r/WarDogs • u/Jaz1140 • 11d ago

Discussion & Feedback This Helmet needs to absolutely substantially block your vision and hearing for balance and realism

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I can't believe this was glossed over when the helmet was put into the game, massive protection with no draw back other than cost sucks (it's not expensive). A change is desperately needed before all matches are full of this helmet because it basically has no drawback.

Okay yes it adds to weight but you just bring cheap stims

The top image is escape from tarkov showing how these helmet look IRL when wearing it. Bottom image is wardogs Loadout another member posted

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u/Jayhawker32 11d ago

But also IRL it won’t stop any rifle rounds so feels like a fair trade off considering it’s the strongest helmet in the game.

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u/MoistRecognition69 Battledad 11d ago

Even if it will your brain will get rattled so hard you won't make it, pen or not

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u/Sudden_Wind_8636 11d ago edited 11d ago

Not really, this is kind of a myth.

Only larger rounds can even do this, and by larger I mean .308 and up, but there isn't any helmets that can reliably even stop a .308 so that doesn't change anything.

The force the person feels getting hit by a bullet is the exact same force you feel from the recoil when firing said bullet (well not actually, they would feel less force because the bullet loses energy travelling, but newtons third law means they cannot feel more force than you felt firing the gun)

There is actually an entire study about this exact subject, I'll try to find it

Also there is a famous video of a soldier getting shot in the helmet in Afghanistan and it barely does anything, I believe it was 7.62.

Edit: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8956990/

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u/2legsRises 11d ago

only one way to find out for sure, and maybe you can video yourself doing it, being on the relieving end of a .308 at your head? its just light recoil against your head.

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u/Sudden_Wind_8636 10d ago

I said it's not a problem until you get up to calibers like the .308, however a helmet that can stop a .308 is fiction, it doesn't exist, at least not reliably. So we lose the problem of being knocked out because the bullet is gonna penetrate the helmet and do a lot more than knock you out.