Poll: Favorite Iconic Armor
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The t-45d armor is the best one, it looks cooler, it's used more exclusively by the brotherhood of steel capital wasteland chapter(incidentally my favorite chapter of the brotherhood in general) and it is simply bad ass! However it I had to chose from the list(going by the logic that the t-51b armor is a different set completely) then I would have to chose the MJOLNIR Armour. Second best power armor ever.
Technically, it's part of his body, but an armadillo's armour is part of it's body, so it still counts.
So are your internal organs. If the kinetic energy isn't dissipated slowly then it's converted to rotational forces and that creates immense blood pressures that rupture blood vessels and organs.The Lugz said:
Think of it this way: your skull provides ample protection from a boxing glove. The bone doesn't get pierced or cracked - apart from a broken nose or cut skin. Despite that people get knocked out. Same goes for car accidents. Your skin may not be pierced at all but the sudden deceleration may and often does result in internal hemorrhaging.
I suggest you go ahead and experiment with this idea a bit. Get yourself a suit of medieval armor and go bungie-jumping on a static rope.
No, it makes you immune to small arms. If you can guarantee that in the whole theater there won't be a single man-operated piece of anti-vehicle weaponry then sure, it's a great choice. However that's never the case in today's world.The Lugz said:
True and that pretty much reflects the state of affairs today. Ever noticed how in general the sizes of ships have been decreasing since WW1? How impractical the Yamato really was?The Lugz said:
While nobody's using belts of black holes you pretty much got the core idea. Instead of adding more armor it's much more practical to do anything to prevent getting hit in the first place. Smaller, more agile vessels, multi-frequency jammers, softkill and hardkill measures of all kinds. You get the idea.
The Desert Ranger Combat armor(from the Honest Hearts DLC) gives you all the benefits of the NCR Ranger armor but none of the pain in the ass faction loyalty malarkey, the only downside to it is not being black like the NCR Ranger outfit, although the scratched in tally marks and other things make the Desert Ranger Armor more badass overall
HEV suit but with the helmet. Gordon is special because his head is already as resilient as the suit(in theory).
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The reentry is just a matter of good insulation. We're not there yet, obviously, but there already are materials like aerogel that provide the level of insulation required.Kirky said:
The problem is hitting the ground. Sudden deceleration causes extreme blood pressures, compression/twisting of organs and all other sort of nasty stuff. Short of making the deceleration last longer there's nothing that can be really done.
Learning to fall properly is a basic parkour move and it's all about extending the time of the deceleration. Protection from falling in any suit of armor whatsoever would be purely about augmenting the wearer's muscles - the human muscles have just so much power and can't perform this properly when falling too fast.
http://www.wikihow.com/Land-a-Jump-in-Parkour
That's why it's important for a suit to not only have strong artificial muscles but also be light - the heavier the suit the stronger the artificial muscles have to be. Interestingly adding more artificial muscles/power sources/ect will make the suit relatively weaker to it's mass.
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Crytek debated all of this when developing Crysis 2. They did a remarkable amount of engineering for a fictional video game armor - the result is that it all makes sense and doesn't break any laws of physics. It's perfectly plausible - on the science fiction scale of hardness it's the one suit that's closest to actual science. I appreciate that as well as all the thought that went into it.
My personal favorite is the beta suit from Time Shift, it is wired directly into your spinal cord, lets you manipulate and travel through time, and has a specially designed AI called SSAM that helps with time travel (avoiding paradoxes mainly) providing tactical advice and stimulates your brain to keep you alive. (he is basically Cortana without a personality or avatar.)
(If you count Cortana as part of the Halo armor then that's my favorite, but as she really travels from device to device, I don't count her as a suit feature where as SSAM is hardwired into the suit, as you can probably tell I prefer function over form)
(If you count Cortana as part of the Halo armor then that's my favorite, but as she really travels from device to device, I don't count her as a suit feature where as SSAM is hardwired into the suit, as you can probably tell I prefer function over form)
Well, since we are saying that it is Armor, and the other option is Power Armor
I present to you my favorite "power armor"
Thats good old American "Power" Armor.
But the armor gave them powers. . .
and finally
I present to you my favorite "power armor"
Thats good old American "Power" Armor.
and finally
The power armor, First off, Im not a fan of the western idea of how a suit should look, I cant.
its always these slabs of metal contorting around a human being, it looks like crap. I hate the wear and tear stuff too. I know armor is ment for combat, but the best suits are always the ones that look like they can do any job. Take the tron suits, you can apply that to anything, hand to hand combat, engineer, etc etc. and it still looks cool.
The varia suit looks sleek and alien, it has color! but it looks and is adaptable, it can take on things to aid its potential. the arm cannon has other uses besides PEW PEW PEW.
I actually like the Power suit over the other suits she gets, its simple and clean, its light, it doesnt have those crazy shoulders going on, and its not the other ones where they look boring and broken down.
Armor designs usually make me lean towards eastern styles, its just more my thing.
its always these slabs of metal contorting around a human being, it looks like crap. I hate the wear and tear stuff too. I know armor is ment for combat, but the best suits are always the ones that look like they can do any job. Take the tron suits, you can apply that to anything, hand to hand combat, engineer, etc etc. and it still looks cool.
The varia suit looks sleek and alien, it has color! but it looks and is adaptable, it can take on things to aid its potential. the arm cannon has other uses besides PEW PEW PEW.
I actually like the Power suit over the other suits she gets, its simple and clean, its light, it doesnt have those crazy shoulders going on, and its not the other ones where they look boring and broken down.
Armor designs usually make me lean towards eastern styles, its just more my thing.
Unfortunately Boba's armor is just durasteel, I'd rather have Vau's or Skirata's beskar'gam.Sacman said:Samus' Power armor or Boba Fett's Mandalorian armor...
Or the Republic Commando's Katarn Mark III armor.