PSA Bullet resistant clothing doesn't do anything.

[Grumpy Old Guy]

Was playing today and added up my supposed resistance to bullet damage and with the 10% from a perk, 25% from vanguard, and 25% from clothing I should be taking 60% less bullet damage. Definitely not taking that much less damage.

Respec, took off everything, went in on easy to test it out. Prototype hunter's gun does 10 damage with no boosts at all.

Put on 25% worth of bullet resistant clothing. Still does 10 damage.

Think maybe it isn't doing bullet damage? Try the perk for 10% less bullet damage, shots now do 9 damage. With vanguard they do 7.

Haven't tested explosive resist yet but that's next on my list now I'm wondering if any of the clothing actually works or if I've been grinding these schematics for nothing.

[goatfish]

pretty sure they don't do anything. i don't even use a gas mask anymore cause you take the same amount of damage whether you use one or not.

just another reason why i think devs made this game just to troll players

[Beefcakes]

Yeah with gas mask, both gas perks and vanguard, I should be basically immune to gas but I still take like 5 damage a tick

[Ptype]

Agree, doesn’t work at all. Really frustrating

[Michael]

Wow, I feel pretty stupid for having spent time and resources on this. Is this an issue the devs are aware of?

[Grumpy Old Guy]

Originally posted by Michael:

Wow, I feel pretty stupid for having spent time and resources on this. Is this an issue the devs are aware of?

They've been aware of it. The clothing hasn't worked at any point in the game's development. I found out about it a year ago and by then I had already found posts talking about how it wasn't working that were 9 months old.

The dev's of this game already have another game they're working on so this is basically abandoned at this point.

[znurrad]

They have worked anytime i have tested them, Bullet res and Jump boost surely works.
Perhaps your playing on adventure were you won't really notice the help resistances give?

[Grumpy Old Guy]

Originally posted by znurrad:

They have worked anytime i have tested them, Bullet res and Jump boost surely works.
Perhaps your playing on adventure were you won't really notice the help resistances give?

I promise you they haven't and you just didn't notice.
Read the original post. There's no way to mistake it, it's very easy to test.

Unless they finally fixed it (maybe? Haven't touched game in a year now) but it had been broken for a year and some change the last time I tested it.

[🤪CrazyWolf🐺]

A mod on Nexus has done a workaround as the bullet resistance by default won't work otherwise. It has not worked for years now. There was a time it worked against runner's bullet fire but did not worked against everything else.

[Kaisoku]

When I started playing again recently, I was surprised that the gas mask did nothing, I was still taking damage.
Then I looked at my clothes in the profile and noticed that it gives "40% gas resistance".. huh.. that seemed new?
Maybe I'm just remembering wrong cuz it's been years I think, but I thought when I put the mask on it just made my vision bad and I took no damage. But, I think that was before all this clothes bonuses stuff too.. I don't remember having schematics for clothes before.

[Velmoria]

I only tested bullet resist on Prototype Runner on Guerrilla difficulty. Yes it worked properly.