what armor is best to use?

[Velser]

what armor is best to use light medium or heavy

[Inardesco]

Whichever you like.

[Non-Euclidean Cheese]

there is no best, depends on your needs. everything in this game is a tool, and each tool has its uses in the proper situation. playstyle also counts.

[Mahjik]

Start with one you think looks "cool". If you are dying too much, look at what you picked. If you picked a light armor, try a medium. If you dying too much from explosives, try an armor with explosive resistance.

When you are joining or starting a mission, look around at what your team is bringing. That might adjust what you use. If you see someone bringing a Tesla sentry or Arc Thrower, maybe consider one of the arc resistant armors. If you so someone bringing a flame thrower, maybe consider one of the fire resistant armors..

[Sirre]

Depends, many people like me only use light armors regardless of faction or circumstance.
But there are valid reasons to use the other armors depending on a wide range of variables.

Some people like heavier armor against bots for example since they don't get instakilled so easily when they get hit for example.
Then again others prefer lights because they don't want to get hit in the first place and want the mobility it offers.
Medium armors unsurprisingly are the middle ground.

[Botji]

The answer is Yes.
Like Mr Nut say it depends on what you are fighting and what you want to do.

For example this is a heavy armor with the explosive resistance perk along with the BallShield.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3395128628
See the tiny little sliver of health that I am missing? that is what a direct hit(on my shield ofc) from that Overseer using its staff to fire a charged up plasma shot. It can be fun to play as a tanky-boi every now and then.

[WigglySpleen]

I prefer heavy armor but I have a very aggressive play style that suits me getting shot at quite a bit more than my medium/light armor team mates. If I'm solo I always run medium for a balance between mobility and survivability. When I have a team that mixes medium and heavy I run light armor (with jump pack) so I can zoom around doing side stuff while they focus main obj. Support weapon varies but I also always bring one turret or the guard dog.

[StaunchStache]

It depends on your playstyle.

I almost can't use anything other than light armor, the mobility is too addictive.

Other won't drop without having at the very least the better protection medium armor provides.

It also depends on the faction, light armor is valuable to run around and kite terminids, while heavy armor lets you make a stronger stand against bots.

[MaTTaX]

Since the illuminates I went with the ce-67 titan armor(079, 521, 111). It's light-medium and has the engineer-kit. Helps with the mg-43 aim. Good speed and great with shield backpack

[Akameka]

The few base medium armors with 150 defense instead of 100 are a good compromise of mobility/tankiness. 150 defense change a lot in terms of damage taken VS light armor, without being too restrictive. it works on all factions regardless of objective

For eradicate/defense mission VS the bots specifically, probably either the heavies that gives 200 armor instead of 150, or the heavy that gives 50% explosive resist. You're not supposed to move that much during thoses missions.

The medium one that let you survive any lethal damage is kinda good too, but you'll be gambling your life on a coin flip ( Fear&hunger lol), which is not really to my taste.

[ThotsBContagious]

Originally posted by Velser:

what armor is best to use light medium or heavy

Stop looking up metas and learn on your own what works best lol

Ppl will be putting up signs in a post apocalypse asking raiders whats the best fruit to plant because they cannot figure it out on their own.

[Quill]

Bugs: Light. You need the speed

Illuminate: All depending upon build. Light for running from Voteless. Heavy to tank hits and lay fire on Overseers and Harvesters. Medium for general all rounder

Bots: Medium to Heavy. Light for Stealth operations only

[Mr.Kill]

I prefer heavy armor with explosive resistance. Not sure if it is keeping me alive but it sure looks cool.

[Rhiawhyn Zerinth]

Originally posted by Velser:

what armor is best to use light medium or heavy

The defense values of armor is largely pointless and will remain pointless until armor actually provides armor. Right now it does very little as you are usually perpetually two maybe three direct hits away from death at all times. Splash that catches you usually doesn't do that much due to falloff so it's not a problem.

Wear armor for how it looks and sometimes the secondary perks. Armor is for the drip, not the stats but mostly avoid heavy armor unless it looks cool to you.

If you must pick armor for the defense, get armor that has democracy protects. No heavy armor is capable of giving you the ability to use hellbombs as a personal transportation system. On top of that it lets you eat attacks that would otherwise kill you, be it a tank shooting you, a hellpod landing on you, or just eating nukes like crayons.

[Quill]

Originally posted by tonyzur:

you're still just a fragile human under all that padding. even if you're all armoured up, smart positioning is still what wins fights.

"Bullets Cannot Go Through Cover"
-General Brasch

[アンジェル]

Originally posted by Velser:

what armor is best to use?
what armor is best to use light medium or heavy

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