Armor rating

[Clintdeadslayer]

Is building your armor beyond the AR listed in the stats a waste of time? or do you actually get your armor that good?

Seems my AR in the stats taps out at 275 or 276, something like that. I don't have lone wanderer so I don't remember if that changes it.

But what about vanilla armor and modded armor that exceed that rating? I am a fan of the marine armor, I saved my caps to buy the crappy stats legendary armor pieces from the dealers, because it looks cool (and the slight legedaries are nice).

Ballistic weave military (or army) uniform gives about a 110 rating, adding that with the marine armor, my AR should be about 282. But the stat still shows 276. Also, just for fun, I aquired a plague doctor coat and a press hat, and the ballistice weave AR stat is a whopping 456, but the stat still only shows 276.

Not that I really need those high AR's. I am currently wearing Longfellows coat and a press hat with the AR at 260. and i really don't take a lot of damage.

But I would really like to know, if the armor added up is greater than the AR posted in your stats, which is the real AR? I am guessing the 276, but I like to know these things.

Thanks guys.

[lp0rc]

The way some pieces are shown is misleading, showing the total DR of the outfit, but it is divided across several body parts.

For a good peek at this grab the Drifter's Outfit from the corpse just over the bridge from Sanctuary Hills. The total DR of the outfit is spread across both arms and legs, and chest.

So your military fatigues work the same way. You've ballistic weave modded them up to 110 DR, but it is spread across 5 locations. For argument's sake let's assume even distribution, so that's 22 DR added to each location.

Then put on an armored fedora tricked out to 110 DR. It all applies to the head, so you'll see head ballistic DR 110.

I wish the game did a better job of showing which locations are covered by an outfit/armor, and location specific DR, and whether it was something that could be worn under other armor in layers.