Why in the Hell does the Enclave Remnant Power Armor have such low durability in FO:NV

[Laati]

400 durability.
400 durability.
Oh wow.
This is supposed to be advanced power armor developed from the enclave that was put into service by 2220.
And it can't be because of time since T-45's can last over 200 years (first set of T-45 was deployed in 2067). And still be left functional. And has more durability than THE ENCLAVE POWER ARMOR.
SO WHY IS THE ENCLAVE ONE SO EASILY BREAKABLE???

[just.nuke.em]

Originally posted by LaatiLM:

SO WHY IS THE ENCLAVE ONE SO EASILY BREAKABLE???

Cause they the bad guys.

[Laati]

Originally posted by just.nuke.em:

Originally posted by LaatiLM:

SO WHY IS THE ENCLAVE ONE SO EASILY BREAKABLE???

Cause they the bad guys.

They're supposed to have access to crap tons of good technologies and have new ones.
Yet it breaks like paper mache.

[the capn]

This seems like they missed another zero, in my opinion.

It may be stupid for an assumption like this, but they've done other blunders like this. The "In Shining Armor" perk does not even work because it searches for "energy", rather than "energy weapons." It doesn't make sense according to the lore for the armor to be this weak.

[Laati]

Originally posted by chaddd.:

This seems like they missed another zero, in my opinion.

It may be stupid for an assumption like this, but they've done other blunders like this. The "In Shining Armor" perk does not even work because it searches for "energy", rather than "energy weapons." It doesn't make sense according to the lore for the armor to be this weak.

What the fu-
What the fu-

[Laati]

Originally posted by chaddd.:

This seems like they missed another zero, in my opinion.

It may be stupid for an assumption like this, but they've done other blunders like this. The "In Shining Armor" perk does not even work because it searches for "energy", rather than "energy weapons." It doesn't make sense according to the lore for the armor to be this weak.

Honestly, I guess the armor is weak compared to the lore because game.
I guess that'll be the only explaination.
♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ bethesda and giving obsidian a short time along with a outdated engine...

[Mooselamb]

Remember there's a difference between armor health and DT. It protects its user better than any armor from the Brotherhood but in doing so degrades faster. So maybe long-term sustainability wasn't the point here.

[「wew」]

Lore Reason: The X-01 Power Armor was realtively new and unrefined compared to older models thus it suffers from poor durability
or
After the Oil Rig was lost the Enclave didn't have high quality resources and staff to build and maintain power armor; it's permanently damaged after neglect

Real Reason: It's OP and players really want it so we have to balance it somehow
They ruined power armor implementation and balance is always lore breaking

[DukeoftheAges]

It's very simply, it's the game developers ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ it up. Really that simple, they made a mistake or did it for balance, which is still dumb

[Mister Holdout]

It's probably a trade off. I don't think the devs of this game wanted there to be any "vastly" superior items in the game. So, they probably made choices like that to balance things out a bit more.

[red255]

In fallout 3 and NV power armor is basically heavy armor. Lore wise it should be a light truck like 4 where you have to PILOT it. there were alot of ways power armor was ♥♥♥♥♥♥ up in 3 and NV. to the point of where its rarely even worth using.

If the game designers cared about balance 50% of the perks shouldn't be available.