Its been a couple of weeks- Its time again to adress Soviet armor.
Nerf armor - the game is balanced around 13.5 HP, Soviet armor gives 15 HP. Nothing else to say at this point. Its been over two years now that the merge happened, and still no armor nerf.
Well, you know, the Dev’s don’t
want to make a knee jerk
reaction…after two plus years
and counting. 
Now that G41 is getting 15.3 damage - I start to feel that the devs are trying their hardest to sweep the body armor issue under the rug.
Instead of simply removing its unfair damage reduction they have so far:
-Given FG42 15.3 dmg
-Given Germany BR2 PPS43 comparable event weapons
-given armor a protection indicator (used to be a hidden bonus)
Doesnt sound like DF at all. They are usually super fast to fix broken sovjet equipment.
I would be perfectly 100% fine with the Soviets having body armor, if it were made realistic.
First of all, NOT EVERY DAMN SOLDIER wore body armor, ONLY A HANDFUL actually did, so NOT EVERY Soviet soldier in Enlisted should be able to wear it in the game! It should be limited to an assaulter engineer.
Secondly, body armor added weight and restricted soldier movement, so those who are wearing it in game should have a stamina and movement penalty, like 20%.
Do the Dev’s care if it is realistic? Absolutely not, if they did then the game Radiomen would be carrying ammo bags and NOT toting SECONDARY RIFLES. They either don’t care, or their research department is seriously substandard. 
Just sayin
But it doesnt matter.
Soviet armor should be buffed
Well, their is far more chance of body armor being buffed then being removed, restricted to assaulter engineers or movement and stamina penalties added. 
I heard from a russian source that the devs are worried this game might get cancelled in russia because… the soviet winrates are very low? And it promotes ww2 axis superiority?
The devs know that Body armour basically makes every soviet soldier a 2 TTK, but lol, even if you forced the axis mains to BR 4 only, they’d still win over 50% of battles
I dunno man just keep mentioning it on every post possible and it might happen.
it’s inevitable because most of the issues of infantry PVP are caused by BA. It’s gona be a thorn for every axis player.
I fully support this suggestion. Body armor is currently the biggest balance issue in the game.
@GeneralBrus , create open polls to reduce cheating.
Its 15 HP in general - Paratroopers have that aswell. Just sayin.
The day they buff armor and make it even one inch more OP, l’ll 100% quit the game for good.
i mostly favor the axis nations and ive never had a problem. it’s the fact you hyper obsess over it which makes you think its such a big issue
now sure for low tier players maybe g41 im sure it’s annoying… even then i just shoot them once more… ttk issue? shoot them first, skill issue.
Pick BR1 guns as Soviets and go play against BR3 Axis and tell me everything is fine.
Liar.
absolutely delusional
This is a huge problem when playing against strong players or their stacks.
They all wear body armor.
Your shots at them are just white markers.
Time and time again that’s not how it works, tell that to every axis player that they lose a fight to BD because of a skill issue.
Something tells me you aren’t on the same wavelength with the people here, not even the same battles.
This is a practical disparity which is implemented by the developers in order to try and fix a statistical disparity between the average player of all factions.
But that inevitably backfires when sweats who know the game can just easily abuse the advantage given to the Soviets, and gain easy wins with their opponents always disadvantaged.
I win my public games with every faction.
But when I fight an equal level player as axis, and they use the Soviets with body armour, the difficulty is stacked against me unreasonably. In all statistical evaluations, I cannot be expected to win that fight if they don’t make mistakes .
My claims:
A G41 that does not down in one shot is worse than a bolt action.
German SMGs deal less damage per shot than Soviet SMGs because of armor - despite having around 30% slower RPM.
A 500 RPM gun that downs in 3 shots vs a 800 RPM gun that also downs in 3 shots is literally the difference between a BR1 gun and a BR3 gun.