Too many Fusion Cores?

[Delai Lama]

When I first started this game I thought that I would just be using my power armor for certain quests that required a bit more protection and strength. But I have spent most of the game with 40 or 50 fusion cores in reserve and jumping around everywhere with my jetpack. The power armor is great, but using it all the time makes the game a little too easy. I know this because when I forget to but it back on, I take way way way more damage than I am used to.

[CrayRaven]

What is making you use it?

[Laiziras]

i know, i took the perks to improve them and started using power armor full time when i had 70 cores, now after 25 hours of playing im up to 100+ cores. I use jetpack constantly but i just find them more than i can use them

[Mr. Self Destruct]

If they didn't put in enough people would be complaining they can't use the armor ever. A good compromise is to put a lot of cores in the game, people who want to use it a lot can, and the people who complain about using it too much can simply not use it. So if you think the game is too easy with it on, maybe you should just not use it.

[Domenco]

I think, and this is just a theory of mine, the more INT you have, the more fusion cores you find.
Or it has to do with something else INT related. This is because Fusion cores are AMMO for the gattling laser. so you find them 2-3 in ammo boxes a lot. (which is a fail on bethesdas part if you ask me but no matter)

[Delai Lama]

Originally posted by CrayRaven:

What is making you use it?

That it's there to use. Why would you not use it? You can jump down from any height and you can jump up to most buildings and over most obstacles.

[Laiziras]

Originally posted by lateraliss:

If they didn't put in enough people would be complaining they can't use the armor ever. A good compromise is to put a lot of cores in the game, people who want to use it a lot can, and the people who complain about using it too much can simply not use it. So if you think the game is too easy with it on, maybe you should just not use it.

but then you wont have jetpack, i cant even play without it anymore its just so good for navigating the terrain

[Delai Lama]

Originally posted by Domenco:

I think, and this is just a theory of mine, the more INT you have, the more fusion cores you find.
Or it has to do with something else INT related. This is because Fusion cores are AMMO for the gattling laser. so you find them 2-3 in ammo boxes a lot. (which is a fail on bethesdas part if you ask me but no matter)

Has it got something to do with the scrounger perk, But they often come in ammo boxes in lots of 4.

[Delai Lama]

Originally posted by lateraliss:

If they didn't put in enough people would be complaining they can't use the armor ever. A good compromise is to put a lot of cores in the game, people who want to use it a lot can, and the people who complain about using it too much can simply not use it. So if you think the game is too easy with it on, maybe you should just not use it.

But at the start it seemed like a thing you used occasionally when you really really needed it rather than all the time. I am not complaining about having it all the time, I am just asking the question as to whether the game would be different, if not better, if it was more of an occasional power up than just a suit of armor you always have on.

[Humble]

Wow, I don't find those lot, and I wish in power armor all the time like you guys do. Best one is I found 4 or 5, but there trader do had those 4 of those but cost 400 cap that I do not had or can't spend that kind, and it's ran out of power very fast.

[Domenco]

Originally posted by Delai Lama:

Originally posted by Domenco:

I think, and this is just a theory of mine, the more INT you have, the more fusion cores you find.
Or it has to do with something else INT related. This is because Fusion cores are AMMO for the gattling laser. so you find them 2-3 in ammo boxes a lot. (which is a fail on bethesdas part if you ask me but no matter)

Has it got something to do with the scrounger perk, But they often come in ammo boxes in lots of 4.

yea if you have the perk for increased ammo finds, you will find even more cores in ammo boxes. but I also think the game generates more ammo for the weapons or perks you have/use

Also when you reach the level for gattling lasers to appear, fusion cores get into the loot table for all ammo boxes.

[Cyborgt]

Originally posted by CMDR Laiziras:

i know, i took the perks to improve them and started using power armor full time when i had 70 cores, now after 25 hours of playing im up to 100+ cores. I use jetpack constantly but i just find them more than i can use them

That's not even counting the fact that you can put a weapons vendor in a town that can produce a good amount of purified water (like sanctuary) and just swap the purified water for more cores every time you go back to store items. I actually avoided using power armor till i got all 3 lvls nuclear physicist since I thought i'd need the extra duration on the cores to be able to keep up with the demand but it has proven to be overkill.

I've cleared out 2 quest locations before even using 25% of a core and in one of those locations I found a core. I also bought 3 more from my weapons vendor when I got back to town afterward. I don't think i'm ever going to even come close to needing to worry about cores at this rate.

[garravesh]

Originally posted by lateraliss:

If they didn't put in enough people would be complaining they can't use the armor ever. A good compromise is to put a lot of cores in the game, people who want to use it a lot can, and the people who complain about using it too much can simply not use it. So if you think the game is too easy with it on, maybe you should just not use it.

There are some serious flaws in this game,,,,,,,common sense things that tyhe game devs seem to have decided were necessary overiding common sense. Way too much ammo. way too many cores, powered armor just sitting in wide open spaces. Stim packs that are so common,, breaks in canon, electronics that still work 210 years later especially those exposed to the elements like home computers in almost destroyed houses. Food that is still edible after 210 years,

The game is full of them and not just the game by bethesda......I think it is the spirit of the game because it has been this way since fallout 1.

[leadmecca]

It's a casual fps sandbox that's why things are so monty haul, just constant giving you tons of everything which in turn makes everything worthless. Most of us with over 100 hours have 100's of FCs, more then we will ever use in a lifetime of using power armor. Most of us don't need the perks or bobbleheads to decrease fusion loss, and most of us agree the mechanic is stupid and was stupid to OP you the first 15 minutes of the game, but it was only done for casuals, for the walking/mass murder simulator.

[BLÀde]

theres a mod at nexus that makes them drain faster try that :P

[Xenrek]

dear lord my only issue with power armor is if you dotn take out the cores, even your own settlers will walk off with it, but if you take out the cores, your stuck with like, a bajillion seaprate "99%" cores that just never go away

i mean i GUESS i could sell them, but thats MOST of my cores, WISH there was a similar function to the "repairs" of previous fallouts for the cores, like take 2 50% and make 1 100%, or a 50 adn a 75 to make a 100 and a 25