Are you using NV goggles?

[Dreepa]

I always prefer helmets, cause eventually I get shot.

Should I use NV equipment? Can you do night raids with them that make a difference?

[Cougarific]

Absolutely - I put them on my two snipers for nighttime combat and it's a huge help.

Everybody else is at like 2% to hit somebody in the dark and they're popping skulls like it's high noon.

[Haplo]

Carry them in your backpack for snipers and machine guns and equip them if you end up in a night fight.

[Dre G Writer]

Yes, I used the night vision goggles in the beginning, and part way through the mid point where the CHIPS were stupid rare.

But after crafting the thermal scope on all my weapons later in the game.
There's no needs for the night vision goggles after that. Thermal scope is best in slot for scope mod slot.

Can also use the flashlight rail attachment on your weapons for nighttime/underground combat if you dont got goggles nor thermal scope since its easy to craft. But the downside is its lights you up too, so stealth goes right out the window while holding that weapon.

[Trolleur_Durden]

Originally posted by Dreepa:

I always prefer helmets, cause eventually I get shot.

Should I use NV equipment? Can you do night raids with them that make a difference?

The idea is to carry the NVG in your backpack and to put them on if you end up fighting at night. It helps a lot and during the night, the odds of being shot in the head are almost nonexistent since the night penalties applies to enemies too.

[pRaX]

Yes. I got NVGs and even gas masks on every single merc to switch to if necessary.

[Jee\o/Pee]

I always forget about them.... i dont put them on at night....or i leave them on during day....

[Null Winter]

Originally posted by Dre G Writer:

Yes, I used the night vision goggles in the beginning, and part way through the mid point where the CHIPS were stupid rare.

But after crafting the thermal scope on all my weapons later in the game.
There's no needs for the night vision goggles after that. Thermal scope is best in slot for scope mod slot.

Can also use the flashlight rail attachment on your weapons for nighttime/underground combat if you dont got goggles nor thermal scope since its easy to craft. But the downside is its lights you up too, so stealth goes right out the window while holding that weapon.

This was my experience, too; thermal scopes are too good, since they negate every single accuracy and weather penalty aside from sheer range and not having a LOS that doesn't pass through reinforced concrete, all in a single slot. A thermal scope does the job of NVG (head item), a tactical device(accessory slot), and a shotgun (a weapon for bypassing cover), along with its own unique job of negating grazing shots that nothing else can do and no downsides like self-illumination.

The tactical headwear doesn't do enough to justify wearing it once you're past light armor, especially with later enemy weapons. If you're doing a stealth run, then you're avoiding combat whenever possible anyways, and a fully kitted out thermal sniper beats a throwing knife every single time.

[Lightning]

Only use them on non night vision perk mercs yeah

[archmag]

It seems pointless to have armor on the head when enemy doesn't have enough accuracy to ever shoot at it. I used googles on all my characters but Steroid who was wearing heavy helmet just for the sake of completing his heavy armor set. I have no idea if they are actually helpful during the night or not but at least according to their description they are more helpful for offense than helmets and "the offense is the best defense" as they say.

Completed a game and never had a single headshot. I did reload some bad scenarios when my merc got surrounded and killed with body shots, but I never noticed any headshot animation. I did it on base difficulty, maybe things are different on higher difficulty and especially if you can't reload in very unlucky cases.

[Shadow]

In my Opinion it makes no difference to wear them or not. I hit everything without them.
In my Opinion nights should be darker. without nightvision you shoud not be able to see the enemy and not be seen by the enemy. i played jagged alliance 2 years ago and it was like that

[dq_177]

Would make sense if you had both a 'helmet' slot and a 'eye/face' slot.

[BT]

I think it's highly dependent of whether you use modifications that improve your night aiming. If you do then you do not need the UV goggles so much.

[Triplefox]

Playing the "Ivan-man" (solo Ivan, MI, saves allowed) I found my first challenge was the Rust bunker guards because I wasn't hitting with a Gewehr, when he was popping heads easily before. After reloading a few times I looked closer and noticed I was taking a penalty for both night and heavy rain when I had just rain before. So I had Ivan wait for daylight and his accuracy improved again to the standards I needed.

In that situation, NVG would have let me crush the fight. It was way too early in the game to have them though.

[CrUsHeR]

Originally posted by Supertek:

Currently day and night has not a noticeable difference, also missing things like eavesdrop equipment (dont know name anymore which amplified sounds), although there are not that many mercs hidden in buildings

Or sunglasses... or metal detectors...

or guards which actually carry keys to the buildings they're guarding

[Twelvefield]

I think it would be great if when you switch to a character who is wearing NVG's, that the screen colours change to NV mode. You do see that in some menu screen, but not in the game. If you wear NVG's in day, the screen should turn blazing white. Although that would probably be the start of dozens of "My SCreen iS White !!1!" threads.