Do you use Light Armor?

[SmellofNapalm]

Hi, I was just wondering if any of you regularly use light armor and under which circumstances?

Personally I did settle on Master difficulty a while back and so medium armor is my default. I haven't really experimented with light armor.

When you use light armor do you use Cybercloak a lot, massively abusing Psi-powers or something like that or am I missing something?

[CHOO CHOO]

I don't. With enough strength, you can wear heavy armor without encumbrance.

[Saravanth]

Light armor is for glass cannon builds that can run super duper crazy fast, so yeah, that necessitates lots of cloaking and whatnot

you can technically use maintenance to heal with light armor, but ive not found that to be effective at all personally, especially since that a) takes energy b) a single bullet to the anything takes off like half of your everything c) you get better alternatives to that very early in the game

its a fun challenge though

[SmellofNapalm]

I guess I need to do a little testing once I get back to the game. I rarely just go crazy running and jumping like a madman. Even if only for a short time.

[Jack left town]

Big advatage of light armor on lower difficulties is just how much health you get back from maintenance, 50-90%.
Light armor is just as good at stopping explosions and armor piercing guns as heavy armor, meaning not at all.
Dermal armor does hold up better to sustained fire when there's real armor underneath.
And lastly if you have 10 cyberlegs and over 100 agility you run just a little bit too fast in light armor, if you're like me and also abuse Sauce™ engine physics to run faster.
So, light armor. Only use it for looks for that stylish miniskirt and leather pouch full of neat things.

[sn0wman_jim]

I found lack of healing an obstacle to light armor. It's speed advantage disappears once you unlock dragon which as you know lets you teleport across the map. So late game I use exclusive heavy armor with hammer and dragon everywhere.

[RAM RANCH3R]

My main build is literally just light armour with a big ass inventory of Bear killer mags

[Jack left town]

I prefer infinite bear killers exploit. Bothersome to switch them to rapid fire every time.

[handsoap]

Originally posted by Jack left town:

I prefer infinite bear killers exploit. Bothersome to switch them to rapid fire every time.

It is not the way of the Culters to say something so intruiging and leave your brothers without a further explanation.

[Jack left town]

Originally posted by handsoap:

It is not the way of the Culters to say something so intruiging and leave your brothers without a further explanation.

You need to achieve the rank of Supreme Huge Jian to learn this devilish sorcery. Sorry.

[Goatseface Killah]

I did two full runs before I noticed the armor swap button so I'm far too adjusted to abusing cloak and turbo-sprinting across the map. Imagine hiking through Mars with a speed debuff, lol, lmao

[Froosti]

Originally posted by Jack left town:

Big advatage of light armor on lower difficulties is just how much health you get back from maintenance, 50-90%.
Light armor is just as good at stopping explosions and armor piercing guns as heavy armor, meaning not at all.
Dermal armor does hold up better to sustained fire when there's real armor underneath.
And lastly if you have 10 cyberlegs and over 100 agility you run just a little bit too fast in light armor, if you're like me and also abuse Sauce™ engine physics to run faster.
So, light armor. Only use it for looks for that stylish miniskirt and leather pouch full of neat things.

Armour actually does quite a lot against explosives, from my experience heavy armour is practically mandatory if you're using the grenade launcher.