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  1. Aaron Fox

    Sci-Fi Tech Combat Armor Aesthetics and Utility In Fallout and Science Fiction

    In the case of LotGH, a specific particle goes BOOM when in-setting guns are fired within the volume it occupies. Basically, the melee is there because someone from the opposing team could throw a grenade and turn a gunfight into a suicidal affair. It saves the bacon of various characters from...
  2. Aaron Fox

    Sci-Fi Tech Combat Armor Aesthetics and Utility In Fallout and Science Fiction

    All this talk about armor has reminded me that Traveller still exists and has some of the most impressive personal armor system that doesn't require you to be special (outside of the required training): the Battledress. It laughs off our autocannon with its armor.
  3. Aaron Fox

    Sci-Fi Tech Combat Armor Aesthetics and Utility In Fallout and Science Fiction

    The funny thing is that the closest thing we've got to book Marauder suits is from an anime of all things: Though, there was an early 3rd Person Shooter that was essentially 'Starship Troopers (book): The Game' called "Outwars": Funnily enough, it was made by the same team that created the...
  4. Aaron Fox

    Sci-Fi Tech Combat Armor Aesthetics and Utility In Fallout and Science Fiction

    Shiny doesn't work against weapons grade lasers (let alone the fact that Fallout lasers are pulse lasers, which makes shiny even less useful). You'll need to be 100% reflective or it fails the first shot and then you die (or, more likely, it goes right on through and kills you anyway). To defend...
  5. Aaron Fox

    Sci-Fi Tech Combat Armor Aesthetics and Utility In Fallout and Science Fiction

    It's like how, after the first Starship Troopers movie came out, everyone and their freaking brother used their armor in some way or fashion. Actually, it's more realistic than you would think. Pulse lasers require thickness to counter, and -to borrow a GURPS term- this armor is likely a...
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