I'll be honest - I didn't include that suit in the lineup for my plot because I dislike it a lot, probably hate it, and for several reasons.
In character, it's meant to be used as a frontline, heavy assault, close quarters power armor, but it's horrible for that. In close quarters, the Hostile is actually far better at this despite having less firepower. In close quarters, it's not all about the guns and crap loaded onto the soldier. In comparison, the Hostile is more nimble and easy to move around in, and most importantly, it has the Push-Pull Guard. Close quarters fights are all completely at its discretion - so what if a Ripper suddenly bursts around the corner and wants to try and cut it up? The Hostile just gives it the middle finger and pushes it away with an invisible hammer. Or if something's running away, it just yanks it back. Like a Jedi Asshole. But the Devastator? No - even with all that firepower, once something gets too close or under its arc of fire, the suit is toast. And even if it does give chase, it's far more vulnerable to counterattack and ambushes than a Hostile ever will be, especially due to the shields that it was given to try and 'nerf' it.
Instead, what this power armor excels at...take out frontline, take out close quarters, and what you have is heavy assault. It is best at completely and utterly replacing the Aggressor. This suit is best standing behind a group of Hostiles and just shooting, non-stop to support the Hostiles duking it out. Heavily assaulting things with its guns. And to me, that's completely and utterly unacceptable, as it replaces a role that's already taken up. And it's even better at that job, just to add insult to injury. The pre-existing suit could have been modified and improved on instead, with much less money (IRL), time and effort. But wasn't.
Out of Character, the suit is plain OP in the role it is actually good at. Over Powered. Already, it has more firepower than the suit it's best off replacing - the Aggressor - while being SMALLER. And by a large margin even. Plus, it is far better armored. While being SMALLER. And it has better shields, while being SMALLER. Hell, it's shields make it even better at replacing the Aggressor, since it has a better threshold; less stuff is capable of going directly through - bypassing - the shield to hit the armor under it. So what if it's got gaps and has to be manually managed? Not like that's a big problem if it's got some Hostiles screening it. And it has a tower shield.
Actually, now that I think of it, yeah, I do hate it.
Last - and not least though - your artwork is awesome as always Foxtrot. You're just victim to bad writing on the creator's part.
I'm sorry guys - I just can't bring myself to use this suit. Even with the Raider, I don't even dare look at it. Originally, that thing was tough enough to replace the Hostile even though it was supposed to be a LIGHT power armor. These were just poorly thought out, poorly conceived, and all done with no real feedback from other GMs or long time players.
I'll still give you guys the best plot I can, but I just don't want this pushed on me.
