Hello. As indicated by the title, I am trying to take power amor off enemies. At first I thought you could just kill them and take it, but my brother informed me that you have to sneak and pickpocket the fusion core. If you do that they will exit the power armor. After that you can take it. Well, I've done that a handful of times with no luck. I take the core but they don't exit the suit, they just start attacking.

Does it only work if I don't get caught? I noticed once that when I was pickpocketing a raider I accidentally took the wrong item, and from then on I couldn't pickpocket him. But the other times I did take the core, but they never exited the suit.[Edit: I guess I didn't take it, just thought I did, silly me]

What am I doing wrong? I would love some more power armor to keep at all my settlements so I can always have some close by where I don't need to keep fast travelling to a few spots just to get power armor.

Any help is appreciated. I'm on the PS4, btw.

Thanks.

Kill them and take the armor and put it on a frame. And yes raise your pickpocket level if you want to take their fusion core if that's even a thing you can do because most enemies with power armor don't drop a fusion core when you kill them

Do you really need to steal it unnoticed? I mean, if I just sneak up behind them and grab it, that should be it. I don't care if they notice since I'm gonna kill them anyway.

If they noticed would that not mean that you failed to pickpocket it thus they have no reason to exit?

They can still move in it without a fusion core just slower, they would only exit if they think they are not being attacked right than and if you fail it means they noticed you before you can steal it so you do not have it.

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I dunno, it doesn't seem too complicated removing a core. There's an eject button, done.

Why would they make an eject button on the outside? Why wouldn't it be a control you can only do while its empty or that only you can use from the inside? It would be a huge design flaw to have the power button to a tank on the outside of it right?

Its a huge design flaw to have the battery on your back to begin with that you would have to exit your armor mid fight to replace. Obviously we don't do that because space magic but yaknow.

ya about as dumb as putting a key to a door in a chest outside of the door but its the only way to beat Zelda but I can see the practicality of making it easy to put in but not to take it out while it is being used.

Cuz vidyagames friend. Cuz vidyagames

I've picked up the armor off of dead raiders and such, but how do I get the frame? I've got the stuff filling up chests and no way to show it off.

I guess same reason you have a Master lock on your safe and a Novice secured computer with an electronic unlock for that same safe sitting right next to it. Cause Beth!

After stealing the core, try shooting him. He might not get out till he gets in combat and realizes he doesn't have it. I've had good luck sniping the core from far away. I've only had 1 out of 5 or 6 blow up before they got out. Only problem is when you go to take the suit, it says its stolen. (Easily fixed with the console on PC)

Ya know, I never even checked to see if I successfully took the core. I just assumed I did. I guess that explains why they never exit and why they start attacking me. Guess I need to raise my pickpocket skills then.

Thanks all!

It'll tell you the % chance you have to pickpocket it. Fusion cores usually have a relatively low chance compared to caps or ammo.

Isn't there some way to extract the corpse from the PA frame? If I wanted to have several sets of PA ready to go -- for example, a thoroughly leaded set for going swimming and another deep pocketed set for hauling lots of loot -- I will need several frames to mount the armor components.

You have to buy the frame from a vendor or find another power armor somewhere in the wasteland and exchange your armor pieces with it.

I used the console to view a dead NPC inventory that was wearing power armor and the frame has the LOCKED tag next to it. This is probably why it's not lootable.