Anyone try the armor fix?

[Ronin-XIII]

Been wanting to use heavy armor and curious if people have felt a difference in it? At work so can't check yet but curious. :)

[Zaqq]

It works now, but the difference between light and heavy armor is minuscule. I'm talking 5 hits to die versus 6-7 hits to die.

[Solvem Probler]

No fix. Light Armor still the objectively best choice.

[Eudicots]

if you have 200 armor then you can take 9 hits, but for some reason seems like enemies can also crit the player. Probably has to deal with limb vs body damage but if a crit occurs you take like 3 hits worth of damage.

[xRaoriex]

I feel no difference. Also from what the game is telling me the starter default medium armors are better than pretty much any heavy currently. Well all the heavy I have and can currently see.

[Tartknocker2k]

Running/kiting is still the most viable survival option in any higher difficulties vs. bugs because there is no weapon in the game that can stop the larger swarms from reaching you and stunlocking/knocking you down so I'd take movement speed and stealth vs being able to tank 1 or 2 more hits 10 out of 10 times.

[Senpai so Ecchi]

last game i somehow survived an friendly orbital airburst strike with heavy armor.
i was diving around like crazy and healed up between the bursts.
i guess i would have died in one hit from that if i was using light armor.

Originally posted by Tartknocker2k:

Running/kiting is still the most viable survival option in any higher difficulties vs. bugs because there is no weapon in the game that can stop the larger swarms from reaching you and stunlocking/knocking you down so I'd take movement speed and stealth vs being able to tank 1 or 2 more hits 10 out of 10 times.

try the arc thrower. its pretty good at killing trash and medium armor bugs.

[ACEsino]

yeah

still not worth it

[BigDog]

Originally posted by Ronin-XIII:

Been wanting to use heavy armor and curious if people have felt a difference in it? At work so can't check yet but curious. :)

they fixed them in the patch note, on the battlefield the difference between heavy and light is barely noticeable, with heavy you got slowed down and lesser stamina

[Ronin-XIII]

That's a bummer. Anything specific with bots and small arms fire?

[Karl]

Originally posted by Ronin-XIII:

Been wanting to use heavy armor and curious if people have felt a difference in it? At work so can't check yet but curious. :)

Heavy armor lets you take more hits but the difference is too small, feel free to wear heavy armor though.

[ratfromthemoon]

The difference is extremely minimal. If you use minimum you're kinda nerfing yourself but its viable. If you use heavy you're just griefing and shouldnt touch high diffs

[King_Kermit]

Originally posted by Ronin-XIII:

Been wanting to use heavy armor and curious if people have felt a difference in it? At work so can't check yet but curious. :)

I tried it. Heavy armor is not very useful to me. Even on low difficulties its not as good as light. I even got one-shot by a charger in the heaviest armor in the game. I think it hit my head but still...

[VelxraTV]

covered the armor changes in this thread

https://steamcommunity.com/app/553850/discussions/0/4372501943307656445

[Ferrix]

Light armor can be two-hit or instakilled by tiny bugs according to testing, medium can get one-two-punch instakilled with no ability to break out by Hunter pounce/tongue instacombo and is weaker than pre-patch (6 hits by scav to kill pre, 4-5 post), heavy is where it gets weird. Sometimes it can take 8-9 hits from a scavenger to die, other times it only takes 4, and broodcoms/other big stuff can instakill you now.

Meanwhile, shields got nerfed concurrently solely off of data from *before* armor got fixed, tripling their recovery time.

[Botji]

I have switched to a Scout armor with 100... armor.

Using the one with only like 50 armor even a diff 2 Warrior can actually 1 hit kill you, didnt test too much but it seems to depend on what attack they do as sometimes I could survive but at low health while it seemed to 1 hit kill me consistently when it kinda lunged forward at me with the attack.

Strangely with 100 armor they seem to do significantly less damage so Im really curious how their armor system works because it did kinda feel almost like the 100 armor might be the base value for damage, so you take 100% of what the enemies can do while 50 armor would then be you taking bonus damage from enemies, maybe even close to 50%?

Idk could just be my very limited testing samples with the light armor but it really was a big difference going from 50 to 100 but someone else will have to do actual testing.