So, can you helmet save you in any situation? Or is it just there for cosmetic reasons?
Your helmet - is it good for something?
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Apperently for cosmic reasons,
I havent seen once a helmet catch a bullet and fall of a soldier.
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If it's anything like the first game it has the chance to protect you from smaller caliber weapons like pistol rounds. Rifle rounds probably ignore the helmet regardless. As this is supposed to be RO1 with more realism, I can't imagine they'd remove that.
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In RO1 I survived a headshot once. I wasn't even wearing a helmet either. It was on one of those cold maps where the russians just wear those little hat thingies. I don't know how the heck it happened, but I was very happy.
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I think your head can be wounded if you get hit with a grazing shot, this certainly happened in RO 1. In reality, both pistols and rifle rounds would go right through it. The helmets were for protection against flying debris and shrapnel, not bullets.
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Yeah, they are for fragmentation. They might keep you in the fight against what could have been a very near miss of a rifle shot, but they're designed to protect against low-medium speed shell fragments and other flying debris.
Oddly enough, when such helmet designs were first introduced as standard gear for troops in warfare, the number of head wounds went up. Why? Because those who would otherwise be marked as KIA began being marked as wounded instead.
Oddly enough, when such helmet designs were first introduced as standard gear for troops in warfare, the number of head wounds went up. Why? Because those who would otherwise be marked as KIA began being marked as wounded instead.
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Yes, to absorb an impact of a asteroid that should land on top of your head.
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I'm fairly certain that's because the bullet shaved your face. Not that the helmet stopped the bullet
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Sometimes my head would become red on the damage indicator thingamajig, in ro1 at least. I imagined thats because the helmet did, erm, something. But, could also mean I was grazed, or my guy is just that baddass and takes it out the eye and spits it out his mouth.
I don't know about realism, but it would be cool to be able to rely on your helmet a little more.
I don't know about realism, but it would be cool to be able to rely on your helmet a little more.
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You have no idea what my fall from outer space on your head... Even if there wasn't any space junk back then... But don't worry, give the Soviets time (or the USA for that matter)...
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The helmets are only there for that lovely "plink" noise you hear when you drive a round into their head
I want my helmet to be able to bash through walls and clobber my enemies:
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I doubt steel Helmets wer ever bulletproof. They protect against impacts and shrapnels, not direct hits.
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Tbh no helmets are designed to stop high caliber bullets, like mentioned before they're there to prevent debris and shrapnel. Once in a while you can get lucky and have a bullet deflect off but thats about it, a decent round and it goes right through any helmet.
The helmet serves the same purpose in todays armies as it did back then.
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i could have sworn i heard a loud ding and a helmet drop, but i wasnt sure if it was me. no one else was around to drop a helmet either.
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IRL the helmets were mainly for confidence purposes, the reality is they just can't stop any high caliber rounds. If it did stop penetration, the blunt force of the impact would probably kill you.
With that said, in game it shouldn't reflect any rifle rounds, only smaller caliber and at a decent distance.
With that said, in game it shouldn't reflect any rifle rounds, only smaller caliber and at a decent distance.
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