I was just watching the Microsoft demo and just noticed the core gauge in the power armor HUD. You can see the meter dropping fairly fast. I remember reading on the wikia recently that the T51b power armor core can last 10,000 years. Do you think they will attempt to explain the faster consumption?

I'm hoping power armor won't be an insta-win feature, but only a temporary booster. As such I wouldn't mind if the batteries died fairly quickly. It should be a mission to scavenge batteries to keep your old worn power armor running so you'll only use it for really tough encounters.

A INTACT T-51b power core will last for centuries.

I suspect that finding such, especially in the Commonwealth where the Institute has likely aggressively scavenged pre-war advanced technology, is going to be about as tricky as finding a suit of T-51b in the Capital Wasteland was.

I assume the torso of the first armour you find is that super old model that didnt have 10 000 years battery life, this way your PA use will be limited at first, to compensate for possibly getting it early.

I am simply assumining it is talking about jump-pack booster, or something similar.

IF they make it so power armor works like you seem to think, the game has completely ignored every previous game, lore, and the entire POINT of power armor.

In the demo it appears that the jet pack runs off of AP.

there was thread awhile ago that stated that only t-45d had a stat for Pow DAM rate..... hmm ill see if i can find it

I'm fairly sure the PA in the microsoft demo was the new T-60 ,not the T-51, which we don't know much about, but considering the visual similarities with it and the T-45, it makes me think that the institute took T-45 armor and overhauled it with a HUD,extra armor and a jump jet then called it the T-60.

If I'm right about that then it would make sense for the T-60 to be burning though its fuel(or MF cells to be exact) since the T-45 had that same problem.

Technically the first ever version of PA did have a limited battery life, and as I stated in my previous post, it is obviously a temporary limiter to compensate for the fact a level 2 guy can step into it, once you have the resources to craft or buy a better torso the limit is gone.

your half correct ...the t60 and t45 both had that little sign

heres the thread i found it http://www.gamesas.com/topic/1523846-t-45-power-armor-has-pa-bat-dam-rate-as-a-statistic/

T60 doesnt have that next to it. Only the T45.

T60 doesnt have that next to it. Only the T45.

That's not the power supply. The rapidly depleting meter is the AP gauge. AP is used for many actions now, including but not limited to sprinting, holding your breath while using a scoped weapon, and jetpacks use.

That's the meter on the left, the meter for the core is the small one on the right side.

If you go and re-watch the that part, it actually drains armor power as well as AP. Not to the same degree mind you but it still drains it some.

Most people are commenting on the power situation but we really dont know alot about it. Again I just went back and watch the only two segments of power armor gameplay we have.....and they are both the same area and same part in the game. The only difference is they added a jetpack to one part (for any number of #wow reasons) but its still at the town where you fend off the raiders and that deathclaw.

For all we know this could only be an early game problem.

yeah this why i downloaded the footage so rewatch it again and again too make sure i could take it all in it happens fast.

you are correct ....I'm getting fallout dementia

I've said this before but I'm betting that the T-60 and presumably other power armor parts will drain power, but there will also be versions that will not. If they wanted to make it balanced they could make it so that the T-51 has unlimited power at the cost of not being as powerful as those that do drain power. Otherwise they could just make them incredibly rare. I'm thinking only one set of T-51 (or any other form that doesn't drain power) power armor that exists in the entirety of the map. Like the one set of Daedric armor in Morrowind, you'd have to find all of the parts yourself.

God I used the word power way too much.

i agree with your reasoning problem i have is beth really should hold Qand A about game mechanics were we can ask questions