what's the deal with armor?

[sabinati]

anyone figured out what the armor numbers mean now? j&l could we have some explanation please?

[Avu]

No clue really.

[Morgant]

I think it shows the amount of damage that it isn't blocking. Especially with ants.

[sabinati]

628/418 total armor class and cows still hit me... 216 melee using shield.

wtf

[theTrav]

perhaps armor is not so good against animals... I heard arrows are supposed to be the new king of hunting

[sabinati]

yeah i mean i can kill them all with archery that's no problem i'm just trying to get some data on the new melee system

[niltrias]

This is purely guesswork, but...
Looks like armor works fine against weapon damage, at least for bows. It doesnt seem to work at all against animals. I know that UA has some sort of penetration stat, so I am guessing that the animal attacks are counting as UA attacks with a massive penetration score, hence bypassing the armor.