Prestige cataphract armor
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Prestige cataphract armor
A suit of heavy powered armor, built for maximum protection at the cost of mobility. Heavy layered plasteel-weave plates with solid ablative coatings stop all but the most well-aimed or powerful attacks. Neuro-memetic assistors prevent the suit's massive weight from immobilizing the wearer entirely, but the suit is still quite cumbersome.
Expensive and beautiful, prestige armor like this is usually made for those of high status. Embedded eltex threads also enhance the wearer's psychic sensitivity.
Base Stats
Apparel
- Insulation - Cold
- 20 °C (36 °F)
- Insulation - Heat
- 6.7 °C (12.1 °F)
- Armor - Sharp
- 120%
- Armor - Blunt
- 50%
- Armor - Heat
- 60%
- Coverage
- Torso, Neck, Left Shoulder, Left Arm, Right Shoulder, Right Arm, Left Leg, Right Leg
- Layer
- Middle, Outer
Creation
- Work To Make
- 150,000 ticks (41.67 mins)
Prestige recon armor is a set of power armor introduced by the Royalty DLC that forms a full set along with the Prestige cataphract helmet. It combines the defensive ability of Cataphract armor with additional the psychic boosts of Eltex apparel.
Acquisition
As a complicated piece of technology, Prestige Cataphract Armor can only be made at the Fabrication bench and requires Cataphract Armor to be researched in order to be constructed. Researching Cataphract Armor in turn requires the previous power armor projects to be researched as well as the use of two Cataphract Armor Techprints to unlock. Crafting the armor requires 340 plasteel + 50 uranium, 18 gold and 6 advanced components.
Alternatively, the armor can be received as a quest reward, purchased from traders, or found on Nobles.
Analysis
Prestige cataphract armor improves a pawns Psychic Sensitivity by 5%, and improves the neural heat recovery rate by 0.033 heat per second. This primarily improves a pawns psychic power, but note that it also makes them more susceptible to psycasts themselves, as well as psychic drones. This increase is inferior to the Eltex vest that the prestige cataphract armor replaces, but in exchange it is significantly more protective.
Protection-wise, the prestige cataphract armor is exactly as defensive as regular cataphract armor. Cataphract armor provides the best protection of any armor in the game, especially against blunt, and can block heat damage. Like Recon armor and Marine armor it also covers the limbs in addition to the torso making for great overall protections. It provides roughly the same protection as a Marine Armor of one quality level above its own, or of Recon Armor two quality levels above its own. It also allows a pawn to reach the cap of 200% sharp protection at Legendary quality. Compared to a flak vest and duster, Cataphract armor offers strictly superior protection to all body parts when all items are the same quality, regardless of duster material. However, Cataphract armor is much more expensive, needs a long time to make and also needs the Cataphract Armor research before being available.
Acquiring it through fighting the Empire is also difficult due to their ubiquitious Death acidifier implants and the general difficulty of killing the pawns wearing this armor and carrying the empires best weapons. The armor provides a significant Move Speed debuff of -0.80 c\s, double that of Marine armor and over six times that of a flak vest, making the armor impractical for every day wear by some pawns. The bionic legs may be used to offset this move speed penalty.
Cataphract armor also appeases the middle and outer torso requirements of all nobles, replacing both the Formal vest/Corset and the Prestige robe.
Stats table
For the full effects of qualities, see Quality.
Stat | Increase |
---|---|
Psychic Sensitivity | +5% |
Neural Heat Limit | +4 |
Neural Heat Recovery Rate | +0.033 |
Version history
- 1.1.2647: Added
See Also
- Cataphract armor - the base model. Identical protection, but not acceptable to nobles and offers no improvement to psychic abilities.
- Phoenix armor - a variant of cataphract armor that is slightly more protective against heat and temperature but less protective otherwise, with an integrated incendiary launcher.