-// ballistics use physical units, but qu based
-// Quake-Newton: 1 qN = 1 qu * 1 g / 1 s^2
-// Quake-Joule: 1 qJ = 1 qN * 1 qu
-// Quake-Pascal: 1 qPa = 1 qN / 1 qu^2
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-set g_ballistics_mindistance 2 "enable ballistics starting from 2 qu"
-set g_ballistics_density_player 0.50 "players are 2x as easy to pass through as walls"
-set g_ballistics_density_corpse 0.10 "corpses are 10x as easy to pass through as walls"
-set g_ballistics_penetrate_clips 0 "allow ballistics to pass through weapon clips"
+set g_ballistics_mindistance 2 "when shooting through walls thinner than this, treat them as this thick (useful because patches (curved surfaces) have no thickness)"
+set g_ballistics_density_player 0.50 "how hard players are to shoot through compared to walls"
+set g_ballistics_density_corpse 0.10 "how hard corpses are to shoot through compared to walls"
+set g_ballistics_penetrate_clips 1 "allow ballistics to pass through weapon clips"
+set g_ballistics_solidpenetration_exponent 0.25 "how fast damage falls off when bullets pass through walls - 1 means linear, lower values mean slower initial falloff but faster once there's little solidpenetration left (damage_fraction = solidpen_fraction^exp for solidpen_fraction between 0 and 1)"