Armour rating

[󠀡󠀡󠀡⁧⁧Myrkkysieni]

Thinking about getting the 200 armour rating heavy suit for bot missions, but I heard the armour rating at least used to be bugged 2 months ago, but can't find out if it's still bugged and light armor has the same rating as heavy.

Did they fix it already, or is heavy armour still useless?

[Dynamiez]

They fixed it sometime ago. Cant say which patch it was, but it works

[󠀡󠀡󠀡⁧⁧Myrkkysieni]

Originally posted by Dynamiez:

They fixed it sometime ago. Cant say which patch it was, but it works

Aight, thanks!

[StormhawkV]

I have it and it's a bit underwhelming since they buffed medium and heavy armor except this specific suit. If you want a heavy armor for fighting bots one of those with explosive resist or the one that comes with additional stims is probably a lot better.

[Chocbomb]

It doesnt seem to limit the ragdoll effect.

[dyra55]

Your armour is basically your health, it will let you tank more hits and maybe survive some what would kill light or medium armours, but stuff that one shots will still one shot (For example Annihilator Tank cannon shots)

You also sacrifice some speed, a lot of stamina and even more stamina regeneration in exchange, at least they added passive damage reduction of 5% to medium and 10% to heavy to compensate, you'll still get ragdoll'd by explosions just as easily as other armour types

[アンジェル]

Originally posted by 󠀡󠀡󠀡⁧⁧Sleipr:

Armour rating
Thinking about getting the 200 armour rating heavy suit for bot missions, but I heard the armour rating at least used to be bugged 2 months ago, but can't find out if it's still bugged and light armor has the same rating as heavy.

Did they fix it already, or is heavy armour still useless?

Bold of you.

[Qua2ar]

Originally posted by StormhawkV:

I have it and it's a bit underwhelming since they buffed medium and heavy armor except this specific suit. If you want a heavy armor for fighting bots one of those with explosive resist or the one that comes with additional stims is probably a lot better.

This is it, I don't like heavy armor, but if i am forced to use it, I would also take the explosive resist one, the extra padding armor fell off after the patch.
As an alternative:
Medium with extra padding also provides good dmg reduction, while not reducing your speed/stamina by that much.
And always use vitality booster, it gives around 30% extra health.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Helldivers/comments/1b4vxq7/psa_vitality_booster_increases_max_health_by/

[Vespertellino]

Explosion resist is better for bots

[アンジェル]

By the end of the day a matter of preference. Explosion resist sure makes sense when you expect to get hit by rockets. Otherwise the higher armour plating offers more flexibility, especially against the many laser shots.

I like none of them and use Trailblazer only. I rather not getting hit at all with speed instead of getting hit more.

Same reason why I do not use Shield Backpack as it gives me nothing aside of a bubble which is easy to hit whereas my actual body without the shield would easily dodge the shots.