The "Predator" Assault Armour
An completely enclosed Armour, this offers the user far greater protection against Alien weaponry. Also it may provide protection against gas and other chemical attacks.
As of V19 of Xenonauts, the predator armor is essentially a power suit that turns your soldiers into walking tanks. Soldiers using it have their strength increased to 100 and have all aim penalities from moving and shooting with heavy weapons removed. However, soldiers using the predator armour are not able to use any weapons besides heavy machineguns and its technological equivalents. This restriction also applies to grenades, rocket launchers, med-kits, stun batons, and shields.
Notes:
-Soldiers using it do not level up strength, most likely due to how the armour buffs the unit's strength stat to 100
-The armour is not a direct upgrade from the wolf armour, since it prohibits the use of most weapons and equipment
-Turns your soldiers into walking tanks! Pure awesome!
-Decreases cost of attack actions
-Despite being unable to throw grenades, Predator Armoured units cans till throw flares.
In-Game description
The S-2 "Predator" Assault Armour is a powered personal exoskeleton designed for heavy assault and breaching action. It offers exceptional protection and is powerful enough to wield heavy weapons without suffereing movement or recoil penalties, transforming the wearer into a fearsome walking tank.
The Predator's main armour plates are nearly an inch thick and formed from hardened alien alloys, whilst the joints use sliding layers of thinner plates to offer both flexibility and strength - even at its weakest point, the armour is still a centimetre thick. The backplate unit contains both the SA-16 personal Alenium reactor (which generates enough power to keep the suit operating at full capacity indefinitely) and rebreather apparatus that renders the wearer completely immune to envriomental toxins. Conventional measure of protection are almost meaningless by this point, but a Predator could wade through molten lava or withstand a small nuclear blast with little more than superficial damage.
The suit uses powerful servomotors that give it functional strength two or three times greater than the average human. This allows the wearer to operate heavy weapons as if they were normal weapons, not suffering the accuracy penalities associated with recoil or moving / firing. Nor is the wearer slowed by the weight of their equipment; even the heaviest load is of little consequence to a Predator. Nor, indeed, are walls - the sheer bulk of the suit means it can charge straight through many of them with no ill-effects whatsoever.
However, the design is limted by its view cone and weapon selection. The reduced spatial awareness caused by the enclosed helmet is compounded by the poor peripheral vison granted by the cameras, effectively giving the wearer a permanent case of tunnel vision. Additionally, the massive armoured gauntlets of the Predator are simply too large and clumsy to use much of our equipment. Heavy weapons can be modified easiliy enough, but the battlesuit cannot use lighter weapons or other equipment like grenades, stun weapons, and protective shields. Much like an actual tank, a Predator will require infantry support if it is to be fully effective.
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