Kevlar vest and helmet
Alternate name(s)	Armor
Price	$650 (vest) $250 (helmet) $650 (armor repair)
Usage	Reducing damage

 

The kevlar vest and helmet, known in Counter-Strike: Global Offensive as simply "Kevlar + Helmet", is a combination of protective equipment found in the Counter-Strike series. Kevlar can be purchased by itself, while the helmet cannot. 

OverviewEdit

• Kevlar body armor costs $650 and reduces damage taken by bullets and grenades.
• Players can also buy kevlar armor with a helmet for $1000 that saves players from one-shot kills to the head by any weapon except sniper rifles, close range shotguns, the Desert Eagle, and the AK-47.
• Damage from HE Grenades, buckshot, 9mm rounds, and .45 ACP rounds (i.e. most pistols and sub-machine guns) is reduced by approximately half.
• Damage from rifle rounds and the armor piercing FN57 ammunition (used in the Five-seveN and P90) is reduced only by about 25%, although it should be noted that the FN57 ammunition does little damage in the first place. As long as you have any armor at all, the exact armor value does not matter. It should also be noted that Kevlar will not protect you from attacks landed anywhere other than on the chest, stomach, and head (with a helmet) hitboxes.

PropertiesEdit

AdvantagesEdit

• Greatly increases protection from most bullets
• If a helmet is purchased, it saves users from headshots in a handful of situations
• Has no impact on the user's speed

DisadvantagesEdit

• Expensive (unless Kevlar and a Helmet has been provided for you)
• Does not protect users from shots to head inflicted by AWP rounds, the Desert Eagle, and the AK-47
• Kevlar Armor and the Helmet doesn't protect the legs

TriviaEdit

• The hotkey for this equipment is b81/b82 or o1/o2.
• Kevlar vest protects chest, stomach and arms (starting BETA 1.2) while the helmet only protects head.
• Kevlar armor in Counter-Strike: Condition Zero Deleted Scenes provides significantly better protection than its multiplayer counterpart.
• There is no visual difference when having armor equipped thus making it easy to fool other players. Enemies can only tell if a target has armor by damaging them and seeing white sparks which indicates that the player is wearing armor.
• The world model file is named "w_assault".
• On the Dynamic Weapon Pricing website, the Kevlar + Helmet combination was known as the "assault suit". 
• If a mapper has decided to use content from Half-Life and place the battery used specifically for the H.E.V. suit, players will gain 15 points of armor. In some custom servers, if a Half-Life NPC is used, the Kevlar has the same properties as the H.E.V. suit.
• Although the world model of the Kevlar does not appear in official maps, some custom maps feature the MDL file that can be obtained by players.

See alsoEdit

• Kevlar Armor/Helmet image gallery

External linksEdit

• Kevlar vest at Wikipedia