The TLDR

• Armor is good! It's very effective vs FMJ SMGs and Pistols, and can even negate FMJ rifles by a factor of 5 starting with the 6B102.
• AP is really good! Especially on rifles, they make quick work of almost all armors. The penetration effectiveness means its always quicker to kill than a rifle shooting legs.
• Collector Armor is nuts. It reduces most rounds to dealing only 7% of their normal damage, and legging can be a hopeless endeavor since it protects the upper legs as well.

How armor works

Protection Grades

Caliber Grades

CG vs PG Effectiveness

CG vs PG Table

Time to Kill and Armor

Weapon Class TTK Averages

Weapon Class Legging TTK Averages

The numbers Mason, what do they mean?!

• AP vs FMJ Average Damage Per Shot Increase
• AP vs FMJ Average Time to Kill
• AP vs FMJ Legging Time to Kill

So is armor worth it?

So is AP worth it?

Wait, if they're both worth it don't they cancel each other out?

God Mode - AKA PG6 AKA Collector Armor

Slayer of Armors: AP Battle Rifles, LMGs, and Snipers

Applying logic to the numbers

And that's all I have to say about that

Axstrom's Notes

1. The list is here: jump list with gauntlet section
2. The draw (1-177) is 11, 115, 176, 169, 151
   1. Drawing 5 - new mechanic is increased jumper choice so all are valid
   2. 11 is HEX - a 1985 computer board game
   3. 115 is SUPERHOT - the famous shooter video game where time only moves when you docs
   4. 176 is Ib - a horror video game where you are trapped in a cursed art gallery
   5. 169 is Fall Guys Ultimate Knockout - the platformy battle royale game
   6. 151 is Three Star - Start a restaurant and earn 3 Michelin stars within 10 years
   7. Jumper chooses Fall Guys Ultimate Knockout
      1. Jump Doc
      2. Reddit discussion

Build Notes

1. Drawbacks - Gauntlet life means plenty
   1. Shifting Events - random changes in events - This is almost like a freebie, since other competitors are affected just as much as me
   2. Oof! - feel the pain and distraction - I can feel the pain but still power through it
   3. Worst Event - an event you hate (but aren't necessarily bad at) - another freebie since this was bound to happen anyway, now I get points for it
   4. Incompetents - team events always put you with the bad team - this was going to be the case subjectively anyway
2. Companions - None
3. Origin - Fall Guy (mandatory)
4. Perks
   1. Kudos for You! (free/mandatory/temporary) - get in-game currency for doing well
   2. Front of the Pack - always have a good starting position in contests
   3. Timing - intuitive understanding of your own speed, the cyclical period of obstacles, and exactly when to jump or dodge
   4. Awareness - Sense things outside your field of vision
   5. Like a Cat - Always land on your feet and slight ability to change direction midair
5. Items - None
6. Prizes
   1. One Win - customizable fall guys pocket dimension (via warehouse attachment or in-jump door)
   2. Sixty Win Consolation Prize - for sixty wins in a season, one project or product of yours per jump becomes wildly successful
   3. Highest Kudos Consolation Prize - significant luck boost

Jump Notes

1. Day -6
   1. We fly to an isolated area so we can enter the warehouse without witnesses, to avoid any confusion
   2. According to the pattern my benefactor established, I should be due for another rule change and a gauntlet, so I check the lounge immediately
      1. There's no note on the door this time, and no one inside to speak with me, but there is a card on the coffee table:
      2. Indeed, there are now five envelopes, each describing a different gauntlet I could visit
      3. After a bit of thought, I opt for Fall Guys, as I can at least expect it to be quick and merciful, and affix the sticker to my jump tracking chart
   3. I turn my attention back to the biosphere teleport to the observation deck, and make note of what's changed in the last ten years
      1. At the macro level things seems to be similar - the islands are in the same places, but there is noticeably more going on in the factory complex
      2. With the end of the jump, the Zetan Mothership had warped into the extra-dimensional Big Garage, and the alien crew were occasionally filtering into the rest of the warehouse and biosphere area
      3. The Bards had built an amphitheater from a hill near the housing complex early on, and by now it had grown into a full-blown outdoor theater, with an excavated pit, curtain system, and similar facilities
      4. The biggest change had been on the islands assigned to the halflings, which were now full of farms, ranches, and workshops
   4. With a steady supply of fresh food now including cereals, fruits, seafood, and meat, they grocery preference was adjusted toward supplemental items like spices and unusual ingredients
      1. This time Pawl has some trained or programmed robots helping with the meal preparation - likely J-Borg's influence, but the meal is divine, and he even has been saving up shrimp from the warehouse grocery's plan to make a feast for the Zetans
2. Most of the team hasn't heard of Fall Guys before, but it's one of the 1500 or so games installed on the Game Room's servers
   1. We spend much of the week trying to come up with strategies for the various levels and challenges
   2. I don't tell the companions that the next batch of jumps will be partially my choice, but more than once I hear one of them say "It would be interesting to visit ..." or similar remarks, and I wonder if somehow they know, or I'm just sensitive to it now that I do
3. Day 1 of 60
   1. With the weird twisty feeling of a jump, and the sudden awareness of how much I am now lacking, I find myself in a throng of bean-people, some in costumes, watching a brief countdown before running a course of rotating platforms and knock-down bars
      1. I did ok in that first race, and even though I didn't finish first, I qualified to go to the next level
      2. After two levels, I failed to qualify in a team game sort of like basketball, and was kicked out of the match
   2. After the match, I was sent to a strange room
      1. The first things I noticed were areas that looked sort of like walk-in showers with glass doors I could open and step through, one labeled "next match" and one labeled "end day"
      2. But there was also a strange thing that seemed like a combination of dollhouse, wardrobe, and vending machine
   3. I had thought about it, and told myself that I'd devote my first day to learning my limits and getting used to my body and advantages, rather than just trying to win immediately
      1. This was good as my second match started with a team tail tag event, wherein my team seemed to have forgotten how to effectively run away
   4. After a few more matches (or maybe a lot) I had the hang of things, and finally got first place in a match 5. Figuring it best to end on a high note, I decided to try the "end day" option, which resulted in another trap door - leading to a bed perfectly suited for a pill, on which I instantly fell asleep
4. Day 2 of 60
   1. I woke up to my bed being gently tipped, resulting in me falling through, yes, another trapdoor, which somehow led back to my "green room" as I'd taken to calling it
      1. This time the greenroom had a new feature: A screen showing "59 days remaining", and a few stats about me and the competition
   2. I once again tried to focus on practice and calibration for a bit
      1. It seems like even my bodymod enhancements, which should give me great advantages in strength, speed, and reaction, had been significantly tuned down
      2. But I was consistently lucky in my starting position, and I seemed to fare better when getting knocked around, as well as judging jumps and dives
   3. This time I got my victory earlier - on my fifth match of the day
      1. But rather than "quit while ahead", I decided to try to grind through a bit more to see if I could improve my standing in point totals
5. Day 10 of 60
   1. I hate the Lost Temple
      1. It's not even a team event, where I expect suckage, it's just random bullshit
   2. And I hate my teammates
      1. I think it's intentionally pairing me with bots, or babies maybe? It's hard to tell
   3. But through perseverance, I have managed to get myself into the top 5% of scorers for the season
   4. I learned that the scoreboard screen has more functions
      1. I can see a history of my games and watch replays, and see the names of other players involved, plus get some more stats about myself and the season
   5. I tried a few goofy outfits, but I have mostly been wearing the plain blue bean-condom - I just don't feel comfortable in the weird ones with lots of parts flailing around
6. Day 30 of 60
   1. I wake up and check the leaderboard - it seems unchanged from last night
      1. It seems most players only play a few matches per day, and I spent a fair amount of time yesterday reviewing replays
      2. I barely need to sleep, but I think the others need it more
      3. I'm still in 7th place - I'm trying to keep the gap between me and #1 narrow, but not so much as to make the top 3 feel the need to play even more matches
   2. I start my first match of the day - it seems to be only slightly different than the first map I played on day one: spinning platforms resembling propellers, with spinning bars
      1. I yield the lead to a random, but keep pace with him while blocking anyone behind me as well as I can
      2. I dive to tackle the leading bean, right as he should be jumping to avoid the obstacles
      3. The bar hits us both and we go flying - the rando off to the side, and I manage to fly directly over the next moving platform, saving myself precious seconds
      4. With a sizeable lead, I race over the rolling logs, dodge the swinging hammers just on time, and hit the finish line - first again
   3. After that match, I spend some time reviewing games - my own mistakes, but also the play style of the rest of the top 10, I know that as the season comes to a close, I'm going to have to make a run for their leads, and they won't want to give them up easily
7. Day 45 of 60
   1. I drop into my green room and see I'm still #7, and the gap is still manageable
   2. I play matches constantly today - starting each as soon as I'm able
      1. I'm curious about how it builds the rosters for each match, and trying an experiment
   3. I play for hours, grateful that my body and mind don't tire like most people
      1. The Temple and team events still frustrate me, but I'm not going for first place today, not pulling out my best tricks, and the shear number of matches nets me a sizeable amount of kudos
   4. After some ridiculous number of matches, I notice some strange trends
      1. In team matches, the enemy teams now seem to be as bad as mine
      2. My competitors also don't seem to be really trying to win - a larger portion of them seem to be just charging ahead heedless of obstacles, which makes the rounds take much longer to finish
      3. More noticeably, I spend far longer waiting after being washed and dressed, presumably as the system finds enough competitors for a match
8. Day 46 of 60
   1. I don't even start a match when I wake up - the leaderboard has me at #4, which is where I stopped my "grinding" yesterday for fear of sparking a trend of even more matches per day
   2. Instead, I study the replays of the games from yesterday
      1. I wasn't fooling myself - after a while, the quality of competition dropped sharply
      2. And it seemed like the pool of competitors was even early in the day, and skewed toward the bottom quartile more as the day dragged on
      3. Even those players weren't quite playing their usual way though - well, some were extremely consistent but some weren't
      4. It makes me wonder if it's waking them up from sleep to fill a match, or some of them are bots or simulations, or something else
9. Day 60 of 60
   1. The end-of-season race heated up despite my efforts to not cause it so
   2. The day drags on, and I keep myself at #4 by alternating between games and watching replays
   3. Eventually I see that the updates are becoming less frequent, and go into action, starting to play in earnest
      1. I easily qualify through the first rounds, even carrying my team through Hoarders despite themselves
      2. The game announces the final round, and the countdown starts at 3...
   4. I unleash - taking full advantage of my positional superiority, my unmatched timing, my freakish ability to land where and how I want, and most importantly, my endurance
      1. I'm trying to build an insurmountable and intimidating lead
      2. I know the playstyle, preferred outfits, and rough ranking of each of the 300 competitors in my group this season
      3. After rigorous testing, I've determined that I still have an ever so slight advantage in straightaway speed and jump distance over my competitors - the benefits of my body mod being compressed so as to be almost unnoticeable, but not completely wiped out
   5. The gap between me and #2 is now the same as the gap between #2 and #9 - but I see that others in the top ten at least are still gaining points even as the day wanes on
      1. I keep going all-out, not winning every match as luck and teammates interfere, but consistently qualifying and gaining Kudos to maintain and grow my lead
   6. I get placed in a match with #2, the former #1, "Alan", if the Sorcerer skin he prefers is really him
      1. I don't need the points right now, so I target him - blocking and tackling him at every opportunity, getting us both eliminated
      2. Then I do it again in the next match
      3. When he drops to #3 I go back to exploiting my small but meaningful advantages and rack up some more points
   7. And I keep going, even longer than I did on Day 45 - switching between building my lead and tormenting the runners up
   8. And then, when I step into the "Next Match" tube for the 42nd time that day, the trapdoor slide drops me into the entrance hall of my warehouse, dumping a certificate of achievement and a heap of bean-fitting clothes on my head

Notes on the Jump Doc

1. I came in having seen the game played, but not tried it myself. Fortunately there lots of recordings and forum posts about the game
2. The perk descriptions were brief and straightforward, which I like
   1. It would be nice if they had a bit more description of how to apply in other settings, but most are pretty self-explanatory
   2. There's not a lot of options here - just a few perks and no items, but that's appropriate for a gauntlet focused on this particular game. If you want something more broad and extensive, this probably isn't the gauntlet (or videogame) for you
   3. I could see a non-gauntlet version including more for other game modes and such, but I don't think it would really be an improvement
3. Similarly the drawbacks and prizes were quite clear, if also not very numerous
   1. Speaking of the prizes, I liked the tiers / options
4. Coming in at nine pages, this is a short but not too short description of the gauntlet
5. The one area I would have liked a bit more elaboration on is how the gauntlet interacts with existing bodymod improvements
   1. I chose to almost completely negate the physical improvements, because they would have been too much in this gauntlet
6. Overall, this is what you'd expect
   1. if you're into Fall Guys, go for it
   2. If you want a low-stakes gauntlet with a fixed short duration, this is perfect
   3. The 400 point perk (Mulligan) isn't something I've seen elsewhere, so that might be another reason to take this

30 - Fall Guys Ultimate Knockout Gauntlet Build

Point Summary

Jump Details

Jump Duration

Origin

Perks

Items

Drawbacks