[MEGATHREAD] Fallout 4 || Contraption, Vault-Tec, Nuka World

[Regulith]

I'm curious to know if this is just because we're using T-60 power armor, which is much bulkier than the T-45 (Fallout 3/NV) and the T-51 (Fallout 1/2/3/NV).
It's so large that it's more like a vehicle than a suit.

But it makes me wonder, especially given our ability to customise it with pieces from other types of power armor, whether we will still have T-45/T-51 power armor available to wear, in a similar style to Fallout 3/NV.
That way we can have a serious heavy-duty suit, which is much less agile, and possibly difficult to traverse long distances in (in this image of the HUD inside the T-60, there's a dial regarding the 'Core'. I wonder if this is perhaps related to a power-level, and the suit needs to be powered by energy cells of some kind, thereby adding a cost to using the suit), while we can also have a regular high-end armor for regularly exploring in.

I hope there isn't a cost to using it only because I'll get too-good-to-use syndrome and end up never using it

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[sir dooble]

I hope there isn't a cost to using it only because I'll get too-good-to-use syndrome and end up never using it

That's true.
I would probably be accepting of using it if it ran on energy cell ammunition. But then again, I'll probably not do that because I'll be worried that I might need them should I start using energy weapons after 150 hours of exclusively using guns.

[Harm94]

What'd they do when they wanted to eat or take a stuff?

Good question. I'd imagine they put some kind of tank in there. PA was designed for the military and you can find yourself fighting in the same area for days. So I imagine those who had to wear the suits got pretty antiquated with them.

[sir dooble]

got pretty antiquated with them.

I think you mean 'acclimatised'? :P

[Regulith]

or acquainted

that's what I read it as anyway until you said something

[Harm94]

Heh, wrong word. Although power armor could be argued as being a dated and horrible idea. Open ground is armored vehicle country and no flesh body can survive a direct hit from a tank. Even if armor is intact, the kinetic force would have turned the operator inside into mush. However it looks cool, so we got to have it all costs no matter how impractical.

[sir dooble]

Do we ever see tanks in the Fallout games? I can't really recall.
The divergence between our timeline and Fallouts is after World War 2, so they must have had WW2 tanks, but I'm not sure if there are any that you see dotted around destroyed in the series, or mentioned in text.

[Steve5451²]

I hope there isn't a cost to using it only because I'll get too-good-to-use syndrome and end up never using it

I wonder what happens if it runs out of energy, do you just leave it there and hope it's still there when you come back with more power?

Also in the video we saw a raider wearing what appeared to be homemade power armor. If we can actually make our own power armor (as in making it out of scrap metal) that'd be totally sweet.

[Darryl McKoy]

Did anyone here use one of those key websites to preorder? (or have one they'd recommend?)

[sir dooble]

Also in the video we saw a raider wearing what appeared to be homemade power armor. If we can actually make our own power armor (as in making it out of scrap metal) that'd be totally sweet.

I just to know that's going to annoy some fallout-purists, because traditionally Power Armor has been too complex for even the Brotherhood to produce, so they only repair old armor.
Only the Enclave have built their own new armor since the war, and only in small quantities.

So they'll probably be some people crying if it turns out raiders have been making their own.

[Steve5451²]

I just to know that's going to annoy some fallout-purists, because traditionally Power Armor has been too complex for even the Brotherhood to produce, so they only repair old armor.
Only the Enclave have built their own new armor since the war, and only in small quantities.

So they'll probably be some people crying if it turns out raiders have been making their own.

A few times in the gameplay trailer it shows raiders sporting some cheaply made power armor.





If not cheaply made, it's at least cheaply repaired. We already know that you'll be able to swap pieces, so that indicates the possibility that we'll be able to construct missing pieces. Theoretically this means you could also make the entire suit out of scraps??

[Ceist]

he's not wrong. i mean if you can rebuild armor, why shouldn't anyone. as a matter of fact this could mean the BoS went to Boston in order to gain the information needed to build power armor.

[ThatRandomGuy]

A few times in the gameplay trailer it shows raiders sporting some cheaply made power armor.

If not cheaply made, it's at least cheaply repaired. We already know that you'll be able to swap pieces, so that indicates the possibility that we'll be able to construct missing pieces. Theoretically this means you could also make the entire suit out of scraps??

Hope this will add some difficulty to raiders

[plad101]

I'm assuming their armor is just shelled out and is basically just being used as a large wall of metal to defend from bullets.

[sir dooble]

Fallout Beer???
Expensive.