The mobility needs to be considered. The armor is plan B for me. I don’t wanna get shot anyway. Position and decision are 2 things that keep my SR high.

unchanged the armor system a lot* fixed it for you, seeing as we are pretty much pre-hitbox update again.

Slick is so expensive to barter is it even worth

BSG is so incompetent they made one of the best changes ever to this game only to roll it back and make the game shit again.

can you share the Armor Chart via google sheets so we can sort by each category

Please summarize the strength and availability of armor plates.

Player got me through the neck wearing the Thor armour 30 mins ago so you are wrong there 😁

I love you so much ❤

Great video! Now... what about an ammo tier list?

Bros why dose this list look cringe

what was the point of the armor changes in the first place youve all been played haha......

Damn the armour system is like playing "Guess Who"

This is so terrible omfg. He rlly put the strandhog and the ugly green vest over the rbav rig Jesus this guy needs to stop making these

I wish I could get level 6 armor lmao I’m a 4 at best

Bsg again overswings to the opposite end of the spectrum, armor is op. Can they not find a nice middle ground?

Keep it up and watching all videos ❤❤

Realism guys: “WHy DiD BsG do ThiS, YOU’rE tElLing me there’s a reason to grind for good armor and good ammo now???!!

Redoot

Thank you so much man. I truly love these long, in-depth videos because it shows dedication and good hard work on your part. I saw this today morning so I studied all day so I can sit down afterwards , get my tea and enjoy this. Thank man and love live hardcore.

Hopefully in the future we can see some trim to the hit boxes. I was enjoying being punished for my position than blaming my poor aim or armor, but casual is all good.

Called it at beginning of this wipe that the THOR was legit

People talking about the old armor system... bet they dont remember when you could put an armored rig over actual body armor and double up that way.

Holy you yap

I knew the black hex was garbage, w the armour rework. Some kid on the offical discord said “no its not its a tier 6!” 😂

armor is now "better" than ever and we even got armored face shields. if you missed wipe week, leg meta/impact nade it is. we got a new "better" p2w account so you are stuck at not being able to reasonably counter no lifers for the shortest period of time. if you don't want to spend half a used car: get farmed. true believers ftw. thx for the info giga, it is disheartening to learn we are back to square 1 but worse.

Definitely a step back in the development

I definitely disagree with the placement of the M2 rig and Thor compared to a tactec or a slick, side stomach protection to me is more important than soft armour under the armpits, which is a really niche scenario

Make arm-pitting great again, its almost like there are vital organs right there.

ARMOUR was fine HEALTH needed overhauling. I said what I said.

ARMOUR was fine HEALTH needed overhauling. I said what I said.

Awesome, I like the variety. I was tired of exclusively running those heavy Russian armors all the time. CPC back on top baby

Can we get a video for plates showing the difference between materials no one has an in-depth guide, i use cult lvl 6 pates becuase they are titan making them strongest .

anything without lvl 3 soft neck aint the best

A lot of yapping 👎

How could vests like the slick ever be in S tier? Fine, the CPC maybe I can agree with, especially very late game and especially maps like Labs. But there's not a chance in a million years that the slick is better than Redut-M. You think a bit of soft armor on the armpit is enough to give up neck, groin, buttocks, partial stomach and side protection?? 5 HIT BOXES? Even if they are lower level still.. it's not just 1 or 2 hitboxes, but FIVE? For some soft armor on the armpit? In a patch where high pen ammo was deliberately made harder to obtain? This isn't the 7.62 BP meta patch mate. That's been gone for a while. Have fun getting buckshot by scavs in the neck and groin lol.

I don't know... At this point the armor system kinda just starts to confuse me even more than it did before. I guess I kinda just have to come to the conclusion that hearing "Armor is more worth now" or less worth and kinda just stick with it. Honestly, not sure what to think about it that we return to a money-dumping meta now where the better ammo rules all. It always has been like this but with the last armor system, which was far away from perfect tho, it at least didn't feel too relevant.

My buddy just got EFT standard edition but has a lower end PC the i5 10,400 f and the 1660 GPU. What are going to be things we need to do to make sure he can play without as much trouble as we can save him. I want him to be able to play with me I just really hope I didn't call him into buying a game he can... Thanks in advance.

bush scavs with 7mm will get you regardless of how careful you play haha

Thanks. Very slightly good video lol.

I love how you are left completely in the dark without videos like this

I honestly feel like the re-vamped armour system is a step backwards, mostly because you can now (again) hit somewhere on the player model that is graphically not covered, but the phantom/magical armour plates wrap around and extend past the edges of the armour itself. I also think they'll catch the anomaly with the soft armours that don't have "Thorax" and "Upper Back"; again having armour that *doesn't* have "Thorax" being better at protecting your Thorax than one that does is weird and unintuitive. I suspect either they'll give *ALL* soft armours Thorax, Upper Back and Lower Back, or they'll change the hitbox of the "Thorax" zone on existing soft armours to match the profile of the Plate template (even if the armour doesn't have a plate). I do understand why they changed it - with the last system you could get shot in the shoulder and die immediately because your shoulder and your heart were the same hit point pool; I think a much better fix would have been to add more player model hit locations, and then have the armour plates protect the more vulnerable parts of your anatomy, like it does IRL. That's a massive rework of the entire hit-reg system though so I understand why they didn't do that. This "new" (it's really just the system from 0.13 with plates added) is just a lot more gamified and less realistic, and it means only the meta ammo is worth running again. I don't like it.

Great video. my favorite part is when you said oh you die by scavs? get gud.

"Shouldn't really be killed by scavs" tell that to the scavs, 1/3 of them are more insane than bosses. Also sadly goodbye tarkov shooter 3 and setup completions for me again.

Korund is 100% better than TV-110 because it comes with side plates and the patch notes specifically say that plates are all the same size and coverage now. Whatever the TV-110 covers, the Korund will but with better default plates.

ik they're all really close towards the top but im so certain that s tier should still favor the protection for extra hitboxes. at the class 5-6 level armors, i just want to protect my neck and such from scav/bad rounds rather than have a thorax that might tank 1 extra bullet once every 10 raids

I don't like this change very much. I preferred the more realistic system where the armor might save your life and it's a great advantage but you can very much still die from scavs and such. I felt it made people more careful and slow instead of bum rushing everyone and just tanking the hits. Armor is meant to save you IF you get hit, not make you able to facetank in gun fights.

Although I agree that the tierlist is well done, I still can't comprehend how so many people (the vocal bit at least) are satisfied with this system. Like, it's not even about hitboxes anymore. The current durability system was designed to make plates tank far more when they actually got hit. When extended to the full body coverage this gives absurd amounts of defense. I think that they should be nerfed significantly. Only today I had a guy with Osprey Assault with stock alu plates tank 460 damage from a Veresk with BT ammo. This literally renders this weapon and many others useless for no reason, the guy should drop dead even from blunt damage. And let's not forget you need 20 kills with that thing for Test Drive 2, and Zubilo rounds (the ones capable of piercing class 4) are literally nowhere to be found. I think that at the very least the plate durability should be reduced by like 30% at least, maybe making class 3 soft armor exclusive to the likes of Defender and Gen4 assault armors could be nice to encourage using them. But some changes are needed, the armors are too OP right now, this is hella overkill and not needed to keep them viable.

For me, they’ve complicated armor mechanics too much. imagine removing a system where you just need to see the armor to understand where it can protect you and instead add a system where you have to do more research to understand which armor is the best. The best thing they could do was to change the functioning of the chest health with an internal and an external chest area, so as to always have the factor of the fast mortality in the center but enduring much more on the external one. I am more and more convinced that this recent update is a downgrade for the game but I always hope that BSG will continue its path and I hope that in the future they will add modded private servers for the various communities.

When choosing armore as well rember the weight of the armore as well because you wont be able to lvl up your speed due to being orange weight there for you lvl strength more and plus being heavy in tarkov is risky cuz your movement is limited

The CPC was my favorite budget armor for PVP. They used to be 67k (vendor price) but now they are 200k. Thanks a lot GB, haha. Also, how important are side plates? I end up repairing my side plates almost as much as my front plate so I feel like they are very important, but if they only protect the stomach then I guess they don't really matter that much.