is fortified bugged?

[Cas]

I'm not very sure if the fortified passive is bugged? I recently used heavy fortified armor in bots and could not survive any kind of explosion.

I used it a lot before, specifically after the first patch and I could sometimes survive some rocket shots.

I'm not sure if it's working or rockets would just flat out kill even with the explosion resistance.

[Valkynaz]

It works, but very sporatically, sometimes you can survive a rocket too the face with just 100 armour gear (But very rarely), othertimes you get OHKOed in the Fortified Heavy Armour, there is basically not stabliity too it.

At least with Fortified, it *should* only OHKO you with a headshot, body shots you should be able to take 3 hits to the chest... but again it appears random sometimes

[Savior8801 (P-L)]

My understanding is that a lot of explosions will engulf your character's head hit box (which is about the upper third of the entire model), which bypasses any kind of armor and deals tons of extra damage.

[Cas]

Originally posted by Valkynaz:

It works, but very sporatically, sometimes you can survive a rocket too the face with just 100 armour gear (But very rarely), othertimes you get OHKOed in the Fortified Heavy Armour, there is basically not stabliity too it.

At least with Fortified, it *should* only OHKO you with a headshot, body shots you should be able to take 3 hits to the chest... but again it appears random sometimes

yeah i have a wild experience recently. i used ballistic shield and i keep getting OHKO'ed by rockets. i doubt those were all headshots.

i ran a different loadout next game and still gets OHKO'ed consistently with heavy fortified. So I'm not sure if it is bugged this patch or just unlucky with the randomness.

when i used it before. like weeks ago. i sometimes could tank a rocket to the face. as in headshot rockets..

[ImHelping]

Fortified won't always save you, but I have lost track of how many times I DID survive while someone still convinced scout suits are overpowered was reduced to paste.

Also handy for surviving munition dumps having a magically large blast radius ragdolling you across an entire bot base even with the cash shop light fortified suits.

I would not be surprised if the passive aggressive "There, we finally fixed armor... and invented a brand new headshots if you take damage to your ankles mechanic" made the odds of fortified saving you from rockets sometimes (or living long enough from a sniper tower near miss to fall damage to death a mile away) less common though.

But for a more stupid example, it still seems to improve the angle of how close a scorcher shot has to be to suicide yourself. (grenade launcher shot bouncing off an enemy face into yourself, however...)

[Cas]

Originally posted by ImHelping:

Fortified won't always save you, but I have lost track of how many times I DID survive

yeah i know that. my inquiry was if this patch made it feel like you get one shot a lot more consistently now. i used it a lot before and it's a bit random. sometimes i survive sometimes i dont. since i played with fortified recently again(this patch) and i almost never survived an explosion lol.

[yuevolution]

I just know if the rocket shoot my body or foot, there is only about 1/3 dmg in heavy fortified armor. But one hit kill in medium armor. Head-shot always one hit kill. So, the problem is the head-shot.

[Valkynaz]

Originally posted by yuevolution:

I just know if the rocket shoot my body or foot, there is only about 1/3 dmg in heavy fortified armor. But one hit kill in medium armor. Head-shot always one hit kill. So, the problem is the head-shot.

See, that's my issue... I was in the medium medic armour and ate a rocket too the face, like saw where it hit and everything, survived with like, 10 health... I wish the developers were more transparent with how this ♥♥♥♥ in game actually works because... something odd is going on with enemy damage.