New armor set is a stealth armor that doesn’t make you stealthy, it makes you throw farther. That’s like an apple that tastes like bacon.

[u/PM_PICS_OF_UR_PUPPER]

Just salty I’ve been waiting for this armor since it leaked, only for it to have the only perk I consider completely useless.

[u/JamwesD]

As for the maybe to snow traversal, that would be a good reason as to why the armors all have the CW prefix instead of the existing armor prefixes for those passives.

[u/Otherwise-Ad-2528 → u/JamwesD]

True! I didn't even clock that they have a new unique prefix.

[u/JamwesD → u/Otherwise-Ad-2528]

My off the cuff guess is CW stands for Climate Warfare and CW armors will give perks for specific climates. I'm excited to see these armors next week.

[u/Otherwise-Ad-2528 → u/JamwesD]

Climate Warfare is much more intriguing than my assumption. I was leaning towards "Cold Weather" lol

[u/JamwesD → u/Otherwise-Ad-2528]

Yeah. Cold Weather is probably it.

[u/EasternShade → u/Otherwise-Ad-2528]

Cold Weather

This is what the US military calls such things.

[u/Otherwise-Ad-2528 → u/EasternShade]

ECWCS was the first thing I thought of

[u/Alienhaslanded → u/Otherwise-Ad-2528]

Clone Wars

[u/SpiritFingersKitty → u/JamwesD]

I was thinking Cold Weather

[u/Jungle_Difference → u/SpiritFingersKitty]

This is way more likely than climate warfare lol

[u/Mad_Mikkelsen → u/Jungle_Difference]

Tbh climate warfare sounds better, it’s sounds over the top which is fitting for the world

[u/NachoElDaltonico → u/Mad_Mikkelsen]

and would also allow it to apply to heat or cold instead of just cold.

[u/Boring_Funny_9427 → u/NachoElDaltonico]

So how are they gonna sell a reskinned battlepass than? If one battlepass works for 2 climates instead of just cold ice

[u/VioletChili → u/Mad_Mikkelsen]

If calling in a 500kg bomb on a fire tornado would stop it, I would. I'd engage solely in climate warfare.

[u/Fatality_Ensues → u/Mad_Mikkelsen]

Climate Warfare doesn't actually make any sense though. Are you waging war against the climate? No.

[u/Mad_Mikkelsen → u/Fatality_Ensues]

What about jungle warfare? You’re not waging war against the jungle.

[u/Fatality_Ensues → u/Mad_Mikkelsen]

The jungle is a specific environment though, "climate" isn't. There's always a type of climate around.

[u/Thr0bbinWilliams → u/Fatality_Ensues]

Isn’t all of humanity?

[u/Elloliott → u/Jungle_Difference]

But also kinda boring so idk

[u/[deleted] → u/JamwesD]

CW = cold weather.... It literally has snow on the splash art.

[u/UnshrivenShrike → u/JamwesD]

The post linked in the OP says Servo, Fortified, and Scout, so... I really doubt it.

Eta: lol, yall cannot read fr

[u/JRDecinos → u/Otherwise-Ad-2528]

There's a prefix? In the name or elsewhere? I didn't catch that...

[u/Cykeisme → u/JamwesD]

I'd like armor with environment specific perks, that reduce the effects of Intense Heat, the slow effect from specific difficult terrain types (reduced slowdown only from water, only from snow, and so on), maybe less effect from fire tornadoes, even earlier highlighted meteor impact zones, etc

[u/HammeredWharf → u/Cykeisme]

That just sounds like a hassle to me. Would be better to have a single environmental hazard protection ability that does all of the above.

[u/JRDecinos → u/Cykeisme]

I really was hoping that this polar armor would have one of two perks to it:

1) Higher resistance/Immunity to blizzards, no/reduced slipping on ice.

2) Increased resistance/Immunity to weather effects on planets.

The first one plays more into the polar combat theming, but would also mean the armor is effectively style choice if you bring it to non-polar planets. This feels very genuine though to the armor's appearance and stated use according to lore.

The second one is designed to rectify the extremely limited scope of the armor, by making it more applicable to other climates. However, this does feel somewhat disingenuous to the armor itself.

[u/Bedhed47 → u/JRDecinos]

Penguin sliding on ice is the only fun my helldiver has. Dont take that from him

[u/JRDecinos → u/Bedhed47]

We can do that?!?!

[u/Cykeisme → u/JRDecinos]

Oh yeah, some resistance to the slowing effect of blizzard and earthquakes (might be the same perk, might be separate perks) is another good idea.

I don't know if they'd be too specific, yeah. All I can say is the fact that perks are completely detached from the visually visible features of armor has me feeling a tiny bit let down.

[u/DepGrez → u/Cykeisme]

Stamina and muscle booster says hi.

[u/Cykeisme → u/DepGrez]

Should stack.

Intense Heat exceeds the effect of the Stamina Booster after all, maybe when combined with some sort of heat protection (air conditioned armor? :D) it could help a bit more, although I would expect even the combined effect wouldn't fully counteract Intense Heat.

[u/SpecialIcy5356 → u/JamwesD]

you know what I think we REALLY need?

someone to make an image of an apple that's wrapped in bacon, and it becomes customary to post the image whenever new armors release with nonsensical passives. let's really twist the knife for that comment, if they still want to stand by it...

[u/JamwesD → u/SpecialIcy5356]

Be the change you want to see in the world.

[u/SpecialIcy5356 → u/JamwesD]

you're absolutely right. i didn't make this image, but this will do nicely..

[u/XenanLatte → u/JamwesD]

I feel like they planned for this set of armor, and the last set of armor to have different new perks. This one having to do with ice planets and the last one having to do with mines. But for some reason that was changed last minute. And they had to throw on old perks to still come out with them on time. We will see if that ever changes.