Best Body armor's by good to better

[BinLanten911]

Can an experience stalker answer here which is the best body armor.
Is sturdiness important? Thank you for your time.

[ObscenelyOpaque]

I suggest you buy a 6b5 its second to the best armor in game. 6b5 provides 200 pen armor and the best armor in game gives 220

[123321]

Learn to use the wiki. There is only 3 value that matters. Penetration Protection. Melee Protection, Bullet Protection. For PVP, you want to look at the value with highest penetration protection. It is a no brainer. Price get more expensive with higher penetetration proction and melee/bullet protection increase too.

For PVE, you want to use the amour with value most melee damage.
For PVP, bullet protection and penetration protection. Penetration protection is more important. higher level amour cost more to repair.

Your amour progression will be
1 )6b2
2) Bulletproof Vest PASGT-V (Vest) or 6B3.
3)6b5
4)6b13

Number 2 is special. Both have 5% less melee protection than the 6b2 so you can stick with 6b2 all the way if you want. 6b3 and pasgt both have the same melee def, 45%. worst than 6b2.
6b3 have better bullet penetration so its better for pvp, and it has better radiation protection too.
pastv have better explosion defence and electrical defence so its better if you run into electrical anamoly with pasgvt but that depends on what you want.

I took 6b3 because its cheaper at 300k vs pasgvt at 700k but I am so broke now that i sold my 6b3 and went back to 6b2 to buy extra magazines for my akm and my defence in pve is perfectly fine. 6b2 having 5% more melee than 6b3/pasgvt doesnt make alot of difference in pve. By the time you reach option 3 and above, the amour cost millions and it become straight forward.




Wiki has now remove bullet protection from its table so I am guessing new updatest just depend on penetration defence now, but we still have bullet protection in our version.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2033607869


Another thing I want you to take note of is bullet damage. For pvp, you want bullet with highest penetration value. For pve, bullet with most damage value. What gun you choose now in this version doesnt matter, only look at bullet damage. Most people sold their event guns like ak 105/107 because they use 5.45 bullet and does the same damage as aks74u. In the future, each gun will have their own penetration damage too so there will be more choice for pvp.

The thing I am more excited about is the bullet damage information now that wasnt there a few days ago in wiki. In the future 12x76 bullet is going to be really overpowered for pve. Sayga12k is going to be better than usas12 in the future. Look at the numbers! It going to be almost the same as the 7.62x54 hollow point.

https://stalker.so/news/206
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2033626986

[ObscenelyOpaque]

Originally posted by AllanWake™:

Don't listen to this noobs, period.

If you want to know a secret, il tell it one time and this time only....

There is no best armor, sure you can look at the number but those numbers mean nothing, unless you run into a completely oblivious player that uses a Makarov pistol against you, which will never happen.

Listen....

Just go with one of these two things;

Gadget slots or male protection (pve, this is much as pointless as sturdiness rating)

1st secret is ; even with the most rare armor cough* cough* 6B13 aka. 220 sturdiness it won't help you against any ammo in the game, period.

Since the new weapon update, even the most cheap aka. Noob weapons have 160 - 295 penetration and deal full damage, which will kill you in 3 shots. Just load any AP ammo and say "ciao" to the biggest try-hard in the game.

2nd secred; want to know how mutants work? Let me tell you,

1. Every mutant that is shorter then your waist will attack you're PANTS.

2. The smallest mutants attack the BOOTS .

3. Everything taller than your waist attacks you're HEAD. Period. (swamp green things as well)

Chest armor is irrelevant....

My advice, forget about 6b12 or 13, go for the two gadget carry slots (6b3 or 6B5) and the K6-3 with the visor helmet.

There is not, "it's better for the PvP" bu-llshi.t.

EVERY bullet has way higher penetration then any armor has protection against... Nothing will save you.

Don't get bothered with those posers with full gorka 4 and combat backpack, he will die as fast as you with nothing but underwear.

It's a bs game.....

yeah what he said :V

[🄺🅂🄴🄽🄾モーフ]

first, ya complain that OP players cant be killed, now you complain that every weapon deals too much dmg.


perfect example why devs should never listen to the community and just do their thing.

[123321]

Here comes all the salty players after the update.

[123321]

Most of the salty players are actually end geared players with 6b12 amour and the cool spetznaz helmet afraid of naked newbies with mosin rifle.

[123321]

But seriously, the immediate impact of this update that I can think of is young verliock price will drop because there is no more reason to get tungsten rounds when normal rounds have 250 penetration compared to 290 for tungsten round.