Helldivers 2 Armor EFFECTS!?

all right hello everybody it's Johnny Law fellow hell diver I'm here with crash someone I have trauma bonded with on many missions fightings and automatons we're going to be going over something that we have or crash has noticed and I have noticed during his testing that we haven't seen any videos or anything about but we do have some some solidification from the CEO and what we're talking about is not just the stats of the uniforms and the armor and the weapons but the effects of the uniforms now I know people are wondering what are you talking about get out of here you commi but that's just just hear us out for a second and then after this video go test it out tell us what you think promise you there's something here so we all know that each armor has its own kit like the Battle Master it's fortified so less recoil when crouched or prone and gives explosive damage resistance but some things that crash has figured out is not only does the armor have these kits but they also have specific spots that their armor actually works so if you want to explain that if you want to talk about the uh the Drone Master let's start with that yeah so if you notice drone Masters are one of the skinniest sets of armor that you'll actually see like armor zones on and like you'll have no shoulder pads you've got no leg guards no crotch guard I mean the only things you really have are race neak pads a tiny little holster on the side that provides some protection and your chest you know your plate carrier that's about it for your armor zones right it's very skinny and it it has like nothing on it so what you figured out is even though this armor has a rating of 100 that 100 rating only really counts in those armor it's on those armor zones yeah on on those armor zones everywhere else it's doesn't have that 100 which is such an interesting thing because I've noticed and I noticed it more when you started pointing it out when I wear my specific armor that has padding on the left shoulder but none on the right when I'm getting shot in the left I'm taking almost no damage but then almost getting one shot when I get hit on my right side have you noticed those as well oh AB absolutely I mean I started started turning my engagements from shooting from left to right to right to left and depending on the armor I'm wearing I'll have cover on one side of my um body and like I'll find a rock and I'll peek around the right side versus the left side depending on where my armor is at right right and then and then another armor that's in the complete opposite Spectrum would be the Battle Master now if you want to this thing is armored to the teeth right I mean you've got you got a huge old plate up on the the left shoulder and you've got leg armor zones shin guards chest plates crotch guards I mean you're you're looking at there are no places left on this armor that you could get hit right that won't be affected by armor most definitely and I mean anybody who's wearing heavy armor they think oh I'm not dying because my my armor rating is 150 but yeah 150 to 100 if you if you look at the two that's only a 50% damage increase but it doesn't feel like you're getting 50% more life you're you're a lot more tanky than that you're super more durable because more of your body is protected yeah and then another thing which I thought was the most interesting which it was always stuck in the back of my head that I noticed a lot with my favorite armor I wear now I thought it was just happening because I was wearing light armor but you open my mind and showed me it wasn't just that it was light armor but it was also the color of the armor oh yes absolutely now now the Battle Master is black and yellow if you want to break down at least those two colors so are are I'll start off with um your your yellow because it's way more noticeable to me like see on a lot of armors cuz it's your highlighted color it's your standout color this color is a shoot me here or aim for me here and this is where my center of mass is for a lot of bots shooting you or bugs trying to attack you so they'll notice this and they try to go for it so kind of like an aggro like a taunt yeah it's like a taunt it's saying go for this not here not somewhere else shoot here gotcha and then and then back to the Drone master it's got a tan armor what exactly is that doing for the Drone master so this is your uh a lot of aggro time defined um and you're it's very much like this is the color of I'm going to have a lot more time sneaking up on somebody and when something gets alerted it's it's almost like it takes longer for that thing to go from an alerted State into a full scream State without you doing anything if you you know no shooting nothing it's just that's before it goes full Ham on you starts attacking you goes up and tries to get you it takes longer for that with you wearing a tan color got you almost like it's questioning what are you are you dirt are are you dirt yeah are you dirt are you a person yeah should I be concerned about you gotcha okay cool very cool and one thing that we can briefly cover is the the design of the armor to kind of gives you an idea of what that armor is good for uh so like what's that one armor with all the grenades on it I can't I can never remember the name of it that one is called the dreadn dreadn yes that one the fs 61 dread red knot and so that that armor of course has all those grenades on it and turns out that all those grenades aren't just for show but to give you an idea of what that armor can be use useful for correct yeah that's that's correct okay and then also with helmet designs and everything uh the Drone Master uh has those uh little antenna on them now yeah it doesn't have normal like Vision stuff it has uh your antennas that stick out it's got a little bit of orange on it um which is another color and but your your antenna just like you'll be able to stick out I mean it's got a closed Helm you're looking at like fog reducing stuff and your antennas look at stuff differently and your game just you know different settings are are lower um so like you can see through fog a lot easier with the closed Helm and then the it it is I think what we they on here so the so you're saying that if your helmet has no see-through visor that helps with piercing through the fog that everybody hates yeah they don't like the fog on the map you don't like the the spor shrooms things that the bugs have I mean you can take the Fortified Commando for an example of a closed helmet and has like no visor at all it's just this giant block on your head or like the X z00 prototype and how it has a little camera on the side and not a normal visor so things like that now what about what about the visors that have a glass cover do do those make a difference on what type they are or the color oh yeah yeah yeah so if you if you go look through your visor colors in the game you you normally have black red uh you have these off green color that's not a black and um even gold visors in there and they all do different things and sometimes there's even shapes of the visors matter whether they're the circles or whether they're the actual visor SC interesting okay so like take red for example it helps you it gives you a targeting Readjustment for your uh your reticle when you're aiming down sights or just holding the ra aiming and it gives you your circle a better um pattern of where you're actually going to shoot so like a a better grouping yeah awesome cuz sometimes you're you're shooting and your bullets are not Center of circle when you're just holding your right click down or your aiming button on a controller and they're not going where your your circle is the red one makes that Circle and your aiming line up better nice very nice now another thing you showed me which we can cover at least the numbers that we have with these two sets of armor oh yes yes armors all of them have a number which people probably first thought oh they're just you know fancy letters and numbers Des tag yeah but you found out that there's a lot more 0 through n whatever numbers they have mean something now if you want to go over you just go over each number or just specific to the Battle Master and the Drone Master just specific to the Battle Master drone Master Okay so with the Battle Master you end up having a it's like it's FS so fortified Servo and the 23 is has your your two and a three stat these two and threes apply to one of 10 stats there are 20 stats on the armor but one of 10 stats that are modifiable by these numbers and if you look into the the Battle Master it the two stat is a impact resistance fall resistance melee stagger resistance it's a mostly an impact influencing stat now I've recently discovered that you can these are impact boosting for your weapons and impact reducing for your armors which is which is amazing um for a two stat so any armor that's got a two in it it's got that applied to it now you when you move over to a three stat you're also looking at aggro management this is different for heavy medium and light armors um heavy is more generate more aggro and light is generate less aggro medium also generates less aggro with it but Heavies are mostly the standout thing where they generate more aggro than anything else which is kind of what they should be doing is pulling stuff away from your friends and I I agree kind of with this design philosophy a little bit of that hey this heavy armor is being a tank how do I be a tank in a game where we're just shooting a bunch of stuff right and I don't really have much in the way of like I'm just supposed to run away the whole time right I'm an evasion tank and one thing you kind of hinted there is how even though weapons have numbers and armors have numbers their meaning are basically the same but opposite so like if a weapon has two it has uh impact modifier instead of impact resistance like armor yeah okay and then last thing let's talk about drone Masters numbers the one and the five so the the the stat the one stat is a strategy deviation reduction now this applies to uh strategems you call down and um gun imp placements weapons that you have um it's just it it makes all of your deviation of all of your bullets all of your uh call Downs they become tighter they become closer together your bullets don't drop off as far they actually have so if someone has bullet drop like a grenade launcher that bullet drop is not steep it's now more level and it can go further before actually falling down that's that deviation is very important if you want to have a longer engagement distance so what you're saying is if I even though it's fun don't want to kill my buddies with the eagle cluster having a one stat on my armor will kind of bring that wide explosive bring a little bit more closer together so you don't accidentally vaporize your whole team now how how much of a difference have you seen with armors with the one stat is it like 1% 5% it it feels like um with say the bomb every every point you put into there is a 5 m difference on the edge to center of the explosion of the strategy rather so if you throw the straty down your Center Point's where it landed and it explodes outward in like this line and then on the edges you have um that point where it takes that edge point in a little bit and just takes it in just a little bit more and it's a 5 m difference and that 5 m difference is a full bomb right so if I had an armor and a helmet set with all ones you're looking at almost a 20 20 yeah looking at 20 meter in uh yeah range drop and you're just bringing it in interesting and then what about the number five so five is a bullet size increase for everything guns strategems it just means it you think of it as an AOE stat if you're if you're shooting up bullet out out of your gun and it hits a Target it's going to check a Zone on the automaton or bug and if that zone it's like oh I'm going to do damage here and here if the bullet's small enough it's only going to pick maybe one zone but if the bullet's big enough it will hit two zones and do more damage um so you could do that or you know if you have a full bunch of fives like we have with a Devastator set that just came out your 500 kg turn into almost hell bombs just about the size of the hell bombs which you have showed me and then it's it's Immaculate and then we've we've also noticed with like the cluster bomb the the explosions and the the sparkliness of it just seems bigger and just seems like more area is covered it's it's Immaculate it's amazing and it seems a little bit backwards on the Drone Master to have a one and a five together because you're looking at bringing it in but making it bigger yeah so it seems a little bit backwards but it's it means that that you can concentrate that fire on a group and it's just gone yeah yeah you you you will have total devastation on that one spot instead of a bug or tomaton somehow surviving you make sure you wipe it out yeah gotcha well I think that is a good start I know we're going to have a lot of doubters but yeah for sure I recommend you guys try it out and of course you guys have all this background footage and photos that we put up so you could see the differences that we see and if you want more we will cover in another video Zero through n and what each of them do and break them down and and really rate them on their importance of the armor and then we can do the same thing for the colors too CU there are quite a few colors some seem me more mean see more meaningful than others some not but when you know what these numbers and colors do you can plan ahead you can adjust your gameplay you don't have to wear you know the entire drone Master set you can mix it up really diversify a real a real darn I'm missing the word here oh well don't worry about it a real AR RPG aspect that's what I was looking for you can make yourself a build finally and actually understand your build I know people were talking about classes but like the uh tweet said you know for to break it down there's basically already classes in there you just build them yourself what is that the transmog system yeah uh pile stad t or how do I say his name there it's Johan is the CEO and he was he was talking and posted the thing here he says we're not doing transmog it doesn't make sense equipment looks different because it has different effects swapping one for another is like having an apple that tastes like bacon and the other way around and that big word there is effects you know and he's he's encouraging people plural that's plural yeah he's he's encouraging people not just to wear you know a full set of drone Master armor he's saying try the Drone Master armor with the Battle Master helmet it might look weird but you might like what happens yeah well that's all we have I hope you guys enjoyed it fellow hell divers see you on the battlefield 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Channel: Jonny Law

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Keywords: Helldivers 2, Tips

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Length: 19min 40sec (1180 seconds)

Published: Sat Apr 20 2024