If we have a voiced character in F4, I would love to see their voice sound muffled when they speak wearing Power Armor. It'd be so cool. It's supposed to have that 'walking tank' appeal but it just didn't do it for me in F3. I used the T51 from Operation Anchorage because it offered better stats and the appearance was a lot bulkier, making it look very plausible. T51 Armor and a Gauss Rifle done it for me.

In NV, it was somewhat difficult to get, but generally, I usually wore faction armor (usually the side I am siding with, if it's CL or NCR). If it ain't those two, I just usually wear travelling gear.

TBH, it's a bit like maxed out weapons in every game, sometimes you just like to go ROFLSTOMPing.

Deathclaw Promontory, Profligate.

I don't use power armour either, prefer my Enclave uniform in the previous games.

Speaking of PA though, anyone else think that the new power armour models look huge compared to F3? Think it's the shoulders but I think it's a good step.

I noticed it and it was something that stood out on the first time watching. It looks good and it's a nice step to actually creating the feel of "Power" armour.

But yeah, I like to wear PA and I'm disappointed by the way it was handled in vanilla FO3 and NV. It wasn't too bad, mods corrected that anyways.

It's just something about it, the idea of what it is. It's a whole new class of fighting vehicle between the gap of Tank and Infantry. In the thick of the fight bringing firepower to bear that would require a whole team of normal men to setup while taking hits that would have shredded them to bits.

Power Armor does look larger in the Trailer, and I am happy with it.

I like to play Tank and am hoping it is not relegated to an end Game option (again) in Fallout 4. I am hoping I can wear Power Armor and not have to use a single Stim when facing an Opponent that is using the same type of Weaponry Power Armor was designed to protect a User from.

Unlike Many Fallout Veterans, My introduction to Power Armor was a little Game called Arcanum.

In Fallout and Fallout 2 it was a combination of liking the designs, and how it turned the protagonist (and NPCs) into a walking tank. In Fallout 3 and New Vegas it's largely due to liking the designs since Bethesda, and to a lesser extent Obsidian, nerfed it way too much. In Fallout 3 power armor was about as useful as Imperial Stormtrooper armor in Star Wars, and to this day I have no idea what Bethesda was thinking when they balanced it.

Yeah, it's a good step because it's finally to the same scale that it was in Fallout and Fallout 2. Power armor in the Fallout lore is supposed to be huge, but in Fallout 3 and New Vegas it was barely any larger than the other armor types in the game because of what I assume were the limitations of that version of the game engine.

The reason I like power armor is because I was a big Robert A. Heinlein fan when I was young (and still am, for that matter).

You're going to repair a lot of items picked up off corpses, so something common with a high hit point counter is safest, power armor or tesla armor etc.

Because you look like a [censored] death machine!!!

EDIT: Um... why is that expletive not censored?!

Has something changed while I've been away...

Ahh interesting .

Edit:Yes it isn't cencored for me too.

It is my hope that the power armor just sorta hanging there in a partially completed state means that you can't just lug a suit around, you have to have it stored somewhere and can only put/take it on/off at such a station.

And I hope that they use DT instead of just DR.

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I neither hate nor like power armor. I prefer light armor for my stealth-based/hunter-based characters, and power armor for my walking tank/Enclave renegade/BoS (West Coast) outcast character.

In traditional small infantry tactics you take out the major threat first. That means taking out the (Light)machinegun / sniper nests first if possible. Anything that has the chance to knock out more of you than they, will get knocked out first.

Anyone in a power armour would get hit first. He/she would get every single grenade, powder charge and IED straight in the face and he would still stick out like a turd in a punchbowle. I dont want to be the meat inside that can. Sorry.

That probably won't be an issue, considering most powered armored figures in Fallout are either lone heroes (who thus will attract fire from foes regardless of whether or not they're wearing power armor) or entire squads of power armored soldiers.

Dammit.

In Fallout you're generally the primary target regardless of whether or not you're in power armor.

Although yes - if we were talking about a pre-war battlefield I probably wouldn't want to be one of the guys on the front lines in a T-51b either. But if Operation: Anchorage is anything to go by power armored companies decimated enemy infantry with minimal casualties.

It looks nice. I would like to see ghoulified US Army troops in Power Armour with laser/plasma rifles for weapons as npcs.

It looks totally sick and it's one of the major icons of the series.