To start of I really dislike power in terms of availability when needed.

So I've been playing for large amounts of time for a while now and I've realized something, I will probably never use power armor.

So I started the game on survival difficulty and it was a survival to be sure but I never accumulated enough fusion cores to use my power armor to help me with all those difficult starting quest as there just aren't enough available to maintain mediocore usage.

Now I'm pretty late in game level 50 and find that I finally have enough cores to use the armor...but why would I?

It's pretty late in the game and I have a lot of perks and skills and honestly I can one shot any level 50 enemy even on survival even the legendary ones. So I ask why do I want to wear power armor now? The time I needed it the most it was highly unavailable.

I love power armor in every single one of the fallout games I love getting it love the feel of it even in fallout 4.

I'm a little scattered so to sum up all my thoughts by the time you can use power armor its useless, why have fusion cores as power and ammo? Why not just make it costly to repair and that's it. This would ensure people use all the armor and have power armor available between 20 to 40 when its needed the most because after that...eh

*Edit*
Also forgot to mention having a perk which makes them last longer which pretty much requires you make your self weak at start game to have enough perks and points to extend the usage of the cores

Also as mentioned I don't want to have to run back and get my power armor by then its too late I've already delt with the conflict, death should not be how we determine which situations need armor.

What do you all think?

I feel what you mean. I am lvl 25 right now and except for the quest where you get your first PA i never used it again.

I'm exploring the map without PA, cause of the rapid unload-progress of the fusions cores. When i encounter a location with tough enemies, I most likely will not fast travel back to get my PA but just use some tactics and big guns / explosives to get the job done.

Maybe they could change the fusion cores a bit so they last longer on earlier PA and getting unloaded faster on high-tech PA with jetpacks and stuff?

In fact I want to make a full power armor character but the fusion cores run pretty quick, It would be nice if they re balance the Fusion Core duration, because it drain too quick, maybe do it like mikutse say and have a low drain on initial power armor and drain faster on high-tech PA.

Extending the duration could be a solution but that still makes you chose between the Gatling laser and the armor and honestly for me those two go together like bread and butter

There are perks (and i think magazines, or a bobblehead) that increase core duration.

Also have you factored in that core drains MUCH quicker when sprinting, and maybe using jet pack. I also have barely used one.

As someone who plays on normal I almost got the other problem, I have to avoid using the PA to much or its gonna be to easy, because I have so many spare cores I could almost always walk around in it all the time.

When I mentioned extending duration I meant a patch by bethsenda to increase the default time but even though that could be a solution I don't pitucularly like it.

I'm using a few suits of PA. The rest I donate to the Atom Cats.

WHAT??????? lol u guys should explore more. Really on the Factory where u fight the raiders for the first minuteman quest there are 7 cores. Not to mention every Caravan sell it. lol Is more im level 22 (on Survival) and i have almost 25 fusion core and i been suing PA since i got it in this PC (the one using PA all the time). Really each core last for 20m, u can explore alot just avoid using sprint after u build a nice number. After a while the amount of caps or core will let u sprint all the time.

using PA from the moment u get it is viable. Just make sure u explore more.

Plus if u going to work on a PC that will use PA all the time try to aim for the perks and the bubble head.

I used power armour extensively, but I went the BoS route. Those quests seemed to have enough along the way.

Then, diamond city sellers have em - for about 400 to 700ish caps (depending on your Charisma). So yea, its a viable thing.

I got over 20 some cores at various percentages (many are pretty low but I can use em as grenades, so I don't want to waste em.

Almost every weapons shop sells five every other day or so for about 300 each.

And if you cant handle the item management survival inst for you.

Don't use AP so much...

Caps wasn't the problem nor was finding them the problem is the amount of time you have to invest in wearing the power armor. On survival the armor itself usually wears out before the core. Farming materials, caps and other related tasks just meant less time doing what I wanted to do. Picking a quest line or certain task just because it maintains my power armor is not how I make choices but like I said just opinion, it makes a good statue.

Because 1.5k+ physical armor and 1k+ energy and radiation resistance? Unless you're playing a sneaky character, using power armor is a no-brainer.

Item management isn't even a thing in this game you seriously need nothing outside junk and a few weapons but that's another issue.

Its the point that power armor isn't needed so why waste time getting something that still gets shredded easily and causes diversion of gameplay and costs resource on top of that.

Survival in this game isn't bad at all, no hunger, no thirst, no sleep, no repair....so all you need to worry about is ammo caps and health. So to say item management makes survival not for me is a moot point

Actually, power armor is pretty sneaky. Which is dumb.

Well I probably would if I was using a melee weapon but nothing hits me enough to kill me with regular armor so i get back to "why"

Stealth boy mod ya its pretty funny lol

Even without that with a couple points into the sneak perk I crouched right in front of a gunner in WHITE ASS INSTITUTE PAINTED X-01

Fusion cores are everywhere. Explore more and you will definitely find them. They also sell them at shops and the only things I bother to buy are plasma cartridges, 2mm railgun ammo and fusion cores since everything else is readily available in game.

My problem with power armor is that its useless on companions because it just gets damaged way to quickly and I have to constantly go back to repair station to fix it for them. You can sneak in it which shouldn't be possible at all even with the stealth boy because power armor is loud as [censored]. FInally power armor is not balanced for VATS users as it burns though AP and that drains the cores rapidly. I don't use VATS myself but I understand why people who do feel gimped. Hopefully they will patch in an exlusion for AP being used by VATS versus just sprinting.

Honestly, I want some mods for my power armor.

1) Viritibird to drop off my armor. Hard to know when you will need it, and its annoying as heck to backtrack and come back.

2) Activate zombie mode for my armor, so when I exit it, I can give it some basic commands. Like follow me, hold my stuff, or go back to base.*

*edit That got me to thinking of various types of mods that existed in skyrim, where if you 'died' you instead had a chance to pass out and be revived elsewhere. Imagine, if you took considerable damage, and would have died, your power armor takes over and brings you back to your settlement.

I've spent nearly the entire game in power armor. Getting out of it makes me feel naked. I do hop out to take care of some things on foot but, with so many fusion cores lasting a little more than twice as long as usual? It's Pain Train, jet packing, and vented power landings all day long.

Same thing I do, using a plasma rifle, gauss rifle, silenced rifle and pistol... I like that you can silence the gauss rifle lol

But like I said it's not about finding them or w.e its that I don't want to focus on finding something that takes away from me playing and as such I haven't used it.

i like everything they did with the power armor HOWEVER i don't enjouy running back halfway thru the dungeon until i reach the exit , travel to my settlment , walk to the power armor ,. wait until it enters it , travel back to the dungeon , resume from halfway inside ... it's just too tedious

PS : ofc i don't do that =)) , i use console commands to spawn it near me but just saying

to all those people saying " i walk in power armor all the time & i have unlimited cores " ..... i hate u , ofc u may have used the console command to give u're self 1.000.000 fusion cores , in which case , u're cheat is bigger then mine

Uh... dude the only console command I used was TCL to get out of crappy situations, and I have about 75 cores. You don't have to cheat rofl. Look harder.