Airtight undersuit and Airtight Coif: A Raider Buff

[DronzTheWolf]

I had an idea for a Raider buff that essentially gives them a major buff: An airtight suit/mask combo that allows them to survive in a vacuum while wearing non-voidsuit armor like the uplink helmets and armor, or the makeshift helmets and armor. It's make Raiders seem more like actual pirates who don't need much outside help than some mooks who stole a few NT voidsuits to get onto the station. Doubly so if we allow them to get randomized armor on top of the random weapons.

[DronzTheWolf]

bump

[4000daniel1]

I agree wholeheartedly. Raiders should look like a gang of ruffians, which they do right when they spawn. But they more or less always end up wearing the hardsuits, since they have to in order to even board the station most of the time, and they tend to keep them on for the remainder of the round. This not only ruins the low budget/improvised robber aesthetic, but also makes it more or a hassle for crew to know who's what due to the raiders wearing suits that are found on station.

+1

[Carver]

I fear airtight underclothes would form an incredibly powerful precedent for future insane power creep in equipment. I'd rather not see the return of the NASA suit, in that regard. -1

[DronzTheWolf]

2 hours ago, Carver said:

I fear airtight underclothes would form an incredibly powerful precedent for future insane power creep in equipment. I'd rather not see the return of the NASA suit, in that regard. -1

I agree that this has some chance of setting a precedent, but this is meant to be more an exception than a rule. Only for Raiders simply because it fits with the themes of a rag-tag group of pirates wearing not standard suits but just whatever armor they can fit over their airtight suits, opening additional options like replacing their RIGs and voidsuits with randomized armors like they get for weapons. Varying qualities from improvised material armor to actual vests. 

[Carver]

Perhaps they could get more unique and varied voidsuits, then? I'm all for more flavour, but preferably without straying from the current system.

[DronzTheWolf]

14 hours ago, Carver said:

Perhaps they could get more unique and varied voidsuits, then? I'm all for more flavour, but preferably without straying from the current system.

Under the current system, they're too uniform. I'm all for limiting everyone else to voidsuits, but I think that Raiders should be able to wear more makeshift junk and looted armors without having to hope everyone on the team has some whitelist or another to be spaceproof without needing them.