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<blockquote data-quote="Njall" data-source="post: 5940107" data-attributes="member: 54719">I meant &quot;no one&quot;. Armor was never used or conceived to hunt them. If it made hunting big stuff reasonably less dangerous, rest assured it would have been conceived and used.Dude, there's no &quot;surviving better&quot;, there's &quot;surviving&quot; and there's &quot;dying&quot;. A guy in heavy armor that's sent flying survives maybe a couple of seconds more than the light armored dude, because he'll probably get trampled before he can ever get up, if he can even get up, since he'll probably have at least a couple broken bones. Conversely, light armor dude can probably keep dodging and moving around longer, because, yeah, 20+kgs of steel do tire you out quickly in an open field melee, and even a slight reduction in speed might mean you're toast in an actual fight....having a &quot;good&quot; FoV means little in this context.Does it provide a &quot;good&quot; field of vision compared to less refined helmets, and even less cumbersome ones? Sure. Compared to &quot;not wearing a helmet at all&quot;? Not a chance.However, when you're fighting something that can attack you easily from the side, like a large opponent, and when each blow can kill you regardless of how much steel you're wearing, you don't want a &quot;good&quot; FoV, you want the best possible FoV, because it'll keep you alive longer, and wearing headgear is probably a bad idea, because a direct blow will still snap your neck.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Njall, post: 5940107, member: 54719"] I meant "no one". Armor was never used or conceived to hunt them. If it made hunting big stuff reasonably less dangerous, rest assured it would have been conceived and used. Dude, there's no "surviving better", there's "surviving" and there's "dying". A guy in heavy armor that's sent flying survives maybe a couple of seconds more than the light armored dude, because he'll probably get trampled before he can ever get up, if he can even get up, since he'll probably have at least a couple broken bones. Conversely, light armor dude can probably keep dodging and moving around longer, because, yeah, 20+kgs of steel [b]do[/b] tire you out quickly in an open field melee, and even a slight reduction in speed might mean you're toast in an actual fight. ...having a "good" FoV means little in this context. Does it provide a "good" field of vision compared to less refined helmets, and even less cumbersome ones? Sure. Compared to "not wearing a helmet at all"? Not a chance. However, when you're fighting something that can attack you easily from the side, like a large opponent, and when each blow can kill you regardless of how much steel you're wearing, you don't want a "good" FoV, you want the best possible FoV, because it'll keep you alive longer, and wearing headgear is probably a bad idea, because a direct blow will still snap your neck. [/QUOTE]

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