Please Remove Armor Tiers In the BR Until Armor is Reworked

Balance Discussion

The armor system is horrendous. With so much inspiration from Apex, why not add Evo Shield? Apex fixed their armor system over 3 years ago. Having to pickup upgrades and then losing them on death means you can often get stuck with white at endgame against a full team of gold. And its not just get better at looting. First, why would anyone want to loot. More importantly if you're queuing solo and playing with randoms, you're so much more likely to keep dying that any upgrades you get you will keep losing until you're back at white.

At this point I don't think Evo shields is the solution. I think armor should be a consistent amount for the entire match - maybe like 75 health. Gold is too forgiving and white is a little too weak.

Also, why in the world aren't we spawning with shield plates?? We should at least get enough to refill our armor, ideally twice. And I mean that for every time we spawn, it is not the least bit fun to respawn, especially when solo queuing, get shot and then have to just hide and not take any more fights.

My major gripe with BR has become tiered loot. Get rid of it all (maybe leave the weapons). Equipment should have the same power it does in Arenas, shields should be consistent, and portalling should function however 1047 wants it to work going forward (be that full blown portals or cooldowns or whatever). Weapons I guess can have tiers, but I'd honestly rather see the shops changed to upgrade stations (with way more of them) where you can add attachments. I'd also like to drop with full loadouts because Im here to shoot, not loot. I'd personally remove loot bins too and just have armor plates as pickups with perks being given to everyone every so many seconds so by final ring everyone has full perks. Weapon and equipment swaps could be picked up off dead enemies but if they spawn on the ground thats fine too.

But my main point for now is that fixing armor for now would go a long way

Posted Aug 27, 2025, 3:40 AM UTC

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