further by showing their personality through how they use the suit. Not through being seen while in the suit. The mech becomes the body, the pilot is the heart and soul. Together as one does the mecha become "human".
