Add the Syndicate Raid Suit

[Blackern5000]

About the PR

Adds the syndicate raid suit, an 8 TC sidegrade to the blood-red hardsuit which trades space protection for superior armor.
The raid suit has 10% slowdown (like the blood-red) and 65% damage resist in all brute damage types, as well as in heat and explosions. The helmet is slightly better than other helmets at 15% resist and is only obtainable through the raid suit bundle. In total this gives the suit 70.25% damage reduction to brute/heat damages, and a 65% reduction to explosions.

Why / Balance

Intended to help move away from spacing meta with nukies, now they have a non-spaceproof option for combat and would very much benefit from leaving the windows and floors intact. Also prevents the use of explosives such as the china lake without causing significant damage to the structure of the station, which may kill the operatives if they're not careful.

Media

2024-07-09.22-52-00.mp4

The flashlight is stronger than the one on the blood-red.

• I have added screenshots/videos to this PR showcasing its changes ingame, or this PR does not require an ingame showcase

Changelog
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• add: Nuclear operatives are now able to purchase durable armor which is NOT space-proof.

[github-actions]

RSI Diff Bot; head commit 349ab70 merging into 061ec43
This PR makes changes to 1 or more RSIs. Here is a summary of all changes:

Resources/Textures/Clothing/Head/Helmets/syndie-raid.rsi

State	Old	New	Status
equipped-HELMET-vox			Added
equipped-HELMET			Added
icon			Added
inhand-left			Added
inhand-right			Added

Resources/Textures/Clothing/OuterClothing/Armor/syndie-raid.rsi

State	Old	New	Status
equipped-OUTERCLOTHING-light-vox			Added
equipped-OUTERCLOTHING-light			Added
equipped-OUTERCLOTHING-vox			Added
equipped-OUTERCLOTHING			Added
icon			Added
inhand-left			Added
inhand-right			Added
light-overlay			Added

Edit: diff updated after 349ab70

[ps3moira]

Shouldn't have better stats besides less speed slowdown and able to fit in bags easier.

[Blackern5000]

Shouldn't have better stats besides less speed slowdown and able to fit in bags easier.

The purpose is to trade being able to fend off most of the crew by making the station uninhabitable for being able to fend off most of the crew by being significantly tougher to kill. 11% more movement speed won't protect you from the hordes of passengers with uranium spears, but 114 more EHP will.

[thebadman4662]

Hmmm, feels weird.

You space station to bridge the speed gap between you and crew as usually nukie will have only 90/81% movement speed, especially now with elite black being overpriced sidegrade.

Now you are down to 85/76,5% speed and crew is fine to go full sonic? Thats 17/30% relative difference so I suppose it will just be used as budget juggernaut if syndie can't otherwise afford it, I really doubt nukies will be buying this once novelty wears off.

On another note its good to see bloodred armor with light stronger than cigarette. 😄

[ninruB]

Spacing does make catching people with a movespeed disadvantage a lot easier due to firelocks and area denial, which does effectively bridge the gap between movespeeds naturally or by forcing both parties to use slowing hardsuits.

Firelocks also function as cover and group segregating functions, as well as potentially slowing you down. The effect of this and whether or not it cancels out due to both parties experiencing it is debatable, but it has to be noted.
If agreed upon this being false, the "real" effective armor bonus is lessened by a varying amount.

If spacing is utilized, you get complex effective movespeed; if a paid sidegrade to the free EVA hardsuit does not allow for spacing it is affected by an opportunity cost.

Therefore, the "real" effective movespeed malus is greater than 5% by a varying amount.

In an unreinforced, full, nukie party you would have to convince 4/5 (including yourself) to buy this item and stick to a specific set strategies, all of which invalidate most explosives among other things; having to convince the entire party to use your strategy is unreliable and extremely punishing to this item if failed.

Does this really matter though?
70% DR fucks and you're still within >100% MS provided you use MS-related meds and throw away the duffel, -5% EMS is nothing compared to +20% DR and as an item for traitors or lone-ops this is borderline overpowered and wonderful, nukies though? Not very good.

[Blackern5000]

I've decreased the movement speed penalty to be in line with the blood-red and elite suits, as well as made the item whitelisted to nukies only.
I intended to have the whitelist with with the initial pr but was too tired at the time to bother.

[Boaz1111]

good pr

[Golinth]

I like this. Spacing is a nukie’s best tool, and this allows strats that break that meta. I seriously hope this gets merged.