Flak pants

Flak pants is a piece of armor that provides protection to the legs at the cost a penalty to move speed.

Acquisition[edit]

Flak pants can be crafted at a machining table once the Flak armor research project has been completed. Each requires 60 Steel, 30 Cloth, 1 Component, 9,000 ticks (2.5 mins) of work modified by the general labor speed of the crafter, and a crafting skill of 4.

Flak pants can also be commonly found on Outlanders, Pirates, Ancients, and Imperial Troopers.

Summary[edit]

When equipped, a flak pants reduces the pawn's base move speed by −0.12 c/s. As offsets such as these apply before multiplicative effects such as from Moving capacity, the actual impact on move speed can be larger or smaller than this value. For example, a pawn with 125% Moving would have their speed decreased by −0.15 c/s, while a pawn with only 50% Moving would only have their speed decreased by −0.06 c/s. See Move Speed for details.

Analysis[edit]

Flak pants are a good armor option in the pants slot, being cheaper than power armor, but better than regular pants of any material. However, they are the least important of the flak armor pieces. Flak vests have much higher Sharp protection, and cover multiple vital body parts (neck, torso, heart, liver). Flak jackets, while providing the same amount of armor, covers the same vital parts as the flak vest as well as the arms (although they can be replaced by dusters). Therefore, while the legs are important, flak pants should only be crafted once flak vests and suitable outerwear are made.

Note that flak pants cannot be worn with plate armor or any form of power armor, while regular pants can. The exact protection of the legs offered by flak pants vs pants of varying materials and power armor is reliant on the interactions between Armor Rating calculations and is currently unclear. However, devilstrand pants and any power armor provide superior leg protection.

Comparisons[edit]

Regular pants[edit]

Devilstrand regular pants do not come close to the Sharp armor of flak pants and are not comparable unless wearing plate armor or power armor.

Hyperweave, thrumbofur, and thrumbomane pants, while worse than flak for Sharp protection, are within the same ballpark and do not slow movement, so they could be alternatives. However, all three materials are difficult to farm, and are better used on dusters (which also protect the legs) before using pants.

Steel plate armor[edit]

Steel plate armor provides better arm/leg protection than the entire flak set, and can be worn with regular pants (but not flak pants) for even more leg protection. However, steel plate armor is worse at torso protection than the flak vest, and has a bigger −0.8 c/s movement penalty. Since torso protection is more valuable, wearing flak is a better general choice.

Power armor[edit]

Recon armor provides better limb protection than the flak set, but worse torso protection than a flak vest alone. An excellent thrumbofur duster + excellent flak pants combo will provide less leg protection than excellent recon armor with no pants, although at legendary quality the comparison is less clear.

Marine armor provides even more protection than recon and is just slightly slower than a full flak set. The below graphs compare the duster + flak pants combo to marine armor with no pants.

**Sharp protection by duster and flak pants; with marine armor for reference**
With devilstrand duster	With thrumbofur duster

Stats table

Flak pants	Sharp	Blunt	Heat	HP	Insulation - Cold	Insulation - Heat	Market Value
Quality	Sharp	Blunt	Heat	HP	Insulation - Cold	Insulation - Heat	Market Value
Awful	33%	4.8%	6%	140	-2.8 °C (-5 °F)	+0.8 °C (1.4 °F)	113
Poor	44%	6.4%	8%	140	-3.15 °C (-5.7 °F)	+0.9 °C (1.6 °F)	169
Normal	55%	8%	10%	140	-3.5 °C (-6.3 °F)	+1 °C (1.8 °F)	225
Good	63.25%	9.2%	11.5%	140	-3.85 °C (-6.9 °F)	+1.1 °C (2 °F)	280
Excellent	71.5%	10.4%	13%	140	-4.2 °C (-7.6 °F)	+1.2 °C (2.2 °F)	335
Masterwork	79.75%	11.6%	14.5%	140	-5.25 °C (-9.5 °F)	+1.5 °C (2.7 °F)	560
Legendary	99%	14.4%	18%	140	-6.3 °C (-11.3 °F)	+1.8 °C (3.2 °F)	1,125

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

Protection Charts[edit]

Sharp Armor	Blunt Armor

Version history[edit]

0.19.2009 - Added.
1.6.4518 - Sharp protection increased from 40% to 55%.

Old sprite for Flak Pants

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 ) • Vacsuit (Kid )
Head | Clothing: Bowler hat • Cowboy hat • Face mask • 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
: 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 • Vacsuit helmet