Flak pants

Flak pants

"A pair of pants with armor plates sewn in. While it's not as good as solid armor, it offers effective protection against all manner of attacks while remaining quite comfortable."

Base Stats

Type

Gear – Armor

Market Value

600 

Mass

4 kg

HP

140

Apparel

Insulation - Cold

3.5 °C (6.3 °F)

Insulation - Heat

1 °C (1.8 °F)

Armor - Sharp

40%

Armor - Blunt

8%

Armor - Heat

10%

Coverage

Left Leg, Right Leg

Creation

Work To Make

9,000 ticks (2.5 mins)

Flak pants is a piece of protective apparel. It provides protection to the legs at the cost a -0.12 c/s penalty to movement speed.

Acquisition

Flak pants can be commonly found on Outlanders, Pirates, Imperial Troopers and Ancients. Additionally, they can be manufactured at a machining table, once flak armor has been researched. Flak pants require 60 Steel, 30 Cloth and 1 Component and ? seconds of work (? ticks) to be created, assuming baseline global work speed and no enhancements or hindrances to consciousness, sight, or manipulation.

Analysis

With low resource costs, accessible research, and the ability to be worn with duster, Flak Pants can provide useful protection in the early game. It can be used to protect the legs from harm. Jackets and shirts do not protect the legs, and damage to the legs can severely impair colonists, so this is a good option to protect colonists. However the penalty of -0.12 c/s to movement speed can make it less valuable for day to day life on pawns that need to walk around often (e.g. Growers).

Unlike flak jackets, they are not made obsolete mid-game by the supply of devilstrand, and instead pants require late-game materials like Hyperweave or Thrumbofur to compete. However they do come with a movement penalty, and they take up both the Skin and Middle layers meaning that while they can be worn with a duster, they cannot be worn with plate or power armor of any kind, such as Recon armor, Marine armor or Cataphract armor. These factors can make their abandonment worthwhile even before late game materials are available.

The exact protection of the legs offered by flak pans vs pants of varying materials and armor is reliant on the interactions between Armor Rating calculations and is currently unclear.

Stats table

Flak pants	Sharp	Blunt	Heat	HP	Insulation - Cold	Insulation - Heat	Market Value
Quality
Awful	24%	4.8%	6%	140	-2.8 °C (-5 °F)	+0.8 °C (1.4 °F)	113
Poor	32%	6.4%	8%	140	-3.15 °C (-5.7 °F)	+0.9 °C (1.6 °F)	169
Normal	40%	8%	10%	140	-3.5 °C (-6.3 °F)	+1 °C (1.8 °F)	225
Good	46%	9.2%	11.5%	140	-3.85 °C (-6.9 °F)	+1.1 °C (2 °F)	280
Excellent	52%	10.4%	13%	140	-4.2 °C (-7.6 °F)	+1.2 °C (2.2 °F)	335
Masterwork	58%	11.6%	14.5%	140	-5.25 °C (-9.5 °F)	+1.5 °C (2.7 °F)	560
Legendary	72%	14.4%	18%	140	-6.3 °C (-11.3 °F)	+1.8 °C (3.2 °F)	1125

^{For the full effects of qualities, see Quality.}

Version History

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Apparel

Torso | Clothing

Button-down shirt • T-shirt (Kid ) • Tribalwear (Kid )

Corset • Eltex shirt • Eltex vest • Formal vest • Formal shirt

Slave collar

Sash • Kid romper

Armor

Flak vest

Legs | Clothing

Pants (Kid )

Armor

Flak pants

Shell | Clothing

Duster • Jacket • Parka (Kid ) • Robe

Cape • Eltex robe • Prestige robe

Burka • Slave body strap

Heavy bandolier

Lab coat

Armor

Flak jacket • Marine armor (Prestige , Grenadier ) • Plate armor • Recon armor (Prestige , Locust , Mechlord ) • Cataphract armor (Prestige , Phoenix )

Head | Clothing

Bowler hat • Cowboy hat • Hood • Psychic foil helmet • Tuque • Tribal headdress • Veil • War mask

Beret • Coronet • Crown • Eltex helmet • Eltex skullcap • Ladies hat • Stellic crown • Top hat

Authority cap • Blindfold • Broadwrap • Flophat • Headwrap • Shadecone • Slicecap • Tailcap • Torture crown • Visage mask

Airwire headset • Array headset • Gas mask • Face mask

Ceremonial hood • Ritual mask

Armor

Flak helmet • Marine helmet (Prestige/Samurai helmet ) • Recon helmet (Prestige , Mechlord ) • Simple helmet (Kid ) • Cataphract helmet (Prestige ) • Gunlink • Integrator headset • Mechcommander helmet

Analysis

A devilstrand duster synergizes quite well with this, providing additional protection to the legs.