Chinese Stealth Armor (Fallout 3)

The Hei Gui Chinese Stealth Armor is an armor suit originally worn by the elite Chinese Crimson Dragoon troops, as well as the Black Ghost counter-insurgency/terror units before and during the Great War.

The armor has active camouflage systems that, when the player is crouched, generate a modulating field that transmits the reflected light from one side of an object to the other, making a person much harder to notice (but not completely invisible). The technology was the basis for the unstable "Stealth Boy" wrist units developed in the U.S.

History
Chinese Stealth Armor was used during the Chinese invasion of Alaska and was the Chinese solution to invasion by U.S. forces in power armor.

Earlier Hei Gui models were also used during raids against the Hoover Dam secret laboratory and Limit-115 laboratory.

Appearances

 * The Hei Gui Stealth Armor, originally set to appear in Van Buren, appears in the Operation: Anchorage Fallout 3 add-on pack.

Behind the scenes

 * In Chinese, Hei Gui (黑鬼) literally means "Black Ghost". Hei (黑) means black, dark, etc., and Gui (鬼) means ghost, apparition, demon, etc.

Bugs

 * In first person, if you reload a one-hand weapon while wearing the Chinese Stealth Armor, you will see part of the armor. This is a texture glitch and has no effect on gameplay.


 * If you reverse pickpocket a stealth suit from a Crimson Dragoon the stealth field will not activate when crouching. (confirmed on PS3 & X360)
 * In some cases, the PC's head may disappear when wearing the stealth armour for the first time. A bit of 'something' also appears and hovers by the characters elbow, (confirmed on PS3 & X360)
 * It is possible to make your head disappear at your own desire by having 2+ Pre-War Hats (condition does not affect this glitch) To do this first equip the suit then equip a hat, now swap hats by equiping your other hat (replacing the one you just put on). This glitch has no effect on gameplay since the game will still count your head as being there. (Confirmed on X360 & PS3)
 * If the PC has equiped for example a Hockey Mask and then has a duplicate Hockey Mask (condition does no affect this glitch) the player can keep equiping the secondary Hockey Mask (that is unequiped) and continuosly gain the +5 Unarmed bonus for each time the PC equips the secondary mask. This can be done for every item the PC has a duplicate of and continues to equip. (Confirmed X360)
 * Since the armor allows the PC to equip multiple head items it is possible for the PC to have equiped a "more the humanly possible" amount of head items. For example the player can have a Tesla Helmet, Power Helmet, Hockey Mask, and a Ghoul Mask equiped at the same time, which is impossible otherwise. Consequently the player is able to equip an un numerable amount of head gear items so long as the Chinese Stealth Armor is equiped while doing so. While the PC is equiping new head items while doing this glitch previously equiped head gear may be taken off, but is able still to be re equiped afterwards. Swapping out the Chinese Stealth Armor for another item does not end this glitch and will go on forever until the player chooses to take off those items. This glitch ties in with the note above stating that the head items appearances may swap during fast travel, this applies here as well. (Confirmed X360)

Chinese Stealth Armor