Advanced riot gear

The advanced riot gear and the matching advanced riot gear helmet are pieces of armor in the Fallout: New Vegas add-on Lonesome Road.

Background
The advanced riot gear, issued to the 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment, was distributed for crowd control and containment operations in Hopeville and Ashton before the Great War, rounding up protestors for shipping to black sites. After the war, they were repurposed for riot control duties by NCR units deployed to annex the Divide. All units were lost in the catastrophe that struck the region on the eve of the First Battle of Hoover Dam.

Leftover from these times is the helmet's tactical number, =100=, stenciled on the left side.

Characteristics
A significant upgrade from the regular riot gear, offering one more Damage Threshold point (21 vs. 20), lighter by five points (25 vs. 30), and more durable (600 vs. 500). It has a distinctly different bonus: Instead of +5 Guns and +1 Agility, it grants +10 Explosives and +1 Endurance.

Like the regular helmet, the helmet also grants a night vision mode, or Red Vision, which activates between 6 PM and 6 AM while in sneak mode and gives improved visibility at night. The helmet also gives a +2 Perception bonus at all times.

Locations

 * The Crow's Nest: Found on the body of an NCR riot control officer. Note that the officer will be jerked around by explosions, making it possible for the armor to be lost permanently if it falls off the highway.

Behind the scenes

 * The advanced riot gear has two unused files in the game's .bsa archives, denoted as nvdlc04riotgearadv_n.dds (normal map) and nvdlc04riotgearadv_g.dds (glow map), which depict an early variant of the riot gear. It has several cosmetic differences, including four rows of PALS strips on the abdomen, pockets on the duster and on its sleeves (painted-on, as opposed to added geometry), and a different texture for the wrist guards, apparently being used as a container. Most notably, the glow texture would result in several parts of the armor glowing (presumably white): The circle on the throat guard, stripes on the shoulder plates, and a set of additional stripes on areas not present in the finished model.
 * Playing caravan while the sneak sight is activated may make it difficult to see the cards.

Bugs

 * Riot gear helmets are flagged as hair, allowing other headgear to be worn with them.
 * Like with the riot gear the shouldersof the duster can randomly change color.