Bullet Proof Vests Broken?

[Genesis24]

The description on the Tier 4 vests state they reduce a good amount of melee damage. I thought in combination between that and an almost maxed out stats character had a pretty good chance at taking a fair amount of damage before dying. But, I just had one of my almost maxed out characters with a Tier 4 bullet proof vest on just get 2 shot by a guy as if I was back to the start of the game. Are they broken? Or are the vests just not worth it like I thought? Any insight would be appreciated.

[Danny7413]

I didn't experience a significant decrease when equipped.
vests might be good for lowering the damage of knives and rocks, but being injured by the sledgehammer or a fire weapon still hurts quite a bit. there were times when I received no damage from knife attacks, happened rarely
devs should add some weapon and armor statistics.
currently, there might be a bug which cancels the effects of equipped items like armor, binoculars and metal detector on current expeditions if you re-load your game, so keep an eye on that.

[DeanF]

We do plan on adding more information on weapons statistics and explaining combat a bit more.

I will have a look in to the vests, as because as far as I was aware, they were working correctly.

[SnackJunkie]

They don't seem to be blocking any shots either. First time getting fired at with my bullet proof vests that say they protect the wearer from three gun shot wounds, died in one round because the only shots I didn't take damage from were two misses.

[76561198103597845]

Hey DarkDurza,


Thanks for getting in touch to report this.
When the vest stops a shot, it registers as a miss.
This is the correct behaviour.
Sorry for any confusion.
I'll talk to the team and see if we can't get this changed to something more clear.


Thank you,
BenTeam17