Armor mode in this game what I can only explain as a Flak Jacket, Its only useful for surviving frags and explosions, it does nothing to protect you from turret rounds, sniper rounds, melle's and barely deflects any bullets from standard weapons.

Even in the Pre-Game tips it says nothing about Activating Armor mode to take more bullet damage, only saying that activating it will allow you to survive explosions better.


In the 2nd Demo it was useful but in this game it just seems like a Gimmick.

In the 2nd Demo If one person in armor mode was faced with two people who are not using Armor mode The one person in armor mode has a very good chance of winning if its SCAR vs SCAR + SCAR.

This situation is misunderstood as being overpowered which is what people complained about.

But look at the facts here.

Everybody starts of with Power Armor and Stealth, Everybody has the same Nanosuit tools and those who use them to the full potential will usually succeed in battles. Although the Nanosuit powers have been misunderstood as overpowered by those who did not use them appropriately and have complained to the developers spreading a Biased opinion as Fact to the developers.

Thus action has been taken and the Experience has been dumbed down along with the Line seperating this game from the other more medicore FPS shooters has been ever more blurred.

The suit is what makes this game special, If the suit isn't special, then this game isn't as enjoyable nor unique.

Armor makes you like 1.5 times stronger, and is usually good for me. It's only like this in multiplayer since if it was like the SP armor, everyone would just walk around like a tank. Way too unbalanced for multi, totally fun and powerful in SP. So they nerfed it a bit in MP to make it more of like a super kevlar than a tank.

Armor makes you like 1.5 times stronger, and is usually good for me. It's only like this in multiplayer since if it was like the SP armor, everyone would just walk around like a tank. Way too unbalanced for multi, totally fun and powerful in SP. So they nerfed it a bit in MP to make it more of like a super kevlar than a tank.

I think making it like SP would put it on par with Cloak, As it stands in abilities Cloak > Armor.

Armor makes you like 1.5 times stronger, and is usually good for me. It's only like this in multiplayer since if it was like the SP armor, everyone would just walk around like a tank. Way too unbalanced for multi, totally fun and powerful in SP. So they nerfed it a bit in MP to make it more of like a super kevlar than a tank.

I think making it like SP would put it on par with Cloak, As it stands in abilities Cloak > Armor.

Yeah but that would make the game too much like Halo. Players in Armor mode would be twice as hard to kill. Kill counts would be cut in half and rounds would take forever.

Armor mode takes a third of your damage. It doesn't take it first, then you start to take damage. Both you and your armor are hit with damage, however instead of taking 30 damage a bullet to your health (random numbers for easy math lol), you take 20 damage and your armor takes 10, while you still have energy that is.
It's not a barrier that has to be blown out BEFORE taking damage. Damage hits your health and armor concurrently.

I just wished energy wasn't drained when I get hit. Even when armor is off.

What I wish is that when I shoot someone it drains their energy, like it drains mine. Because I take a bullet to my pinkie toe and my energy is gone, can't run or go in armor. But seems to be different when I shoot others, I shoot them ok, they just keep on running like nothing **** happened, and turn some place that I can't shoot anymore. Brings me to think how the **** do they still run, if when I get grazed with a bullet I can't even move practically.

What I wish is that when I shoot someone it drains their energy, like it drains mine. Because I take a bullet to my pinkie toe and my energy is gone, can't run or go in armor. But seems to be different when I shoot others, I shoot them ok, they just keep on running like nothing **** happened, and turn some place that I can't shoot anymore. Brings me to think how the **** do they still run, if when I get grazed with a bullet I can't even move practically.
Yes, i too have the exact same problem... i move like a slug, and when hit with anything bigger than a AR round my armor and energy completely depletes and im left with the inability to run, so im a free kill. plus the smg dont give a damn tht ur in armor mode... they just plow right threw u like a deer to a city snow plow truck.

IMO, it's perfect the way it is now.

IMO, it's perfect the way it is now.


Aslong as pray and spray can beat it I dont think it is.

If you connect headshots against someone with armor mode on......those headshots should be normal damage like the guy was without armor mode......


nothing makes me laugh or curse more than a guy I emptied half a clip of bullets into his/her skull while they were in armor mode.....center-mass should absorb more damage with limbs even getting more protection too......but the weakness to armor mode besides gauss and microwave cannon should be well placed accurate headshots.......

i prefer more armor because if you see enemy with cloak you hit him 1 time it drains all energy and shoot like 1 or 2 times and he's dead

Armor makes you like 1.5 times stronger, and is usually good for me. It's only like this in multiplayer since if it was like the SP armor, everyone would just walk around like a tank. Way too unbalanced for multi, totally fun and powerful in SP. So they nerfed it a bit in MP to make it more of like a super kevlar than a tank.

I think making it like SP would put it on par with Cloak, As it stands in abilities Cloak > Armor.

Yeah but that would make the game too much like Halo. Players in Armor mode would be twice as hard to kill. Kill counts would be cut in half and rounds would take forever.


Isn't their such thing as getting out played anymore?

If one person in Armour mode wins against two people in Neutral mode its not armour mode thats overpowered Its just the player using armour mode using the suit to its full potential.

At the moment one person in armour mode will get downed by two people not using any suit abilities.

The armor mode is good enough as it is, only bad players complain about it. Why are you getting yourself in positions that would get you killed by several players at once?

I played close to 20 games of Instant Action this morning and won everyone, my worst game was 25-10. So what's so great about this? I DONT USE ARMOR! I don't like using it because it makes you stand out, and when I do use it I find that I am unreasonably powerful. I don't want to fire even more bullets than I already have to just because someone has bad aim and no situational awareness and thus needs armor to compensate for it.

Get better at the game and you wont need armor at all unless you see an incoming grenade.

Just stop complaining about every aspect of this game. There is not one element of this game someone hasn't complained about. It's a great game IMO.

i want it to be like in the nano showroom! i mean its just a crap thing that slows you down making you an easy kill... fix it! also crappy lag makes the crappest players better than you... if you won't fix 'armor' mode then change its name to something else like cardboard shield or whatever... consecutive hits like smg should eat away armor faster because it gives the surface of the nanosuit in armor less time to go back to original status...i mean the suit was designed to deflect bullets as seen in the nanosuit video

also i would rather they fix the host connection and steal the dedicated servers from pc than armor mode( at a later patch or one uber patch)

The armor mode is good enough as it is, only bad players complain about it. Why are you getting yourself in positions that would get you killed by several players at once?

I played close to 20 games of Instant Action this morning and won everyone, my worst game was 25-10. So what's so great about this? I DONT USE ARMOR! I don't like using it because it makes you stand out, and when I do use it I find that I am unreasonably powerful. I don't want to fire even more bullets than I already have to just because someone has bad aim and no situational awareness and thus needs armor to compensate for it.

Get better at the game and you wont need armor at all unless you see an incoming grenade.

Just stop complaining about every aspect of this game. There is not one element of this game someone hasn't complained about. It's a great game IMO.

Being killed in armor mode and killing people in armor mode Are things I have experienced, and any situation it doesn't feel like it increases your survivability at all.

The armor mode is good enough as it is, only bad players complain about it. Why are you getting yourself in positions that would get you killed by several players at once?

I played close to 20 games of Instant Action this morning and won everyone, my worst game was 25-10. So what's so great about this? I DONT USE ARMOR! I don't like using it because it makes you stand out, and when I do use it I find that I am unreasonably powerful. I don't want to fire even more bullets than I already have to just because someone has bad aim and no situational awareness and thus needs armor to compensate for it.

Get better at the game and you wont need armor at all unless you see an incoming grenade.

Just stop complaining about every aspect of this game. There is not one element of this game someone hasn't complained about. It's a great game IMO.

Being killed in armor mode and killing people in armor mode Are things I have experienced, and any situation it doesn't feel like it increases your survivability at all.

To me the difference feels like night and day, makes a definite difference. I've survived a ridiculous amount of bullets and grenades with it on, when I bother to use it.

l hope people don't get what they want with this armor business, I don't want it so everyone has a Maximum Nanosuit killstreak just so people can win.

In this society everyone has to be a winner. I do psychology at university and do you know what the highest predictor of high self-esteem is? It's self-deception. The more self-deceptive you are they happier you will be. Studies have shown that depressed people, are more accurate in their assessment of themselves and of others. That's the probably with this society everybody needs to be a winner, everybody needs to have their hands held so they can feel better about themselves.

Play better than your opponent, as long as you are level 20+ you have the same abilities as them. No excuses.

I think Armor mode is totally fine the way it is. If you cant tell a difference with it on, there is a problem. If I get caught with armor off you die within the first couple bullets. I will agree at times it doesn't work as well as others. Might be because of lag and other such issues.

Nothing wrong with armour as it is. I hope people realize it takes 4 secs for armour mode to be fully effective. Banging down LB when getting shot does nothing except make you waste an opportunity that you could have used to fight back. I always find when im being hunted that changing to stealth when in cover and getting behind your opponent only to armor up is very effective...

I think it needs to go back to beta levels.

It was alot better when somebody spraying out of cloak couldnt kill you if you were in armour.

Also lets tone down the aim assist please, right now its rediculous, half the time I see the kill cam and I jump to the left of a guy I see his aim dragged to the left or right to cope with my fast movements.

Also when you slide past people it helps them turn around to face you again, its just a bit to much.

The armor mode is good enough as it is, only bad players complain about it. Why are you getting yourself in positions that would get you killed by several players at once?

I played close to 20 games of Instant Action this morning and won everyone, my worst game was 25-10. So what's so great about this? I DONT USE ARMOR! I don't like using it because it makes you stand out, and when I do use it I find that I am unreasonably powerful. I don't want to fire even more bullets than I already have to just because someone has bad aim and no situational awareness and thus needs armor to compensate for it.

Get better at the game and you wont need armor at all unless you see an incoming grenade.

Just stop complaining about every aspect of this game. There is not one element of this game someone hasn't complained about. It's a great game IMO.

Armour mode is slow and a waste of time, it will not stop or slow down rounds, it's good for grenades and high falls only, but with regards to XP, we still have to max it out and at least try to use it.

If you have won 20 rounds then clearly you have found a game style that suits and works for you, so why knock others for complaining and trying make the game better. You clearly don't understand people.

I have played you several times and you are good, but did it not occur to you that others may have problems with lag, despite having a 20Mb connection via virgin, when I pull the trigger it takes almost a second before the gun fires. So when I run up to someone, spraying wildly, it's not because I'm useless or stupid, I know someone will get me from behind, but if I get my victim first then I'm one up.

I can't snip or hit anything from a distance, unless it's standing still. So it's not that we have to learn spatial awareness, or learn to play better, we do the best we can with what we have, an increased armour mode with regards to slowing down rounds, would help me out a lot, so yes please beef it up.

The armor mode is good enough as it is, only bad players complain about it. Why are you getting yourself in positions that would get you killed by several players at once?


While I agree that armor mode is fine for the most part, comments like this make me laugh. As if a skilled player has any control over getting ganged up on my multiple opponents. Hell, thats normally how I get killed, I'll be shooting it out with one player, and his teammate will come at me from a different angle.

As for armor mode being ineffective, I think alot of people feel this way because they will hear/see only a couple of shots hit before they die. This is normally due to lag. Watch the kill cam, and you will see that your armor took alot more shots before you died. Also, the aforementioned doubleteam can make it seem as if your armor didn't protect you because you were focused on the target in front of you.

On the topic of headshots in armor, I've not noticed it protecting me at all. I get killed alot by the stray headshot from a SCAR that is just hosing a general area from across the map. I often wonder if there is not a problem with the hit detection itself, since I've unloaded clips into a cloaked target's face at close range only to NOT get any sort of headshot.

This thread should be called "Sign Here If You Have No Meat"

Do you know what needs more meat. Just think about it, something hardcoe gamers don't have.

Do you know what needs more meat. Just think about it, something hardcoe gamers don't have.

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