Hoping a RED can answer this.
OK so ... I've looted an all-over Araska Nethacking suit, which off the top of my head (I'm on the work machine right now waiting for a live-stream, instead of the gaming PC so I can't check the the exact stats) has an armor rating of 20-something.
I've also got individual upper body and lower body items which (individually) have lower ratings. Highest-rated lower-body item is a pair of hot-pants (go figure) aka 'booty. shorts' (yes, playing a female V - don't know if males have the 'hot-pants' option haha), higher than all my pairs of pants. The skirts seem to have better armor ratings than the pants too !
So -
(1) Am I better protected using the all-over suit, or individual pieces ? If my upper and lower body individual pieces have a combined rating of 37 (20 + 17) vs the 28 (say) of the all-over suit, do I just go with the 'combined' rating of the two individual pieces, or is the all-over suit with it's individual rating of 28 still better ?
(2) Given WE can dismember limbs when attacking enemies, does wearing a 'lower body' item of clothing with no legs (e.g. skirt, booty shorts) or an upper body item clothing with no sleeves (e.g. bustier, crop top) make a difference in terms of the armor / protection only applying to the parts of the body covered (so enemies can basically hack OUR limbs off), or is the absence / presence of legs and sleeves a 'cosmetic' / display consideration only, and the armor rating applies to the WHOLE section of the body, irrespective of limbs being exposed or not ?
(3) Finally, I can layer jackets + tops / jackets + the Araska over-all suit. I'm guessing here the armor ratings ARE combined on upper half of body where the items are layered, but would the lower-half of the body just have the 'base' armor rating of the all-over suit ?
Thanks !
OK so ... I've looted an all-over Araska Nethacking suit, which off the top of my head (I'm on the work machine right now waiting for a live-stream, instead of the gaming PC so I can't check the the exact stats) has an armor rating of 20-something.
I've also got individual upper body and lower body items which (individually) have lower ratings. Highest-rated lower-body item is a pair of hot-pants (go figure) aka 'booty. shorts' (yes, playing a female V - don't know if males have the 'hot-pants' option haha), higher than all my pairs of pants. The skirts seem to have better armor ratings than the pants too !
So -
(1) Am I better protected using the all-over suit, or individual pieces ? If my upper and lower body individual pieces have a combined rating of 37 (20 + 17) vs the 28 (say) of the all-over suit, do I just go with the 'combined' rating of the two individual pieces, or is the all-over suit with it's individual rating of 28 still better ?
(2) Given WE can dismember limbs when attacking enemies, does wearing a 'lower body' item of clothing with no legs (e.g. skirt, booty shorts) or an upper body item clothing with no sleeves (e.g. bustier, crop top) make a difference in terms of the armor / protection only applying to the parts of the body covered (so enemies can basically hack OUR limbs off), or is the absence / presence of legs and sleeves a 'cosmetic' / display consideration only, and the armor rating applies to the WHOLE section of the body, irrespective of limbs being exposed or not ?
(3) Finally, I can layer jackets + tops / jackets + the Araska over-all suit. I'm guessing here the armor ratings ARE combined on upper half of body where the items are layered, but would the lower-half of the body just have the 'base' armor rating of the all-over suit ?
Thanks !
