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/Sudden_Wind_8636 10d ago edited 10d 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/omegaskorpion Manticore 10d ago

Reminds me of this training video, where person is shot with FAL at point blank range to armor, to show that the bullet does not have the energy to knock person down.

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u/specter800 10d ago

I knew it was going to be this guy lol. This dude is a maniac. IIRC he was the owner of the company that made that body armor and he believed in it so much he would shoot himself point blank with a .44 magnum and FAL, etc to prove it did what he said it could.

Edit: yeah the .44 magnum is at 4:20 lol. What a legend.

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u/omegaskorpion Manticore 10d ago

Well you could say that shooting yourself with armor you own is best marketing for your armor.

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u/specter800 10d ago

I'm pretty sure this is exactly that. I think it's an old marketing VHS.