I don't really like that houserule, battlesuits aren't terribly good anyway, so they don't really need a rule making them worse. AoE weapons like all seekers and proximity bullets already damage the wearer.

Yes, Core Rules page 196:

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Passengers within a vehicle are generally not harmed by attacks made against the vehicle itself. Area effect weapons are an exception to this rule, but in this case the passengers also benefit from the vehicle Armor Value.

Its not using the User Values really. An Exosuit, augments or replaces the users Value. In this case, its power armor, its meant to fully protect the User, and amplify said user. Its a vehicle. The only strangeness is that it doesnt need any special piloting, because you it moves one to one with your body own movement. Unless we're thinking that power armor in EP is something like halo Mjolnir power armor or Fallout Power armor which needs special trainer or it would injure its User. But yea. If you're in Power Armor. I punch you, the force of my punch or bullet or rocket, if the armor is doing its job, takes the damage as a whole distrusted through the armor. You have to fuck up the armor to hurt the User. We're using the word Armor but its not an Armor. Its a tank that is skin tight. You're wearing an assault vehicle that is skin tight. The better mindset would be to think of power armor like an assault humvee. The only thing I am fuzzy on, is where does the power armor actually fail? Does it fail when hit its death rating or before then?

So then at DUR damage, the Power Armor, is trapping you. Depending on IC context you would have to escape it as its not moving with you, its working against you. The full weight of the suit is just dead weight on you.

For folks that watch The Expanse, there's a scene a few episodes ago where Bobbie, a Martian marine who trains in and uses power armor, is trapped in a dead suit. It's a short scene, but the team that rescues her uses a key to pop the suit and trigger breakaway charges at its seams to free her.

I would propose a pretty simple system (for blackjack rolling). 1. You roll attack against suited opponent (or player) normally. 2. When your attack hits, look at the 1d10 die and compare it to a new shiny exoskeleton coverage stat. 3. If the die is higher than the coverage stat you hit the user. Otherwise you hit the exoskeleton. Every wound the suit suffers decreases coverage by 1. Crits automatically inflict 1 wound on the suit. They don't have any additional effects. You can have called shots to bypass armor only if the coverage is less than 10. (That way you can use the dead suit as a shield even if it's dead and you are willing to take -50 penalty on your action for sitting in a tin can). Battlesuits have coverage 10. Hoplite suits have freaking 11. They are designed to protect the user in a fucking transhuman warfare. The crits ignore armor rule is stupid IMHO. It theoretically allows you to field six transhumans with 2 moxie each and a handfull of light pistols to destroy a fucking dreadnought in a straight up slug firefight. Theoretically. I will run the encounter right fucking now. EDIT: 6 Splicers in heavy armor 16/16. Fray 60; Kinetic Weapons 60. 1 Speed; 2 Moxie. Light pistols 2d10 DV. VS Dreadnought http://eldrich.host/world/bestiary/exhuman-dreadnought. Splicers are spread out so it cannot attack more than one of them with one seeker weapon. Dreadnought gets to attack with each of its weapons once per 1 speed. If the splicers go first dreadnought gets obliterated with moxied full auto bursts before it has a chance to do anything. In my case it was 28d10 damage. If the dreadnought goes first it has some chance to survive. I think. It didn't in my 2 tries. (18d10 and 15d10)

The larger situation also matters a lot, in practice those splicers will be spotted by a saucer drone or similar and killed from kilometers away by seekers.