Power Armor is kinda useless in survival mode.

[Pixel Daimyo]

Everything can kill me. I usually go without power armor, but then I realize I might need it when taking Fort Strong. When I got there, the enemy is killing me over and over again. It only take a couple shot to pierce my head.

[U-Think]

useless??? you mean is a necessity???

get the right perk

try not to attack anyone higher then you

use a long rifle .50 gauss rifle. max those perk

and get a power armor buy core get core make it your only priority in the first 20 level of your life improved the armourer perk.

stay clears of trouble until you can handle heats

maybe you need to repair
you power armor part????

[Ventress]

it is pretty useless. cost so much to repair and upgrade. After lets say 30lv u get so good armor that u can carry more stuff, and have more protection than powerarmor can ever give u. I have wave military fatigues and heavy marine armor and doing this way much better than with powerarmor. Only good thing with Powerarmor is the jetpack wich is unlocked very late.

to sum up: if u cant survive in fort strong, come back later when u have bettter level. Sure baddies level with you, but when u nerf ur armor and guns and get proper perks u win much easier.

[Pyro Penguin]

Publicado originalmente por Murd0c666:

it is pretty useless. cost so much to repair and upgrade. After lets say 30lv u get so good armor that u can carry more stuff, and have more protection than powerarmor can ever give u. I have wave military fatigues and heavy marine armor and doing this way much better than with powerarmor. Only good thing with Powerarmor is the jetpack wich is unlocked very late.

to sum up: if u cant survive in fort strong, come back later when u have bettter level. Sure baddies level with you, but when u nerf ur armor and guns and get proper perks u win much easier.

At level 30 you get armor that's better than power armor? You took some bad chems if you think that.

[casualsailor]

I'm on my second Survival playthrough (lvl 66) using a Power Armor build. I can say definitely that a PA build (Melee / Commando) is not only viable but actually quite easy compared to a Sneaky Sniper.

After getting Chemist, Lead Belly and Chem Resistance, I chose Armorer and Science and started out upgrading my T-45 to lvl C.

I wore it until I found a full set of T-51 which by then I could take to I could take to level E.

Then I found a full set of X-01 and took it to lvl VI.

That's something to consider. Don't waste your upgrades on existing armor. Level up your perks and apply the upgrades to a better set each time.

[Kitty]

I have max set X-01 fully upgrated and gauss riffle fully upgared and I have no problem with it. But yes begining was hardcore. I wanted played with PA only but it was imposible so I play like sneak sniper until I got all perks and best power armor.

X-01 survive 100000*more then t-45 and I never was one shoted like in t-45.
I had extreme problem in automatron final mission with X-01 but it is nightmare on survival and last mission for institute was even hell but rest is easy.

[Chuc]

I use better power armor and more powerful power armor mods.

Better pa mod only takes damage to bits hit and your health don't go down until that part is fully destroyed then only that body part takes damage.

MPPA mod just gives power armor more armor rating. Survival torso is 120, with MPPA you torso is 200. That's t45 basic.

I also use damage threshold and arbitration and better locational damage.

Small arms fire is supposed to bounce off your power armor but a few powerful auto can shred your armor but you won't die until your armor is broken

[casualsailor]

Publicado originalmente por Oblivion:

I have max set X-01 fully upgrated and gauss riffle fully upgared and I have no problem with it. But yes begining was hardcore. I wanted played with PA only but it was imposible so I play like sneak sniper until I got all perks and best power armor.

X-01 survive 100000*more then t-45 and I never was one shoted like in t-45.
I had extreme problem in automatron final mission with X-01 but it is nightmare on survival and last mission for institute was even hell but rest is easy.

I agree with you that the T-45 is weak compared to the X-01. But it is possible to use Power Armor from the beginning of the game. I did. The only time I parked it was a few times running back and forth between Hangman's Alley and Sanctuary to turn in quests and at the very beginning while doing a hubflower run around Sanctuary. After than, I found enough Fusion Cores to use it all the time and of course once you get to DC they are available for purchase. But I don't think that I purchased more than 4 or 5 this entire game (usually trading 2 spent ones for a full one.)

[❤Spyti❤]

Publicado originalmente por Oblivion:

I have max set X-01 fully upgrated and gauss riffle fully upgared and I have no problem with it. But yes begining was hardcore. I wanted played with PA only but it was imposible so I play like sneak sniper until I got all perks and best power armor.

X-01 survive 100000*more then t-45 and I never was one shoted like in t-45.
I had extreme problem in automatron final mission with X-01 but it is nightmare on survival and last mission for institute was even hell but rest is easy.

On the arena you mean? Here is the trick, when you enter the area, on the right you have a yellow bulldozer, hide behinde it, works so nicely.

[HeavyHemi]

~ tgm Problem? Ha ha.

[DjPufnStuf]

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Publicado originalmente por Anarchy:

Everything can kill me. I usually go without power armor, but then I realize I might need it when taking Fort Strong. When I got there, the enemy is killing me over and over again. It only take a couple shot to pierce my head.

stealth plus + sniper/ high damage gun + accuracy damage and ap perk = ? (easy mode)

in the basegame maybe, but the dlc basically take that way from you. There is alot of open combat scenes in the dlc. And I can attest with my limited nuka world play that it's crazy high with needing heavy armor or power armor for some scenes in survival or alot of chems.

[stormarmy]

How do you lot carry your cores around? They're so heavy and last such a short time, for me it seems power armour in survival is a great way to slowly crawl everywhere

Besides still dying in 3 hits anyway even with mods that rebalance damage and such

[wefuntw]

power armor useless? After I wear power armor in survival, nothing kills me. rockets, mines, grenades, just hurt a lot, but still alive.
Yea it's pretty slow, fusion cores cost a lot and heavy , but without power armor? welcome to the desktop.
I usually get companion carry 3 cores, and I carry 3, not big deal. The 6 cores are even lighter than normal armor.
No cores early game? the police station in quest "fire support" has 5 cores.

[felmari]

Publicado originalmente por Joker Face:

Power armor absolutely ridiculous garbage-I tryed, I laughed-no swim, no sleep, no light. you are slow like turtle, you are clunky-you are most useless man in the game-I have most collected useless cores, what I can do with them...power arrmor, I only collect them, but use...never again!

no swimming but has oxygen so you can be underwater for a considerable amount of time. you can possibly get your power armor stuck down their though.

the armor works all survival does is more dmg not armor piercing. that said things like poison bypasses armor.

yep slow and rp wise i like stealthy and feels bulky. plus more challenging.

[Death Approaches]

2 perk points and you can stay underwater too, bare nekkid.

Look don't get upset - the game is intended for adult children and console gamers; therefore it's meant to be ludicrously easy, even on Survival, with a controller and distractions... each Fallout game gets "worse" as more the audience for it is wides the appeal, and the market gets larger... dollah dollah bills always come before graphics, game lore, combat style, everything. That's just the way it is.

Thank the Great Satan they make it so easy to edit and give us the basic GECK (now just CK) that all the other tools can be based off without too much reverse engineering.

If you don't like your power armour damaging that fast? Make it tougher, why not give each piece of your PA the "almost unbreakable" stat? That'll up the armor by 4x, you'll do a lot less complaining. (and also repairing )

Take the pieces off your PA frame, then drop them on the ground, open the console, tag one, type 'amod 1f1e0c', tag the next piece, up arrow and amod again, do this for all 6 bits, close console, pick em up and reinstall on the frame.

And if this is not enough for, well, there's mods for that, as they say. You can make it truly indestructible, and never have to repair it, and can't easily die from anything smaller than .50 because small low-power lead bullets just bounce off... head to nexusmods.

[Ellorien]

True, the real adults play with mods and use console to make their power armor indestructible.