>>531933529
25% damage reduction is annoying but its really the 50% pain ignore that makes them a pain, early game you're not usually one shotting enemies but making them downed from pain and killing with bloodloss/finishers, neanderthals take basically 2.5x more pain to drop than baseliners since they take less pain AND less damage to cause pain

I think impids are even more annoying early game though since you're most likely to have shit made of wood or not insulated and no firefoam, even if you one-shot an impid they can often get off fire breath before dying