Advanced Soldier RIG

The Advanced Soldier RIG is a military-grade RIG suit that serves as the standard-issue combat uniform of the Marines of the Earth Defense Force.

Description[]

The Advanced Soldier RIG is a fatigue and body armor assembly designed for combat use and serves as the standard-issue protective gear for EDF Marines.

The RIG features a built-in Stasis Module, possibly used to detain wanted suspects or stop enemies in combat. The assembly primarily consists of dark grey, vacuum-rated fatigues with multiple utility pockets, complemented by white body armor plates. These include armored boots, a cuirass, cuisses, spaulders, rerebraces, vambraces, and a fully-enclosed combat helmet designed to resemble a human skull, complete with a nasal cavity opening. The breastplate prominently displays the insignia of the Earth Defense Force. In the remake, the words "U.S.M. Valor" are featured above the EDF insignia.

The Advanced Soldier RIG costs 99,000 Credits and is available for purchase after loading a "Cleared Game" save. Once loaded, head towards a Store (which is first seen near the tram at the end of Chapter 1). This is applicable to both the original Dead Space and the remake.

Trivia[]

In the original game, the Advanced Soldier RIG's icon in the Store is that of the Advanced Engineer RIG.
The Advanced Soldier RIG is the second best RIG in the original game with a total of 30% damage resistance, with the first being the Advanced Unitologist RIG, which has a total of 60% damage resistance. It provides the best protection in the PC version of the game.
The Advanced Soldier RIGs worn by the Marine NPCs on the USM Valor in the original Dead Space differ from the suit worn by Isaac, namely in their inclusion of a left shoulder spaulder and their stripped down helmets: where Isaac's helmet fully encapsulates his head, those that are worn by the Valor's Marines seem only to consist of a face mask covering their eyes and nose, and fitted to their head via a solid band.
- An updated version of this "face mask" variant is worn by the Marine Twitchers in the 2023 remake.
The red stripes above the right eye-slit are likely a form of rank or role insignia.
- In Dead Space: Aftermath, the Marine Colonel's helmet possesses four red stripes, while the helmets of the Marines accompanying him have only two.
- In the remake, Commander F. Cadigan's helmet possesses three red stripes over the right eye-slit, something that does not appear on the suit available to Isaac and those worn by other USM Valor Marines. (In reality, a Commander in the U.S. Navy wears three half-inch stripes on their sleeve insignia).
  
  Carver's Special Forces Suit.
The EDF Special Forces Suit worn by Sergeant John Carver in Dead Space 3 bears a strong resemblance to the Marine suit, particularly its helmet design, which features the same skull-like appearance and three red stripes over one of the eye-slits.
The texture files of the decals of the suit in the remake state that it is issued to Marines of the "United Sates(sic) Military Valor Unit", a misspelling of "United States Military".^[1] This is almost certainly an error on the part of the character modelling company, however, as the term "United States" would have no meaning in the Dead Space universe, with the most likely intended name being "United Spacefaring Military".^[2]