Sentinel power armor review

[NOMAD]

I bought it from Creation Club for 700 creation club point.
Here goes the information.

1.
The sentinel power armor companion goes down real fast.
I'm on level 130 and a little concentrated fire from the enemy makes the power armor out of the game in a few seconds.
The health of the sentinel power armor companion is less than Cait and Piper.

2.
After the sentinel power armor companion's health goes down it will stay in a state out of the battle, like essential characters.
The problem is you cannot heal it.
Unlike normal companions the sentinel power armor does not have a dialog system.
Instead it has a hack option.
This prevents you from having any option to stimpak or use robot repair kit to him after it is out of health.
It will heal back after the battle is over.
Unil then you are on your own.

3.
There is a bug that sentinel power armor companion will randomly turn hostile towards you.
As it is set as essential you cannot kill it.
During this state I shot the sentinel power armor companion with a rifle of 130 damage.
It goes out of health with 24 bullets. Even with a fully upgraded X-01 power armor.

4.
Sentinel power armor companion is not counted as a companion.
Any mod that mods the companions will not have any effect on it.
And the power armor peice you put on him will not get broken, its durability is infinite.
But power armor peices added by mods like X-02 will get damaged and break.


This is what I experienced with this mod.
Might differ with others.
Ask anything you would like to know in the comments and I'll answer as much as I can.

[Yhwach]

I just use the mod tbh

[DouglasGrave]

Originally posted by Cerberus:

2.
After the sentinel power armor companion's health goes down it will stay in a state out of the battle, like essential characters.
The problem is you cannot heal it.
Unlike normal companions you cannot stimpak him after it is out of health.
It will heal back after the battle is over.
Unil then you are on your own.

If I were guessing a healing item, I actually would have picked the robot repair kit ahead of a stimpack.

[NOMAD]

The sentinel power armor companion only shows up a hack option in all cases.
Means the robot repair kit option does not work on it as a normal automatron.
Putting a stimpak in its inventory will make it to use it or the medical mod forces it to.
But due to its low health it will go down fast no matter the situation.

[Bored Peon]

Nice information. Glad I skipped that CC content. I hated the idea of extra companions anyways, the vanilla ones cna be enough of a pain in the ass.

[HunterOfPinkBunnyWabbits]

Funniest thing I have noticed. I dont know if it is from my mods but,
Power Armor take damage for falling. If I jump in Power armor and Sentinel jump too, it will go knocked down kneeling position for time :(

[NOMAD]

I just tested out and Yes the sentinel power armor does get fall damage.
It doesen't function as a normal power armor so it won't make the splash damage after the fall.
I used TCL and I watched it fall and it gets damaged and runs out of health.
Sentinel power armor also gets knocked out by explosions.
The funny thing is Piper and Cait do not get bleed down stat with the same height of fall, while sentinel does.

[Bored Peon]

Originally posted by Cerberus:

The funny thing is Piper and Cait do not get bleed down stat with the same height of fall, while sentinel does.

Is the difference because of the inspirational companion perk or from a Live and Love?

I mean it really would not surprise me if those were forgotten or unable to be applied.

[bunny de fluff]

both the perk and the magazines should affect this pa companion all the same

[Bored Peon]

Originally posted by bunny de fluff:

both the perk and the magazines should affect this pa companion all the same

Should and does are two different animals :P

[NOMAD]

I currently only have 'Live & Love 5' which gives luck.
I have inspirational level 3.
But even with those perks Piper and Cait only got a cloth of about 150 defense.
Sentinel got over 1000 damage resistance with a power armor and still it is the one who gets knocked out first and it gets out too fast.
Because the sentinel is not counted as a companion in game system I don't think perks affecting companions will do the same to it.

[Bored Peon]

Originally posted by Cerberus:

Because the sentinel is not counted as a companion in game system I don't think perks affecting companions will do the same to it.

So does that allow you to have lone wanderer while it is active?

[NOMAD]

Checked out. Lone wanderer works with the sentinel power armor.
With Piper and sentinel the level 2 carrying weight increase option of the perk does not work.
But with only sentinel the carrying weight increase option is in effect.
Telling the Lone wanderer perk works while companied with the sentinel power armor.

[Bored Peon]

Originally posted by Cerberus:

Checked out. Lone wanderer works with the sentinel power armor.

Originally posted by Bored Peon:

Originally posted by bunny de fluff:

both the perk and the magazines should affect this pa companion all the same

Should and does are two different animals :P

See? One animal just ate the other :P

Yeah, so the companions perks do not apply.

[MortVent]

The sentinel is akin to dogmeat, a companion who is not a companion. I've been tweaking it some in the creation kit, to make it more of a companion (standard companion stuff like ammo, damage ,etc while adding the power armor effects too.. but never really sat down and did a full work up yet)

I'm sure you'll find one on the nexus that alters it, I know the one on nexus like it has similliar issues for some people

[Humble]

Seem sometime you don't get xp if sentinel kill or most damage on certain enemies, but still second ally do help in hard battle and useful if you knew hard battle.