I am and loving it..I feel unstoppable stomping around in my xo1 with my gatling laser just mowing mofos down...also the ammo glitch helps alot...I've got like 300 fusion cores lol

Ammo glitch, do tell?

This is exactly why I hate the fact they put the power armor so early on . Sure, power armor should feel empowering and awesome but that early in a game it totally blows any sense of fear, wonder and vulnerability. Beth really *really* dropped the ball on trying to introduce that and settlement building so early on. Just a lazy AAA game gimmick of forcing the new feature tutorials in early. I would give my right arm for a mod that forced that [censored] to the far side of the map or made it only unlock at level 20+. The fact they tried to 'balance' this by making power armor as easy to break as china plates and run off of infuriatingly weak batteries didn't help this, it just ruined the fun of power armor as well as the immersion. (Also, whilst I love the idea of a HUD in the visor they really made a [censored] one.)

just Google it, it's very simple I'm not sure if I'm allowed to post exploits here

I find myself gravitating towards Power Armor this time. In the past I never used it, I used to just sell it. I just got my second set of armor and think I'm just going to keep using it. I also really like energy weapons this time too. In FO3 and NV I never used Energy Weapons.

I am doing the exact opposite.

After the first quest, I parked the armor in Sanctuary and have still not used it 30 hours later. (I do keep it upgraded though)

If possible, I plan to not use it again, ever. Don't know if it's possible (I don't know if certain quests require it, for example); but I intend to try.

agree on the batteries kinda dumb and nowhere close to lore, but power armor can take a beating mine never breaks even in extended firefights...and I don't repair super regularly

I may use it towards the end game but I prefer to use normal armor or every day wear.

I dunno about that. Until I looted T-60 parts from a dead BOS member, I still felt relatively vulnerable using the T-45 parts. It can't take a lot of hits, especially by packs of ferals or explosives. And standing in the way of fire still can tear through my health. Even with the T-60 parts, I still need to watch my health.

And of course, let's not forget the time I ended up wearing a naked frame.

i star using it around level 15 just bc it was there and i was like yeah lets do it, i get own alot, some weak enemies i will destroy but the legendary or the Alphas i get own (still using the T-45).

I really never OP on cores, i dont know why, i normally i have 2 or 3. What i find super stressful actually is ammo i been low on ammo since the star.

I want to run a character that uses Power Armor and Energy Weapons, but I don't know how I would run the early game. Sure, I could add Power Cores to my inventory with the console, or use the vendor glitch to get a lot of them, but that's not how I prefer to play the game. I like to do things legit. And I have no idea what my SPECIAL should be, what weapons I'd use, or when would be a good time to actually switch over to using Power Armor full time. It's all a little daunting.

My second character is Power Armor only. I don't 200 cores but I do have around 50(cores last a long time now that my core last 60% longer)

PA makes the game insanely easier and isn't even remotely a hassle to keep up. It's almost calls for a modder to buff up the regular armor since how obscene the difference is.