In a discussion of one of the topics, one thought came to me. What if the axis already has body armor? It just lacks defensive stats.
I’ve read a lot of stories about how the magazine stops the bullet. So what if this vest just gets body armor properties?
Apparently there are German and US armour in the editor. And I fully expect Devs to do the stupid move of giving them damage reduction too. Because why fix a problem if you can double down?
What if nobody gets body armour? I would hate if everyone started running with pseudo ballistic vests ruining the immersion even more. The high br will soon look like this
I think they should just do away with the body armor, but as someone earlier mentioned, why fix a problem when you can double down.
ughmmm
because that’s not an armor?
it’s a vest.
an italian vest given to paratroopers and navy
specifically designed to hold and carry rifle carcano strip round clips & 40 round long magazines of the beretta model 38
with that being said, even though they dont make a whole difference, we are just better off with no armors or benefit that affects gameplay
And a magazine can stop a bullet.
And these guys have their entire chests covered with magazines.
BASED 
At least this vest will be better than hanging every bot with different kinds of WWI bullshit.
WWI stuf.
+1ouch to WWII atmosphere and the sense of beauty.
I know people who spent gold on body armor. A lot of gold. They will be very unhappy with this decision.
Nonsense. I spoke to many soviet players and most of them say that almost nobody uses body armour. How could someone spend gold on something nobody uses?
Also it doesn’t affect the gameplay so loosing the bonus doesn’t affect them anyway.
He dressed all the Soviets in body armor in all “campaigns”. Many on the Russian forum branch consider it bad manners NOT to wear body armor. And that people who do this ruin the Soviets’ game. And call them beermans and cancers.
They say that the cuirass allows you to survive one hit from a FG.
That’s now what soviet mains said, that’s impossible.
Are you spreading fascist propaganda?
(I’m joking btw. I know what armour does and how “rare” it is.)
Soviet Mainers and Axis Mainers are worth each other. Especially the most insolent ones.
I believe that cuirasses should be a rare, but really useful resource. For example, so that everyone could have no more than 4-7 cuirasses, cuirasses would not have their own bonuses against rifle and intermediate cartridges. (at least at a distance of up to 100 meters). But against shrapnel and pistol calibers, they will have completely new properties. Namely, a fighter in a cuirass cannot be killed by a hit to the cuirass, but only knocked out.
But no one likes this opinion. And many are asking for cuirasses for all factions. Therefore, I am proactively proposing an alternative for the axis, so that soldiers are not hung with WWI crap, from which anyone who has at least a little sense of beauty will have their eyes run through their nose.
Like minded 
I like that soviets have body armor…but its interaction with full rifle calibres is utter crap
I also heard that Germany used captured breastplates. Maybe make a looting mechanic?
And for those who spent a lot of gold on cuirasses, just leave them in the same condition they were in.
Imo they should be a backpack item.
I hate that cosmetics have damage reduction.
I think it need a separate slot.
I don’t know. We have separate slot for binoculars, separate slot for flask, adding yet another separate slot that can hold only one item (again) doesn’t seem to be the solution.
