How do you play as a power armor build?

[sedna16]

I want to know how do you grind.
Because we all know that you cant use your power armor that much in the early phase of the game. So How do you get through it.

[Saph]

You can use it plenty early game just by knowing where to grab cores from. I hate the UI though, so I never use mine.

[sedna16]

引用自 Saph：

You can use it plenty early game just by knowing where to grab cores from. I hate the UI though, so I never use mine.

I kinda know where to get the cores in the early phase. But I'm estimating that wont be enough I have enough perks.

[Cyan]

You can use your power armor without fusion cores.

[capnclammy]

I hoarde loots an then sell to diamond city merchants. Theres far more efficient ways but I just do it simple. You could probably grind money/buy power cores.

[sedna16]

引用自 Cyan：

You can use your power armor without fusion cores.

really?... how

[Urizen]

引用自 sedna16：

引用自 Cyan：

You can use your power armor without fusion cores.

really?... how

You can only walk and cannot use vats. Just store all your fusion cores in a container and get into power armor.

[loverevolutionary]

Finding cores is somewhat dependent on luck and the ammo finder perk, as cores are counted as ammo. Obviously this doesn't affect pre-placed cores, just cores in boxes.

Scout areas out of armor, then fast travel back there in armor. Fast travel does not use core power.

Buy the Overseer's Guardian as soon as you have the 2.5k in caps it costs. Kills enemies so quickly, you won't need power armor.

Wimp out and play on easy until you get enough cores saved up.

Save your power armor for tough enemies. Us the environment to your advantage. For example, blow up all cars near enemies. Use the prototype sentry bot to kill off enemies at the military installations you can send it to, then loot the cores there. Afterwards, make it self destruct and take its cores.

If you are diligent and have decent luck, you should be able to find ten to fifteen cores without leaving the safer northwest quadrant of the map.

[TVMAN]

In the early game I focused on perks that I could still use while wearing PA, like the weapon skills, and I played carefully: Setting up traps, sniping, ambushing, letting my companion tank most of the damage. I also only used the PA to crack open well defended areas that I was having difficulty with.

Once I had a sufficient surplus of cores built up (around 5 to 10), I started using PA regularly and started going for the PA perks. By that point in the game I was finding cores regularly enough to, at least, replace consumed ones.

You can still use PA right from the word go, though. You just need to explore buildings more frequently and look for the generators that always have cores.

[Bobby Digital™]

if your only fear is running out of cores, do the main mission asap you find 6 or 7 during the mission where you find the legendary .44 you can do that mission within 2 hours of game start.

[Bobby Digital™]

also, there are mods that make cores drain more slowly. i don't use it because i always seem to find lots of cores and i don't like mods that make the game easier.

[TJ the HedgeScout]

If you dont use a mod to slow the core drain, you could have a companion hold them and grab one when you need it.

[thetman1221]

I have many characters that can use power armor constantly from when they get a suit in concord and onward. There are a few key things that help. First off, give your build 9 intelligence and invest in the nuclear physicist perk to extend the life of each core. Secondly, conserve action points. Using VATS and sprinting around all the time really eats your core as the more AP you burn the faster your core runs out. Save sprinting for combat situations and not for just traveling. A vats heavy character can be a pain to fuel early on using power armor I imagine. I hate vats as I prefer direct control of my character so I don't have that issue.

[Kieldoozer]

if you are really wasting your time looking for fusion cores im sorry,get the perk that makes you find more ammo,i find ammo boxes all the time with 4 fusion cores in them

[Kieldoozer]

i have 160 and always use power armor,my count goes up as i play thats how many i find

[Scoob]

During my first play-through I was so paranoid about burning through cores too quickly early-game, that I basically shelved my power armour. By the time I'd levelled up a lot, had 70 Cores hoarded, a set of X-01 plus all the perks to fully upgrade it, I started using PA all the time. Since I started using it all the time, my Core count has only gone UP. So, when I started using PA constantly I had 70 Cores, by very late game I had 120+ cores. Note: I never once bought a core, these were all found.

In my recent fresh start, I waited until I had 20 Cores and a couple of perks to upgrade the starting T45 PA - it's really not very resilient without them. However, through luck I found a complete set of T51 PA, so have been using that since.

I'm consciously trying to avoid known PA spawn locations, so I can visit them later and get something better, sadly the player can be penalised a little for early-game exploring while at a low level - something I did a lot of in my first play-through - as PA never re-spawns.

Gotta say, I really do like PA in FO4, you are a bit of a tank with it, which is fun. The only down-side is that it needs maintenance, however, I'd personally prefer it if ALL armour and weapons degraded through use.

Scoob.