The Mauler’s head is classified as Carapice armor, meaning ranged and most light melee weapons do jack shot to it, whereas its body is weaker Flak armor, meaning it is always better to aim for its body when swinging and shooting as opposed to its head. This is really goofy and the armors should be swapped for obvious reasons.
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The reason for this is because AP weapons pen the head, killing him faster. Haven’t had the chance to get a proper one yet, but I remember well enough in the closed beta that the moment I got the Revolver, I was 3-tapping them in the head as opposed to 4-5 to anywhere else.
They are a new player trap in that sense, to mess with your usual logic of “aim for the head” until you actually have access to the right tools to deal with them the way they were balanced for.