Overview
This Guide Will Tell you where to get the Possibly most Iconic armor of nv, When a DLC is required it will say so.
Introduction
There are Five Sets of Ranger/Riot gear, NCR Ranger Combat Armor*, Desert Ranger Combat Armor, Riot Gear*, Advanced Riot Gear, Elite Riot Gear.
*The NCR Ranger Combat Armorcan be acquired if you become Vilified by the NCR a Hit Squad sent by the NCR Will have a NCR Ranger Wearing This Armor, this can be acquired INFINITELY
*The Riot Gear can be acquired via the Commissionary Terminals found Throughout the Lonesome Road DLC. this can be acquired INFINITELY
NCR Ranger Combat Armor
L.A Police Riot Gear Repurposed by the NCR for Rangers that will be deployed in active Combat Zones or where they expect Heavy Resistance,
most Suits were last used in baja California “Chasing Ghosts” it is rumored that the Writers made this purposefully ambiguous.
some of them were also gained during the Ranger Unification Treaty, when the NCR Absorbed the Desert Rangers.
Armor Stats:
DT 20
HP 600
WG 30
EF ‘you gain a persuasive Disguise as an NCR Ranger’
JR Medium
Helmet Stats:
DT 4
HP 100
WG 3
EF None
JR Light Helmets
Acquisition:
NCR Ranger Safehouse, (Trusted or More With the NCR, and talk to Colonial Hsu)
NCR Veteran Ranger Corpses, (after a point through the main storyline)
(LR) NCR Trooper Corpses ( After Nuking the Long 15 and IN and ONLY IN the Long 15)
(HH) Desert Ranger Combat Armor
Though Called the “Desert Ranger Combat Armor” It was not used by a Desert Ranger, it was Really used by Randall Clark after 2077, and During a US Campaign in china in 2073.
Armor Stats:
DT 22
HP 600
WG 30
EF None (Though some NCR Citizens will comment on you being a NCR Ranger)
JR Medium
Helmet Stats:
DT 5
HP 100
WG 0
EF None
JR Light Helmets
Acquisition:
(HH) Stone Bones Cave (by a footlocker near a survivalist’s terminal)
(LR) Riot Gear
These Suits of Riot Gear are at an Nuclear Missile Base near Hopesville, as the name would suggest, there were riots by some hippies living in said Hopesville against the sino-american war. This would Most likely be the standard Patrol Armor given to the soldiers there, as there are some corpses wearing the armor and some in lockers.
Armor Stats:
DT 20
HP 500
WG 30
EF Guns +5, Agility+1
JR Medium
Helmet Stats:
DT 4
HP 75
WG 6
EF Per. +1
JR Heavy Helmets
Acquisition:
(LR) Commissionary Terminals
(LR) Hopeville Armory (Two in lockers, one for free and low quality, one for 100 lockpick and perfect quality)
(LR) Ashton Missile Silo (behind a Lockpick 50 door)
(LR) Advanced Riot Gear
These Suits of Riot Gear are at an Nuclear Missile Base near Hopesville, as the name would suggest, there were riots by some hippies living in said Hopesville against the sino-american war. though after the war these suits were used by the NCR in the Divide before the large stockpile of nuclear warheads went off, many of them were lost, only two remain, this largely unmodified suit, and a heavily modified suit on the other side of the divide.
Armor Stats:
DT 21
HP 500
WG 25
EF Explosives +10, Endurance +1
JR Medium
Helmet Stats:
DT 5
HP 85
WG 6
EF Per. +2
JR Heavy Helmets
Acquisition:
(LR) The Crow’s Nest (On the ghoul hung over the window)
(LR) Elite Riot Gear
These Suits of Riot Gear are at an Nuclear Missile Base near Hopesville, as the name would suggest, there were riots by some hippies living in said Hopesville against the sino-american war.
though after the war these suits were used by the NCR in the Divide before the large stockpile of nuclear warheads went off, this particular suit has been modified over time, like adding a place for a canteen, or a pocketed bandoleer.
Armor Stats:
DT 22
HP 750
WG 23
EF Guns +10, Charisma +1, Critical Chance +5
JR Medium
Helmet Stats:
DT 6
HP 100
WG 6
EF Speech +5, Per. +2
JR Heavy Helmets
Acquisition:
(LR) Third Street Municipal Building (Top Floor after leaving the sewer, next to the window)