Powered Armor, Armor Storm and Unarmed Strike (Also Pulse Gauntlet)

[Syries]

There's conflicting wording in the CRB about the actual damage an unarmed strike from a Armor Storm soldier with Powered Armor.
The Hammer Fist states the ability doesn't benefit from other abilities that apply specifically unarmed attacks, but there's no good scaling damage for the Hammer Fist until level 10, when your effective battleglove goes from level 1 to level 10. The Powered Armor gives its own damage dice for unarmed strikes (1d10 for the Battle Harness), and the Powered Armor section doesn't mention that unarmed strikes stop being considered archaic. There's no wording for how unarmed strikes interact with battlegloves or Pulse Gauntlet, either.

Does using Powered Armor remove the archaic property of unarmed strikes?

Do you use the damage dice of Powered Armor for unarmed strikes while using the Hammer Fist class ability? Do you still gain the benefit of the Melee Striker gear boost (or the +2 bonus damage for actually having the Melee Striker gear boost) when using unarmed strikes with Powered Armor? Is the unarmed strike damage archaic?

When using a Pulse Gauntlet, do you benefit from the bonus +2 damage from having both the Melee Striker gear boost and the Hammer Fist class feature?

When using a Pulse Gauntlet, do you target KAC or EAC?

[Joviwan]

I came searching the forums for answers to basically all the same questions and couldn't find any. I suspect there just may not be answers to these questions at this time.

[Zabraxis]

Battle Fist wrote:

You treat any unarmed attack you make while wearing heavy or powered armor as being made with a battleglove

With that we can answer a few questions right off the bat:

- Melee Striker Boost? Yep, Power Armor is specifically mentioned right there in the 1st line of the ability.
- Archaic? No, It counts as a Battleglove and Battlegloves are not archaic.
- Powered Armor damage dice or Battleglove damage dice? This is the odd one with no rules either way. There is a huge gap in Battleglove upgrades compared to regular Unarmed Strikes (w/ 2 upgrades in the same level range.) The 1d10 melee damage @ 5th isn't game breaking or overpowering. It's seems a special kind of jackassery to have a class ability actually reduce your damage but I can see the other side of it. I disagree with it but I understand it. Until there's a FAQ this is a case of talk to the DM.

On the Pulse Gauntlet:

The Pulse Gauntlet is not an unarmed strike nor is it heavy or powered armor, it's a weapon all on it's own so it gets no bonus from the Hammer Fist feature.

Targeting Armor Class wrote:

If the weapon deals only kinetic damage, or if it deals both energy and kinetic damage, the attack targets KAC.

The Pulse Gauntlet targets KAC