Armor (LW2)

Armour

All armours have been completely rebalanced in Long War 2:

Armour types

• Medium Armour no longer provides an extra slot (all soliders have 3 gear slots by default now), instead it offers the best protection within a tier and all Medium armors provide one extra point of Armor over the vanilla counterparts.

• Light Armour provides significantly less HP and dodge, but still provides the same mobility bonus, the grappling hook, and the Phase ability (Wraith Suit only).

• Heavy Armour provides less health and armor than the medium armor of the same tier, but still provides the Heavy Weapon Slot and the Shieldwall ability (WAR suit only). A Technical equipping a Heavy Armor suit cannot equip a heavy weapon, but instead can equip an extra Rocket or two extra Flamethrower charges.

Name	Health Bonus	Armor	Special properties	Prerequisites	Cost				Black Market Value
					Supplies	Alloys	Elerium Crystals	Elerium Cores
Kevlar Armor	0	0	-	XCOM starts with an unlimited supply
Predator Armor	+3	1	-	Combat Armor	30	5	0	0	20
Spider Suit	+1	0	+1 Mobility, +5 Dodge Grappling Hook	Mobile Armor	70	5	1	0	20
E.X.O. Suit	+2	0	Heavy Weapon Slot	Battle Armor	60	6	1	0	20
Warden Armor	+8	2	-	Powered Armor	80	10	10	0	30
Wraith Suit	+3	0	+2 Mobility, +15 Dodge Grappling Hook Phase	Shadow Armor	120	9	15	1	40
W.A.R. Suit	+5	1	Heavy Weapon Slot Shieldwall	Battlesuits	100	10	10	1	30

Alien Hunters

In addition, if the Alien Hunters DLC is installed, the unique Ruler armors will also be available with appropriate stat adjustments. The acquisition rules are the same: only one copy of each can be made, and creating upgraded versions consumes the original.

Name	Health Bonus	Armor	Special properties	Prerequisites	Cost
					Supplies	Alloys	Elerium Crystals
Serpent Suit	+4	0	+1 Mobility, +20 Dodge Grappling Hook Frostbite 10% chance to panic Vipers	Serpent Suit	Granted on project completion
Serpent Armor	+5	0	+2 Mobility, +20 Dodge Grappling Hook Frostbite 10% chance to panic Vipers	Serpent Suit Powered Armor	75	10	10
R.A.G.E. Suit	+6	1	Heavy Weapon Slot Slam 10% chance to panic Mutons and Berserkers	R.A.G.E. Suit	Granted on project completion
R.A.G.E. Armor	+7	2	Heavy Weapon Slot Slam 10% chance to panic Mutons and Berserkers	R.A.G.E. Suit Powered Armor	75	15	5
Icarus Armor	+5	1	+1 Mobility Vault Icarus Jump x2 10% chance to panic Archons	Icarus Armor	Granted on project completion

Vests

Vests are a utility item that usually grant HP, along with some other effects. Soldiers can only wear one vest.

Name	Health Bonus	Special properties	Prerequisites	Cost				Black Market Value
				Supplies	Alloys	Elerium Crystals	Corpses
Nanoscale Vest	2	-25 chance to be critically hit	Hybrid Materials	5	1	0	-	5
Hazmat Vest	3	Immunity to fire, acid and poison	Hazmat Vests	15	1	0	-	5
Tactical Vest	3	+1 Armor	Tactical Vests	20	2	0	1x Muton Corpse	10
Stasis Vest	5	Restores 2 HP per turn, up to 8 total	Stasis Vests	20	2	2	1x ADVENT Shieldbearer Corpse	10
Hellweave Vest	6	Deals 2-4 damage and inflicts burning to melee attackers	Hellweave	30	3	3	1x Berserker Corpse	15
Chameleon Suit	0	Reduces the soldier's infiltration time	Chameleon Suits	25	0	2	1x Faceless Corpse	8

Plating

Plating is equipped in utility slots and gives ablative HP, which can't be healed, but which doesn't cause wound recovery time if lost. Armor does not apply to hits on ablative HP, but any hit that exceeds the amount of ablative HP will be reduced by armor (potentially down to zero) before any damage is applied to normal HP. A soldier can only wear one set of plating.

Name	Health Bonus	Prerequisites	Cost		Black Market Value
			Alloys	Corpses
Ceramic Plating	+2 Ablative	XCOM starts with an unlimited supply
Alloy Plating	+3 Ablative	Alloy Plating	1	1x ADVENT Trooper Corpse	5
Chitin Plating	+4 Ablative	Chitin Plating	2	1x Chryssalid Corpse	10
Carapace Plating	+5 Ablative	Carapace Plating	3	1x Muton Elite Corpse	12