Stuck When Entering Power Armor

[Rain/Storm]

How do I avoid this? It happens randomly and I can't move or do anything, can't cancel entering the PA, and the only thing I can do is quit back to the main menu, BUT the worse thing is, when I try to log back in, I'm put into a random server, so I can't take back my PA, and I've already lost 2 PA because of this bug.

[BizarreMan]

First off, you shouldn’t be losing power armor frames. When you crash out, it should go back into your inventory if you have deployed it.

Secondly, when I have the problem, if I just sit and wait for uo to a minute it puts me back in control and fixes itself.

[Rain/Storm]

But mine didn't go back into the inventory and I've permanently lost 2 sets of PA. And waiting didn't really do anything for me.

[Rain/Storm]

Oh okay, I finally realized what I did wrong, I keep dropping my power armor from my inventory to enter them instead of "using" them from my inventory to manually place them, so the game treats them like "trash" item which is why it doesn't automatically return to my inventory after a while,

[Skarmo]

Also to avoid the stucking you should enter the fusion core manually and afterwards enter the PA yourself.

[BizarreMan]

Originally posted by Rain/Storm:

Oh okay, I finally realized what I did wrong, I keep dropping my power armor from my inventory to enter them instead of "using" them from my inventory to manually place them, so the game treats them like "trash" item which is why it doesn't automatically return to my inventory after a while,

Ah, you dropped it and didn’t deploy it.

Only drop it when you want to give up ownership. Deployed power armor is still locked to you and cannot be taken by anyone.

[NTense]

When you drop power armor someone else can claim it so imagine the confusion on the players that find it

[nozwizard]

stucking, while entering or getting out PA is common occurency for me. (i am using a couple different set ) by the way, this is an old bug coming from fallout 4. (they never could fix it properly.)

games official site suggest that you manually load power core before enter PA. (to skip the loading power core loading animation). if you try some action game says something like this "while animation in play you cannot do that/this etc".

in my observations i conclude this bug occurs mostly

first, game aoutomatically uses lowest filled power core when entering PA (unless you put a different power core to the PA while it is located outside your pipboy screen). but if you use different PA's sometimes lowest filled core might loaded (registered we might say. game tracks which core loaded which PA) into another PA due to the recent usage makes that particular core lowest filled one. game pulls that core and trys using on to recent PA. at this point game in limbo, you cant do any action (besides quick key actions.). and must wait some time+ 60 seconds PA recall. (/EDIT: priority given to last used power core at particular PA. i think game stuck if those priorities clashes while installing lowest filled core onto new selected PA.. /end EDIT.)
to prevent this bug, either you load cores manually. or land your last used PA first, and before it returns automatically to your pipboy, land second PA and enter it.


second situation occurs if you try to enter or exit from PA, but some world object blocking animation start point. (ie. if you have object between you and PA. some rock, elevation, wall etc).
to awoid this, its better enter or exit from PA where you are at relative smmoth surface. or have ample space behind PA.

[Manuelando]

To me happens 6 times out of a 10. This ♥♥♥♥ is frustrating af. it needs to be fixed.
Every time i enter in the Power Armor i get paranoid. I hope this fix as Christmass present asd

[lordoftheapes79]

In 76, I find it helps to place it down then wait a few seconds before getting in it.

I think that a lot of problems with Bethesda game spring from the fact that they try to automate way too much. Especially when going to the SBQ fight, it's really frustrating. I load into Scorched Earth, it's trying to load in the world around it, there's inevitably 10 people already there, so all their character models are trying to load, not to mention the weapons fire and god forbid there's some ♥♥♥♥ with a two-shot grenade launcher using the exploit so not only is it loading all of that, but ♥♥♥♥ is flying everywhere because of the grenade launcher firing like a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ machine gun, so ♥♥♥♥ is moving in and out of the draw distance while it's loading... BUT before all that, Cop a Squatter has to pop and load...

Ranting aside, give the armor a few extra seconds to make sure it's fully loaded before you hop in. It makes a world of difference. It will sit there for I think 2 minutes before being recalled to your inventory.

[Neotropic]

Originally posted by Skarmo:

Also to avoid the stucking you should enter the fusion core manually and afterwards enter the PA yourself.

This is exactly it.

[dbond1]

This happened to me quite often too. I started entering from the front and since then it's been good. You still go through the same animation, but getting stuck seems better. Of course now that I've posted this it is inevitable it will not work next time.

[Manuelando]

Right now, im goin back to the menu 5 times in a row because my armor got stuck and i cannot do anything. This post helped me to understand how to avoid the problem but, now.... after 6 times in a row the problem keeps happening. I HOPE SOMEONE will see this post, this thing need to be fixed asap dude.

Edit: gone back to the menu again during the creation of this reply lol

[Zodarious]

Keep adding to the list they botched the launch of the game did ok in the rebound but still this bug 5 years now jesus bathesda get your crap together you suck as a company and game maker hopefully microsoft..... o wait nm.

[Traveler]

It's pathetic that we can't favorite the PA frame.