Best armor setup ?

[gandalf]

How do I get best overall armor sharp,blunt,heat (the stat I see when looking at gear) ?

I see if I wear plate armor I miss out on flak vest and flak pants I think it is. Is it better to wear (strong) leather/fur type cloths to get all slots worn from helm,shirt,jacket, flak vest and pants. Or is it better to use plate armor ?

[The Blind One]

I wish flak armor was more viable honestly. I always skip it entirely and I think the component cost throws a lot of people off as it does with me. That alone makes the item a no-go early game since you're tight on those components and the steel cost alone makes it a bit prohibitive.

[Defektiv]

I swear by flak armor for my ranged gunners with few exceptions. Once you're making components it becomes almost trivial, which is good considering how much you go through in combat and considering they only have half their actual durability in vanilla if you care about the debuffs for wearing it longer. And components become trivial once you're regularly scanning and drilling, which then starts making adv component manufacturing regular.

I find cataphract is reasonably difficult only because of the time you need to invest in research and finding the 2 tech prints you need to enable it. Marine armor I use on tankers most of the time since it has half the move speed penalty. I imagine if I ever get to raiding other colonies the cataphract line will serve better on off tile siege groups.

[Egro]

Plate is great as a economical armor option which I use way longer than I suppose to.. Flak is nice but you tend to lose a limb or two after a big fight. I mostly use flak for aesthetic than functionality. Vanilla late game armors are too fugly so I've never used them..lol