The cloth store in diamond sells a hazemat suit thats 1000 rad protection it beats the power armor.

Things I get into Power Armour for:

1. Getting it back to Sanctuary for my Iron Man style Silo of suits. And even then... I usually just make my companion get in it so I don't have to wear it.

Things I don't use Power Armour for:

Glowing Sea... really, my normal gear and a Rad-X pretty much nixes any worries I might have there. But it's far more amusing watching my fiance play through there. He's specced deep into the Endurance tree. He just goes in the daytime and his rads actually go down while he's there. After he tangles with a few deathclaws, he goes and stands in the super rad water for a second or so to heal, then just goes wandering around like normal so the sunlight can remove all his rads.

Like others have said, outside of the Brotherhood, I'm not sure why anyone seems to think it's so required in the game.

I hardly ever use it. Since all my armor is deep-pocketed I find that PA actually reduces my allowable carry weight and it doesn't seem like the armor is that much more effective than what I normally have on. And I agree with the people who are saying that a backpack full of Rad-X and Radaway does me just fine.

I thought there was a radiation suit for the glowing sea in the launch trailer, but I never found one.

I got mt first Hazmat suit from a vendor a few hours into the game...i can't remember exactly but it was either Carla or another Wasteland trader.

I'm level 30 and have only used it to save the Minutemen in this early quest.

Combat Armor and synth field helmet work just fine for me.

I save it for special occasions.

Well I used the first suit when I got it. Used it again going into the Glowing Sea. Second time into the Glowing Sea I just used RadX and Radaway and was fine. Won't touch it again. I do like it better than I did in prior FO games, but I never used it in those games either.

My first character only used PA but my second doesn't beside the glowing sea. It's not required. I'm just too lazy and cheap to buy a radiation suit when I got PA for free(for my second character).

Sneaking in powerarmor is fun on survival .... *cough cough*

Never touched it, since the beginning.

I'm not super fond of power armor. I find the HUD a bit confusing and I don't like being that slow and loud and un-agile. But I've used it in the Glowing Sea (radiation plus protection) and I used it in a settlement defense when beaming in I was right in the middle of like 4 high level super mutants in a cross fire. After dying twice, I used the power armor and killed them. Very handy. I've got a T45 and a T51 both d's with another for parts.

It's good when you can't get physically away from a really tough adversary (deathclaw, some super mutants, etc.). I'll probably use it when I retake the castle. But I don't really like it. And the fusion core doesn't last long enough for the US Military or the BoS to actually use it all the time. The whole concept is ludicrous. It would have to last a LOT longer to be practical. Otherwise the army would have to follow each suit with a whole truck full of fusion cores. And it doesn't even power the weapons. And it would definitely be ridiculous for those guys who supposedly went to China. They'd last an hour then run out of power.

No, Bethesda got this wrong to try to force players to look for fusion cores. I've seen a PC mod to change power core use rates. Turn it down so it lasts for a week (at least) in game time maybe more.

Use a hazmat suit for Rads, their are like 50 of them.