Institute Power Armour

[Fluffy Fishy]

I feel like Bethesda missed a trick by not including a version of the power armour having been developed at the institute, sure I dont see it likely of being hugely different from the widely avaliable power armour in the game like the T-45/51/60 but it would have been nice to see something.

They could have used their synth tech in conjunction with a set of power armour to both create super heavy synths and also an improved mobility suit taking advantage of the synthetic composite materials developed there.

[Monarch]

Institute operations style have always been infiltrate from the shadows.

Operating in plain sight.

There's no reason for them to develop power armor, since PA is meant for a 'driver'. And a Synth itself is stronger than human to begin with.

Also they have coursers for combat specific needs.

*If you side with Institute, it lets you use Institute paint job on X-01 series.

[Swoofa]

The only power armor i can see them having is X-01 in some kinde locked area but thats mostly it. The Institute was never really interested in this type of offense they rather just send bunch of those machines to get the job done + they have coursers and overall Institute feels more like a stealth type of faction anyway.

[Fluffy Fishy]

I get what you are saying, I cant imagine them throwing much resources at it but I don't see why they wouldnt have a little bit of a play. Its not as if power armour is useless to synths.Paladin Danse wears a suit, admittedly he doesn't know he is a snyth but it proves that its not a pointless idea I just cant see them as a group not having a look at it and toying with it slightly, even if they were just represented with a couple of mods that you unlock along the institute path.

When you have raiders getting their hands on it and bolting on bits of steel to make it their own I just find it very difficult to see that an organisation like the institue wouldnt have a go at making some of it their own too.

I don't see them using it on mass but I figure they should have a few modified suits hanging around somewhere, even with an army of semi autonimous robots its not unbeleivable that someone could potentially infiltrate them and squish their fleshy scientists, even if they had something similar to the HEV suit from halflife it would make sense, say their programming glitches and a few synths go rogue, it would be useful for them to have some hardcore protection.

[Swoofa]

Well its the Institute we are talking about and those guys have some weird ass thinking about their lives.
So yeah thats the only reason i coud find for them not having one... they just didn't need it becouse they never thought that somebody would actually get in the Institute from above.

[Fluffy Fishy]

That seems a fairly bad reason not to, they arent thick, they would surely make out for some contingency planning, especially since they have some fairly wide scope of what is out there in the wasteland? I also don't really get why its the X-01 power armour they get a paint job with. Surely they would come to grind against the enclave if the two actually met, where as they would have had fair access to the pre war models, asssumedly there were quite a few people who studied at CIT who went on to being a part of the design teams behind the power suits meaning that the university would likely get some bits to play with before the war, also then having them afterwards.

[Swoofa]

Yea that is true what you say about X-01 and that you get an Institute paint job for it whitch makes it even more weird.

But its probably becouse and that is my opinion, Institute was made way before the War and in every Fallout game thus far there always was that one Pre-war faction that was trying to fix the world to the better place as Enclave wanted in F3 to make a new world. And as always BoS coming in hot destroying these plans as always :D Ad Victoriam as i would say.

[Fluffy Fishy]

Well technically the Brotherhood are a pre war faction too, but I get your point. I do quite like the theories that the Enclave are the good guys in Fo3, although its less easy to argue that about the original games.

Maybe the institute are just full of daredevils who get a rush out of creating dangerous robotics and having nothing to protect them beyond a strong knowledge of cybernetics and some flimsy lab coats, and people wonder why its usually the scientists who die off first in these apocolyptic scenarios :D.

[Swoofa]

Hahaha ^^

[Dracon]

Originally posted by Fluffy Fishy:

Well technically the Brotherhood are a pre war faction too, but I get your point. I do quite like the theories that the Enclave are the good guys in Fo3, although its less easy to argue that about the original games.

Maybe the institute are just full of daredevils who get a rush out of creating dangerous robotics and having nothing to protect them beyond a strong knowledge of cybernetics and some flimsy lab coats, and people wonder why its usually the scientists who die off first in these apocolyptic scenarios :D.

No, Brotherhood are stricly past-war faction. They could not exist before the war.

[Fluffy Fishy]

Originally posted by Dracon:

Originally posted by Fluffy Fishy:

Well technically the Brotherhood are a pre war faction too, but I get your point. I do quite like the theories that the Enclave are the good guys in Fo3, although its less easy to argue that about the original games.

Maybe the institute are just full of daredevils who get a rush out of creating dangerous robotics and having nothing to protect them beyond a strong knowledge of cybernetics and some flimsy lab coats, and people wonder why its usually the scientists who die off first in these apocolyptic scenarios :D.

No, Brotherhood are stricly past-war faction. They could not exist before the war.

No they certainly never formed by Roger Maxson roughly a week or two before the great war??