they gotta strap in

Power armor is probably going to require a hefty amount of surgical modifications to pilot effectively for more than a few hours at a stretch

Like bypassing the rectum for solid waste disposal

@RoflTank nah man just ceramic/tungsten butt flap like on a union suit

nah fam

That's a gap in NBC/pressure sealing

Listen, sometimes the most simple answer is the right one

Sometimes the simple answer also defeats the entire purpose

Depends on how you go about it

I bet if you really wanted to you could pressure seal a butt flap

Gasket seals

Ideally your sealed armor is going to be a powered atmo dive suit

Less holes in the frame the better

Holy fuck this thing is aesthetic as fuck

Where do you think "Mr. Bubbles" came from design wise?

Take that suit and make it superhumanly proportioned

Mr Bubbles is a mix of old dive suits and helmets

Equally aesthetic

Like I know they're inefficient but god damn they looked awesome

Actually, I wonder if you could make a modern dive suit out of mylar and shit, and then hook a closed circuit rebreather backpack to the helmet...

I liked the Rosie suit a bit better, not gonna lie

Then coat the thing in aluminum superalloy chainmail so sharks get btfo'ed

The Rosie suit always more actual sense to me design wise than the Bouncer suit.

And I know it's "vidyagaem" but still

It's dystopian science fiction, not pure Fantasy

Ya know so many vidyagaems forget what the bulletproof vests that most LEOs wear is made out of and how relatively ineffective it is against literally anything other than bullets

Well Rosies are a standard dive suit

Bouncers are a primitive ADS

I wouldn't say standard, but I see the point

Because they have actual dive suits and stuff in Bioshock

Well yeah, but two different roles

Bouncers are deep divers, Rosies are more akin to a low depth dive suit

The Alphas/Lancers are actually a neat combination of the two design wise

Not entirely, the Rosie suit IIRC was actually the first suit they designed and it's the one that's used the most by the big daddies that do the majority of the maintenance inside and outside of Rapture

But then someone also decided to make it bullet resistant, but you could say that was an inherent design feature

I will say that I appreciate their consideration about how that drill actually works underwater without drowning it's own engine

On the Bouncer models

tbf making something pressure resistant also tends to make it exceedingly difficult to damage.

Yeah and that's fair

I remember a pretty legit quote about the Rosie suits from the official Bioshock book

And I own said book