Lasgun vs Carapace armor - weak headshot damage unless crit

Just curious if this is intentional or not. I know the helbane lasgun does good headshot damage regardless of crit, but basic lasgun does chip damage even on headshots unless you crit.

I’ve noticed that the better ‘upgraded’ version of the lasgun I purchase, the more armor penetration I am capable of inflicting.

For example,

I was be-bopping around with a common white lasgun and when I would fire into carapace armor, it would produce blue hit markers in my aim box. After I upgraded to a blue, higher damage, lasgun the blue hit markers were exchanged for white hit markers signifying my damage was no longer being mitigated by the armor (or at least by so much).

The difficulty does contribute to the amount of armor mitigation vs armor penetration for the lasgun from my testing.

Hope this helps!
-Gunship

I noticed the maulers take almost zero damage from headshots and take much higher damage from just shooting them in the chest. Easily replicated in the training area.

wow never thought to not headshot lol
guess that makes them more similar to vtides maulers