NCR Ranger Combat Armor

"If I live to earn the Black Armor, I can die a happy woman."

- An NCR Ranger

The NCR Ranger combat armor and the Ranger helmet are a set of armor in Fallout: New Vegas and the graphic novel All Roads. They are worn by the New California Republic's Veteran Rangers.

Background
NCR Ranger combat armor and helmet is the outfit featured on the main loading screen and box-art. The distinctive black ranger combat armor consists of the Desert Rangers' traditional duster worn with pre-War LAPD riot armor and a set of rodeo jeans, as seen in some other Ranger Outfits. The helmet that accompanies it is black pre-War military issue, complete with a gas mask and built-in low-light optics.

It is often referred to as the Black Armor and is considered to be one of the most valuable and awe-inspiring items in the entire Republic.

This armour can be found throughout the game in NCR occupied areas (e.g. Camp Golf, Ranger Station Bravo, etc) or if you become hated by the NCR and Rangers will come after you.

Ways to obtain

 * Reverse pickpocket or kill an NCR Ranger Veteran.
 * During the quest You'll Know It When It Happens, if you disarm the bomb on the vertibird and report it to Ranger Grant, a Legion sniper will shoot an NCR Ranger Veteran in the head during Kimball's speech, which will kill him (Kimball will safely reach the vertibird which will complete the quest). To get the armor you must quickly run to the corpse before it disappears. Be aware if you are next to the remaining NCR Ranger Veterans they will shoot you if you are next to them for more than a few seconds.
 * Sometimes a glitch may happen and a random Ranger Veteran will spawn in the Dry Lake by Helios One and will die by the ants there.
 * Another easy way to get the armor is by going to Ranger Station Delta reverse pickpocketing C-4 plastic explosive onto a ranger using a Stealth Boy.(A Good time to do this is at midnight when most people around them will go to sleep.) Then running away until you are hidden, use the Detonator and,voila you have yourself some nice new Ranger armor!


 * For this method, you will need a sniper rifle with a silencer, carbon fiber parts, and some steady. Go to Ranger Station Delta and there will be two NCR Veteran Rangers. You will need to travel to the hill far from the ranger(s) . Then take the steady drug, take out your sniper rifle with both mods applied than just shoot him in the head; his health should have one bar left. You may need to shoot him twice if you do not have the better criticals perk or you could use psycho. After he is dead, you should wait 1 hour and while your killing him you can shoot the other veteran too. Then you can take everything from the ranger(s) inventory.

Bugs

 * There is a clipping problem while wearing the armor with most rifles. While the weapon is holstered, it will appear to partially be in the trench coat. Sniper rifles (Except the Anti-Material Rifle), marksman rifles, and assault carbines do not suffer this problem, although holstering while crouched will still cause clipping issues, simply standing up while holstering will fix this.(The clipping issue occurs due to pistol-grip rifles holstering differently to stock-grip rifles, pistol-grips holster to armor while stock-grip ones holster to the player's body, causing the clipping). Same can go for the Ranger helmet; hair will partially be seen in the back depending on the hairstyle and shape of your character's head.


 * The Ranger Helmet sometimes will not be able to be repaired by any of the NPCs on the map and the only way to repair it is by finding another one and repairing it by yourself.


 * A random Ranger Veteran wearing this armor will sometimes appear at the Dry Lake by Helios One


 * Possible that putting on a suit retrieved from a player killer Ranger will set NCR and Legion fame to Neutral, impossible to raise.

Appearances
The NCR Ranger combat armor only appears in Fallout: New Vegas and on the cover of the graphic novel All Roads.