Soldier Kevlar Skill

(Hartmann) #1

Please clarify if I am mistaken but the problem I am having is as follows:

I have purchased the rank 3 soldier skill for the Kevlar armor, as far as I understand it this allows soldiers to spawn with the kevlar armor which is normally given by engineers.

The problem is that I am not spawning with this armor, the kevlar armor indicator does not appear at the bottom left of my hub as it normally would when given by an engineer, in addition engineers are still able to toss me their kevlar armor, which leads me to believe that the skill is not apply a kevlar armor on me at all as engineers should not be able to toss me armor if I had already had one equiped.

Any information or help on this topic would be appreciated, thank you.

(Dorian Gray) #2

It states clearly that the soldier does NOT recieve the buff with this, only other players the soldier chooses to buff.

(Hartmann) #3

I believe you mixed up the engineer and the soldier’s skills for the kevlar armor

Engineer’s Kevlar Skill
Extra Kevlar allows you to give your teammates additional armor protection that lasts until they die. You cannot administer this buff to yourself, or to a Soldier who already has the Kevlar ability.

Soldier’s Kevlar Skill
Kevlar Vest increases your damage resistance while you are a Soldier. Enemies equipped with Armor Piercing rounds can still do full damage to you.

(Tope) #4

Perhaps it’s adding a passive buff to the Soldier. Or it’s just not working at all.

edit: What Hartmann said regarding the descriptions.

(Dorian Gray) #5

[QUOTE=Hartmann;298941]I believe you mixed up the engineer and the soldier’s skills for the kevlar armor

Engineer’s Kevlar Skill
Extra Kevlar allows you to give your teammates additional armor protection that lasts until they die. You cannot administer this buff to yourself, or to a Soldier who already has the Kevlar ability.

Soldier’s Kevlar Skill
Kevlar Vest increases your damage resistance while you are a Soldier. Enemies equipped with Armor Piercing rounds can still do full damage to you.[/QUOTE]

Oh, I see. My bad then, sorry.

(Deadbeat836) #6

Does anyone want to test this ability for the soldier? I want to see if it even works. Because I can still get kevlar buffs from engineers even though I am a soldier with the soldier kevlar ability.

(Altotheix) #7

was wondering about this as well.

(Deadbeat836) #8

Anyone tested it yet? I cant even play online its so laggy and the 2fps problem with the servers browser.

(MorphingJar) #9

As far as I can tell right now. None of the “passive” soldier abilities are working. Neither the Armor piercing bullets self buff or the kevlar armor.

(D_Rock27) #10

I agree doesn’t seem to be working on the xbox 360 ateast.I hope it gets fixed in an update.

(Macky) #11

[QUOTE=Hartmann;298584]Please clarify if I am mistaken but the problem I am having is as follows:

I have purchased the rank 3 soldier skill for the Kevlar armor, as far as I understand it this allows soldiers to spawn with the kevlar armor which is normally given by engineers.

The problem is that I am not spawning with this armor, the kevlar armor indicator does not appear at the bottom left of my hub as it normally would when given by an engineer, in addition engineers are still able to toss me their kevlar armor, which leads me to believe that the skill is not apply a kevlar armor on me at all as engineers should not be able to toss me armor if I had already had one equiped.

Any information or help on this topic would be appreciated, thank you.[/QUOTE]

Yeah, it should show up as one of 3 abilities with it’s own icon IMO. However, I posted the same thing in a thread discussing in game bugs.

(InternetsWrong) #12

Sigh people really don’t test here is the deal with kevlar.

It will allow you to take 2 additional shots to the body and 1 additional shot to the head. I tested this with the Kalt pistol silenced against medium and heavy body types and with the Gerund AR. So there you have it.

ie. If you are a light soldier wearing kevlar you can take as many shots as a unbuffed medium body type.

(Hyraltia) #13

[QUOTE=InternetsWrong;308005]Sigh people really don’t test here is the deal with kevlar.

It will allow you to take 2 additional shots to the body and 1 additional shot to the head. I tested this with the Kalt pistol silenced against medium and heavy body types and with the Gerund AR. So there you have it.

ie. If you are a light soldier wearing kevlar you can take as many shots as a unbuffed medium body type.[/QUOTE]

Yes, that’s how kevlar works when they are buffed with it, the soldier skill is clearly intended to make the soldier spawn with kevlar, it does not, and this is evident in the ability for engineers to still buff soldiers with kevlar despite the fact that it says “you may not buff yourself or a soldier with the kevlar ability” on the engi skill.

So clearly you didn’t test it or you’re just making uninformed troll posts?