mechanics of a stealth boy??

[VladK02]

I am level ~60, finished game, have 10+ power armor suits, and still cant figure out how stealth boys work.

When i sneak, attack someone, everything else goes into caution mode - i use stealth boy - nothing happens. i am still in caution mode, when mobs get too close, i still get danger and attacked.

i have a stealth boy in one of my suits - same deal, once combat starts, invisibility or not, does not matter, will still get shot at eventually - i tested specifically with and without the stealth boy use.

so what, only use is to run by past enemies?? is that it?

what is the point of the stealth field on a power suit then - only works when not moving, and drains AP like sprint?

on a side note, at level 60 i insta-kill everything from stealth - sniper rifle for 250 damage x6. max skills obviously. and interestingly, these insta-kills do NOT trigger caution mode on nearby enemies, even at point blank range.

[Greb]

All Stealth Boys ever did was make you essentially impossible to detect visually, and improve your sneaking skill by degrees. They helped to get in and out if you wanted to be non violent but that's literally it.

They're literally functionally indentical to a maxed players Stealth skills in a handy portable device - I believe in Fallout 3 and New Vegas it was instantly +100 to Sneak or something. It didn't eliminate footstep noise but it made you extremely hard to detect...practically just an aid for difficult situations in quests if your Sneak skill was terrible.

They used to great effect by enemies in combat but when you use one the enemies know where you are and just reign in on you. It's how stealth has always worked though.