Armor

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To mitigate incoming damage, players can wear protective armor pieces to aid their natural resistances from skills.

Equipping Armor

Armor have special section in RPOS accessed with F4 key by default. Equipping and taking off armor is done by dragging in and out pieces from your inventory to the window.

Armor slots and protection zones

Each armor piece protects only section of the body with exception of the underwear and Power Armor, that protects whole body. The slots from the top:

• Power Armor slot: used to equip underwear or Power Armor. Underwear increases player Athletics and Endurance, while Power Armor offer powerful offensive and defensive stats
• Helmet, protects head section
• Neck, protects head section
• Vest, protects torso section
• Belt, protects torso section
• Legs, protects legs section
• Boots, protects legs section

Amount of protection for every body section is displayed in the 'Armor Effects' window. If armor also modifies skills, its in the 'Skill Effects' window.

Appearance

Only Power Armor changes the appearance of character model. Holovests, such as Holographic Projector Suit - XY Private Eye can change your default character model to another class.

Armor requirements

Majority of conventional armor requires Strength to wear. Crahn developed special 'Shelter' and 'Spirit' series to aid PSI Monks in combat, requiring PSI instead. Spies are lacking in strength to wear conventional armor but they can protect themselves with energy field belts allowing them to reduce incoming fire while still being mobile and agile. Most underwear armor requires Strength, but there are also options for Monks (Argetiferous, Chrysotile) and Spies (Ionic Nylon).

Heavy Kevlar Vest

Crahn Spirit Vest

Medium Energyfield Belt

Common armor types

Carbon

Carbon armour offers great projectile damage protection and therefore piercing and force resistance. Due to antimicrobial properties of cabon nanostructures it also offers moderate protections from toxins and therefore poison damage.

Experimental Carbon Vest

Duranium

Duranium's ability to spread and absorb energy ensure it's excellent force, piercing and energy protection.

Experimental Duranium Vest

Inquisition

Even though weapons using fire have become less popular in the past decades, they are still a considerable threat. The Inquisition armor was specially developed to protect the wearer from fire damage.

Experimental Inquisition Vest

Battle

Battle armor has been designed to primarily protect the wearer against projectiles and therefore does a great job of mitigating piercing damage while offering moderate force and fire protection.

Heavy Battle Vest

Kevlar

Compared to kevlar armor from the 21st century, modern kevlar not only protects the wearer from common low-tech projectile ammo, but also provides moderate protection from heat and poisons.

Heavy Kevlar Vest

Crahn Shelter

Crahn Shelter armour is designed specifically for low to mid level monks and therefore offers protection for most scenarios the wearer may find themselves in. The weave of the armour offers great energy protection and moderate force, piercing and fire protection.

Crahn Blessed Shelter Vest

Crahn Spirit

Crahn Spirit is more prestigious class of armour worn by higher level monks who have proven their worth. Due to the more prestigious nature of the armour is has been augmented to offer great x-ray protection for venturing into the wastes. Similar to the shelter armour it's energy protection is great whilst it's force, piercing and fire protection is only moderate.

Crahn Blessed Spirit Vest

Body underwear

Unlike other armor, body underwear adds protection to the whole body. It doesn't provide stats like Power Armor, instead giving Athletics and Stamina bonus increasing player's movement speed.

Carbonsilk suit

Carbonsilk suits are composed of a form of carbonfibre, woven in a similar way as ancient silk cloth. The fibre structure provides protection against piercing damage while carbon neutralizes many toxic chemicals.

Heavy Carbonsilk Suit

Fesilicon coat

The special mix of iron and silicon components provide the wearer of a fesilicon suit with an effective protection from direct radiation influences caused by i.e. radiation weapons.

Heavy Fesilicon Coat

Glass fiber suit

Modern glass fiber suits effectively protect the wearer against fire damage by providing a layer of low thermally conductive material. The weave of the fibers amd the inter-fiber bonding compound also affords some protection against force and piercing weapons.

Heavy Glass Fiber Suit

Ionic cotton suit

Ionic cotton suits offer energy as well as x-ray protection of their fesilicon counterparts. However to achieve this some of it's physical projectile protection is reduced, therefore offering less force and piercing armour.

Heavy Ionic Cotton Underwear

Ionic nylon suit

Ionic nylon suits are designed to utilise the interaction between Van Der Waal force and photons to stiffen the material when placed under considerable load. While this affords considerable piercing protection it can become less flexible to force damage. Ionic strands used within also offer energy and X-ray protection.

Heavy Ionic Nylon Underall

Krokydolith suit

Krokydolith suits are reinforced with high tech asbestos fibers that provide exceptional fire and poison damage protection at expense of flexibility.

High Density Krokydolith Suit

Argentiferous lead coat

Argentiferous lead coats use silver-doped lead condensate onto a specialised cotton weave. While this means they provide little protection from regular weapons, their energy and x-ray shielding is excellent.

Heavy Argentiferous Lead Coat

Chrysotile suit

Chrysotile suits provide the wearer with moderate thermal protection with a small amount of force protection. The toxic nature of Chrysotile (known in the old times as white asbestos) helps the body's natural immune system remain in a constant state of alert, meaning any new toxins to enter the body are more quickly neutralized.

Heavy Chrysotile Suit

Energyfield belts

Armor belts are available as different series and provide protection against the usual damage types like fire, energy, or explosive damage.

Deflector belt

It's energyfield is tuned to stop most of physical damage, therefore piercing and force.

Heavy Deflector Belt

Energy protection belt

It's energyfield is tuned to absorb energy, therefore protecting from energy weapons. It can also absorb kinetic energy to some extend providing moderate force protection.

Heavy Energy Protection Belt

Energyfield belt

It's a middle ground between deflector, energy, and fire protection belts, providing versatile protection but not as strong as its specialized counterparts.

Heavy Energyfield Belt

Fire protection belt

It's energyfield is tuned to instantly cool any thermal substance it comes to contact with, providing excellent fire protection with moderate force protection.

Heavy Fire Protection Belt

Poison protection belt

It's energyfield is tuned to react with any toxic substances in the air before they reach the wearer's body. Provides excellent poison protection with moderate force protection

Heavy Poison Protection Belt

Acquiring armor

Starting runners can easily get very basic armor without spending any credits using Recycling. Wiremesh, Leather and Metalplate vest can save a bunch of money at the start.

Heavy Wiremesh Suit

Heavy Leather Skin

Metal-Plated Armorvest

Most of the shops that offer weapons also offers armor in Artifact or Perfect quality, there is no need to research and construct them. Some armor can drop from mobs, like Viper King Vest , save the constructing for them as they might be harder to come by.