User:Octurion/wip4 The Leather Jacket is the first armor used by the protagonists in both S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl and S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky. The Leather Jacket does not provide sufficient protection for the Zone's harsh conditions due to it's poor protection stats and terrible durability. It has no counter measure to bullets or splinters, and is not built to protect from radiation or anomalies. It is a typical thick leather jacket.
Shadow of Chernobyl
Characteristics
The player starts with this jacket in his inventory. The variant given to the player is a tan color. The suit can be bought from Sidorovich. Other Loners may be seen with white Leather Jackets, which cannot be obtained by the player. It is the worst suit in the game by far, and provides very little protection. A unique variant exists, called the Skinner Anomaly, which is still near useless.
Notable deployments
The suit is worn only by Rookies and very rarely by experienced Loners.
Notable users
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Tips
You can ditch this armor as soon as you start the game for a vastly superior Merc Suit located in the Rookie Camp. You can obtain the Merc Suit by climbing up the ladder that Wolf is standing next to. Then by crouching, and shimming across the edge carefully you must reach the roof of the house. Don't worry if you fall, you won't lose any health. Once you are on the roof, jump across to the adjacent house, and on the far edge the attic should be exposed. Directly inside (a little difficult to see) is a wooden crate. Bust it open with your knife, and voila - a brand spanking new Merc Suit at the very beginning of the game. Alternatively, you can also take the mission from Nimble to find the Mail Jacket and simply never turn it into him. In the unpatched version of the game, one may find a Stalker Suit or a Bandit Jacket instead of a Merc Suit.
Clear Sky
It is worn by rookie Loners and rookie Clear Sky members. It can be upgraded to use a pair of night vision goggles and can be upgraded to slightly increase it's protection and durability with most upgrades costing only 350 RU. If one has a thing with Leather Jackets it can sport a light kevlar vest for 1,100 RU which increases it's bulletproof stats and reduces the chance of small caliber pistol bullets from causing the player to bleed. But it is really pointless to extensively upgrade it unless one is actually serious about using it further than the Swamps.
Tips
A CS-3a Bodysuit can be acquired free of charge before ever leaving the Swamps. In order to get it, the player must capture the Renegade base, which is the local machine yard. Once cleared out and captured by Clear Sky, your reward will consist of the CS-3a Bodysuit, which is vastly superior to the Leather Jacket and Bandit Jacket, but still a poor all-around suit.
Call of Pripyat
Normally the suit isn"t in game but when you get your suit off, your will be wearing a Leather Jacket with no protection.
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