Poll: Favorite Iconic Armor
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Nano suit. I'm all for practical and the Nano suit is nothing if not practical. Why is the HEV suit orange? isn't that like painting a giant bullseye on your back? Same is true for Samus, the other ones are too big and bulky, the only one which also makes sense is the Halo-suit, but that doesn't turn invisible.
exactly the problem with the nano-suit is it is flexible, an it will bend if it falls or gets knocked around by explosions or large pieces of shrapnel your bones will not, unfortunately i don't argue with it having the better mobility and choice of tactical role, in fact i believe i already stated as much the problem is whilst is is vastly superior to, it does not make you immune to infantry and that is kind-of the point of a super-suit in my opinion, why let your prey have any reasonable chance of hurting you?archont said:
if they would just armour plate a nano-suit and add the adaptive camouflage and crystal armour tech over the top it would clearly be better than any offerings here
mabye crytek will make a tank suit for an upcoming game and throw you into an alien hive then make you fight hunters the entire game, that would make it the best
as to anti tank mines or ultra heavy weapons, well that is the answer to any platform isn't it, you can never truly be invincible but you can armour yourself against the biggest gun someone can plausibly carry, and i suppose that would be a rocket launcher, so you want military grade cattle-grids over your exoskeleton to pre-detoate them the same way modern army vehicles do
at the end of the day you can just build a bigger gun it's impossible to win that argument really as it will just devolve into
'meh, i just fire the chaos weapon at your planet, it's powered by a belt of suns constrained by black holes' 'shrug'
I'm going to have to say the N7 armour. It's futuristic, sleek and above all - it's just kick ass. I mean come on, if you walk up to somebody wearing that, they know you mean business. Plus you can try to pass as Commander Shepard, the baddest mofo in the galaxy ^^.
You may say that, but consider this; the MJOLNIR armour from the Halo series can survive a fall from orbit, completely protecting its occupant from both the atmospheric friction of re-entry, and the, well, terminal velocity collision with the ground. The suit's energy field (powered by a built in fusion reactor) prevents the occupant from being cooked alive by the heat, and the hydrostatic gel sandwiched between the inner and outer layers of the suit dampens the shock of impact by varying its density, eventually becoming completely solid and 'locking up' the suit to prevent the occupant from breaking any limbs upon impact. This significantly reduces the amount of force the user is exposed to upon impact.archont said:
Technically speaking, the Mark V and VI MJOLNIR armour (the final two variants of the suit, and the only two seen to survive re-entry) aren't actually rated for atmospheric re-entry (the never-completed follow up model, the Mark VII was intended to have that capability), and it is likely that, without some degree of luck, the occupant would be killed in the attempt. Still, the fact that two Spartans have managed the feat and survived with no, or at least, relatively minor injuries is pretty impressive.
In case you hadn't guessed, my favourite is the MJOLNIR armour
, but the N7 comes in a very close second.stange because im going back to the roots of halo; trying to get my copy of combat evolved working again. oh how i love the overpowered pistol.inFAMOUSCowZ said:
OT: out of those the nanosuit im sorry hev suit but this has active camo
in general it came down to 3 things
dear lord coats and capes on the grid are cool
and finally
It can turn invisible, if you have the right armour ability equipped, and the strength and armour stuff come built-in. And though this isn't really demonstrated in the games, it can certainly manage speed as well; the Chief's highest known speed is 50MPH, though he did strain a few muscles getting there.Henkie36 said:
And the HEV suit's orange because, for a suit intended to be used by research teams working with dangerous compounds or in hazardous environments (hence Hazardous Environment suit), being extremely visible is an advantage, rather than a disadvantage; you want your fellow researchers to be able to spot you easily, so they can render assistance should you encounter trouble.
Nanosuit for sure. It has such an impact on the gameplay in Crysis 2. Aparently you can do even more with it in Crysis 1. In fact the nanosuit powers were really all that was keeping the Crysis 2 multiplayer from just being a complete cod ripoff.
The t-45d armor is the best one, it looks cooler, it's used more exclusively by the brotherhood of steel capital wasteland chapter(incidentally my favorite chapter of the brotherhood in general) and it is simply bad ass! However it I had to chose from the list(going by the logic that the t-51b armor is a different set completely) then I would have to chose the MJOLNIR Armour. Second best power armor ever.