Bots and body armor

[frumple]

Is it worth hanging onto Mudraptor carapaces i've collected? They sell for a humorous 1 mark despite being exceptionally tough.
They don't deconstruct into anything useful either.

But my crew is all bots. And while it might be handy in some cases to have them armored up to the gills (excluding arms n legs unfortunately), i wonder if the geniuses would drown the next time some silly creature gave our sub a hug and flooded it?
Or would they toss the armor away when they realized they needed a diving suit?

Bots are happy to put on a diving suit at the slightest provocation so i'm not sure having armored defenders would even work as an idea.


I could suit the bots up for a special mission. Or even an away mission if i had some pressure god pills.
Maybe.


So, in your opinion is the armor strictly for co-op play or can it be used effectively with bots?

[Rhapsody]

Bots should be smart enough to equip other protective equipment when they no longer need diving suits since few months ago.

[frumple]

I will test this out, thank you.

Bots will not take armor from storage and wear it. Maybe if i equip them with armor, they will try to put it back on after using a diving suit.

[Bucholz]

Mudraptor armor provides 40% stun resistance, while regular body armor does not.
Makeshift armor gives 50%, but much less other resistances (although it covers arms and legs) and the same movement penalty. 50% water flow resistance is good, but only if you get flooded often (not my case).

I collect all the mudraptor armor pieces and make all my non-combat personnel wear it just for variety and fun.

Also, makeshift armor just looks out of place in this game, in my opinion. Perhaps that's why I don't use it at all and use mudraptor armor instead. Well, besides, mudraptor armor is a trophy, after all, while makeshift armor is readily available very early.

[frumple]

I picked up 4 pieces of mudraptor armor in Cold Caverns. 3 of them from one pack, one from a later run.
I didn't think of it as a trophy because it was too easy to collect them.

Then again, the game also threw 8 hammerheads at our poor, crummy, basic hull Barsuk, and 3 of them sunk us all the way to the abyss and a Latcher, which again is a BIT out of place in Cold friggen Caverns.
Living to tell the tale is trophy enough.

Seriously. What a bastard. 2 Hammers were golden and the last three were camping the outpost at the end...
A real Felix Unger map.


I agree about the makeshift armor looking out of place. If it looked more steampunk/crusty diving suit like, it would look better.
It does have the advantage of covering the whole body at least.