Quote Originally Posted by Reinha View Post
Realistically we shouldn't be able to take hits in revealing armor. Realistically we also shouldn't be able to swim, dive, backflip or run endlessly in full plate gear. When you consider that every piece of gear in game is actually weightless it matters little which body parts they cover (or don't).
That's a fiction. Heaviest armors in real life were about 20kg's. And since properly made armors distribute the weight very well, running or swimming in them is both possible and much easier than it would seem. If a marathon-runner wore a heavy armor, he still would easily outrun an average Joe or Jane without much issue. A pro-swimmer would still out-swim a once-in-a-week-for-fun swimmer as well.

Backflips...well, that's a bit different, since doing backflips at the same ground level is on the upper limit of humans ability as it is. But I could see some people with really trained legs to barely manage one.


Well, combat ones. Armors for jostling...that's where the weight was. Those were made specifically to prevent damage from a lance and fall, while on a horse, going against a person straight ahead of you. They were so limited in usefulness so making them super-heavy tin cans that prevented even getting up without help a non-issue.