While playing the quest Rockets' Red Glare for the railroad story I noticed my max load had dropped considerably. I had an str of 5 at the time so unarmored my max load should have been 250. All my armor was pocketed save for one piece. So I believe my max load was 280. I was also in X-01 power armor making my max load 310. As I walked around looting the bos I got encumbered and looked to find my max load at 235. Trying to fix this I exited my armor and got back in that in turn dropped my max load to 230. A few more attempts had my max load in PA at 220 and regular load at 150 without armor. Wth is going on. I tried leveling and raising my strength and getting the strong back perk but it still has my max load what it should be. As if carry capacity is calculated at a base of 100 plus strX10. Any advice?

Do you have any debuffs that are lowering your STR, like from addictions? Still, that shouldn't be enough to bring down your carry weight by that much.

That was one of the first things I checked. Went to diamond city but I didn't have any addictions to cure and I don't use any chems in the game.

Have you used the console to change your carrying capacity at any point?

Sorry I should have said that I'm playing on ps4. I have tried everything aside from cheats that i can think of. Not sure now if it is even reversible.

Save the game after you level and put a point in strength, see if it resets. Try the same with anything else that modifies strength. It may reset it back to normal.

do you have lone wanderer? if yes did you take a companion that wasn't dog meat?

I'm pretty sure you don't get the benefits of your regular armor when wearing power armor, so that might be the discrepancy. Furthermore, it becomes weight that you have to account for...

Tried leveling. I put a point in strength, didn't work, put a point in strong back didn't work. As of now I have a 6 str and one point in strong back with a max load of 215.

This is probably silly, but have you tried to unequip everything and put it back on one piece at a time?...after each piece of armor check to see you're getting the 'pocketed' boost from your armor..

I did still get the pocketed bonus. Everything is giving me the bonus that it should. The problem is that my base carry weight is well below what it should be. With all the bonuses I have along with 6 str and strong back my max load should be 315 but it is instead 215.