I have just one question, how could x-01 Power armor be in the commonwealth? The x-01 was created on the west coast enclave oil rig, not around the east coast where DC and the CW are. Closest Enclave PA we would have would be x-02 (advanced power armor in Fo3) not the x-01, and in military installions and locked rooms would be holding x-01, why? They were made prowar, not prewar

who cares... i love it^^

Greedy supply depot employee managed to "divert" a shipment for some under-the-table compensation. It could happen

best excuse I can come up with is uh... the BoS "acquired" a few from the enclave, brought them over, and left them laying around in a few areas because they have a thing about t-60 armor and uh, yeah that's the best I got.

I wud never look the gift horse in the mouth

just look @ the juice this baby delivers: ..& talking just Mark1 here

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The ones I have found have looked pretty knackered, even the ones that have come from locked locations, who knows how long they have been there and why.

The lore hasn't been tweaked yet?

New lore will have something like them being in the testing stage pre-war, they were then further developed and entered service with the Enclave. So limited numbers would be in numerous training locations in the US and would have ended up in the survivors hands who took them to non-military locations (or those locations were Enclave safehouses/bases explaining their presence), those near crashed vertibirds and other means of transportation were on route to secure Enclave locations when the great war started.

But the reason they are there is because Bethesda wanted to put them into the game......maybe its a hint that the Enclave will be making an appearance in the DLC.

*puts feet up and waits for the topic to be derailed by an Enclave debate*

Could have had some in their vertibirds. They crash a lot. Ok, they always crash.

Because it looks awesome and the head lights come out of the eyes which looks very cool. I don't care how I got it, I just do.

It's post war prodcution and they do say it was, it seems the Enclave weren't just on the West coast and it would make sense for the government to have bases through out the nation (hense Raven Rock and Adams AFB) so it's their outposts as they tried to reorganise their selves possibly and units going missing on scouting missions, traveling between bases etc.

Considering where i've found X-01 bits at (namely the Glowing Sea) i would assume new canon has the X-01 as an experimental prewar armor that would later serve as the starting point for the Enclave armor but that is not exactly the same thing... Despite what the lore loading screens tell us about how it was solely developed by the Enclave. Wasn't Enclave Advanced Power Armor supposed to be made out of a lot of ceramics? The X-01 is an aluminum heavy build from what i can tell.

Because it's a video game and they can do what they want.

Mostly just because it's badass though. I wear my BOS power armor when I'm doing quests for the BOS, but otherwise I wear my X-01 Mk VI.

Jet was also invented on the West Coast, in New Reno, but you still see that stuff everywhere.

Sometimes you just have to let certain things slide.

The world of Fallout will not split asunder because a certain model of PA makes an appearance somewhere.

Cats are extinct in the Fallout canon, and some people were all kinds of upset upon seeing that there were cats in Fallout 4.


When I saw cats in Fallout 4, I thought "oh cool, it's a cat."

We all differ, but I don't get too hung up on sticking strictly to the prior canon of a game/story.

hey the institute brought back gorillas maby they brought back cats as well.

the cat is a spy for the institute watching vault 81!!!

Considering there are no other cats seen in vault 81, it's unlikely it was bred there, unless literally all of their other cats died and she has the last one, etc. So, yes, cats are Institute spies. Headcanon accepted.

That's the justification I've used for it this entire time lol

Synth cat spies is a brilliant idea. Nobody would suspect it.

Because reasons! It's the RULE of COOL.

But despite the inconsistency with the lore, I honestly couldn't care. I get to wear the freaking advanced power armor again so I'm satisfied.

Were cats extinct? The best you could say is that wastelanders of previous games never saw them. But they certainly aren't omniscient.


As for the PA, Enclave could have brought them east, only to abandon them for newer models. Though, something saying so in game would be nice.

The whole premise of cats being extinct was very shady to begin with. I doubt anyone could say with any certainty what is or isn't still in existence in other areas of the world given the extreme isolation of people without a global communication platform in the post apocalypse.

I'm just remembering the arguments....I mean discussions, over cats after their appearance in the presentation so I'll dive back in time to once again point out that claims that cats were canonically extinct were greatly flawed.

Cats are only really mentioned a few times....

Once was that an NPC (Fallout 2) who's cat was eaten when she was a child and her saying you don't see them around anymore, which isn't really a claim that they a globally extinct or even that the are extinct in the US....just that they had all been hunted locally or that the cats had just learned to stay away from humans.

Another mention was there use in the creation of Centaurs (Fallout).

The third mention was Mr House (New Vegas) making the claim that they were extinct (actually the only extinction claim) ......which is strange on a number of levels, such as why he would know, how he was supposed to have come by this knowledge and was he talking locally, US, North America or globally. Seeing as how Bethesda in the very next game adds cats to the world I wonder if that one sneaked by the oversight Bethesda had over Obsidian.

There are of course the non-canon Fallout game which featured the body of the last cat in America and Van Buren which actually had cats planned for the game.

So I'd say the Lore is actually very light on Cats being extinct from the original games......now back to the X-01.

I'd latch on to the X-01 (the X being for experimental) being a early model that never reached full production (and therefore never got a official type number, like the T-45 etc) and that the Enclave then built on the design to produce its superior Power Armor.....so early Enclave Power Armor would be X-01s and latter models used that as a template.

Other than the fact that there have been no cats around for 200 years? Would seem a Synth dog or mole-rat (or one of those freakin' cymbol smashing monkey dolls) would be a better disguised spy.

Because Bethesda loves to do what they wish, and can pull reasons out of a hat?

but cats are just too adorable to shoot >.< I can't do it, I know its Synth trickery but I just can't do it