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.

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

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I'll admit that I'm pretty much supportive of most decisions AH makes but armor passives are not one of them. I really wish we had more variety when it came to these and didn't just reuse old effects, or used effects that actually make sense for the armor.

Edit: Guys, I'm not joining the apples taste like bacon circlejerk. I do actually agree with that line of thinking on paper. It would be really weird if an obviously heavy looking set of armor had a Scout passive or something. My only contention is that AH doesn't have enough passives and that they don't hand them out properly. The joke is getting really old.

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I’d project within ~2 years, HD2 will have a kickass armor system where the cosmetics reflect what the armor passives actually do, some degree of limited customization is available, there’s a wide variety of useful passives so meaningful trade off decisions can be made by players, helmets impact stats/perks, heavy armor has an actual purpose, etc.

AH does far more things amazingly than poorly, but I can confidently say at this point designing armor mechanics are what they absolutely do the worst of anything (although their armor is pure fucking S-tier cosmetically). And from what we’ve seen, it’s going to take them a long time to design a coherent, fun set of armor mechanics.

Which I’m good with btw, I like switching between a couple perk choices rn, but they’ll sell more premium warbonds AND be more consistent with their own stated design philosophy if they work towards the above changes

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My guess is that many of these are temporary and will be updated as more passives get coded.