Because Reinforced Faraday armor won't be added until power suits, what about some form of reinforced iron armor using steel/uranium plates? Keep the armor value and add some toughness (I still have no idea what it does but I think it does something...). I'd expect something similar of leather armor for the textures but maybe adding a visor for the helm and giving it some funky, stupid, annoying, absolute garbage, pumpkin-like thing that blocks your face and prevents you from doing anything reasonably efficiently.

Also madmurloc talked about this a bit however it got no response, but some chemical tanks as a backpack item similar to the battery backpack would be cool. You could add a power requirement so you have to charge the pack and it wouldn't power any items, just allow the pack to supply extra "fun fuel" as murloc says.

Quick question for the post how/can I apply that blue tag with enhancement next to the post and should I use it?