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Thread: What is the armor hole bug and can it be avoided?
JChace029 wrote:That's not a "bug" there is an open spot for the Belt when wearing armor, and people just assume it is a bug.
That's what I was going to say. And to the people who say comp doesn't have a belt, so there shouldn't be a hole, I say pfft. I'm sure it's not working as intended, but it should be. Comp is really good armour that just happens to have a weakness. It's a trade-off.
TH, many thanks for setting an issue straight with a direct, 'this is how it is, honest' post. I'd gleefully slaughter small, furry woodland creatures for more of those.
oh and HardwiredXMan, you look a bit odd with that foot in your mouth.
HardwiredXMan wrote:
Total crap.....as far as not wanting to get hit for full damage because of some armor hole.
Look....no armor in this game protects you 100% even without backpacks, rings, belts, bandoliers...etc.
there are soft spots in any kind of armor a person wears simply because you have to be able to bend, twist, turn your head and such. There are natural soft spots there. I'm sure that in the game this concept was looked at by the devs. you get hit between where the bracer and the bicep connects (where it allows your arm to bend)....you take unblocked damage. You get hit between the area where the chest plate and the leggings connect, you take unblocked damage.
Now this has a very low chance of happening. Maybe it happens too much, maybe it doesn't.....that's something to look at.
But As far as armor goes, the only real way to be totally protected from damage is to have every single spot of the body covered, which no armor in this game does that. To have a suit of armor 100% cover all of the body, you need a suit of armor that is powered to allow the suit to bend, even then itwill probablybe to heavy to wear. It can't have areas where the armor connects. THe armor can'tcome in pieces where you can put one part on andnot another.....this kind of armor will havenatural holes.
Armor in this game is similar to the armor knightshad. They couldhave a suit of knight armor on and still get killed by a sword penetrating under the arm,under the neck, in the waist area (ok so they died easy in those days...lol...but you take a sword under the arm pit and lets see how well you can swing that arm afterwards).....they could also be injured at theknees, neck andwrist....