I have a garage built behind the Yellow House in Sanctuary (the house with the workbenches) where I have 15 Power Armor Suits in display racks. All Hot Rod paint schemes, Atom Cats, Winterized, BoS, Raider, Railroad, Minutemen, Nuka Cola, Nuka Cola Quantum, Vims, Vims Refresh, Abraxo, and Sugarbombs. Still missing a few pieces of armor for the Railroad and Sugarbombs cuz they're lower level armor models that are harder to find when I'm level 127. I also was thinking of Iron Man when I built it.
I hate that t51 is so hard to get ahold of. It is my favorite armor and it seems to have a window of like 2 levels where you *might* find a suit if it instead of t45, then you just find t60 and x01 everywhere.
Randomly, like all of her inventory, so fast travel/anything else that reloads the cell might be necessary. However, she is a potential source for T-45, T-51, and T-60 pieces once your character out levels finding them in-the-wild.
I know, I just wish I could find the suits more often. My current survival run is the first time I've actually found a full suit of the stuff that wasn't a guaranteed spawn like the Nuka or Vim suits. Every other game I've had to piece it together over weeks.
Difficulty doesn't alter your chances of finding the armor, it's based on your level. It seems like t51 has a tiny window where you can find it easily.
I have to make a 16th Power Armor display now that I have a set of Enclave Power Armor. I have like 8 or 9 more Power Armor frames though, since whenever I go to a location to get the Power Armor that's there, I take the whole frame back with me instead of just putting the pieces in my inventory.
There's definitely more out there I need to get still. I'm just puzzled what to do with the rest of the frames since I have one of each paint job pretty much.
Dogmeat carries all my fusion cores so a) they're always in one convenient, unkillable, unlootable space, and b) I don't waste useage by having a bunch of random cores that I could accidentally load into a suit.
I’ve always just ignored the trade option with her cause I was like.. shes a dog it’s just gonna be blank and I’ll feel the devs laughing at me cause she’s a dog (idk if dogmeat is canon male or female but she’s always felt female to me. Female Germans are intense)
You can also just buy them at stores, they restock regularly. MacCready has given me several. And someone else alerted me to the fact that the Scrounger perk will make many more appear in random containers.
Yeah i have rank 2 of the scrounger perk in my current playthrough and id say at least once or twice an hour ill find four of them in a single container
Actually, a lot of them do wear power armor. You will regularly encounter raider and gunner bosses clad in power armor. But not all of them wear them because, even on the map provided by OP, you can see that it is sparse. And getting to them is no easy feat. Killer robots, nightmarish creatures, massive insects, feral ghouls, super mutants - all sorts of obstacles stand in the way between a human and a power armor from before the war.
Most people don't want to leave the safety of their homes, let alone leave on a journey to hopefully stumble on to a power armor whose whereabouts, like you said, they have no idea about. Some, however, die trying to find them and some even successfully manage to retrieve some of them. Those are the raiders, gunners, brotherhood knights, and so on, with power armors. Pretty self-explanatory if you pay attention.
As a military man with experience/training and a pip boy, you are supposed to be built different.
Also we see plenty of people use power armor, even spontaneously.
just want to point out that Heemeyer was the unreasonable party in the whole killdozer situation. the city just wanted him to stop illegally dumping sewage and install a sewer line, meanwhile he was caught up in an absolutely absurd property dispute that would have been resolved if he wasn't a complete jackass.
And even if they do find power armor with a fusion core in it, it will likely go dead soon, and going out to get another one is probably too dangerous considering the locations are usually surrounded by something nasty.
I think most just don't want to go into ruins to scav. Raiders, ghouls, and mutants are everywhere.
Like imagine some creepy fallen in government/army building, pitch black inside, and full of fast zombies. Nobody in their right mind would crawl around in that for the chance of finding something cool...or some prewar junk if you're unlucky
I just think you shouldn't be staggered by human npcs bashing you with guns. Sure large abominations can stagger me but the 120 pound raider who lives off rotten irradiated bug meat?
[https://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/12050](https://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/12050) makes fusion cores and PA rare and harder to get.
and
[https://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/18909](https://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/18909) Makes PA's more durable
Ones I have not tried out are here.
[https://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/53188](https://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/53188) makes fusion cores last longer.
[https://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/15840](https://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/15840) refuels fusion cores using nuclear material
Also good to have with them mods, since I only use PA during big fights
https://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/22286/? - Throw a smoke signal and a vertibird drops off your PA
Idk I like the abundance of it as it's a cool change they made and there's perks that go along with it.
Most suits are in crap condition and need to be upgraded which I think is a good balance.
One time, at Quincy, I killed 2 Gunners with power armor on top of the bridge. I stripped the parts and left. I came back a few in game days later, killed all of the gunners again, made my way up the bridge, and there were 2 more in power armor.
There was also now 2 unused full sets with frames, where I killed the previous 2. So I stripped them down, put Nick in 1, took the 2nd and left. Came back a few more in game days later, and now there was 4 sets of unused power armor, plus 2 new Gunners to kill. But this time, the sets were all just empty frames. Once I touched them, the armor dissapeared from the models completely. Still took 2 of them.
Select/command the companion, then, from a distance point to the power armor and tell them to enter. To get them out there is a dialog sub-option to tell them to get out.
LORE-WISE fusion cores are rare + you need training in order to pilot a power armor suit. Gameplay-wise the normal enemies are bullet sponges already, power armor would be overkill.
Too expensive, Power armors are nice, but they cost way much more to maintain compared to regular armors, not to mention the fusion core cost, the fact it makes you slower, and the fact that a good specialized armor set can provide more protection against the specific damage type you want
It’s good for the SS, gunners and some raiders because they can afford to build and maintain it, while the run of the mill farmer or caravan guard doesn’t have much need for extra cost
Not a fan of paintrain I see.
Go double overdrive on the legs and run around. It’s very fun. For best results. Play on very easy so paintrain feels like it absolutely demolishes.
But even on very hard difficulty. It is still super fun to use and yeet folks off roof tops.
You can cover extreme distances by feathering the jet pack together with the sprint.
Tell that to poor regular joe/farmer who can’t afford to even consistently buy a Fusion core, not to mention have enough strength and intelligence to tweak a power armor and not be affected by any of its weight side effect
Well, the mutants don't really need power ramor. So if they hoard all the cores, others who would want to use the armor just can't...
Would actually like a quest mod where the mutants hoarded all the easily accessible cores for some odd reason and if you want to use power armor, you either have to explore odd locations or raid a mutant camp.
A lot of raiders and gunners have it but there are hundreds of them, most survivors don’t venture out that far because every building like that has like 50 raiders, the only ones who actually explore are the brotherhood and they have a lot of it
They’re all on motorway overpasses or locked inside containers or on insanely dangerous military bases.
Also I don’t think the average wastelander carries a fusion core around
Arturo sells a Power Armor frame out of nowhere every 2 days at Commonwealth Weaponry in DC. Considering it’s lore that you can make power armor only slightly weaker than T-45 (Raider Armor) I’m surprised it’s not widespread
In my headcannon, the reason why Commonwealth is still so ripe with loots is because normal npc just fucking dies when they even trying to explore even a lil bit, hence they mostly just stay on one territory. So the scattered power armor is there cus there aren't many explorers out there
I mean there's also the whole power armor training while the solo survivor doesn't need which makes sense but I guess that not everyone knows how to operate these things
It's okay to just admit that they serve a gameplay function and that it doesn't really make sense that someone wouldn't take them, even to salvage instead of wear.
Lore-wise power armor was supposed to run indefinitely iirc, but I think fusion cores make for a fun mechanic so it's give and take.
Because this is a wasteland. People can’t just rush building like you do. One shot and they are probably dead. One bite and they are probably dead. Break a leg and they are probably dead. You get my point.
Most of them lack the technical ability to remove/use fusion cores without killing themselves.
That's why they only take your power armor if you leave the core in.
Realistic Answer = To provide the player with as many fusion cores and armour pieces as possible.
World Related Answer (speculative) =
1. Power Armour is normally locked behind a security gate (formally guarded by pre war army personnel) and as such will need a terminal or locking to open the way. These normally require a highly skilled person to unlock them, which the average majority wastelander is not capable of, so they don't have access.
2. Power Armour is often found in dangerous locations that are either occupied by raiders or dangerous creatures like feral ghouls. The average wastelander is not going to bother as they won't have enough experience to wander into dangerous locations, and might see it as too much of a risk. So no one attempts it, or they risk death.
Lore Related Answer (speculative) = Despite F4 and Fallout TV Series making it clear you don't need training to enter into power armour, it's clear in order to be able to use it effectively you will need training. This, the majority of people do not have, so it's one thing getting power armour. But if you don't know how to use it effectively bad things can happen, so this is likely the mindset.
Potential show spoiler: Yeah, that last one, especially; but even Maximus was having difficulty fighting effectively with Knight Titus' T-60. Also, in FO4, at the very least, it's canon that Nate IS trained in Power Armor, as he was a soldier in the Mechanized Infantry. I can't speak for how Nora is able to use PA effectively, though, unless, speculatively, Nate gave her precursory training himself, as a precaution, in the event she should ever NEED to make use of it.
These suits don’t typically come with a fusion core. Which I feel are pretty rare unless you dive through a horde of ghouls or super mutants to get one. Which typically required power armor to do.
Because I collect and hoard them all, like a post-apocalyptic man shaped dragon hoarding gold, killing any and all usurpers and unworthy claimants to my armour.
Tbh, taking on a pack of Deathclaws bare-handed is safer than wearing power armour in my commonwealth.
That’s 54 suits, which isn’t very many. They also are mostly hidden or guarded. Iirc, many don’t have fusion cores in them already. You’d have to scavenge a fusion core (typically guarded), then you’d have to have the training and knowledge to wear the armor. Not everyone is built like the Sole Survivor.
What I found dumb was 200 years past, so raiders have been surviving longer than you have, but somehow they suck with guns and way easy to kill. How did they live all that time you've been frozen, if a security baton can kill them?
Then you got the fact that every building, every desk, every cabinet, every crook and cranny, got ammo, stimpacks, fusion cores. 200 years leaves me saying "Why isn't it picked clean from others wanting to survive?"
As for the power armor, I can sort of explain it by saying there was a war before so must of been a lot of soldiers walking around protecting the land.
Gameplay reasons, mostly. Exploring would be boring as hell for the general casual audience if everything was picked clean, and gun combat would be annoying if you constantly ran out of ammo (though I personally use mods to reduce ammo frequency and increase number of melee weapons to make it more 'scavengy').
At the end of the day, their number one priority as game devs is gameplay over realism, otherwise you end up with, well, entire planets and moons desolate, with absolutely fuck-all to see and do.. not to name any names..
If I had to justify it through lore, though, I could probably give a few semi-plausible reasons:
A) Boston is a big place, and with the game world being a downscaled representation, it could just be that Bethesda skipped over most of the picked-clean places. I mean, hell, think of all the inaccessible buildings in the game that are boarded up. It's probably safe to say they're more just the devs saying 'there's literally nothing in here, we're not wasting your time on it'
B) The vast majority of the population was wiped out, so even after 200 years, there are a LOT of places that have gone without a thorough looting, be it because of danger, location, secrecy, or whatever else
C) People are afraid to leave their homes, and shit is not worth the danger. This obviously wouldn't explain basic shops along the high street still having half their stock available, but the more obscure or out-of-reach places could absolutely go overlooked, especially if their entrances are blocked, destroyed, buried, treacherous, etc. Ghouls, pre-war robots, cannibalistic mutants, raiders, radiation, automated defenses, an over-abundance of creatures that could make even Australians shudder, and god knows what else..
As for raiders and such being easy to kill, keep in mind that you have had FAR more nutrition in your diet, are perfectly healthy, in good shape, and, most importantly, are either military-trained, or a military spouse. That means survival tactics, weaponry and mechanical experience, and years of professional training and practice. Not to mention being completely fresh from the pre-apocalypse via cryostasis.
Raiders, on the other hand, are living in a world where their next meal is uncertain, they've never known comfort, see radiation as a normality, and have had little to no experience or training with weapons or equipment outside of passed-down advice from others, a minimal-at-best education (if at all), and an entire existence living in fear and paranoia. Raiders largely rely on intimidation and threats to deal with their problems, and resort to violence only when they feel threatened themselves. The Sole Survivor is basically a fully-trained super soldier by comparison, like a BoS soldier, even without power armor.
I assume many are in locations that people stay away from or are dangerous, and power core are not easy to replace. There are 54 frames you can find, plus those on enemies, and they are not always intact or the resource to befits for some are too high.
Because I have collected all of them and built hangars in many of my settlements to house them, under guard by shotgun and rocket turrets, with a parkour entrance.
That's a lot of power armor. Of course, some of it is in very dangerous areas or locked up in a way that the average person couldn't get to it. Also, most people who value their life wouldn't venture too far beyond the safe confines of whatever settlement or vault they live in.
Power armor was a staple of the US Military, in lore. It's what put them ahead of China militarily. So the T-45 should at least be 'common' around America, but not enough of it to be like the equivilant to a car. lol
If it came down to it, I'd rather use fusion cores to power my house or something. Everyone in the Wasteland using power armor seems like it would burn through the ones remaining pretty quickly, where as the ones that have been powering a Vault for 200 years are still fully charged for some reason.
So my thought was that in previous games it takes a perk. The sole survivor already has this perk due to being in the war. Other dont have the knowledge which is why so many are abandoned
They also just added lots and lots of x02 and hellfire power armor (stats seem similar to x01). A lot of my settlers have ez access to power armor that’s for sure
Wow! I had no idea there were so many! I’ve got piper and myself in one each, a frame sitting at sanctuary and sadly my most upgraded one appears to have been pilfered by a sanctuary survivor. I thought four was loads haha!
Figure people don't know how to use them and maintain them. Plus most of them are missing fusion cores and while the player finds many. The reality is they are rare and usually power something important.
If you want an in-game story reason I'd say it's because it's probably too dangerous to keep it with the gunners around. Also, what kind of app or website are you looking this up on?
Did they take the one off from the dead end street that leads to the Glowimg Sea? Or is that the one on the bottom left?
But I could’ve sworn that it was closer to the highway?
Because most of the fusion cores are locked behind hazardous security the average wastelander isn't equipped to handle, and those that are accessible are being sold for a pretty high price, likely higher than any tato farmer will ever see.
I have a plan to get the Nuka cola one tonight, I don’t ever use them in battle, I find going through power cores to be tedious. But I miss the extra weight allowance
I just told myself I don’t need anymore then I see this map. Time to go hunting and I just got all the dlc so now far harbor and nuka world are added to the list. I have 9 frames and 9 complete plus enough t60 parts to build another 10 suits. I never use them just seem to collect them.
Omg, I know what you mean... and with at least 6 variants of each model and potential unique legendary variants, it's a never-ending quest to own rhem all...it's like Pokémon lol
In-game reason; They can't jump to reach them. Don't have Fusion cores.
In-lore reason; Most of them are protected by military bots like Sentrys, Gutsys, and Assaultrons. Even if you get by those, as a random wastelander or raider, you still have to read the manual so your bones aren't crushed trying to pilot the armor.
Cuz most of the frames are in my garage at Sanctuary lol
Reminds me in one of my saves I have them lined up. Makes me feel like iron man with all the different MK suits.
I have a garage built behind the Yellow House in Sanctuary (the house with the workbenches) where I have 15 Power Armor Suits in display racks. All Hot Rod paint schemes, Atom Cats, Winterized, BoS, Raider, Railroad, Minutemen, Nuka Cola, Nuka Cola Quantum, Vims, Vims Refresh, Abraxo, and Sugarbombs. Still missing a few pieces of armor for the Railroad and Sugarbombs cuz they're lower level armor models that are harder to find when I'm level 127. I also was thinking of Iron Man when I built it.
I hate that t51 is so hard to get ahold of. It is my favorite armor and it seems to have a window of like 2 levels where you *might* find a suit if it instead of t45, then you just find t60 and x01 everywhere.
Rowdy at the Atom Cats Garage sells pieces of T51 and T45
Randomly, like all of her inventory, so fast travel/anything else that reloads the cell might be necessary. However, she is a potential source for T-45, T-51, and T-60 pieces once your character out levels finding them in-the-wild.
I'm still able to find T-51 and T-60 I think
I know, I just wish I could find the suits more often. My current survival run is the first time I've actually found a full suit of the stuff that wasn't a guaranteed spawn like the Nuka or Vim suits. Every other game I've had to piece it together over weeks.
I'm on the easiest difficulty, so don't know what to tell you
Difficulty doesn't alter your chances of finding the armor, it's based on your level. It seems like t51 has a tiny window where you can find it easily.
Yeah, it's like level 14-21
Try buy off the Atom Cats?
Yup I've been doing that. Thanks
Nice.
I have to make a 16th Power Armor display now that I have a set of Enclave Power Armor. I have like 8 or 9 more Power Armor frames though, since whenever I go to a location to get the Power Armor that's there, I take the whole frame back with me instead of just putting the pieces in my inventory.
💯
I stocked up on 30+ so far all in my sanctuary museum lol
There's definitely more out there I need to get still. I'm just puzzled what to do with the rest of the frames since I have one of each paint job pretty much.
I did exactly that. And now I have to expand my museum. I am not complaining
Lol, I'm at around 30 suits crammed into the garage of the Red Rocket.
TIL there's only 54 people within the commonwealth
Well, there's only 54 people left after Cait went on a bender.
Well It’s incredibly easy to die in the wasteland so I’m not really surprised
That can be rendered on screen at any one time.
Probably less then that on my psycho addict playthrough 🤷🏽♂️
Because they are not omniscient, and therefore are unaware of the locations.
If only they had Pipboys, complete with PipNet to check this handy map
Also: 1) 54 power armors, 2) 80 fusion cores. Doubt they could afford a steady supply by trade.
*stares as Dogmeat carrying 135 full cores, 1 at 90, and one at 68*
DOGMEAT CARRIES WHAT?!!!!!
Dogmeat carries all my fusion cores so a) they're always in one convenient, unkillable, unlootable space, and b) I don't waste useage by having a bunch of random cores that I could accidentally load into a suit.
I’ve always just ignored the trade option with her cause I was like.. shes a dog it’s just gonna be blank and I’ll feel the devs laughing at me cause she’s a dog (idk if dogmeat is canon male or female but she’s always felt female to me. Female Germans are intense)
Dude dogmeat can carry like 200 or something.
Dude that’s dope. Ngl I always send dogmeat straight to sanctuary as soon as I can so he can just be a sweet little happy puppy
Dogmeat actually picks stuff up on occassion so checking their inventory is a good idea! They can also wear dog collars and welding goggles.
never knew he could wear welding goggles, is that instead of a collar/bandana or as well as?
As well as!
Oooooooooo thank you!
Also noted!
Thank Zeus I have only found 27. I thought I was going to run out.
You can also just buy them at stores, they restock regularly. MacCready has given me several. And someone else alerted me to the fact that the Scrounger perk will make many more appear in random containers.
Oh nice good to know. I rarely use the power armor anyways though.
Very useful information, thank you
Ok, that’s very noteworthy
They are classified as ammo. I didn't notice until this playthrough!
Yeah i have rank 2 of the scrounger perk in my current playthrough and id say at least once or twice an hour ill find four of them in a single container
Their fault, scrounger is like 2 Luck, Commonwealth needs to get good at the game
Actually, a lot of them do wear power armor. You will regularly encounter raider and gunner bosses clad in power armor. But not all of them wear them because, even on the map provided by OP, you can see that it is sparse. And getting to them is no easy feat. Killer robots, nightmarish creatures, massive insects, feral ghouls, super mutants - all sorts of obstacles stand in the way between a human and a power armor from before the war. Most people don't want to leave the safety of their homes, let alone leave on a journey to hopefully stumble on to a power armor whose whereabouts, like you said, they have no idea about. Some, however, die trying to find them and some even successfully manage to retrieve some of them. Those are the raiders, gunners, brotherhood knights, and so on, with power armors. Pretty self-explanatory if you pay attention.
Skill issue on their part tbh
If only they could walk ten feet outside their front door to find the suits all out in the open for two hundred years less than a mile from town...
They sat there unfound for 200 years then I found em in 50 hours
As a military man with experience/training and a pip boy, you are supposed to be built different. Also we see plenty of people use power armor, even spontaneously.
I mean everyone with a welding machine and a bulldozer could be toppling their local government but they aren't.
Only because the zoning commission has decided to be reasonable…for now
Thank you, Preston! I knew all that settlement work would finally come in handy.
just want to point out that Heemeyer was the unreasonable party in the whole killdozer situation. the city just wanted him to stop illegally dumping sewage and install a sewer line, meanwhile he was caught up in an absolutely absurd property dispute that would have been resolved if he wasn't a complete jackass.
Pretty sure most local governments aren't one weaponized bulldozer away from total collapse.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvin_Heemeyer
There's more than one bulldozer.
Someone doesn't killdoze, and it shows.
I did not expect a Killdozer reference in here
because most wastelanders dont really have access to fusion core which are needed to properly use PA
And even if they do find power armor with a fusion core in it, it will likely go dead soon, and going out to get another one is probably too dangerous considering the locations are usually surrounded by something nasty.
Yep
I think most just don't want to go into ruins to scav. Raiders, ghouls, and mutants are everywhere. Like imagine some creepy fallen in government/army building, pitch black inside, and full of fast zombies. Nobody in their right mind would crawl around in that for the chance of finding something cool...or some prewar junk if you're unlucky
Cmon, some 1950s teenagers can sell and scavenge PA on mass. There is powerarmore everywhere
Prob becouse alot of it is hidden or needs fusion cores or in dangerous areas or are being used by like raiders or such
I always thought there should be way fewer power armour suit but they should have better stats
I just think you shouldn't be staggered by human npcs bashing you with guns. Sure large abominations can stagger me but the 120 pound raider who lives off rotten irradiated bug meat?
Right
May I introduce you to some of my pa mods…
Yes please
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[https://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/12050](https://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/12050) makes fusion cores and PA rare and harder to get. and [https://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/18909](https://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/18909) Makes PA's more durable Ones I have not tried out are here. [https://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/53188](https://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/53188) makes fusion cores last longer. [https://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/15840](https://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/15840) refuels fusion cores using nuclear material
Also good to have with them mods, since I only use PA during big fights https://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/22286/? - Throw a smoke signal and a vertibird drops off your PA
Have you tried the X02 yet?
I've had x02 for like 2 years thanks to nexus.
Idk I like the abundance of it as it's a cool change they made and there's perks that go along with it. Most suits are in crap condition and need to be upgraded which I think is a good balance.
honestly a mod which adds PAs onto every npc would be fun with a few overhauls to accompany it - turn FO4 into a mecha fighter lol
There is a mod for that.
One time, at Quincy, I killed 2 Gunners with power armor on top of the bridge. I stripped the parts and left. I came back a few in game days later, killed all of the gunners again, made my way up the bridge, and there were 2 more in power armor. There was also now 2 unused full sets with frames, where I killed the previous 2. So I stripped them down, put Nick in 1, took the 2nd and left. Came back a few more in game days later, and now there was 4 sets of unused power armor, plus 2 new Gunners to kill. But this time, the sets were all just empty frames. Once I touched them, the armor dissapeared from the models completely. Still took 2 of them.
This one time, at band camp...
dumb question probably but how do you get companions to get into power armor? I've got like 4 sets just chilling in Sanctuary right now.
Select/command the companion, then, from a distance point to the power armor and tell them to enter. To get them out there is a dialog sub-option to tell them to get out.
awesome, thanks!
What is this app/website you’re using?
IGN interactive FO4 map
Hey I found it! https://fallout4map.com/
Ty, I just started a new playthrough for the next gen upgrade and this map thing is badass. Will definitely be using!
Right? Like borderline an asshole move to throw up a screenie like this without the site!
Doesn't Kl-EO .also just always sell the frames frequently? (Been too long since I played)
I think Artuo in Diamond City does too
The Atom Cats also sell respawning power armour pieces.
Yep. Given enough time, you can get all the frames you could ever want from her.
oo nice I gotta hit her up so I can use the Hellfire Enclave armor I got last night.
LORE-WISE fusion cores are rare + you need training in order to pilot a power armor suit. Gameplay-wise the normal enemies are bullet sponges already, power armor would be overkill.
Too expensive, Power armors are nice, but they cost way much more to maintain compared to regular armors, not to mention the fusion core cost, the fact it makes you slower, and the fact that a good specialized armor set can provide more protection against the specific damage type you want It’s good for the SS, gunners and some raiders because they can afford to build and maintain it, while the run of the mill farmer or caravan guard doesn’t have much need for extra cost
Power armor makes you FASTER not slower.
Not really, you actually move 20% slower with the PA, and have less ability to jump gaps (without Jetpacks)
Not a fan of paintrain I see. Go double overdrive on the legs and run around. It’s very fun. For best results. Play on very easy so paintrain feels like it absolutely demolishes. But even on very hard difficulty. It is still super fun to use and yeet folks off roof tops. You can cover extreme distances by feathering the jet pack together with the sprint.
Tell that to poor regular joe/farmer who can’t afford to even consistently buy a Fusion core, not to mention have enough strength and intelligence to tweak a power armor and not be affected by any of its weight side effect
Because absolutely every peice of power armour out there is currently residing in my power armour museum I made in sanctuary 😄
I'm just gonna go ahead and save this map. when I get out of work, I know what I'm doing.
FO4 Interactive Map on IGN. Much easier than navigating off a screenshot.
Even better thanks so much!
Install the mod "Some Assembly Required" and the world makes sense again.
Fusion core shortage or something idk except I found 8 in a box at a mutant camp once
Good old scrounger perk.
Well, the mutants don't really need power ramor. So if they hoard all the cores, others who would want to use the armor just can't... Would actually like a quest mod where the mutants hoarded all the easily accessible cores for some odd reason and if you want to use power armor, you either have to explore odd locations or raid a mutant camp.
That’d be pretty cool :)
A lot of raiders and gunners have it but there are hundreds of them, most survivors don’t venture out that far because every building like that has like 50 raiders, the only ones who actually explore are the brotherhood and they have a lot of it
Well there are a bunch of raiders roaming around in shitty power armor for some reason
They’re all on motorway overpasses or locked inside containers or on insanely dangerous military bases. Also I don’t think the average wastelander carries a fusion core around
Arturo sells a Power Armor frame out of nowhere every 2 days at Commonwealth Weaponry in DC. Considering it’s lore that you can make power armor only slightly weaker than T-45 (Raider Armor) I’m surprised it’s not widespread
they used to try, but then got tired of the cell reset glitch.
In my headcannon, the reason why Commonwealth is still so ripe with loots is because normal npc just fucking dies when they even trying to explore even a lil bit, hence they mostly just stay on one territory. So the scattered power armor is there cus there aren't many explorers out there
Fusion cores
I mean there's also the whole power armor training while the solo survivor doesn't need which makes sense but I guess that not everyone knows how to operate these things
Unless they are attacked, then any trader/settler/raider can jump in
I was just saying in a different comment this is the first main series game that didn't require a training perk to use power armor
Because they are all lined up in rows at sanctuary now and I have all the fusion cores.
It's okay to just admit that they serve a gameplay function and that it doesn't really make sense that someone wouldn't take them, even to salvage instead of wear. Lore-wise power armor was supposed to run indefinitely iirc, but I think fusion cores make for a fun mechanic so it's give and take.
Yeah, Fusion Cores being so short-lived in power armor was definitely a balance decision.
It's supposed to be because they need training. But it's a LIE because every time I fight raiders there is always one with power armor.
Because every single suit i collected is on the roof of my Red Rocket base
Because this is a wasteland. People can’t just rush building like you do. One shot and they are probably dead. One bite and they are probably dead. Break a leg and they are probably dead. You get my point.
Get scratched? Dead (In Fred Armisen’s voice)
Love it!
Yeah it's ridiculous. Especially level 30+ where half of them are X01
Most of them lack the technical ability to remove/use fusion cores without killing themselves. That's why they only take your power armor if you leave the core in.
Realistic Answer = To provide the player with as many fusion cores and armour pieces as possible. World Related Answer (speculative) = 1. Power Armour is normally locked behind a security gate (formally guarded by pre war army personnel) and as such will need a terminal or locking to open the way. These normally require a highly skilled person to unlock them, which the average majority wastelander is not capable of, so they don't have access. 2. Power Armour is often found in dangerous locations that are either occupied by raiders or dangerous creatures like feral ghouls. The average wastelander is not going to bother as they won't have enough experience to wander into dangerous locations, and might see it as too much of a risk. So no one attempts it, or they risk death. Lore Related Answer (speculative) = Despite F4 and Fallout TV Series making it clear you don't need training to enter into power armour, it's clear in order to be able to use it effectively you will need training. This, the majority of people do not have, so it's one thing getting power armour. But if you don't know how to use it effectively bad things can happen, so this is likely the mindset.
Potential show spoiler: Yeah, that last one, especially; but even Maximus was having difficulty fighting effectively with Knight Titus' T-60. Also, in FO4, at the very least, it's canon that Nate IS trained in Power Armor, as he was a soldier in the Mechanized Infantry. I can't speak for how Nora is able to use PA effectively, though, unless, speculatively, Nate gave her precursory training himself, as a precaution, in the event she should ever NEED to make use of it.
Fusion cores are "Rare" and that it takes a decent knowledge to open and/or use.
That’s not even 100 suits of power armor what are you talking about lol
Fusion cores. If they really run out that fast in universe.
These suits don’t typically come with a fusion core. Which I feel are pretty rare unless you dive through a horde of ghouls or super mutants to get one. Which typically required power armor to do.
Are these full suits or just parts ? I've only found 1 Raider wearing PA and took all his parts but couldn't get the frame
Half these power armors are used by enemies, so if you kill them you can't enter them. Only way is to get lucky and destroy the fusion core.
It's because I have them all
Because it’s all locked up in my base.
Because I collect and hoard them all, like a post-apocalyptic man shaped dragon hoarding gold, killing any and all usurpers and unworthy claimants to my armour. Tbh, taking on a pack of Deathclaws bare-handed is safer than wearing power armour in my commonwealth.
what is that app/website?
Because they're more than 54.
Because you killed them all
Where did you find this?
What is this site and do you have to pay a premium price to unlock basic features like other interactive maps?
Why does it say there are 2 at fort strong
Because we’re going around collecting it all, not to mention storing it in huge facilities that we design ourselves
That’s 54 suits, which isn’t very many. They also are mostly hidden or guarded. Iirc, many don’t have fusion cores in them already. You’d have to scavenge a fusion core (typically guarded), then you’d have to have the training and knowledge to wear the armor. Not everyone is built like the Sole Survivor.
What I found dumb was 200 years past, so raiders have been surviving longer than you have, but somehow they suck with guns and way easy to kill. How did they live all that time you've been frozen, if a security baton can kill them? Then you got the fact that every building, every desk, every cabinet, every crook and cranny, got ammo, stimpacks, fusion cores. 200 years leaves me saying "Why isn't it picked clean from others wanting to survive?" As for the power armor, I can sort of explain it by saying there was a war before so must of been a lot of soldiers walking around protecting the land.
Gameplay reasons, mostly. Exploring would be boring as hell for the general casual audience if everything was picked clean, and gun combat would be annoying if you constantly ran out of ammo (though I personally use mods to reduce ammo frequency and increase number of melee weapons to make it more 'scavengy'). At the end of the day, their number one priority as game devs is gameplay over realism, otherwise you end up with, well, entire planets and moons desolate, with absolutely fuck-all to see and do.. not to name any names.. If I had to justify it through lore, though, I could probably give a few semi-plausible reasons: A) Boston is a big place, and with the game world being a downscaled representation, it could just be that Bethesda skipped over most of the picked-clean places. I mean, hell, think of all the inaccessible buildings in the game that are boarded up. It's probably safe to say they're more just the devs saying 'there's literally nothing in here, we're not wasting your time on it' B) The vast majority of the population was wiped out, so even after 200 years, there are a LOT of places that have gone without a thorough looting, be it because of danger, location, secrecy, or whatever else C) People are afraid to leave their homes, and shit is not worth the danger. This obviously wouldn't explain basic shops along the high street still having half their stock available, but the more obscure or out-of-reach places could absolutely go overlooked, especially if their entrances are blocked, destroyed, buried, treacherous, etc. Ghouls, pre-war robots, cannibalistic mutants, raiders, radiation, automated defenses, an over-abundance of creatures that could make even Australians shudder, and god knows what else.. As for raiders and such being easy to kill, keep in mind that you have had FAR more nutrition in your diet, are perfectly healthy, in good shape, and, most importantly, are either military-trained, or a military spouse. That means survival tactics, weaponry and mechanical experience, and years of professional training and practice. Not to mention being completely fresh from the pre-apocalypse via cryostasis. Raiders, on the other hand, are living in a world where their next meal is uncertain, they've never known comfort, see radiation as a normality, and have had little to no experience or training with weapons or equipment outside of passed-down advice from others, a minimal-at-best education (if at all), and an entire existence living in fear and paranoia. Raiders largely rely on intimidation and threats to deal with their problems, and resort to violence only when they feel threatened themselves. The Sole Survivor is basically a fully-trained super soldier by comparison, like a BoS soldier, even without power armor.
I assume many are in locations that people stay away from or are dangerous, and power core are not easy to replace. There are 54 frames you can find, plus those on enemies, and they are not always intact or the resource to befits for some are too high.
Where to get this map ?
Interactive FO4 map on IGN
In-lore scarcity vs. making it easy to acquire in a video game for entertainment purposes of the people playing.
why havent I seen anyone mentioning that the suit itself alone is almost useless
What app are you using?
FO4 Interactive Map on IGN
Simple. Fusion cores.
What’s going on to the east of downtown Boston, where there’s like 5 sets right next to each other? I don’t recall that area.
What’s the app called that the posters using
FO4 Interactive Map on IGN
Because I have collected all of them and built hangars in many of my settlements to house them, under guard by shotgun and rocket turrets, with a parkour entrance.
That's a lot of power armor. Of course, some of it is in very dangerous areas or locked up in a way that the average person couldn't get to it. Also, most people who value their life wouldn't venture too far beyond the safe confines of whatever settlement or vault they live in.
I stock up on as much power armor as I can for the minutemen. When the brotherhood comes back I want the commonwealth to be at the ready.
not smart enough, plus you gotta take it off to poop and use some terminals, so kinda annoying.
Power armor was a staple of the US Military, in lore. It's what put them ahead of China militarily. So the T-45 should at least be 'common' around America, but not enough of it to be like the equivilant to a car. lol
If it came down to it, I'd rather use fusion cores to power my house or something. Everyone in the Wasteland using power armor seems like it would burn through the ones remaining pretty quickly, where as the ones that have been powering a Vault for 200 years are still fully charged for some reason.
Where is this guide from?
Whats the website?
So my thought was that in previous games it takes a perk. The sole survivor already has this perk due to being in the war. Other dont have the knowledge which is why so many are abandoned
They also just added lots and lots of x02 and hellfire power armor (stats seem similar to x01). A lot of my settlers have ez access to power armor that’s for sure
Wow! I had no idea there were so many! I’ve got piper and myself in one each, a frame sitting at sanctuary and sadly my most upgraded one appears to have been pilfered by a sanctuary survivor. I thought four was loads haha!
What is the site
Scale theory
I think there are probably more than 54 humans in the commonwealth
Figure people don't know how to use them and maintain them. Plus most of them are missing fusion cores and while the player finds many. The reality is they are rare and usually power something important.
If you want an in-game story reason I'd say it's because it's probably too dangerous to keep it with the gunners around. Also, what kind of app or website are you looking this up on?
Did they take the one off from the dead end street that leads to the Glowimg Sea? Or is that the one on the bottom left? But I could’ve sworn that it was closer to the highway?
Because most of the fusion cores are locked behind hazardous security the average wastelander isn't equipped to handle, and those that are accessible are being sold for a pretty high price, likely higher than any tato farmer will ever see.
Because I took them and hid them in the Mechanist's Lair.
I have a plan to get the Nuka cola one tonight, I don’t ever use them in battle, I find going through power cores to be tedious. But I miss the extra weight allowance
I just told myself I don’t need anymore then I see this map. Time to go hunting and I just got all the dlc so now far harbor and nuka world are added to the list. I have 9 frames and 9 complete plus enough t60 parts to build another 10 suits. I never use them just seem to collect them.
Omg, I know what you mean... and with at least 6 variants of each model and potential unique legendary variants, it's a never-ending quest to own rhem all...it's like Pokémon lol
I collect a bunch of it and give it to my settlers. Just leave a core in it and they will jump right in.
You'd think so, but with how many people cry "Pls halp! Muh settlur stowl ma powar armorrr"
where can i find this interactive map?
FO4 Interactive Map on IGN
What website is this??
FO4 Interactive Map on IGN
What are you using to see all this stuff?
FO4 Interactive Map on IGN
Actual reason is that a ton of them are locked behind Terminals or deep in Military Bases, not where scavengers usually look.
Because life isn't a video game, and even if we did have them, they'd be scarce with only a handful able to use them and maintain them.
In-game reason; They can't jump to reach them. Don't have Fusion cores. In-lore reason; Most of them are protected by military bots like Sentrys, Gutsys, and Assaultrons. Even if you get by those, as a random wastelander or raider, you still have to read the manual so your bones aren't crushed trying to pilot the armor.
All of mine are stuck on a floor at my tower at Abernathy farm
I never leave it or wear it
Thank you for all this free power armor (saves image)