Flak vest
Flak vest
A vest with armor plates inserted on the chest and back. While quite effective at deflecting gunshots and stabbing attacks against the chest, it does nothing to protect the limbs.
Base Stats
- Tech Level
- Industrial
- Market Value
- 225
- Mass
- 4 kg
- HP
- 200
- Flammability
- 60%
Apparel
- Insulation - Cold
- 1 °C (1.8 °F)
- Insulation - Heat
- 0 °C (0 °F)
- Armor - Sharp
- 100%
- Armor - Blunt
- 36%
- Armor - Heat
- 27%
- Clothing For Nudity
- True
- Coverage
- Torso, Neck, Left Shoulder, Right Shoulder
- Layer
- Middle
- Lifestage
- Adult
Creation
- Crafted At
- Required Research
- Flak armor
- Skill Required
- Crafting 4
- Work To Make
- 9,000 ticks (2.5 mins)
- Work Speed Stat
- General Labor Speed
- Resources to make
60 + 
30 + 
1
- Has Quality
- True
- thingCategories
- ApparelArmor
- defaultOutfitTags
- Soldier
- tags
- IndustrialMilitaryBasic
The flak vest is a type of armor that protects well against sharp/piercing attacks (e.g. bullets, stabs, cuts, bites), and offer minor protection against blunt attacks, explosions and the ever-present threat of clubs, maces, and wild animals.
Acquisition[edit]
Flak vests 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.
They can also be bought from orbital, Outlander, or Empire 
traders, as well as Outlander and Empire faction bases. Flak vests are also commonly found on Outlanders, Pirates, Ancients and Imperial Troopers .
Summary[edit]
When equipped, a flak vest 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 vests protect well against Sharp damage, which includes all bullets, at a low cost and at a very small decrease in movement. They are a very cost-effective measure for overall damage mitigation. Because flak vests have much higher armor values than flak jackets and flak pants, and as they protect most of the vital organs, vests should be prioritized over other armor items.
Specifically, the vest covers the neck, torso, and the internal organs (heart, liver, lungs, kidneys), which are immediately fatal to lose / lose both of. The only vital organs a vest does not cover are the head and brain, which headgear serves to protect. They also cover the shoulders, protecting artificial arms entirely.
As vests occupy the middle layer, they can be worn with overgarments, allowing excellent flexibility while still providing competitive protection. It can be combined with dusters or flak jackets for even greater protection, dusters or parkas for insulation, eltex robes for psycasters, slave body straps
for slaves, lab coats
for researchers, or heavy bandoliers
for a significant ranged DPS increase.
Comparisons[edit]
Despite being nominally more advanced, the recon armor provides worse Sharp armor than a flak vest alone, only faring slightly better against Blunt. Recon does cover the arms and legs, and has no movement penalty. But, overall, the flak vest with any sort of outerwear is better for raw protection - deaths from limb damage (specifically, from blood loss or lowered consciousness) are considerably rarer than torso shots.
When worn with flak jacket or duster made from a protective textile such as devilstrand, thrumbofur, or hyperweave the flak vest is competitive with marine and cataphract armor and their variants. Marine and cataphract tier armors still protect the limbs much better than any overgarment, but this comes at a significantly higher resource, research, and move speed cost. If the research and advanced components used for the power armors is instead put into making bionic arms, then this gap closes significantly as only the legs are less protected and the augmented pawns are more useful outside of combat as well. Meanwhile the low cost of flak vests and dusters allow for many of them to be crafted to in the hopes of getting a higher quality than is obtainable with power armor, they're cheaper to replace, and can be brought online much faster.
Flak vests can thus be an effective armor choice all the way through the end game.
Stats table
 Flak vest
|
Sharp | Blunt | Heat | HP | Insulation - Cold |
Insulation - Heat |
Market Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Quality | |||||||
| Awful | 60% | 21.6% | 16.2% | 200 | -0.8 °C (-1.4 °F) | +0 °C (0 °F) | 113 |
| Poor | 80% | 28.8% | 21.6% | 200 | -0.9 °C (-1.6 °F) | +0 °C (0 °F) | 169 |
| Normal | 100% | 36% | 27% | 200 | -1 °C (-1.8 °F) | +0 °C (0 °F) | 225 |
| Good | 115% | 41.4% | 31.05% | 200 | -1.1 °C (-2 °F) | +0 °C (0 °F) | 280 |
| Excellent | 130% | 46.8% | 35.1% | 200 | -1.2 °C (-2.2 °F) | +0 °C (0 °F) | 335 |
| Masterwork | 145% | 52.2% | 39.15% | 200 | -1.5 °C (-2.7 °F) | +0 °C (0 °F) | 560 |
| Legendary | 180% | 64.8% | 48.6% | 200 | -1.8 °C (-3.2 °F) | +0 °C (0 °F) | 1125 |
For the full effects of qualities, see Quality.
Version history[edit]
- Beta 19 - Renamed from Armor vest to Flak vest. Now significantly less expensive and also protects against heat.
- 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