Why the Darwin's Danger Shield is in my opinion the most overpowered weapon atm.

[VLC]

King Raja recently uploaded a video talking about how broken the DDS is. He did a poor job explaining it and the video was taken down for some reason but I decided to do some research about it nevertheless. I spent a long time going through the explosive weapons to see if any of them where at all more powerful towards a DDS sniper.

None of them were.

Then I realized something about the 20% explosive damage vulnerability.
If an explosive were to do exactly 125 damage to a stock sniper, it would do 150 damage to a DDS sniper.
This is important in order to understand why this weapon is broken.

The combination of +25 health and the bullet resistance helps the sniper survive many weapons where a certain amount of hits would normally kill him.

But it seems like Valve specifically designed the DDS so that it would not at all effect the sniper's survivability against explosives.

What this means is the item literally has no downsides other than the fact you don't have an smg, because the explosive damage vulnerability and extra health cancel out.

You won't necessarily end up with the same health left when hit with an explosive, but no matter how much damage the weapon does the DDS would not affect how many hits you could take. Even if you end up with less health after getting hit, the little bit of less health is not going to really hurt you when sniping in the back-lines.

Why Valve, why.

[Erick]

tl;dr Valve needs to nerf it, because it is overpowered, yet they haven't.

[Jimmy Hunter]

This discovery isn't new by a long shot.

A quick search of the forums would have seen this referenced for years now.

[Emurinus]

For the same reason why the Crutch-A-Cola is still OP even with the MYM nerf. They aren't (usually) good at balancing.

[Cee]

King Rrrraaajaaa
But honestly the resistane should be 5% crit res so you could FULLY CHARGED BODYSHOT the DDS user

[yattadaro]

i love how they don't nerf the DD but end up nerfing the Cozy Camper.

valve doesn't play their own

♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ GAME

[Stellifera]

Originally posted by GoToTheSettings:

i love how they don't nerf the DD but end up nerfing the Cozy Camper.

valve doesn't play their own

♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ GAME

[Pakaku]

Originally posted by GoToTheSettings:

i love how they don't nerf the DD but end up nerfing the Cozy Camper.

valve doesn't play their own ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ GAME

Cozy Camper counters 7/9 of the entire game's cast of characters

The real problem is they didn't nerf the Shield along with the Camper.

[Cee]

Originally posted by Sims Legit:

King Rrrraaajaaa
But honestly the resistance hould be 5% crit res so you could FULLY CHARGED BODYSHOT the DDS user

Any thoughts?

[CandyhH]

125+25%≠150

[Cee]

Originally posted by Candy Glaze:

125+25%≠150

...to who are you referring this to?

[yattadaro]

Originally posted by Sims Legit:

Originally posted by Candy Glaze:

125+25%≠150

...to who are you referring this to?

he's referring to op's point about explosive damage being canceled out by the health boost

[CandyhH]

Originally posted by Sims Legit:

Originally posted by Candy Glaze:

125+25%≠150

...to who are you referring this to?

I just realized I did a mistake

[Cee]

Originally posted by GoToTheSettings:

Originally posted by Sims Legit:

...to who are you referring this to?

he's referring to op's point about explosive damage being canceled out by the health boost

O yeah.

[Aeonarx]

The downside of this weapon is a waste of a second slot. And yes, this weapon is broken, cause it is totally worthless in any situation except countering another sniper.

[Vlad the Impala]

Originally posted by Schroif:

The downside of this weapon is a waste of a second slot. And yes, this weapon is broken, cause it is totally worthless in any situation except countering another sniper.

Considering that the best counter to a sniper is usually an even better sniper, this is a huge bonus, especially since jarate and smg don't come anywhere near to being as useful as negating a counter entirely.