Heavy Plate Pants

The heavy plate piece with the mildest catch: you only lose speed, never your sights. That makes them the one players mix into a normal kit.

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Characteristics

Category: Attire

Stack size: 1

Durability: 1000

Workbench: Level 2

Craftable: Yes

Researchable: Yes · 60 Scrap

Bullet protection: 75%

Explosion protection: 100%

Overview

In-game description

Offers superior protection at the cost of reduced movement speed.

Of the three heavy plate pieces, the pants are the cheapest: four high quality metal and one sheet metal at a Level 2 bench. They also carry the mildest catch in their game text, which names only reduced movement speed. No narrowed view, no lost sights.

Pros

Cons

Superior protection by the game's own text
Durability 1000, against 150 for a road sign kilt
You can still aim, unlike in the jacket

Every step is slower, and slow legs lose fights in the open
Sheet metal cannot be crafted, so every pair waits on looted or recycled sheets
60 scrap to research, while the kilt costs half that

That makes them the piece people mix in. Say you are guarding a compound wall with a rifle during an online raid: the heavy plate jacket would take your sights away, but these pants only cost speed you were not going to use. For a roam, the kilt or ballistic leg armour keeps you quick.