Armor COMPLETELY OVERHAULED and No One Knows! - Escape from Tarkov

microt transactions are coming to T no that's not what this video is going to be about and this isn't going to be me reading the patch notes to you as if you couldn't read it to yourself like a little bedtime story today I waited for the patch to actually come out and we're only going to talk about things that you absolutely need to know I know you guys this time is precious and something you really need to know about is armor everything you knew about it is out the window armor has been radically changed with this patch and it was barely even featured in the patch not we have a huge amount of armor changes need to talk about in this video and that's going to be the meat of this video and it's going to completely influence What helmets and what armor you're weighing for the rest of this wife so stay ahead of the curve when you finish this video you're going to have all the advantages you need you're going to be buying cheaper armor that's more effective and you're going be living more raids let's talk about armor so in the patch notes it hardly addressed the changes to armor but there were some massive changes to armor and also the code in the game with how bullets penetrate how they Ricochet and how they fragment if you're not super familiar with all those things I'll briefly touch base on them as we go through the changes but let's talk about armor because once we talk about these changes it's going to radically influence what armor and helmets you bringing into your raid and your survivability I just want to thank my friend no food after midnight he tested all of these things out gave me the spark nuts so that I can go ahead and inform you guys what has changed with armor and helmets he made EFT ammo that amazing ammo chart he has done a tremendous amount for this gate from T community and without him we wouldn't really have these numbers so go check him out his links will be in the description so first and foremost something you really need to know about is your upper arms are not penetrable so your upper arms above your elbow to your shoulder previously those are penetrable so imagine you were running perpendicular to someone and a bullet went through right below your shoulder straight into your armpit that's how you'd find yourself in those awful armpit hitbox areas and that's why we love things like the Osprey right it has those shoulder pads it could stop a and it would stop that penetration from happening and avoid that armpit and if it did hit that armpit at least it lost the velocity it lost some of the damage and you weren't just flopping over to that armpit hitbox now the armpit hit box isn't gone but it's going to be almost impossible for players to hit it and really only a few things are ever going to get in there namely like Buckshot and stuff so you no longer really need to prioritize wearing those armpads on your armor you should be having significantly less frustrating deaths as well from scavs shooting you in your armpits they're getting through your arms so if you've been avoiding things like maybe the redut things like the Corin because they didn't have that arm armor go ahead and start running those are going to be significantly more valuable speaking about armor and what armors are more valuable I'm actually going to do a whole armor tier list updated probably tomorrow or the next day with all these changes I don't want to rush in on make sure I'm giving you guys high quality content so I'll wait till I've tested all the armor and I really know where they stand if you appreciate me taking the time to actually test these things and not just read the passions to you guys do me a favor smash the dislike button and tell me commit toaster bath in the comments down below like to bring you guys high quality content and I don't just want to push out dog to you as fast as as possible another big change that's going to affect the ospr also a lot of different armors is the change to Aid so when you went from level two Aid to level three Aid on some of the higher end armors you really felt a little bit tankier because the way soft armor is working soft armor was kind of sponging up rounds if you got hit around the plate it would really slow down the bullet and lower the damage on that it's no longer like that you're still going to get a little bit of damage reduction but the penetration values are going to be much lower than they were before where you would see quite a bit of damage reduction up until like the 40 penetration rounds you're now looking at around the 30 penetration rounds you're going to start getting almost full damage on that airamid so now it's not going to be such a night and day difference between someone that has air Mid 2 and air mid 3 when you're a lowlevel to mid-level player this change is just also going to influence what armor you're going to want to bring now it's going to be fine to run level two air mid armor however it's going to influence caliber so namely rifle calibers particularly 762 by 39 545 and 556 are going to feel sign significantly stronger as they're not going to be having their damage lowered on that Aid I mean with 5.56 for me it was feeling great when I was whenever I was getting headshot but sometimes when I was hitting the chest it would hit the arms it would hit the plates then it would hit the soft armor when I went around the plates and I was getting things like 17 hit counts for one kill 5.56 545 now it's going to be doing a ton of damage anytime you're missing that plate and actually hitting shots on that airamid so all of those rifle cartridges should feel significantly better due to these air midlevel three changes so watch out for those you're also not going to need to invest as much money on Armor if you don't have that money one thing I do want you guys to make sure you continue to bring is throat protection although all these changes are coming in and we're going to really influence the armors we want to bring still having that throat protection is going to be absolutely massive in Saving you do not sleep on that talking about helmets in the head hit box next so first and foremost the head hit box has been drastically shrunken head shots going to be harder to pull off now than they were before and and really the main area they've been shrunken is the ear hit box so the sides of your head actually protruded quite a bit like imagine how small your ears are in real life now imagine the hit box sticking out like two to three maybe even four times the size of your actual ears in real life that was the ear hit box you know where like the Oola helmet would rest on your ears and cover way over your ears including your ear protection that was ear hit boox and you really had to watch out for it they have shrunken this down tremendously what does that mean for you well your protection on helmets is no longer nearly as important as it was because this hit box was shrunken the actual armor area was shrunken as well and the way they tried to balance out this extra ear protection on these helmets like the ulok was they were actually reducing how far you could hear with your headsets to swipe there was a bug where you could actually go ahead and drop your helmet and drop your headset and then still be able to hear at full volume but they tried to balance around that ear protection but now with the ear hit box being significantly lower than it was you might choose to just wear something like a fast Mt wear something like an an airframe where something like a Bastion helmet something it doesn't have ear protection you're going to be shrinking up that hit boox and it's going to help you one you're going to be able to hear it full volume two you're not going to be suffering from blunt damage when something grazes that ear hit box where that helmet would lie but if you're not wearing it you're going to be safe imagine someone shooting right at you and they graze the side of your ear and you get blunt damage to the head because you made your head hit box bigger so you're going want to watch out for that I know it sounds a little counterintuitive but you're going to be able to hear farther you're going to be able to get cheap helmets and you're not going to be making your head hit box any larger on maps where you tend to get shot in the sides of the head you might still opt to wear something like this ulok but I'll personally be wearing it less and less with helmets the Ricochet chance has gone significantly up you're going to be bouncing way more helmets not only off your helmet but off of your masks so nothing's really going to change your helmet you're going to live through a lot more head shot than you were well where these Ricochet properties are really going to come in handy is with face coverings with Ricochet chance so notice of the visors have Ricochet chance so the fast Mt visor etc those things cannot Ricochet right Alton visor it cannot Ricochet a bullet however things like your chops things like your death mask the ballistic mask things like the shatter mask that do have Ricochet chance will be able to block bullets so if you're playing a map like Factory like Customs somewhere where you're actively looking at the person who's shooting at you not something like Woods where someone gets the drop on you a lot you're going to be able to Ricochet rounds and save your life dramatic atically more so all those items they're already pretty expensive but they will be saving your life I personally will be wearing more of like airframe with chops is it won't suffer from the issues of reducing my hearing and it'll also give me some extra face protection and some extra Ricochet chance but a great cheap option here for a budget is the shattered mask as well and these will really increase how often you guys survive the only other thing you need to know about that doesn't directly influence armor but it's about the ammunition is fragmentation no longer works so if you look at an ammo chart so talking about fragmentation you you know that ammo chart X point ammo in my twitch chat you see the fragmentation percentage on ammunitions right and a lot of ammunitions are balanced around their fragmentation chance if you remember my am packing video we talked about 7 and 40 which had no fragmentation chance right PS balance on that property because it makes you bleed it has reduced recoil and those stats kind of got redistributed elsewhere in the ammunition well fragmentation chance is turned off right now you cannot fragment any bullets at all so that means things like your RI rounds Etc they're all built around fragmenting and getting that double damage on that chance they're no longer fragmenting whatsoever so when picking ammunition from now on I would just go ahead look at that ammo chart and look at ammunition that has less of a fragmentation chance cuz in most instances that value gets added to things like their penetration or their damage right and that's going to get you killing significantly more players this swipe guys I tried to keep this as short as possible just to get you guys informed on everything you need to know about the patch I know this video came a day after the Patch however I think it has very pertinent information they'll completely influence how you play the rest of swipe or until they address some of these bugs or some of these changes in upcoming hopics I'll keep you guys posted if you want to know about that subscribe and if you don't know grenades have all sorts of crazy different properties about them and you can get yourself a ton of different kills knowing which direction they roll how they like to bounce Etc I'll have that on screen right now do yourself a favor and check that out so you can become John Wick With Grenades peace out guys

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Length: 9min 33sec (573 seconds)

Published: Mon Feb 26 2024