My take on HELMETS

[@alex.s9423]

Penis helm will always hold a special place in my heart as one of the most ricocheting helmets in the game. It’s ridiculous how many times it has saved me

[@StepSisRUstuck]

U dickhead 😂

[@4CMC]

penis helm?

[@odst9579]

It was awesome until it restricted the headphone use to only the shitty ones

[@mhjaquavius]

@@odst9579comtac 2s arent so bad and gssh is probably my favorite just for being cheap ears

[@stilesx2386]

I killed my teammate once cuz I headshot a penis helmet guy and it bounced off and head eyes'd my teammate LOL

[@ScoopzyDaizy]

That’s what people never understand. You’re not wearing one as a guarantee, you’re wearing it as a CHANCE to survive a headshot. And in clutch moments it works wonders.

[@riloegaming]

You’ll only know how many times you could’ve survived a hs unless you have a helmet every time!

[@NaderinZim]

It's just not worth it money wise though. If you buy one every raid, the raid that it will save you won't pay for the cost of the previous 100+ raids it didn't save you, still worth to use one if you find it in raid though.

[@TheBlues1010]

@@NaderinZimexactly this. Helmets are too expensive for what they protect and the amount of times I get killed in the head and it’s a shot the helmet doesn’t even cover has made me not run helmets most of the time.

[@ScoopzyDaizy]

@@NaderinZim That's the thing, I never, ever buy helmets. I wear them because I take them off of people. I only wear class 3/4 helmets with high ricochet chance. If I run into a Fast MT or Bastion in raid I instantly sell them to Ragman for 80-110k. Looking at only profit to judge a helmet's worth when it does save you is kind of dumb as well. When it does save you, you also don't get the mental impact of dying over and over again or losing FIR stuff you need for quests or just general quest items. It's about NOT DYING.

[@joshuajoaquin5099]

at first i thought the helmets is useless and dont bother them and sometimes i get killed in the raid but as i continue to play i decided to try it once and man i survive a headshot and now i began to wear them all the times. There are moments that you knew you should be dead but the helmet prevented it

[@Bumper03100]

Ah yes I love when a .338 ricochets off of my sick pair of sunglasses

[@bodhi1762]

tier 1 can ricochet .338?

[@vilkillian]

​@@bodhi1762 it can ricochet anything, even things like m995 or ppbs "igolnik" or even ash-12 ammo. The ricochet mechanic in this game is greatly simplified to pure chances

[@nade7242]

one time shturman shot me in the face with snb and it bounced off my glasses

[@Tierneil]

Theres a video of an interchange fight where the guy richochets an m993 with condors

[@mskdxnightmare]

​@@TierneilI've bounced an m61 off consors before. And m62, wild seeing that tracer fly right at your face into the tremor/suppression effect and ringing 😂

[@Blitzozs]

imagine shooting a guy that's only wearing sunglasses and it *bounces*

[@oscarbear7498]

Bounces back and heads shots you

[@lights0ut503]

IV actualy bounced 7.62 BP off the condors once I was so hyped after that. Imaginng how the other guy felt. He'll never know that condors saved me 😂

[@ignaciopavez3903]

condor's ricochet only works on ammo, or grenade fragmentation i think, i'm not completly sure but it sounds weird that balistic glasses could ricochet any kind of ammo

[@lights0ut503]

@@ignaciopavez3903 nah man IV ricochet straight face shots with them hell the person I just killed 10mins ago tanked the first shot to the face had to shoot him twice in the head 😂😂 condor's op sometimes 😂

[@killerbas40]

Scav heads seem to bounce them all the time even without glasses

[@gabrielmoreno7112]

Condors can be the goat sometimes imo, you get a head ricochet, proceed to check your stuff once you're sure you are safe only to see the Condors had taken the bullet rather than the helment.

[@Genny_B]

One guy did a test with a mosin and condors, and only one bullet out of 50 shots ricocheted, which is still better than nothing

[@urosmamic4172]

​@@Genny_Bfor me they are anti head,eyes from scavs

[@riloegaming]

It always surprises me lol, suriving a headshot and then seeing tics of health off the condors lol

[@Kuro-tr8ju]

Yeah i once was running condors and they bounced 2 shoots of m80 on woods , i won the fight bc of those condors .

[@sefin84]

Those glasses and face mask are the best "helmets" those two items are cheap and it has higher protection than fully modded airframe or fast...

[@vulpesrosarum4795]

It's better to have A chance than NO chance.

[@riloegaming]

Exactly

[@KingJulien1996]

The Question is at what Cost ?😅 saving you every 10th time is just not worth it

[@maxminivr8723]

@@KingJulien1996I got saved by a helmet with the 1/10 with a lot of really good gear and items, use them.

[@hairypassage]

@@KingJulien199626k for a penis helmet, you can easily make that back by putting stuff in your pouch/docs case, even if you die, you’ll get that back. Plus, with cheaper helmets you’ll have a backload in the insurance menu.

[@idhqbqjqsixjbsnqkwiwhs]

But, for 200k roubles that chance, mhh I like my odds

[@118042]

Coming out of a raid after a close call and seeing your condors at 24/25 is an insane feeling

[@chanadlerbing8659]

Extremely early in the wipe I found a pair of Condors on a scav. My squad was messing around on Customs and one of my friends jokingly shot at me with 7mm buckshot. I heard the ricochet noise and instinctively told him he get lucky my helmet stopped it. At the end of the raid I checked my gear and it turns out my Condors had actually bounced a pellet that would’ve killed me. I got all 3 of my Salewas that raid too so those things saved me so much heartbreak.

[@Zerklass]

That friend better be licking in between your toes every single day until he dies for that

[@maxbliss1202]

Sounds like you need new friends

[@Schimml0rd]

"friend" :'D

[@deathbringer9893]

​@@maxbliss1202we do this with my buds grab a weak pistol round and do "helmet checks"

[@FIRE_BOMB1]

Casually blocks 5.56 with sunglasses

[@ZinkyStinky]

Another note about ricochet's, don't stand close to your friend with one of these helmets. You'll catch that ricochet. Saw it happen twice, I witnessed it happen to the two of my friend's the first time and then it actually happened to me the second.

[@Skim_beeble7125]

The amount of times I’ve had the dick head helmet save my life and then had people turn around and say helmets suck is insane Not only this but the main thing a helmet protects me from in this game is the shot gun scavs

[@stasianatanasov6294]

Helmets suck because drip > gear every day of the week. Faction caps, momex, beanies, balaclavas, and so on every day of the week. If I die, I am dying with style, not like some russian conscript with a green penis on my head

[@TEJR69]

Just yesterday I finally got my last Virtex for the quest... started shitting bricks and crept in the shadows like a total pussyboi, saw a bloke sitting in a bush right where I needed to go. Took my time, aimed at his head (saw him from behind), shot two shots and both of them ricochet. This man had his guardian angel on his shoulder, cus' you are lucky enough to ricochet ONE bullet... the second was either god telling me to reconsider my actions or simply man has hit the lottery winning odds.

[@FrankieRuffino]

Trash ammo

[@lukeolague9810]

When I was playing this game religiously about 2 years ago, the 6B37 ratnik helmet saved my life INFINITELY many more times than an ops core with a ballistic face shield. It's basically the only helmet that I trust.

[@riloegaming]

It has a good ricochet chance!

[@lukeolague9810]

@@riloegaming that's why I trust it; even when I play these days it's the only helmet I will take!

[@Cru128]

I’ll be honest. My logic in any game is that if something will protect me even more, I will always wear it

[@theindexfinger3434]

Ulach and Bastion saved my ass more times than I can count. Also, the ear protection is great, because you can get shot in the ear from the front sometimes. And having an Ulach or any side protection will save you. Also having you back of the head protected is huge.

[@donovian2538]

BSG: We want gritty, realistic firefights Tarkov: Magdumping while tanking multiple rounds to the head or bust

[@ЯБезымянный-о5ф]

I remember taking 3 consecutive Lapua shots in the helmet from some soft user. Fortunately, his ammo was also soft as shit. The concussion effect lasted for a full minute.

[@yournan6199]

"My main argument is this:" *brain injury* *brain injury* *brain injury* *at this point I'm gonna forget how to read* *brain injur- TIMES TWO*

[@eooki]

in shattered mask we trust 🙏

[@riloegaming]

The shattered mask is objectively good but it just looks so dumb I can’t use it

[@vb_blokeboi7251]

This guy gets it

[@h.smitty105]

Imo with the right kit it can be the drippiest option

[@dabinhaler1337]

@@h.smitty105 i bounced a 7n31 9mm off my shattered mask in labs, that bullet has a crazy low ricochet chance, i was hyped.

[@CeizoBro]

@@dabinhaler1337I bounced a 7n39 Igolnik off of one. I was peeking the crack in new gas wall (behind the wall looking into gas) and dude put one in my TC2001

[@IanAberbach]

My thing is armor is mainly to not die to Timmy’s and scavs, obviously it’s not stopping M61 and BP regardless u still need to rely on positioning more than anything in tarkov

[@riloegaming]

My teammate tanked a round of BP to the head from my other teammate on accident once lol.

[@monkeyct3849]

I need a helmet on my stomach for some extra stomach protection so i wont get shot 10times from 200m away by somebody named baobao

[@dyvinexssasen2863]

Condors have saved me so many times it's actually comical

[@mikedebakker5820]

Well i'm jelous then because i haven't been saved once by them.

[@riloegaming]

You have good luck!

[@ZaRustedCrane]

Helmet is actually pretty darn useful, when you and the enemy are at close range or mid range, while fighting you will indeed panic and try to shoot everywhere and it may hit you in the helmet (if you have one) and save you, and you can put some tactical equipment on your helmet to help you on your journey to getting good loot.

[@Naxvarus]

Every tarkov player does this. "Helmets are so useless they never stop a bullet." You then go into a raid and headshot a PMC. "That one bounced"

[@riloegaming]

Lol exactly. Playing arena also shows exactly how effective helmets actually are

[@alexschannelorsomething6673]

The SSH saved my life on factory once; Me and a player peaked at the same time in loading bay(the one that leads up towards the office) and we fired at the same time with mosins. Upon doing so, i heard a PING! from my side and had tremors for a moment, but i heard a second one during our exchange. This in conjunction with the video should be more than enough for anyone new watching this: **WEAR HELMETS!!** They will not always save your life, but they /can/ save you.

[@threehundredblackout]

depends on the angle, helmets in real life are made for shrapnel, fragmentation, not bullets, very few actually stop a rifle round

[@sterbea]

I think people often get confused because of the NIJ rating

[@Notllamalord]

Depending on the angle there is a slight chance for deflection I guess

[@threehundredblackout]

Helmets are perfect for long range, they are good for woods, shoreline, if you get shot from far away the bullet velocity is lower, and if it hits an angle it will protect you from multiple shots to the head (what i mean to say its that its harder to get shots in the center of your head from 300 meters), if its center shot it will not deflect, people think helmets or masks can magically deflect a bullet when it hits the center of your head. They give the possibility to survive a headshot, not guaranteed.

[@ttc_karmajuan5209]

Imagine shootings 7.62 FMJ rounds and it just bounces on the guy's sunglasses bruhh 😭😭😂😂

[@Toastyboi-z3p]

Ahhh yes when my AXMC bounces off a set of sunglasses

[@emil87th]

A Bastion with the added plates is just *chefs kiss* Saved me more than once from multiple 7.62 BP hits. Always run it late-wipe.

[@Captbeefjerky2943]

The counter argument should've been "nuh uh"

[@GreenSinic]

Helmets are pretty good in Tarkov considering they're mostly a few levels higher than their IRL counterparts (1-2 in-game ratings higher than the actual IRL GOST rating equivalent). People give helmets a lot of flack but considering they're buffed, I think we should be less reliant on them and just respect them for the ricochet chance and coverage.

[@alexjones4679]

There's a reason that for a long time I - much like literally every other person running a lot of labs - ran shattered face masks and rat rigs. The rat rig is to protect from shotguns because everyone running labs had their 6 ammo that pens literally anything, so level 4 rig is good enough (plus overpen was a thing). The facemasks were the absolute meta because they had (maybe still have?) The highest ricochet chance in the game for the head, and would consistently bounce off face shots. I was saved dozens of times by my facemask, because while it's level 1 armour, it has insanely good ricco chance

[@boufey5169]

Several times my PMC has been given "headaches" from 100 snipers. I'm always surprised to see that I survived.

[@Ozhys]

This wipe the tagilla mask has saved me from headshots to the head like 18 times, always holding the hp on it. I swear by it now 😂

[@riloegaming]

He tagilla mask is crazy good

[@Schmidty8806]

Helmets in EFT saves lives.

[@mattakash3034]

I feel like my helmets save me more from the scavs than they do PMC. You never know when you’re gonna catch that stray buckshot to the head.

[@POTUSJimmyCarter]

35 points of health before insta-death ain't a lot. People don't seem to get that. So what if it doesn't stop 7.62x54mmR reliably? You're gonna feel real silly when that scav mag dumps a Saiga-9 with shit ammo at you and you catch a single round in the noggin.

[@lordundependable5008]

the pure aura you get for ricocheting a bullet off of your sunglasses instantly kills enemies, trust

[@MeWhne]

This "chance" of survival never saved me, after like 50 raids with a helmet, never once was i even shot in the helmet.

[@voggers2593]

Play long enough and it will happen, but the odds are so low that you shouldn't worry about adding helmets to your gear budget as a new player. Just use them if you find them. You can play just fine without them

[@HamaIicious]

The 7.62 round heading straight towards my eyes: The random pair of shades I found on the ground:

[@darthrevan454]

I practically worship the condors. Anytime i wear them it always says me from a head eyes

[@CCA.C17.SQL.02Idot]

Tarkov be so realistic they forgot how helmets aren’t for bullets

[@richieewinns]

No joke, condors have bounced m995 as a guy got the jump on me and that split second time gave me the advantage to win the fight. Definitely worth it every time.

[@malcolmliang]

Was on the ground not noticing this scav sniper has already taken aim, his aim was good too, saw two cracks on my faceshield immediately ran away, got him at the end, face shields work but definitely kills your hearing.

[@foxhound2]

The amount of times the condors have saved me is insane! Actually ricocheted a shot last night.

[@AlwaysAFKing]

Condors are great, if I can't see anything through the fog, they light up easily making a perfect target.

[@a_lot5163]

Condors protect me an absurd amount of times BUT if there is any fog at all, they light up like a christmas tree. Cant tell you how many times I saw someone exclusively because of their glasses.

[@louisjoy8061]

I have had condors save me more times then I can count, live and die by them

[@princesanchez966]

“ i’m not gonna wear a helmet cause i can get shot in the face “ is the same smooth brain logic as “ i don’t wipe my ass cause ima shit again anyways “

[@kunaiguywot]

I stan the replica helmet. I have two floating through my insurance returns and neither has ever been breached. I have been head eyes'd while wearing them, or otherwise died, but both have deflected multiple bullets.

[@RagnAR-15]

Condors have saved my ass a few times. When trying to play seriously I always take them into a game

[@WheelchairOperator]

I bounced an M80 off the Condors on Woods. That sold me on them every time I go into raid.

[@pepperdaddy69]

How do you know it was m80?

[@riloegaming]

@@pepperdaddy69 you can see what round hit you in the health screen at end of raid

[@pepperdaddy69]

@@riloegaming I realized after I typed it that he probably didn't heal from it. I always heal in raid when I get shot and it doesn't tell you then

[@BaconNationChannel]

Bastion with extra slapp armor, those same glasses and the death shadow mask. You are now Walking tank v2

[@sLogOG]

Yeah it's the best feeling when it happens, once or twice a wipe hahahaha

[@Marerrey]

a bastion helmet once saved me from a heavy machine gun round on lighthouse. now imagine my teammates' reaction lmao

[@RayMFCharles]

Nothing beats winning a fight then checking your inventory to find out you bounced a round off your condors

[@alexjones4679]

I've worn condors more than I've worn actual helmets since they were added. I've eaten literally dozens of shots to the eyes because of those beautiful things. Plus, the glasses lighting bug makes it so that if they shoot you it's usually in the eyes. Perfect combo. One time i was wearing ONLY condors on my head and i got shot in the face by a guy with an SVD and ate it

[@esc_7242]

I remember being jumpscared by a PPSH mag dumping my lvl4 visor

[@AidenWolf97]

Thank God there's someone out there that agrees

[@jeri_v2578]

I've always preferred the ulach when playing daytime raids and the FAST when needing NVGs for night raids

[@IntheBay85]

Condors have saved me from being head eyes food more times than I can count.

[@xdiv1nity]

There’s a lighting bug that’s been in the game forever where if you wear condors, it’s really visible in dark lighting situations or fog. Idk how to explain it lmfao but that can be seen as a disadvantage

[@GmodFilmsTR]

I have a saying that goes "you buy a helmet 10 times and if it saves you once its worth all 10 helmets"

[@Corzappy]

Helmets don’t save you 10% of the time. Even if they did, that’s like 300K roubles that you’ve burned out of your loot run because you insist on running a helmet when it hardly ever saves your life, and that’s on top of the cost of the rest of your kit.

[@dstedy]

ULACH is goated. The tan one is a tell-tale sign of a timmy in training though. Remember to maximize your natural camouflage to stay effective.

[@devilshadow5256]

The Batwolf glasses have blocked more rounds then the condors for me personally

[@Ndsbot]

I was wearing the blue helmet once and found a group of players with mp7s at the extract extremely close. I went prone and survived full on spray on my head .. didnt survive but that was nuts

[@fakezombeyy]

Bastion also has an uparmored attachment that bumps it to tier six, lets you keep earphones and night vision. Highly recommend if you can get your hands on it

[@aristotlekaiser6974]

Ulach and condors have saved me an impossible amount of times

[@aristotlekaiser6974]

Actually just had a ratnik save me two times in one raid a couple hours ago, got out and finished bunker part 2

[@stomodino5443]

Helmets save lives. My life was once saved by one irl.

[@dawidkasperek1296]

Fun fact. My friend's condors ate a fricking lapua magnum once. Wear your eye protection lads xD

[@conkcreet4873]

Dang I never realized how in depth the item mechanics are in this game! I don't play it but this is cool

[@EricTheBroBean]

My favorite helmet is the Mich-2002 paired with lvl5 SLAAP armorplate. I usually go for the guide as soon as I can to get access to the plates.

[@jtoole5639]

A condor saved my life on a really good raid once, so once I get flea I run them just about every raid.

[@coopers1716]

Every round has its own deflection chance and it increases as bullet speed decreases as well. High pen rounds are more likely to ricochet because of their harder tips. Lower pen rounds don’t bounce as often cause they’re usually soft tipped and just kinda glom onto whatever they’re hitting.

[@Colonel_dinggus]

If you bounce a bullet off your eye, you’re getting knocked out. That’s instant blackout complete with side of concussion and permanent vision loss. Maybe add a knockout mechanic where you look like you die and you go unconscious for a minute and if no one kills you, you can get back in the game with whatever they didn’t take from you while you had nap time

[@jonasbeltoft]

Yes everyone PLEASE wear Condors. Especially when its raining, it lessens the water droplets on the camera. Very OP.

[@TheStackeddeck77]

Condors have saved my like like 40-50 times. I used to keep the busted ones when i lived to remember why i paid the rubles for them

[@stainlesscrowd]

condors have saved my life numerous times

[@imago150]

Condors are a good choice until you get head-eyesed at night

[@monke1846]

wore an altyn and condors, said to my friend, "it'll bounce trust," i get cracked right inbetween my eyes and the condor bounced of all things

[@01SMH]

My glasses has deflected a mosin BT to the eyes

[@daslootgoblin5373]

Fast MT with the full “turtle” setup, aka ears/mandible/slaap has saved my life soooo many times this wipe. I’ve tanked meta ammo to the face and buckshot from scavs. It’s my main run but on occasion I’ll run bastion with the lvl6 plate

[@trevor7873]

The wendy exfil has saved me more than I can count

[@johnparks4345]

Condors have saved my life Never doubt them

[@noahturner7123]

I will never forget eating a mosin shot on woods with the WWII soviet green helm. That thing is still in my stash and it’s my new lucky helmet

[@sterm1ous]

Counter arguement is basically,if you were to get shot, do you want to wear a helmet?

[@pokemon100200]

Although I always wear helmets this wipe, I haven’t bought a single one. I have yet to have a helmet save me this wipe, compared to last wipe when they saved me a lot. Even scavs just headeyes now.

[@riloegaming]

I never buy any gear, especially not helmets, but I always wear one if I have one!

[@r.9158]

Taking an extended break from Tarkov right now but... After 4200 hours of playing since 2017, I'm convinced the Ratnik is the best all-around helmet for any stage of wipe. Has the ricochet and ear coverage you want, it's cheap, and any ammo that's gonna pen it is probably going through your ULACH anyway.

[@Furyfoe]

Ulach is def better but yeah 6b47 is amazing for what it is, better than any of the non ear protection t4 helms imo.

[@mattsaab4903]

I always consider scavs as my main threat when I bring in gear level 3 everything gets the job done for me anyways

[@Gnarlio]

its the same with face shields plenty of times they saved me, although this season with the new PK visual rework I don't run them as often, the blur gives me a headache, the old PK gritty visual made it so much clearer last season.

[@chargezed3601]

helmets are also good to stop scav rounds or flesh damage rounds

[@MegaHayzen]

This! today I played a scav in shoreline, there was a pmc in the building because of dead scavs (30 minutes left in raid), found a Shattered mask in a sports bag, as soon I left the room, a pmc was holding my door, the mask saved my life (he hit me once in the head)

[@thefloridaman444]

You forgot to mention the GIGACHAD Batwolf glasses.

[@geek1705]

On my first raid, I was killed by a ricochet. My friend and I were hiding and a PMC shot him. The round bounced off his helmet and hit me in the face

[@theorphanobliterator]

not wearing a helmet is such a smooth brain thing to do

[@kingpinjunky0219]

Helmets have definitely gotten better over the last couple wipes

[@LazyLash]

I think some people forgets that this game is a 1 shot headshot game. Many high pen bullets can’t 1 tap through a helmet so even against good ammo it's still worth.

[@Corzappy]

Most people are well aware of the ammo that loses 1 tap potential on helmet penetration and avoid it like the plague. Trust me, you aren’t getting headshot and surviving unless it’s buckshot from a scav.

[@jackpullen]

Going from tier 3 helmets to tier 4 helmets is so damn worth it, the amount of times i've been saved by my ulach is more times than i can count

[@noswad8317]

Btw glasses like condors glow in the dark so if you’re sniping while wearing them and someone spots you way too fast it’s because your glasses glow

[@arrow3276]

My ex's dad was on tour on iraq, everyone was at the ouside mess hall when a sniper shot fire into the camp. 1 man i believe went down then they shot her dad, by some miracle he was wearing his pair of raybands and the bullet ricocheted saving his life. He sent the pair to raybands and they put it on display plus they gave him either a huge discount or free raybands for life!

[@Chronic0420]

People say not to wear glasses because of the glare, but I have never seen a glare. I’ve only seen one video about it and I think the benefits to wearing them is great.