Magitek armor (Final Fantasy XV)

Magitek armor, abbreviated as MA and also known as cybersuits, are bipedal robots used by Niflheim Empire for warfare. Magitek armor were originally used by the ancient civilization of Solheim, of whose glory Niflheim seeks to recreate and thus rebuilds their technologies. They appear as enemies accompanying the rest of the imperial forces.

Profile
MA guard imperial bases, and are sent to intercept targets via airships. They shoot missiles that detonate with a slight delay and walk on two legs. They topple over when their leg is destroyed. Some models have claw-like feet for close-quarters combat and are equipped with automatic rifles and an electroshock spear or flamethrowers. Some MA's warheads are laced with substances.

Some magitek armor have pilots, as Loqi Tummelt and Caligo Ulldor both have personal MAs that they use to battle Noctis and his retinue. The magitek armor fought as regular enemies seem to operate on auto-pilot; no pilots are ever seen or mentioned in the bestiary, but they do have cockpits, as the MAs share the same model with variations.

Niflheim has recently developed more monstrous types of weapons of mass destruction that are still referred to as magitek armor despite looking wildly different from the regular field models: Diamond Weapon and Immortalis. These are powered by magitek cores, which are powered by miasma, the substance daemons exude. The regular MAs are not seen or referred to as having magitek cores, but from their name of "magitek armor" it can be derived they are powered by some form of magitek.

Gameplay
Magitek armor only use physical attacks, MA Hoplomachus being the exception, and are immune to Light. The MA-series machines are weak to Lightning damage, as well as daggers and greatswords, whereas the MA-X-series machines are weak to machinery weapons and have no elemental weaknesses.

Defeating the MAs that spawn from drop ships prompts the game to spawn ever harder versions of them, until the superboss MA-X Angelus-0 appears. The most powerful magitek armor is Omega, an ancient MA built by Solheim to fell the Astrals whose story can be uncovered in the Ω-Files.

Creation and development
Magitek Armor is a recurring type of robot from the Final Fantasy series, originating from Final Fantasy VI. They have since appeared as cameos, but have a larger presence in Final Fantasy XV and Final Fantasy Type-0, both games directed by Hajime Tabata.

Whereas the Magitek Armor in Final Fantasy VI use magic, the MA in Final Fantasy XV are more akin to tanks of real world warfare; tanks appeared in Final Fantasy XV E3 2013 trailer carrying infantry, but no longer appear in the final game, infantry being deployed from airships instead alongside other imperial forces, such as MA.