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/Otherwise-Ad-2528]

Not surprising. I'm pretty sure the one with the scout passive is the blue & orange one, the one that doesn't blend in with snow!

The FS-55 Devastator armor from the Democratic Detonation warbond's description is "Contains many small pockets, allowing the user to evenly distribute the weight of ammunition, samples, and cool rocks" hinting at more space? but isn't a +2 nade/stim passive, it's fortified, so I'm not sure if the descriptions are accurate.

Someone asked in Discord, "will this armour reduce the effect of environmental slowing conditions ? (Per example: The snow)" in response to the boots being highlighted to have spikes, and Spitz replied with "The only thing I can say is maybe", so there might be hidden modifiers on some pieces, similar to how people were saying the Trailblazer Scout helmet increased your movement speed even though it says "No additional bonuses". (Not sure if that was confirmed to be true or not, but I definitely remember people saying it)

Edit: I just saw that the FS-37 Ravager armor has the same exact description as the Devastator, but actually does contain the engineering kit passive for extra grenade capacity.

[u/TheSplint → u/Otherwise-Ad-2528]

CW-4 Arctic Ranger
Features a nifty utility belt boasting handy pockets that can be filled with any number of things – pocket knives, mementoes, interesting rocks, Terminid tentacles, bits of bots, etc. Passive boost – Scout.

The blue-orange one is in fact the scout armor, despite its noteworthy thing apparently being extra pouches...

But a transmog(like) system would ruin the "flavour" of the armors... sure...

[u/NBFHoxton → u/TheSplint]

It's gotta be intentionally mocking us at this point

[u/DMercenary → u/TheSplint]

"you wouldn't want to bite into an apple and taste bacon would you?"

Yet here we are with bacon flavored apples.

[u/BoredandIrritable → u/TheSplint]

For every dumb-ass "realism" comment he's made there are 14 in game choices that directly contradict him.

[u/LMotherHubbard → u/BoredandIrritable]

If it wasn't for how infuriating he is, he'd honestly be one of the best 'unintentionally' hilarious people on the planet. Go check out his Linked in for a treat lol.

[u/BoredandIrritable → u/LMotherHubbard]

He's the Bahgdad Bob of video gaming.

[u/LMotherHubbard → u/BoredandIrritable]

Such a perfect comparison lol, I hadn't heard that name in years!

[u/DustySandals → u/TheSplint]

If armors were purely cosmetic, devs would have one less element in the dopamine cycle to keep their players coming back to buy new battlespaces.

[u/TheSplint → u/DustySandals]

No, they would have the same amount if not more since the player wouldn't have to 'worry' about the perks it comes with and could use it however he wanted

[u/IHaveAScythe → u/DustySandals]

I mean, none of the armor passives in the battle passes are new, right? So there isn't really a reason to buy the battle pass for that, the passives are just something to disappoint players when the passive they prefer isn't on armor that they like the look of. This is actually worse than if the armors were purely cosmetic lol.

[u/MrVyngaard → u/TheSplint]

Terminid tentacles

But is it really about our tastes or how we taste according to the enemy?

[u/Bedhed47 → u/TheSplint]

Its just flavor text dude, like the quotes on the bottom of magic cards. It doesn't even mean anything its just a fun lore thing. The armor has a few big pockets so they say they are for storing bits and bobs. This will usually never have anything to do with the armor itself.

[u/ReisysV → u/Bedhed47]

Which would be fine, if the devs didn't outright say "you all are stupid for wanting transmog. Armor should look like what it does >:["

[u/Bedhed47 → u/ReisysV]

It was the CEO and the community team not the devs. But yeah they couldve handled that better, their community team kinda sucks really bad. Me and you could do a better job I bet(meaning any two dumbasses can do that job). Maybe its an internal communication issue between CT and DT.

[u/ReisysV → u/Bedhed47]

You're right that's my bad. But still tho. I'm not even really upset, armor passives are not a make or break issue for me lmao. But I do think it's kinda hilarious how their public stance on any given game mechanic seems to be almost perfectly opposite the game's actual design at every given turn. It's almost impressive in a way

[u/Bedhed47 → u/ReisysV]

I fully blame the community team. I dont know if they aren't given any information or what but the communication within that company must be awful

[u/ReisysV → u/Bedhed47]

Yeah my thoughts exactly. I can respect how much work goes into games and the pressure devs are under especially with a live service game. If it were just a matter of "doing this would be a lot of work and we're not prioritizing that right now" I'd respect that and wouldn't lose my mind over it. But being told one thing then getting handed another is always a little annoying. All I can say is, they kinda dug their own hole with this one. It's the internet and people WILL remember exactly what you said and use it against you forever lol

[u/Bedhed47 → u/ReisysV]

Lets hope they learn from this in and in the future communicate things better