Skat-9 military armoured suit

	For the functional LA armour, see Military armored suit. For the successor armour, see SKAT-9. For the improved version, see SKAT-9M. For the higher upgrade, see SKAT-10.For the top level version, see SKAT-10M.

The Skat-9 military armoured suit is an armour featured in S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Lost Alpha.

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Overview[]

Available from Trader Petrenko for 36000 Ru as a "SKAT-9M" that ostensibly has similar characteristics to a Military armored suit.
No Night vision fitted and no possibility of an upgrade.
When first worn by the player all protection stats (including telepathy) are set to +100%.
Inventory description parameters remain set as though this is a genuine Military armored suit.
The player inventory icon is that of the worn Military armored suit since there is no corresponding icon for such a suit as the Skat-9.
The inventory stock icon is also of that Military armored suit.
The degradation characteristics are such that heavy rain will degrade the suit to zero very quickly.
Presumably this was supposed to be humourous on the part of the developers.

Since no Military armored suit weighs less than 12 Kg, this is clearly an imposter.
The correct icon for Skat-9 does exist in the gamefiles and may be accessed for this particular suit by editing the 'outfit.ltx' file for [military_commander_outfit] to have inv_grid values x=34 and y=4.
Similar file hacks from the military stalker outfit may be used to access the correct world models visuals for this particular suit.
Presumably this suit was intended to be removed from the game prior to release, but somehow this didn't happen.