One important note on Golden Armor nerf: This test was at Strength Level 1. If it was done at Strength Level 50, the numbers would be double. So ~80 hits for Demons to kill BEFORE the patch, and ~24 hits AFTER Patch 2.
This is actually really great info. I have been roling with the gold armor when around my base. Turns out there is no point in rocking it at all unless fighting the demons.
@@hypnero7664 yeah it's arguably not worth using at all since even bone and creepy (which is generally easy to get or make) is better against everything
the golden armor is almost obsolete since by the time you're fighting demons you would probably have maxed out on creepy (wearing 10 and having 10 in your inventory)
@@FaceDownNinjaPlays As long as you aren't in that final cave...It auto equips it there. No idea if it lets you take it off while in there. Nobody tried so far.
Gold armor should give 30% damage reduction to everything. Regular armor would still be better, but that far in the story it would be nice to have that permanent boost to our character.
Also agree, i mean come on it's an endgame item. Seems stupid to get it to only open a damn door and kill a couple of demons, who cant even come close to you. (i blasted them away with the shotgun, before the shotgun nerf tho...they were 1 shot)
Its armor developed by beings more advanced than us capable of interdimensional travel, and you're saying armor crafted in the bush should be just as good. Think about that for a minute.
@@Sinaduel I don't think aliens made the gold armor. It seems to be a human skeleton wearing it. I think its purpose has more to do with the effects of the cube than physical protection. That being said, its still a full suit of metal.
I was hoping tech armor would be used in some special way. Like if you wear it it makes you invisible to enemies inside. Or wearing it allows you to avoid some kind of security system inside the complex to get a special weapon.
@@Hannah-Kathrine01 yeah being invisible to enemies would be too easy for sure. But maybe a security system inside instead? For the cost of the armor I was just expecting more uses from it besides the normal protection if that makes sense?
Wow, you really get into the nuts and bolts of this one! Your time invested in analysis is quite impressive. Since I'm a bit of a nerd, I appreciate that. I'm glad you took this time though because it shows what to go for and what to pass on. Another helpful video Tem, thank you!
Very interesting that bone armor and creepy armor is basically the same :O Kinda makes sense. Bone armor is kinda craft heavy, and creepy armor is combat heavy. With all the traps and spikes, I don't feel you need to fight to get bones. Hell, the fire traps makes the bones ready for you! xD
Idk how many of those traps do you have to build for cannibals to walk into them . I mean yeah ok maybe your base is just small enough for that but mine is like massive such that I would have eto gether like hundreds of sticks to actually get some decent coverage
@@praisethesun.praisedeussol6051 61 Flyswatter traps 7 ish Bonemaker traps. And a decent amount of spiketraps. Water to my rear, mountain to my right. So only need to have traps in front of my base, and left side. And 5-7 is on a small path behind my base. Of course, its not a fully automatic defence, I go out and fight when I hear traps being activated. I've also build a place where cannibals don't seem to go a lot so that helps! I would have had more traps, but the area isn't flat enough to build them in some places. I also played close attention to where they would come from, and put traps in their patrol path.
since the gold armor goes straight to your health, at a high strength level, it would actually be really good against demons since strength increases your base health.
I miss the combo of leaf armor/lizard skin with rabbit fur boots from the first forest game. I loved being so stealthy that they had no clue I was nearby. I felt so powerful. I got so excited when I found out the rabbit fur boots muffled the sound of your footsteps boosting your stealth. I believe I also wore a camouflage hoodie or t-shirt underneath lol. I felt so epic! And of course my choice of weapon was a bow and arrows.
There are things you missed about the effects of different armor. Example: Leaf armor is good for stealth as it makes you a lot quieter. Hide lets you get closer to prey animals before they run. I forget what bone does.
Hide and Leaf Armor are the only 2 armors that offer stealth by what I've seen and played.. the player eye icon indicating stealth is always on when wearing any other armor in game other than Hide and Leaf
Golden armor=plot item only, it was before the update and now it's been emphasized. Best armor=creepy, it's cheap and easy to replace. Others just feel like resource sinks.
I tend to farm a bit of hide and bone when I'm out and about. Only thing that is hard to find for bone is rope. Once I've got the crossbow I can get a lot of hide armor.
@@berserkerpride I forget the exact area (I think it's somewhat near the shotgun) but there is a spot with a depression in the ground and a bunch of coffins, that spot always spawns a load of rope for me.
It's odd how devs solutions to anything being powerful is an immediate over reaction in the opposite direction. It's like they can't conceive of a middle ground.
This is the first time I’m seeing what the armor looks like when we wear it. Wish it was an option for single player to see themselves while putting it on or something.
You can imagine my surprise when I found the Golden armor was so happy thinking I am now invincible and then I found out it only worke on demons after I got my ass handled by cannibals
They really oughta make hide armor either easier to get or more useful in any way, like providing warmth or something, because currently it takes an OBSCENELY long time to get a full set and it's not even worth bothering, it's basically having to kill 20 deer or 10 moose, which after playing the game for about the entire 100% completion (at this moment), I got about 13 total hide armor, so unless you actively go out of your way to walk around and hunt deer for hours of your life, it's super not worth the time investment
I mean the golden armor is pretty much just a story item, given the fact you need it to open the cubes doors. On the other hand, I think it's made out of solafite and we see that solafite doubles the health on your building when you use the artifact on them, so out of theory, the gold armor should still provide an insane amount of protection like how the solafite does on your buildings. So if it's made out of normal gold yes, it shouldn't protect well because gold is kind of a soft metal. But if it's made out of solafite or at least upgraded with it, it should definitely protect more.
Leaf armor gives a stealth buff. It's still not worth it unless you have nothing else because hiding in a bush will always give you max stealth regardless of what you're wearing. Still, if you are 50m+ away and want to avoid a conflict when they're looking right at you and you're not hiding in bushes, it might be enough of a difference between getting noticed and not getting noticed. You also get to look like Rambo or Arnold a bit so that's cool. A different video said hide armor also has a slight stealth buff, but I generally don't mess around with hide armor.
Haa! That one scene of the big guy knocking you down and getting back up just to get knocked down again reminds me of a hilarious Monty Python bit where a professional boxer was fighting a little girl. A hysterical visual every time!
I wonder, does the health of an individual armor piece stay constant. Say you get hit but the armor piece didn’t break, you kill the enemy and go about your business, later you get hit again does it start from full hit points or whatever amount was remaining ? Also in that same sense, does swapping out creepy armor with leaf armor repair your damaged piece of creepy armor if you re-equip it??
I believe the former, if equipping golden armor while equipped with damaged armor, the damaged armor is immediately removed from inventory as opposed to the other unharmed armor which gets placed in your inventory.
Thank u very much for putting in so much effort to test these things out, so we don't have to ❤ This video was really useful, so I think it's worth to grind for a full tech armor
in the original game, leaf armour was only really for Stealth and i'm assuming (so maybe wrong) that it is or at least will be the same in this game) and everything in this test went as i'd expected but cool for confirmation, shame about the gold armour though since it has a specific niche use only.
Leaf armor did have some protection in the old one. As it needs to be destroyed before they can damage your health, probably just as "good" as just normal lizard skin armor but with added stealth bonuses. Unlike the old Warm suit made from skins, which you couldn't use with armor. And just personally, the Gold armour needed the nerf. It made the entire end game section a joke. Especially if you also used the Cross. Could go in there for super easy creepy armor farming.
@@WolfFireheart i miss the lizard, pork and others animals that dont have it yet, also de difference of leathers and use of bones, as arrows and fences...i feel like bones are just use to armor is not enough
@@archdelic We will probably get more uses for bones. Like the bone fence. Or to use on effigies. If they add that. The head one a spike doesn't seem to do much. Or maybe I have just raised the cannibals hatred stat to much :p
@@WolfFireheart yeah i do know the leaf was sort of armour but it didn't really compare to bone or creepy, it was mainly there for the stealth buff and i think lizard skin armour was better than leaf too
@@SirBlaze75 I didn't mean to insinuate that you didn't know! And yeah, it could be tickled of you by a mildly aggressive bird. And in The Forest you made leaf armor with leafs and lizard skin. To me, without any proof. It doesn't make sense that the armor would be weaker then lizard skin, being made from lizard skin. But you might be right, for game balances, the leaf armor might have been weaker. Trading in some defences for the stealth bonus. That would be a typical game mechanic. Kinda like the weapon,, "mods" ? Glass/teeth makes a weapon hit harder, but reduces speed. A Trade of. Still, feels weird to me, I am quite sure lizard and leaf armor gave the same amount of defences. But again, I have no proof. And can't say with certainty.
Another small difference between bone and creep armor is that the 9mm pistol can break the bone helmet/faceplate with 1 bullet Creep armor can soak two 9 mm bullets before breaking.
still pissed they didnt add the log sled and radio is still buged, could you also make a tutorial how to build the roof corectly ? every time i build a roof i cant close the sides of the triangle, the logs dont cut off they just get placed in full length
I didn't watch the video yet but this is what I know: Leaf Armor doesn't protect much, but increases your chance of not being spotted, it's stealth armor. Deer Armor gives you a little protection, but the main purpose is to protect you against the cold. (it's buggy right now but Endnight will, eventually, fix it). Golden Armor gives you protection against Demons by reducing the damage you take, it's special against Demons and nothing more. The other 3 armors are defensive ones, protecting you against general damage. The order from worst to better is Bone Armor, Creep Armor, and Tech Armor. *Golden Armor isn't even good against Demons because you take damage, while Tech Armor tank damage for you, in a few words, Golden Armor is worst than Tech Armor.
The leaf and creepy armor are also bad in multiplayer, since it makes you look like a cannibal. If you are going to use it, put at least a couple pieces of tech armor on also, so others know you're not a cannibal.
Supposedly leaf armor increases your stealth ability and hide is better for cold? Maybe test each armor for those? Not sure HOW ...But I don't have the game so can't do more than speculate.
Ending Spoilers ahead ... Golden armour works only with demons because in my opinion those creatures are the original (wether them being aliens or whatever), while the other monsters are human-based mutations caused by the demons' presence on Earth.
I thought the golden armour worked for everything, but it's possible I had just gained a lot of strength levels at that point and didn't realise I simply had more hp. Or it was a bug.
Honestly, if they are gonna nerf Gold Armor to sub bone level, why not apply the damage reduction across the board instead? Make it a nice lategame reward as a general wear armor, so you focus on crafting/using tech pieces when faced with more difficult challenges. Either that or give it an thorns like effect when demons attack you
Gold armor should be in the final or second to last cave. It should be as good as bone against everything and as good as tech against demons. Its ancient advanced armor, more advanced than anything available on earth so it should be treated as such. The armor should not be left in the situation to make the game easy to beat, it should be there to make it easy to survive even in hard mode if you decide to stay AFTER beating the story. That's all there is to it.
As it was said by a couple of people already, they should just change the golden armor to 30-50% reduction to all incoming dmg. Also, whe should be able to equip those stupid masks and leave them on...
So they made gold armor virtually useless seeing as it only has an effect on one enemy and its about as good as basic bone armor with them while being good as naked with anything else? That seems... odd. I liked the idea of it, armor that doesnt have to be replaced because it doesnt break, it just reduces damage taken by a set amount but its so situational and now weak in comparison to regular armor that it seems dumb to use it even against demons.
I sure hope golden armor has a lot of changes to its mechanics, it should serve as a real alternative to armor, not just anti-demon armor (which its...meh at...)
Freecam command with the combination of him having 2 accounts and treating the other account as a camera-man. You can see in 6:52 the giant canibal knocks his cameraman down.
So I don't know if this was a bug, I haven't tried it recently. But I was able to put armor on my gold armor. So I could have a full set of tech armor, as well and wear the gold armor.... maybe that's been fixed, I'll have to look into it. But would be interesting if you looked into that as well. Edit: Also what difficulty was this on? Also not sure if I missed it, but leaf provides stealth bonus.
Interesting to see that an endgame armor is weaker than an amor that you can get basically at the start of the game (bone armor / golden doesn't work against cannibals). I think they should rework golden armor completely, at this point you are better just wearing bone armor and don't even let me get started on how easy and early to obtain and how stronger compared to golden armor is creepy armor. Golden armor is just a joke at this point, although it looks quite cool
Golden armor would be better if it wouldnt take health, but lower bar on golden armor, but it regens up with time. I dont see use for golden armor like this, i just use ones u get from dungeons instead.
thats what you get when a 7days player plays other games :D So used to test stupid things over and over with every patch to figure out if its worth or not ^^
Hopefully they update the Gold Armor again, essentially worthless now. They say it's for demons and the final boss. Well as it stands, looks like I would rather grind for tech armor for final boss.
In a pve game it's absolutely useless to nerf armor. Just tie the armor value to the difficulty level so masochists can play at high difficulty and get one shot with tech armor and normal difficulty players can enjoy the benefits of a litteral gold plated armor set
so what i take away from this video is that the nerf to gold armor made it worse at fighting demons than tech armor, so there is now literally no reason to be wearing it, great nerf devs, good balance change...
So they nerfed golden armour but not tech armour ? That seems pretty stupid , I mean the golden armour litteraly only applied to a single enemy type in the entire game .
dont really get the purpose of gold armor as demons are literally only in the final cave and no where else, it should honestly just be a flat damage reduction to everything as an alternative armor source when no good armor is available.
I didn't know the gold armor was used for anything. Now I know it's used against demons and it's relatively useless since you're taken a good amount of direct hp damage anyways. What a disappointing armor set, hopefully they expand on it and make it more useful.
One important note on Golden Armor nerf:
This test was at Strength Level 1. If it was done at Strength Level 50, the numbers would be double. So ~80 hits for Demons to kill BEFORE the patch, and ~24 hits AFTER Patch 2.
This is actually really great info. I have been roling with the gold armor when around my base. Turns out there is no point in rocking it at all unless fighting the demons.
jeez that is a huge nerf for gold armor
Ridiculous nerf. Ty for testing though, great to know about tech armor
@@hypnero7664 yeah it's arguably not worth using at all since even bone and creepy (which is generally easy to get or make) is better against everything
the golden armor is almost obsolete since by the time you're fighting demons you would probably have maxed out on creepy (wearing 10 and having 10 in your inventory)
I wouldnt be opposed to the Golden Armor nerf, if it actually gave you armor, outside of demons.
or if you could take it off
@@ItsBugtronic You can take it off by equipping any real armor.
@@FaceDownNinjaPlays As long as you aren't in that final cave...It auto equips it there. No idea if it lets you take it off while in there. Nobody tried so far.
@@pbsixgun6 i did before the update, which i could . Didnt try it after the new patch
New update nerf everything but enemies, smh. Game has got me tight since update. I get making it harder but it’s ridiculous
Gold armor should give 30% damage reduction to everything. Regular armor would still be better, but that far in the story it would be nice to have that permanent boost to our character.
agree
Also agree, i mean come on it's an endgame item. Seems stupid to get it to only open a damn door and kill a couple of demons, who cant even come close to you. (i blasted them away with the shotgun, before the shotgun nerf tho...they were 1 shot)
@@Szilagyicsabaistvan use the jesus
Its armor developed by beings more advanced than us capable of interdimensional travel, and you're saying armor crafted in the bush should be just as good. Think about that for a minute.
@@Sinaduel I don't think aliens made the gold armor. It seems to be a human skeleton wearing it. I think its purpose has more to do with the effects of the cube than physical protection.
That being said, its still a full suit of metal.
I was hoping tech armor would be used in some special way. Like if you wear it it makes you invisible to enemies inside. Or wearing it allows you to avoid some kind of security system inside the complex to get a special weapon.
That's a good idea.
isn't it too easy then?
@@Hannah-Kathrine01 yeah being invisible to enemies would be too easy for sure. But maybe a security system inside instead? For the cost of the armor I was just expecting more uses from it besides the normal protection if that makes sense?
It adds small lights on you if you wear a full set. It's not much light but it helps in caves.
3:02 Epic battle
Wow, you really get into the nuts and bolts of this one! Your time invested in analysis is quite impressive. Since I'm a bit of a nerd, I appreciate that. I'm glad you took this time though because it shows what to go for and what to pass on. Another helpful video Tem, thank you!
Very interesting that bone armor and creepy armor is basically the same :O
Kinda makes sense. Bone armor is kinda craft heavy, and creepy armor is combat heavy.
With all the traps and spikes, I don't feel you need to fight to get bones.
Hell, the fire traps makes the bones ready for you! xD
Idk how many of those traps do you have to build for cannibals to walk into them .
I mean yeah ok maybe your base is just small enough for that but mine is like massive such that I would have eto gether like hundreds of sticks to actually get some decent coverage
@@praisethesun.praisedeussol6051
61 Flyswatter traps
7 ish Bonemaker traps.
And a decent amount of spiketraps.
Water to my rear, mountain to my right.
So only need to have traps in front of my base, and left side. And 5-7 is on a small path behind my base.
Of course, its not a fully automatic defence, I go out and fight when I hear traps being activated.
I've also build a place where cannibals don't seem to go a lot so that helps!
I would have had more traps, but the area isn't flat enough to build them in some places.
I also played close attention to where they would come from, and put traps in their patrol path.
My problem is ropes, not bones.
since the gold armor goes straight to your health, at a high strength level, it would actually be really good against demons since strength increases your base health.
Leaf armor also adds a bonus to stealth for each piece of leaf armor worn.
With a full set, you're nearly invisible when crouched. It's great for raiding cannibal camps by picking them off before entry
I miss the combo of leaf armor/lizard skin with rabbit fur boots from the first forest game. I loved being so stealthy that they had no clue I was nearby. I felt so powerful. I got so excited when I found out the rabbit fur boots muffled the sound of your footsteps boosting your stealth. I believe I also wore a camouflage hoodie or t-shirt underneath lol. I felt so epic! And of course my choice of weapon was a bow and arrows.
There are things you missed about the effects of different armor. Example: Leaf armor is good for stealth as it makes you a lot quieter. Hide lets you get closer to prey animals before they run. I forget what bone does.
I'd like to see another video on the game's stealth mechanics/what affects stealth as well as how to properly use the masks.
Hide and Leaf Armor are the only 2 armors that offer stealth by what I've seen and played.. the player eye icon indicating stealth is always on when wearing any other armor in game other than Hide and Leaf
great data, great video.
Golden armor is right up there with the slingshot after 2.0
Golden armor=plot item only, it was before the update and now it's been emphasized. Best armor=creepy, it's cheap and easy to replace. Others just feel like resource sinks.
I tend to farm a bit of hide and bone when I'm out and about. Only thing that is hard to find for bone is rope.
Once I've got the crossbow I can get a lot of hide armor.
Literally plot armor.
@@berserkerpride I forget the exact area (I think it's somewhat near the shotgun) but there is a spot with a depression in the ground and a bunch of coffins, that spot always spawns a load of rope for me.
@@berserkerpride rope is literally the easiest item to get. There is a ton of it everywhere
@@adrian9420 Yeah rope isn't too bad, but you have to go roaming to get it.
It's odd how devs solutions to anything being powerful is an immediate over reaction in the opposite direction. It's like they can't conceive of a middle ground.
This is the first time I’m seeing what the armor looks like when we wear it. Wish it was an option for single player to see themselves while putting it on or something.
Yeah fr ore atleast make amor stand's againe
This is some XclusiveAce levels of deep analysis. I applaud you for that.
You can imagine my surprise when I found the Golden armor was so happy thinking I am now invincible and then I found out it only worke on demons after I got my ass handled by cannibals
This video must have taken a lot of time and hard work. Its not much but just wanted to show some appreciation.
Thanks, glad you enjoyed the video and I appreciate the support 🍻
They really oughta make hide armor either easier to get or more useful in any way, like providing warmth or something, because currently it takes an OBSCENELY long time to get a full set and it's not even worth bothering, it's basically having to kill 20 deer or 10 moose, which after playing the game for about the entire 100% completion (at this moment), I got about 13 total hide armor, so unless you actively go out of your way to walk around and hunt deer for hours of your life, it's super not worth the time investment
Thanks for doing this! You answer so many questions with these info specific videos. I also love the play through series!
I don’t have this game and not planning to buy it, but I still watch your content
Appreciate all of the hard work these videos would take to produce. Informative and entertaining 👍
I mean the golden armor is pretty much just a story item, given the fact you need it to open the cubes doors.
On the other hand, I think it's made out of solafite and we see that solafite doubles the health on your building when you use the artifact on them,
so out of theory, the gold armor should still provide an insane amount of protection like how the solafite does on your buildings.
So if it's made out of normal gold yes, it shouldn't protect well because gold is kind of a soft metal.
But if it's made out of solafite or at least upgraded with it, it should definitely protect more.
Great research and presentation of your results. Thanks for all the effort!
I hope they add warming Function to the hide Armor for Winter seasons!
Leaf armor gives a stealth buff. It's still not worth it unless you have nothing else because hiding in a bush will always give you max stealth regardless of what you're wearing.
Still, if you are 50m+ away and want to avoid a conflict when they're looking right at you and you're not hiding in bushes, it might be enough of a difference between getting noticed and not getting noticed. You also get to look like Rambo or Arnold a bit so that's cool.
A different video said hide armor also has a slight stealth buff, but I generally don't mess around with hide armor.
Haa! That one scene of the big guy knocking you down and getting back up just to get knocked down again reminds me of a hilarious Monty Python bit where a professional boxer was fighting a little girl. A hysterical visual every time!
Brilliant vid. Thank you for performing and revealing the results of your tests. You got my subscription and thumb up.
Awesome video i respect that u had patience to do all this
Great stuff! Some really good to know info here :)
Hey thank you for giving it a watch! I'm a big fan of your huge base builds 🙂
I wonder, does the health of an individual armor piece stay constant. Say you get hit but the armor piece didn’t break, you kill the enemy and go about your business, later you get hit again does it start from full hit points or whatever amount was remaining ? Also in that same sense, does swapping out creepy armor with leaf armor repair your damaged piece of creepy armor if you re-equip it??
I believe the former, if equipping golden armor while equipped with damaged armor, the damaged armor is immediately removed from inventory as opposed to the other unharmed armor which gets placed in your inventory.
Love your methodical approach.
Thank u very much for putting in so much effort to test these things out, so we don't have to ❤
This video was really useful, so I think it's worth to grind for a full tech armor
These high pitch sound effects sped up are hilarious. I'd watch just for that 😅
Thank you for this video I was confused I thought creepy Armor was better than tech Armor
Great work especially all the effort that went into testing. Always wondered
Great info here, thank you!
Very informative. That took a lot of work on your part. Thank you! 👍
Glad it was helpful!
in the original game, leaf armour was only really for Stealth and i'm assuming (so maybe wrong) that it is or at least will be the same in this game) and everything in this test went as i'd expected but cool for confirmation, shame about the gold armour though since it has a specific niche use only.
Leaf armor did have some protection in the old one. As it needs to be destroyed before they can damage your health, probably just as "good" as just normal lizard skin armor but with added stealth bonuses.
Unlike the old Warm suit made from skins, which you couldn't use with armor.
And just personally, the Gold armour needed the nerf. It made the entire end game section a joke.
Especially if you also used the Cross. Could go in there for super easy creepy armor farming.
@@WolfFireheart i miss the lizard, pork and others animals that dont have it yet, also de difference of leathers and use of bones, as arrows and fences...i feel like bones are just use to armor is not enough
@@archdelic
We will probably get more uses for bones.
Like the bone fence.
Or to use on effigies. If they add that.
The head one a spike doesn't seem to do much.
Or maybe I have just raised the cannibals hatred stat to much :p
@@WolfFireheart yeah i do know the leaf was sort of armour but it didn't really compare to bone or creepy, it was mainly there for the stealth buff
and i think lizard skin armour was better than leaf too
@@SirBlaze75
I didn't mean to insinuate that you didn't know!
And yeah, it could be tickled of you by a mildly aggressive bird.
And in The Forest you made leaf armor with leafs and lizard skin.
To me, without any proof. It doesn't make sense that the armor would be weaker then lizard skin, being made from lizard skin.
But you might be right, for game balances, the leaf armor might have been weaker.
Trading in some defences for the stealth bonus. That would be a typical game mechanic.
Kinda like the weapon,, "mods" ? Glass/teeth makes a weapon hit harder, but reduces speed. A Trade of.
Still, feels weird to me, I am quite sure lizard and leaf armor gave the same amount of defences.
But again, I have no proof. And can't say with certainty.
Another small difference between bone and creep armor is that the 9mm pistol can break the bone helmet/faceplate with 1 bullet
Creep armor can soak two 9 mm bullets before breaking.
omg. poor kelvin at the end lol!
still pissed they didnt add the log sled and radio is still buged, could you also make a tutorial how to build the roof corectly ?
every time i build a roof i cant close the sides of the triangle, the logs dont cut off they just get placed in full length
Thank you for your hard work.
Appreciate your efforts!
I didn't watch the video yet but this is what I know:
Leaf Armor doesn't protect much, but increases your chance of not being spotted, it's stealth armor.
Deer Armor gives you a little protection, but the main purpose is to protect you against the cold. (it's buggy right now but Endnight will, eventually, fix it).
Golden Armor gives you protection against Demons by reducing the damage you take, it's special against Demons and nothing more.
The other 3 armors are defensive ones, protecting you against general damage. The order from worst to better is Bone Armor, Creep Armor, and Tech Armor.
*Golden Armor isn't even good against Demons because you take damage, while Tech Armor tank damage for you, in a few words, Golden Armor is worst than Tech Armor.
This is awesome, please test more stuff!
The leaf and creepy armor are also bad in multiplayer, since it makes you look like a cannibal. If you are going to use it, put at least a couple pieces of tech armor on also, so others know you're not a cannibal.
Kelvin watching him run into the spikes from the sticks he just got him 👁👄👁
Wish you would have looked at leaf and hide armor's effect on stealth as well as hide armor's effect on coldness.
Supposedly leaf armor increases your stealth ability and hide is better for cold? Maybe test each armor for those? Not sure HOW ...But I don't have the game so can't do more than speculate.
Awesome, thanks! Please can you do a breakdown on the custom game settings. Much appreciated. Cheers.
Ending Spoilers ahead
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Golden armour works only with demons because in my opinion those creatures are the original (wether them being aliens or whatever), while the other monsters are human-based mutations caused by the demons' presence on Earth.
I thought the golden armour worked for everything, but it's possible I had just gained a lot of strength levels at that point and didn't realise I simply had more hp.
Or it was a bug.
Damn Tem, your science side is really coming out in this game! Very cool bro 😎👍
Honestly, if they are gonna nerf Gold Armor to sub bone level, why not apply the damage reduction across the board instead? Make it a nice lategame reward as a general wear armor, so you focus on crafting/using tech pieces when faced with more difficult challenges.
Either that or give it an thorns like effect when demons attack you
Thank you for doing this so that we do not have to wonder!
I fought the end boss demon in the golden armor and it beat my ass. I switched to tech armor mid battle and finished the job.
Nice work
Gold armor should be in the final or second to last cave. It should be as good as bone against everything and as good as tech against demons.
Its ancient advanced armor, more advanced than anything available on earth so it should be treated as such.
The armor should not be left in the situation to make the game easy to beat, it should be there to make it easy to survive even in hard mode if you decide to stay AFTER beating the story.
That's all there is to it.
leaf armor is great you can sneak around
So better to wear bone armor and up even against demons after the nerf. No point in the Gold armor.
As it was said by a couple of people already, they should just change the golden armor to 30-50% reduction to all incoming dmg. Also, whe should be able to equip those stupid masks and leave them on...
Great video!
So they made gold armor virtually useless seeing as it only has an effect on one enemy and its about as good as basic bone armor with them while being good as naked with anything else? That seems... odd. I liked the idea of it, armor that doesnt have to be replaced because it doesnt break, it just reduces damage taken by a set amount but its so situational and now weak in comparison to regular armor that it seems dumb to use it even against demons.
I sure hope golden armor has a lot of changes to its mechanics, it should serve as a real alternative to armor, not just anti-demon armor (which its...meh at...)
Did you test the armor stealth boni?
Am I the only one that just found out that the sand moves?
How do you manage the second camera? 😍
great vid !!!! just a quick question what mod do you use for 3rd person view ?
There is a freecam command and also mods being made
Freecam command with the combination of him having 2 accounts and treating the other account as a camera-man. You can see in 6:52 the giant canibal knocks his cameraman down.
Actually, i think for this vid specifically he uses the 2 account trick. It's a different kind of 3rd person compared to his Strength video.
@@Damian125id sharp hahaha some detective work
@@SirkyNL thanks, he uses this trick for awhile for his 7DTD videos which is how i know.
So I don't know if this was a bug, I haven't tried it recently. But I was able to put armor on my gold armor. So I could have a full set of tech armor, as well and wear the gold armor.... maybe that's been fixed, I'll have to look into it. But would be interesting if you looked into that as well.
Edit: Also what difficulty was this on? Also not sure if I missed it, but leaf provides stealth bonus.
Well, being a console player, this was not helpful but it was entertaining. Love your videos!
So tech armor is the best overall, especially now?
So strength kind of buffs gold armor, because more hp = more damage reduction in total?
Interesting to see that an endgame armor is weaker than an amor that you can get basically at the start of the game (bone armor / golden doesn't work against cannibals). I think they should rework golden armor completely, at this point you are better just wearing bone armor and don't even let me get started on how easy and early to obtain and how stronger compared to golden armor is creepy armor. Golden armor is just a joke at this point, although it looks quite cool
Yea I was so excited to get the gold armor. And it was crap it did nothing to protect me.
Man I thought the creepy armor and tech armor were similar in strength
Golden armor would be better if it wouldnt take health, but lower bar on golden armor, but it regens up with time. I dont see use for golden armor like this, i just use ones u get from dungeons instead.
So... golden armour is just a vanity item that takes up your armour slots?
Lol theorycrafting goes brrrrrrrrtttttttt!
thanks so much for the hard work you put into videos for us:)
are you sure you did not reduce gold armor by 70% instead should it be reduced by 30 % ?
But the gold armor looks sooooooooo cool! 🥲
thats what you get when a 7days player plays other games :D
So used to test stupid things over and over with every patch to figure out if its worth or not ^^
Its just a shame that tech armour look so cheesy 😞 Well I mean all of the armour is odd looking I guess...
Great vid mate!
Best use for golden armor now is to slap it on a mannequin and decorate your log cabin.
Hopefully they update the Gold Armor again, essentially worthless now. They say it's for demons and the final boss. Well as it stands, looks like I would rather grind for tech armor for final boss.
I know this is a learning experience but I can't stop laughing.
To demonstrate how armor work... I gonna hump the wooden spike mutiple times!
Okay, so how is tech armour against demons? I'm a bit confused. ☹️
Every time I were the golden armor a moose yeets me brah
In a pve game it's absolutely useless to nerf armor.
Just tie the armor value to the difficulty level so masochists can play at high difficulty and get one shot with tech armor and normal difficulty players can enjoy the benefits of a litteral gold plated armor set
Hide armor is pretty weak considering the time investment to craft a whole set. Hunting all of those deer/moose isn't easy
Traps and Chokepoints, you be sick of clearing up deer if you do it right. free easy meat and hide, don't waste time chasing with bows
So what's the point of the golden armour now that it's so bad?
You need it to complete the game
Yeah gold armor sucks now. Now it's just a key to get into the hell cave. After you get in switch to tech armor.
so what i take away from this video is that the nerf to gold armor made it worse at fighting demons than tech armor, so there is now literally no reason to be wearing it, great nerf devs, good balance change...
wait a second.. the sand actually moves?
never noticed
So they nerfed golden armour but not tech armour ? That seems pretty stupid , I mean the golden armour litteraly only applied to a single enemy type in the entire game .
for my whole playthrough i though that the golden armor is just a name for tech armor because its yellow😭😭😭
dont really get the purpose of gold armor as demons are literally only in the final cave and no where else, it should honestly just be a flat damage reduction to everything as an alternative armor source when no good armor is available.
K-Kelvin?...... Kelvin?........ Oh my........
I didn't know the gold armor was used for anything. Now I know it's used against demons and it's relatively useless since you're taken a good amount of direct hp damage anyways. What a disappointing armor set, hopefully they expand on it and make it more useful.