I understand power armor greatly increases your unarmed damage, and I'm pretty sure there are special kill-moves associated with PA-enhanced unarmed. The only problem is I can't un-equip weapons using hotkeys, and I can't use any unarmed weapons while in power armor so there's no point in favoriting those.

Has anyone found a way to use unarmed as your close-range option in power armor without having to open the pipboy every time you want to switch out your ranged weapon?

Short answer, not possible, without mods ofc.

I believe you can use fist weapons like a power fist or knuckles with power armor, I haven't tried it yet though.

Edit: Huh, you can't...that's kinda stupid and yea there isn't a hotkey to just unequip your current weapon, this seems like a massive oversight since the only mods for power armor arms is unarmed fighting.

I think in previous versions of the game, if you pressed the hotkey for the weapon equipped, it would unequip it (leaving you with bare hands) I haven't tried if it works in FO4 tho.

K well that's dumb then. I guess we'll just have to wait for mods or a patch.

Just loaded up Fallout 4 to test unarmed weapons, none of them work with power armor so I did what you said, the hotkeyed weapon doesn't unequip :\

I swear thats how it was in FO3, been a long time, but doesn't work in 4. I tried that with My PA helmet right when I started, it'll equip it but not take it off.

This has to be an oversight since BGS clearly intended unarmed to be viable with power armor. I mean, there are PA mods that increase unarmed damage for goodness sakes.

Yea besides the plating/paint all you can add to power armor arms are unarmed modifiers.

Hmmm, that's really unfortunate, when it was that way in the previous titles

Yeah I've never mod'd the arms yet, should have had some for sniper aiming and weapon bashing or something.