Remove Soviet Body Armor (at least from Moscow)

I strongly believe that no cosmetics should give any HP boosts, but even if the HP boost was removed, body armor in Moscow looks ridiculous.

One can make a case for cosmetic-only Soviet Body Armor to be present in 1943 and onwards battles like Berlin and Stalingrad/Rzhev (very maybe)

This one is allegedly dated September, 1943
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These are allegedly Summer of 1944


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But in Moscow “aesthetics” they just look ridiculous, and for sweatlords/‘competitive’ players/guys from certain countries’ playing cultures there’s literally no downside to taking free extra HP, so they rinse and repeat them:


Yes, I am aware that Soviet body armnor started development in 1939 so there were some test items, but it just doesn’t look/feel right for the Battle of Moscow

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Honestly, even if the additional HP is somehow a “Soviet feature”, just keep it but remove the cosmetic armor display from Moscow.

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they need keep part of the soviet bias, so no

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I just want the modifiers removed, the rest? Idk, yes the SN-42 is called the SN-42 because that’s the year it was introduced, but there were earlier experimental models around, much less common that the fully developed version (in comparison, the SN-42 was still rare as hell). So just remove the modifiers, then in the future remodel the current body armour in Moscow to ressemble the earlier variants.

Lets not give the Tankies actual ammunition against the actually reasonable change, they commonly say “you just want to remove the body armour!” so lets not make that reality, this is the first time I’ve seen someone even vaguely argue for it, lets not prove these people right.

But my very first line says

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I know, but I read the rest too, including the end.

Well, lesser of two evils – DF devs seem to be somehow fine with this “Soviet feature”.

And tbh I’m more appaled by the visuals than damage numerals.

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i dont care if it has HP boosts as long as IT HAS DOWNSIDES TO IT

a free HP boost is absurd, but if there was a drawback to… i dont know… wearing a giant piece of metal on your chest, that would be more fair

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If it were free
You have to pay for everything in our game)
And a special currency is quite a high price.

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It’s basically free.

And it’s bullshit both gameplay- and aesthetics- wise.

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Ахахаха
Where are you saving up for?)
Personally, I have other priorities. And there is no time to play a lot and close all the events And opportunities to get them)

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Just make body armor cosmetic only.

Otherwise what will happen is the devs will just add body armor to all factions in order to “balance” things, and everyone will be running around in a WW2 game looking like Italian Arditi from WW1.

(This is what will probably happen btw, do to how slow content is added to the game I fully expect around mid 2026 for all factions to be given body armor and everyone will lookin dumb as shit with their Arditi armor)

Average future appearance of any factions soldiers pictured below :

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I’m just not using them because customization looks like :poop:

At least they might become useful with nationality switch feature

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Well, you don’t
But others merge from 0
The problem is that the USSR is not a single faction in the game and there are not many fans.
Everyone is playing for other more technical nations)
and again, except on the forum, you will not find out about this bonus, just as those who play against cuirasses will not find out.
Simply put, that there is this bonus, that there is none, the player dies in it as well as without
All arguments like tanking a bullet are ridiculous… there’s always a line of bullets flying at you.
However, I only take cuirasses when I want to look stylish in my eyes)

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I just want to remind you that the editor has armor for all factions.
Wait until they give it to everyone

It is un-necessary fk you from DF regardless does a new player know or not.

Yeah, back in days when we had quad AA that could shoot thru houses in moscow campaign and mow down entire enemy team.

I just build & used them to be stylish, not to get unfair advantage.

If that would be true, Soviet MM would have rules similar to Japan. Also not sure what is meant with single faction.

Well, if we follow your arguments, we still can simply remove the bonus since

  • Soviets have no players

  • Soviet players dont use it anyways because they struggle to uncover the bonus

So nothing would change here and people can keep their style.

For how long? The German body armor has been in the files for about two or three years now.
Also, Japan’s body armor is premium so there is no guarantee for free armor anyways.

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So there is no reason for 1 faction out of 4 to have MAGIC bonus, makes sense.

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where did I write that I agreed to keep the cuirass buff?
I just wrote that all your whining about them is just ridiculous.
What’s on the Russian forum what’s on the EU
There is one big schizophrenia everywhere

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Personally, I don’t care about this bonus, I buy and collect them so that I enjoy watching and playing with them.
You’re trying to get to a level just above BEER.
But in fact, with the same brand of beer, you sit and pretend that this is a very important problem and that it is the cause of all the troubles of the game.

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Let’s see videos of them surviving getting shot by G41, Kar98k, Mkb42/Mp43, Ppsh-41, Mp40, MG34/42

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