Combat armor (Fallout 4)

The combat armor is a relic of the Great War, and remains, as armor in Fallout 4, an effective source of balanced protection in the Commonwealth.

Characteristics
Combat armor is found often middle to late game and offers very well balanced protection between projectile and energy damage while having no resistance against radiation. This form of armor prefers balance rather than specialty, and as such will not surpass other more specific forms of protection built for certain damage types, but offers lesser protection from the most common damage types, making it the ideal choice for mercenary groups like the Gunners.

Parts
Multiple variants of combat armor can be found, including Sturdy and Heavy. However, the combat armor helmet does not seem to exist as either of these variants (although the similar Army helmet can be found separately) and all variants seem to share the same base ID. A full set of sturdy combat armor, including the regular helmet, yields a damage resistance to both ballistic and energy of 85 and a radiation resistance of 0. A full set of heavy combat armor, including the regular helmet, yields a damage resistance to both ballistic and energy of 105 and a radiation resistance of 0.

Locations
One full set of unmodified combat armor can be found on a hostile character by the name of Absalom. He resides in a yellow house under the huge bridge southeast of Diamond City (follow the road and go under the bridge to cross the water). This unmarked location is near a marked raider encampment, called Andrew Station, and it is between this location and Hester's Consumer Robotics on the south side of the bridge that Absalom can be found. The Sole Survivor may have to wait a while until Absalom appears.

Left Arm, Left Leg, Right Leg, and Chest piece of Heavy Unmodified Combat Armor can be found within the Quincy Ruins on a named NPC or, if the NPC has already been killed, a Gunner Sergeant found on the church roof. A Right Arm Heavy Muffled Combat Armor may be found on the NPC Cruz, after killing him, inside the Gunners Plaza building.

A full set of unmodified armor can be found on a dead NPC, Sal, in Jamaica Plain, on the second floor city hall, where the 2076 World Series Baseball Bat is in the basement.