Kevlar Vests

[Alcatraz]

Just add in different vest with there appropriate stopping power. Some can only be found in military areas and military bodies.

[Luissen]

Add plate carrier vest (full and empty), and kevlar vest. Kevlar vest needs to be repaired with kevlar, but plate carrier can be repaired with a sewing kit. Make the platecarrier offer very little protection until you put either steel (heavier), ceramic (lighter, similar protection) or makeshift (medium weight, less protection) plates into them.

I’m still waiting on actual wearable containers, but when that happens this will make more sense. I hope…

[EkarusRyndren]

[quote=“Luissen, post:4, topic:4193”]Add plate carrier vest (full and empty), and kevlar vest. Kevlar vest needs to be repaired with kevlar, but plate carrier can be repaired with a sewing kit. Make the platecarrier offer very little protection until you put either steel (heavier), ceramic (lighter, similar protection) or makeshift (medium weight, less protection) plates into them.

I’m still waiting on actual wearable containers, but when that happens this will make more sense. I hope…[/quote]

For the time being I’ll just use the crafting menu… I think I can use vehicle plating… might be interesting…

[EkarusRyndren]

Double Posting Because PR’d!

[Nemonole]

Double Posting Because PR’d!

I like it… Although isn’t it possible for someone to just uncraft and recraft to fully repair those modular vests for 0 cost?

[EkarusRyndren]

[quote=“EkarusRyndren, post:6, topic:4193”]Double Posting Because PR’d!

I like it… Although isn’t it possible for someone to just uncraft and recraft to fully repair those modular vests for 0 cost?[/quote]

…I had not anticipated that… it was meant to make the plates swappable… does anyone know if damaged stuff stays damaged on disassembly?

[Rivet]

…I had not anticipated that… it was meant to make the plates swappable… does anyone know if damaged stuff stays damaged on disassembly?

It does not.

[Nemonole]

Maybe make it so the recipes are not reversible and add a generic “Remove additional plating from vest” recipe?

[EkarusRyndren]

Maybe make it so the recipes are not reversible and add a generic “Remove additional plating from vest” recipe?

You still get an undamaged vest then… and undamaged plating.

[General_Patton]

No idea how exactly you’re implementing all this, but maybe put something in iuse.cpp for an 'A’ctivate action?

[Nemonole]

[quote=“Nemonole, post:10, topic:4193”]Maybe make it so the recipes are not reversible and add a generic “Remove additional plating from vest” recipe?

You still get an undamaged vest then… and undamaged plating.[/quote]

Err… I meant to say the plating goes ‘poof’… Not optimal, but better than free repairs.

[EkarusRyndren]

No idea how exactly you’re implementing all this, but maybe put something in iuse.cpp for an 'A’ctivate action?

I’ve considered it, but I don’t know how to do it XD However the problem remains that (I’m not 100% on this) the game doesn’t track damage to objects in decrafting, I think the only place it does is in vehicles.

[General_Patton]

Someone else that actually knows c++ and how DDA is structured could throw together simple code that explicitly creates plates with the appropriate damage level. I am not one of those people, yet.

[asdfzxc]

I’m pretty sure the kevlar vest item is supposed to be an actual kevlar vest, similar to what most cops wear. If we’re going to add hard body armor, we should just make it a separate item (it wouldn’t make sense for dead cops to be wearing military-grade ballistic vests unless this game is set in Boston).

[FunsizeNinja123]

Fairly sure New england is in Boston.

[Rivet]

Fairly sure New england is in Boston.

[EkarusRyndren]

I’m pretty sure the kevlar vest item is supposed to be an actual kevlar vest, similar to what most cops wear. If we’re going to add hard body armor, we should just make it a separate item (it wouldn’t make sense for dead cops to be wearing military-grade ballistic vests unless this game is set in Boston).

I split it up into several groups ranging from “I don’t want to get killed by a .22” to “I want something that might stop an armor-penetrating round from a sniper rifle” with varying spawn chances of zed-cops as well as in their spawn-groups as well.

Considering the Robotic Police deployment for anti-riot measures I think I’m within the lore to give the police a slight bump in protection. (From “Stops most pistol rounds” to “stops small rifle rounds”)

[Inadequate]

Since this appears to be the thread where the MBR vests originated, I’m going to resurrect it to mention I tried cutting up every type of MBR vest, and apart from the ceramic one, which apparently can’t be cut up, every other vest cuts up into exactly 24 kevlar plates. Even the empty one and the kevlar-plated one. Maybe this should be adjusted, so the empty one cuts up into less kevlar, the kevlar-plated one into more kevlar, and the steel/hard/superallor-plated ones give you some scrap metal.

[EkarusRyndren]

Since this appears to be the thread where the MBR vests originated, I’m going to resurrect it to mention I tried cutting up every type of MBR vest, and apart from the ceramic one, which apparently can’t be cut up, every other vest cuts up into exactly 24 kevlar plates. Even the empty one and the kevlar-plated one. Maybe this should be adjusted, so the empty one cuts up into less kevlar, the kevlar-plated one into more kevlar, and the steel/hard/superallor-plated ones give you some scrap metal.

Tried that, they’re not supposed to be able to be cut up at all. For some reason despite being made of “Nofixkevlar” they still breakdown into Kevlar and are repairable.

Dunno why

[FunsizeNinja123]

One would assume dissembling a filled MBR vest gives you an empty vest and the material that it was filled with, but it doesn’t.