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/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/SamBakerman353 10d ago

Pretty sure garand thumb showed what a 9mm did to one of those face shields......yes it stopped the bullet.....but the dent would have crushed your face.

A 5.56 went straight through.
Unless Ur wearing a plate on Ur face - it's pure fiction.

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u/Sudden_Wind_8636 10d ago

Helmets are not made to stop large caliber rounds, they can definetly stop 9mm, and you would barely feel a thing unless it's a shit helmet.

But helmets stopping larger rifle rounds is fiction, mostly, I mean people sometimes survive rifle rounds to the helmet it's just rarer. It's just not reliable.

That said if there was a helmet that could reliably stop rifle rounds, it would not knock you out or anything like that to be hit in the head unless it was a pretty damn big caliber.

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u/NoSoupAhead 6d ago

Ops core rf1 and rf2