BEST ARMOR IN HELLDIVERS 2 - Armor Guide and Tips

Hello, welcome back to a new video. So

today we're going to be looking at the

best armor in Helldivers 2. So as you may

know already, there's 3 types of armor:

light armor, medium armor, and heavy

armor. Unfortunately, as of right now,

the armor for the heavy armor seems to be

bugged and it doesn't actually give you

higher defensive capabilities. People have

done tests and it took the same amount of

hits to to be killed by a bug, even when

wearing heavy armor or non-heavy armor.

So unfortunately, using heavy armor is

just a waste of time. It slows you down,

it makes your stamina regen go down a lot,

and the armor passives are just not really

that great. All you get mostly is just

extra padding or 50% resistance to

explosive damage. I just bought myself

this brand new Fortified Commando armor

set just because it looks cool, but I'm

not going to use it until they actually

fix heavy armor so it actually defends you

better. So that leaves you with medium

armor and light armor. Now I personally

always use light armor because the ability

to run faster just is better than any

of these other passives that you get from

any other kind of armor. So I've only got

3 types of light armor and I've only got 2

armor passives. I've got the Servo Assist

and also the Scout passive on 2 of these.

And the Scout passive is pretty good if

you want to sneak around. It reduces range

at which enemies can detect the wearer by

30%, which is very useful if you're

playing higher difficulty levels and you

want to avoid being detected, which

sometimes you do want to avoid the

patrols. It's not worth fighting

everything. Also, markers placed on the

map will generate radar scans every 2

seconds, which is really good. You just

mark a place on the map and that will

generate a radar scan and show you where

enemies are around where you pinged on the

map. So very helpful. And then as for the

Servo Assist, you get increased throwing

range by 30% and 50% limb health

increased protection. So this is pretty

good as well, especially if you're playing

solo. The extra 30% throwing range for

grenades makes it so you can throw

airstrikes and orbitals from a safer

distance away from bug nests or bases,

and it just gives you a bit more safety

between you and your target location.

It is kind of a shame that at the moment

light armor is so good that it means all

the other armor is kind of obsolete. I

would like to try and use the other

armors, but I just always come back to

using light armor. So for medium armor, I

did quite like the Bonesnapper and

Physician armor because they've got this

passive called Med Kit. Now the Med Kit

passive is pretty good because it gives

you 2 extra stims, +2 stims, and But

more importantly, increases the stim

effect duration by 2 seconds. So if you're

getting beaten up, you press the stim and

it will carry on healing you for an extra

2 seconds, even if you keep getting hit on

after using the stim. And it's really

saved me a few times when I couldn't move

because I kept getting thrown about. I

kept healing myself because of the stim

that I pressed earlier, and it was

carrying— it carried on healing me. Even

though I was ragdolling around. The

Engineering Kit is pretty good. It reduces

recoil when crouching prone by 30%, but it

also gives you an extra 2 grenades, so you

get a total of 6 grenades. You can spam a

lot of grenades, so you can choose between

having more grenades or more stim kits.

And then the Democracy Protects is a

pretty good passive. You get a 50% chance

to not die when taking lethal damage.

Prevents all bleeding if chest

hemorrhages. So this is pretty useful as

well. If you keep accidentally dying,

then you've got a 50% chance of not dying

if you get hit by something that would

usually make you die. So you've got 50%

dice roll to randomly not die when you

would have died. So it's pretty useful,

kind of random number generator. And then

you've got the Fortified Armor passive.

This one reduces recoil and I don't really

care about the recoil reduction passive.

It doesn't really seem to help that much,

but the main thing about it is it gives

you 50% resistance to explosive damage.

So what you might realize is you

accidentally get airstrikes by your team

members, or they accidentally throw

grenades or rockets at you. So now you've

got 50% lower chance of getting destroyed

by those explosives, and also your own

grenades. Sometimes you throw grenades and

they accidentally hit something that's too

close to you and you take explosive

damage. Well, now you're only gonna take

50% of that damage. So if you find

yourself constantly getting blown up or

blowing yourself up, this might be pretty

good. But I found that if you dive

into prone whilst throwing a grenade,

because you're in prone, you take much

less explosive damage even from your own

grenades. So what I do is I spam grenades

whilst prone if I'm getting swarmed, and I

won't really die from explosive damage

because I'm prone, and you take reduced

damage when you're prone from explosives.

So for these, all you get is extra padding

for the passive. I don't really know what

that does. It says provides higher armor

rating, but it says armor rating

100, and that's lower than some of these

have 125, so I don't really know what

kind of higher armor rating it's giving,

but it doesn't seem to be giving anything.

Maybe it's bugged. And then here we have a

medium type armor with the Scout passive,

like the light one. Reduces range enemies

can detect you, but this time it's on a

medium armor. So yeah, those are the armor

sets. I think I've unlocked nearly all of

them. You get most of these armor sets

through the War Bonds page, like this one,

uh, this one, this one.

And, uh, I'm trying to— I already unlocked

this one, the Physician. The next one I

want to unlock is on page 10, the Champion

of the People. And you get Democracy

Protects. It's the same one as the other

one. I wish they could have included more

passives instead of just using the same

passives on different types of armor. Or

maybe they could have made it so you can

switch out the passives, like Like in—

what's that game— Diablo 4, where you can

have aspects or enchantments on the armor

and then you use resources to get rid of

the enchantment and replace it with a

different type. It would be cool if they

did that, like some kind of new currency

where you can remove the passive and

replace it with a different passive of

your choosing, because there's— at the

moment there's not enough passives for the

different armor types and they end up

having the same types of passives. Also,

if you go to the Superstore every 24

hours, a new armor set will be shown here.

I bought this Fortified Commando one

because it looks pretty funny. It's like

really fat and puffy, but this is heavy

armor, and at the moment heavy armor is

bugged and doesn't actually give you bonus

defensive capabilities. This one, the

Eradicator, it's just fortified resistance

to explosive damage. So it seems like

there's not that many passives right now.

I wish they would add a few more passives

just to spice things up a bit. But it

just seems like there's 4, maybe 5. You

got Servo, Scout, Med Kit,

Engineering Kit, Democracy Protects,

Fortified, 6, Extra Padding,

7. So there's only 7 passives that I see.

And most of them are not very good. Like,

I would never go for the extra padding one

over 2 extra stims or 2 extra grenades.

I quite like Servo Assist because you get

30% increased throwing range. I found that

pretty useful for landing airstrikes on

bug holes when I don't really want to get

too close to it because I don't want to

aggro the whole bug nest. And then also,

unfortunately, the helmets don't do

anything apart from make you look cool.

So it'd be nice if the helmets actually

added some stats or added some kind of

unique passive, but none of them do. It

would be cool if, for example, I mean,

this one has like a cool visor

eye set thing. Maybe it'll have like night

vision mode. Some— I mean, this one could

have night vision mode. Looks like you got

cameras for eyes. That would really help

for night missions. And then this one,

maybe you could have like infrared mode

where you can detect enemy presence using

infrared or heat detection. That'd be

pretty cool. This one looks pretty cool,

like a stormtrooper. This one would

definitely look like it has night vision

or heat detection,

heat vision, infrared vision. That'd be

pretty interesting. This one looks pretty

cool. The capes don't do anything either.

See, the capes have no passives. Or extra

stats, it's just for visuals. I want an

orange one to match my outfit,

nice bright orange so the bugs can see you

from 50 miles away. So that's it for the

armor. I really hope they flesh this out a

bit more because it could be pretty cool.

Imagine there were more stats on the armor

and you can add, uh, what are they called

on Diablo 4? I forgot. Aspects. That have

different passives on each armor set. I

wish there was more armor like gloves,

boots, trousers, not just, not just like

the outfit and the helmet and the cape.

So yeah, they could definitely flesh out

the whole armor system to make it much

more interesting, much more RPG-like. But

for now it's kind of basic. That's all we

get for now, but there could be a lot of

potential if they make it more