Without gold armor you can't survive charges nor assassin face-grapples. It greatly reduces your life expectancy. And for what? There's no other...
Stay around the bot spawns and get lvl 2 smoke: the support can't catch you if you just keep jumping up/down/over the raised ledge. Use the ejector...
But... lvl 2 charge insta-kills an unarmored assassin.
Re: FireBase LV3 Bonus + Hack A lvl 3 firebase can't be focused down by an assault/assassin while the support is healing it. A lvl 2 firebase can.
It doesn't matter if armor is statistically significant from a numbers standpoint. What matters is that certain armor endorsements will let you live...
A post by one of the developers stated that it's that way to make the game more exciting, but it's not trickery: it's numbers. I can't find the post...
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