Testing ALL ARMOR In The New Helldivers 2 Update ｜ HUGE Patch, Armor Rating FIXED

So it seems like they finally managed to

fix the broken armor ratings in the game.

Heavy armor actually does what it's

supposed to do, and I can finally use my

cool-looking padded armor. I forgot what

it's called— padded commando heavy armor

or something like that. I got this ages

ago, weeks ago, thinking it looks really

cool, but I was never able to use it

simply because there was no point. But now

look at this, I'm just tanking these mobs

like a heavy-plated tank is supposed to be

able to do. And they're struggling to get

me down until they stun me, and so I can't

use my stimpacks. But I did some testing,

and using the light armor, I definitely

went down way quicker than when I was

using the heavy armor. I don't know why it

took them such a long time to fix. It's

been like 5, 4 weeks since the game came

out, and finally they've managed to fix

the armor ratings. Look, I can just stand

here being pelted by these little mini

mobs, mini spewers, and And they can't do

anything. I can just keep spamming my

stims and they don't have enough burst

damage to be able to take me down. Now

when I tried this with the light armor,

watch what happens. So I was running

around and these flappy ear things

basically 3-4 shot me. They did 1 hit and

quarter of my life went down. Now this is

not light armor, this is actually medium

armor. We'll do some testing with light

armor and see how long we last, but this

is with medium armor versus heavy armor

and look how quickly my life goes down

just from a few hits. I'm just getting

destroyed. Look at these flappy ear

things, just wrecking my health bar. So

you can see the massive difference between

medium and heavy. Now we'll try out light

armor and see what the difference is.

Look how quickly I went down, didn't even

last. I couldn't even stimpack myself.

Okay, so now we've just landed. I'm using

light armor. You can see it's I think this

is the light armor where you can throw an

extra 30% further. So you can see how fast

I am, and now we're going to find some

mobs and see how much damage it takes to

actually take me down. It probably won't

take much. So there's some light enemies

here, see how much damage— yeah,

it does a lot of damage. Look at my health

bar just going down.

So you can easily see the comparison

between light armor and heavy armor.

These flappy ear guys, they're doing like

one hit and taking half my health. I can

only survive about 2 or 3 hits. In the

heavy armor with 200 armor rating, I swear

I was surviving like 5 or 6 hits. So look

at them trying to hit me.

Yeah, they just nearly one-shot me. I

can't even last more than 3 hits in the

light armor. Definitely a massive

difference now. So I don't really know why

you would choose light armor over heavy

armor unless you wanted the speed. The

speed bonus is nice, I guess, but there's

a lot of enemies in this game that can

actually catch up with you even if you're

sprinting with light armor, and it just

seems like the extra defense capabilities

could help you out more than the speed

buff. See, even with the speed buff,

because you get snared It doesn't really

help much, does it? You get slowed 50% or

something. I'm just getting destroyed by

these tiny, tiny little light armored

enemies, whereas in the heavy armor I

definitely was lasting much longer. Yeah,

massive difference here.

Okay, so we'll go back and use the heavy

armor. I got the heavy armor. This one's

actually got bonus passives where you get

up to 200 defense rating. The heavy armor

usually gives you about 150 defense, so

I'm just gonna find some enemies and get

whacked a bit. I don't know if I can

destroy this fence with a grenade. Oh,

you can. I like the destructive

environment. Okay, this was a bit too

much. I was just expecting some light

enemies, not 2 freaking Chargers and a

Bile Spewer. So already you can see the

damage I'm taking is way less, unless you

get stomped by a bunch of Chargers.

Vomited on, then it's— even the heavy

armor is not really gonna help you out in

that situation. So let's try and find some

light enemies to make it a bit more of a

fair test, see how much damage I can

withstand. I'm so happy I can use this

armor set because I thought this armor set

looked really cool. Now I can finally use

it and it actually has a purpose. Oh look,

super samples. Don't need any more, I

already maxed out everything on my ship.

It would be nice if they let you trade in

the samples for something else, like maybe

medals, super credits. It'd be cool if you

could swap the samples for super credits,

but I guess they want you to buy them. So

watch them do damage against me. Oh,

they're only doing like 10% damage, these

little bug guys, and this guy barely does

anything. So you can see there's a massive

difference in the amount of damage you

take. Heavy armor versus light armor.

Finally they fixed this. I can't believe

it took them so long.

Okay, so let's look at some armor sets.

If you look at the armor, it now properly

displays the armor rating. So most of the

heavy armor only has 150— see, 150, 150,

150— but this one, this special's got

extra padding, gives you 200. So look at

the medium armor, it only has 100 armor

rating. Some of them have 150 if you have

the extra padding passive. So you can get

heavy armor rating on medium armor

if you've got the extra padding passive.

So that's pretty cool. You can get like a

trade-off of a bit more speed with the

medium but also a bit more armor padding.

But I think Democracy Protects is still

probably the best because you get 50%

chance of not dying. And then you look at

the light armor, some of them have 64,

but then some of them have 50. I think

default is 50. This one has 70. So I

don't know why they randomly have

different armor ratings even though it

doesn't have extra padding traits. So this

one has up to 70, the infiltrator armor.

But I think this one's still my favorite.

The helmet looks really cool as well. It

just looks really funny. And then you got

this one, 150, but this one has 50%

resistance to explosive damage, which is

pretty useful, and it looks pretty cool as

well. So this would be good against

Automatons because they got a lot of

rockets and grenades. Terminids, I don't

know if the bile spewer mortars count as

explosions. Maybe it does. This one

looks pretty cool as well. I really wish

the helmets— oh, the helmets have armor

rating as well, but they're all the same,

100. They should have heavy helmets.

That looks pretty cool. And then look at

the Superstore. They've got this one.

This one is light armor, 50, but you get 2

extra grenades. And I've already got this

one. This This one is also— no, this one's

medium armor, but you get 50% resistance

to explosives. We got 5 hours until the

next armor appears. Hope there's some cool

armor. What would be really cool is heavy

armor with Democracy Protects, then you

get 50% chance to not die. Currently I've

got a lot of 50% resistance to explosives.

Yeah, I've got 3 with the same Fortified

trait, and this one's Servo-Assisted.

Increased throw range and limb, limb

health, 50% limb health.

So yeah, that's pretty cool.

Reporting to

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