Armor vs clothing "armor"

[Refried_Genes]

If a piece of clothing like the minuteman general outfit says 45 defense, does that mean 45 defense for each body part? It's confusing. If this is the case it would seem like that is a better option than any type of armor which has individual pieces.

[Brandybuck]

No, it means 45 armor total. Which is usually not that great of a deal unless you can add ballistic weave over it.

[KoalafiedKiller]

45 for the whole set. At the bottom right of your pip boy it shows your total DR/ER.

Armor outfits are inferior to armor pieces in pretty much every single way, except for maybe aesthetics. The sheer amount of bonuses you can get from modding each armor piece outweighs anything an outfit can do.

[Refried_Genes]

Thank you sooooooo much guys!!

[Shahadem]

That's why you need to install mods to make armors like the poorly designed Minutemen General uniform actually functional.

[KoalafiedKiller]

Originally posted by Shahadem:

That's why you need to install mods to make armors like the poorly designed Minutemen General uniform actually functional.

Sadly this. Like when you pick up the cool looking drifter outfit outside of Sanctuary and it's outclassed in 5 minutes once you get leather armor off the concord raiders.

Oh but wait, ballistic weave can fix that. Oh but wait, you can only weave under armor clothes because that makes sense.

[Emmental]

I roleplayed the whole game on very hard as the minuteman general, had the outfit, a legendary laser musket and revolutionary sword. You don't need epic stuff to win really.

[DouglasGrave]

Originally posted by Shahadem:

That's why you need to install mods to make armors like the poorly designed Minutemen General uniform actually functional.

By the Minutemen's standards, the general's unifrom is high-grade protection. The outfit most of them wear is completely unarmoured.

Originally posted by KoalafiedKiller:

Oh but wait, ballistic weave can fix that. Oh but wait, you can only weave under armor clothes because that makes sense.

Given that it's called "weave" I assume that it's somehow woven into existing fabric; leather and steel don't have a warp or weft so you couldn't weave anything into them.