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According to the rules as written once you have the broken condition you no longer take HP damage from successfull attacks but can still receive criticals so a couple of questions :

A- If you successfully hit someone in combat who has the broken condition does the attack automatically confirm on the the 1st 6 (the successful attack) ?

B-If not what is the best way to explain the,shots just bouncing off etc ?

C-Are there any modifiers that could make criticaling a broken person easier ?

The reason why I ask is being broken otherwise makes you invulnerable to most attacks.
E.g if you attack with a weapon that has a crit rating of 2 you will need 3 sixes to do them some harm (the 1st six being the hit)-which is hard going .

Exanple: you attack with 5 dice with a crit rating of 2 your chances of success are 1220 / 7776 =15.6% chance of inflicting a crit.
All the others seem to do nothing ?

Andy

First of all, if you're broken, you're not a threat to anyone any more, so shooting at you doesn't make a lot of sense. Basically, the 'broken' rule is meant to throw player characters out of combat without dying. It's a PC life preservation rule. If you'd like to change that, you could easily introduce the respective Mutant: Year Zero rule variant: If NPCs shoot at a PC who's broken, they need one success only for an instant kill.

So what if player characters shoot at broken NPCs? Here too, the MYZ rule system provides a very understandable answer. The GM decides what 'broken' means, so if you'd like to introduce a 0 HP = deceased rule for NPCs only, that is probably quite what the designers intended.

It's frankly all about giving the PCs better chances of survival and their enemies less.

Brilliant thank you I think I will now adopt a rule for grunt npc,s that is broken = dead .
For characters and major npc = equals unconscious etc ( so they can be interrogated later etc).

Andy

Any more idea's

Any more idea's

Not really. These rules are best kept simple, and judging from your house rule ideas, you absolutely understood what I tried to convey.