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The only time I really wore PA was getting down through the Glowing Sea and I was nearly out of juice on a fresh core by the time I got through that (FYI already had the Repair bobblehead but no perks in Physicist). According to the internet, you have about 20 minutes on a full core sans any bonus. BTW this is all psychological, I have about a hundred of the things in my inventory.

Don't ever get a gatling laser, then. Those use fusion cores for ammo. Wouldn't mind finding a two shot gatling laser to stretch it out, though.

I only bust out the PA for missions where I know I'll be in for a tough fight.

Just make sure you don't sprint when in power armour. It drains the core like mad.

 Tannhauser42 wrote:
Don't ever get a gatling laser, then. Those use fusion cores for ammo. Wouldn't mind finding a two shot gatling laser to stretch it out, though.

I only bust out the PA for missions where I know I'll be in for a tough fight.

You can get the Nuclear Physicist perk to get more shots, apparently.
I think the repair bobble head works as well.

 Silent Puffin? wrote:

Manchu wrote:
Just can't get into wearing PA; pack rat in me does not like spending fusion cores.

Power cores are everywhere. I use power armour elusively and I currently have 40 cores that I have looted or found randomly. I find them faster than I can use them.

Calibrated leg armour should appeal to the pack rat in you as it adds about 50 per leg (ish)to your carry capacity

Goddamnit you've sold me. I haven't used power armour since the museum of freedom right at the start BUT THAT CARRY CAPACITY THOUGH.

I did the same with my legs, sometimes it pays off to be a klepto-beast-o-burden.

ARGH just fought and killed a Legendary protection, the toughest enemy I've faced (took 5 grenades and 2 clips from a beefed up laser rifle), and he even gave off a NUCLEAR EXPLOSION that wrecked my power armour when he self destructed. And what do I get?

A fething legendary rolling pin.

-sigh- I think I'll just reload and sick him on the raiders. He's their problem now.

Manchu wrote:
The only time I really wore PA was getting down through the Glowing Sea and I was nearly out of juice on a fresh core by the time I got through that (FYI already had the Repair bobblehead but no perks in Physicist). According to the internet, you have about 20 minutes on a full core sans any bonus. BTW this is all psychological, I have about a hundred of the things in my inventory.

Really? I got through the place with half a core, and I didn't exactly sprint across the whole area.

Holy crap super mutants just shot down a BOS vertibird with a mini nuke or something just a hundred yards away from me. Big fight ensuing, I'm heading over to assist with my T60 armour (I'm not a member of the BOS).

Brotherhood mission to take back the fort was cool. Circled the mutant position strafing them with the minigun, Behemoth took out my Vertibird which crashed into the sea. I walk out of the sea, up the beach like a fething boss and nuke that bitch, before clearing out the fort with my tactical minigun and Righteous Authority.

Hells yeah.

 djones520 wrote:

Manchu wrote:
The only time I really wore PA was getting down through the Glowing Sea and I was nearly out of juice on a fresh core by the time I got through that (FYI already had the Repair bobblehead but no perks in Physicist). According to the internet, you have about 20 minutes on a full core sans any bonus. BTW this is all psychological, I have about a hundred of the things in my inventory.

Really? I got through the place with half a core, and I didn't exactly sprint across the whole area.

I got into a couple of fights down there.

Just got my 15th Power Armor frame. New mission in the game: to set up a tomb like that Chinese clay army. My empty suits of steel shall watch my dead save file for eternity!

I've finally found the vault 81 you people have been mentioning! It's really damn nice to see a working vault! I don't remember seeing such a thing in F3 besides our own before we escaped!

(Not counting with F1 and F2 of course)

Yeah I wanna settle down there and play The Sims Fallout edition. Get married, have a couple annoying brats. Play poker to winsome extra rations. Work a 9-5 maintenance job. Play a prank on the Overseer. Get kidnapped by Super Mutants and dunked in a vat of FEV...

I just noticed I can get Fallout 3 for free for xbone .. is that like a completely different game/story? is it worth playing or will it feel sucky and old compared to 4? my hard drive space is getting kinda tight so just curious

I found Fallout 3 to be pretty great at the time, and I can't wait to replay it

But I found it had real scaling issues, in that eventually you have 1500 stimpacks and 10000000 rounds for your Chinese Assault Rifle/whatever you want to use and just walk around gunning down everything easily. Fallout 4 may have that issue as well, I'm only level 24 so I haven't hit that yet ha

Yeah, Fallout 4 has that issue too. 1000+ ammo in .45 .50 .44 10mm and Fusion, and 500+ in everything else but .308.

Fallout 3 will seem sucky. The FPS of it is crap, the character models are ancient, the graphics are just not good in any way and the world is so empty in comparison to 4. Play it anyway and I promise it will be worth it. The game is amazingly fun and deep and frankly, there are a LOT of the world in Fallout 3 that is just better than anything in Fallout 4. This new one has gameplay but I'm not finding as many memorable things in it...

I'm thinking of limiting myself to what would fit in a pack. So if I want to bring bigger guns I'll have a lot less ammo. Could be fun, and more challenging

I feel like i must be the only one that's having trouble with ammo then

I have like 10 fusions though. and 4 power chassis at lv18 but all my ammo is contently at 150 or less. otherwise depleted during runs.

 Shadow Captain Edithae wrote:
Holy crap super mutants just shot down a BOS vertibird with a mini nuke or something just a hundred yards away from me. Big fight ensuing, I'm heading over to assist with my T60 armour (I'm not a member of the BOS).

I got stuck in a long conversation with my companion (Piper), and in the background I saw a vertibird firing at some raiders. They somehow knocked it out of the sky, and it's flying right at me while I'm stuck in this conversation, and I'm gaking my pants. Luckily it struck a nearby semi, on the opposite side, so the explosion didn't envelope us.

I've seen three of those get shot down now. They need to spend more time training their pilots. Those casualty rates are just unacceptable fighting a disorganized, ill equipped force like they are.

You know you can back away at any time right? Just backpacks, move away from the npc, and it pauses the conversation.

In my hunt for working frames I might have pissed of the BOS beyond the point of no return. Just had to shoot down three Vertibirds myself... They actually don't have that much health considering it's a friggin plane.

Managed to break my fall from a highway by landing on a Brahmins head.

 SharkoutofWata wrote:
In my hunt for working frames I might have pissed of the BOS beyond the point of no return. Just had to shoot down three Vertibirds myself... They actually don't have that much health considering it's a friggin plane.

Well, if you want to restart, there is a frame of T60 sitting in a guard shack out by an army post on the coastline.

 Desubot wrote:

 easysauce wrote:

 Desubot wrote:
Well i launched the uss constitution

And a Laser rifle that increases my move speed.

just finished that myself!

hilarious quest!

It was weird but did you run into the glitch where if you

Spoiler:

chase down the scavangers as they flee, they hit a kill wall and all there bodies pile up in one spot for great looting?

)

nope, only bugs i found were the odd random crash and one where I wasnt accumulating RADS at all. Fixed all with restart

So.. the difficulty of this game does not hold up at high levels. I'm level 53 (on my main playthrough, finished main stuff etc.)

I can one shot every enemy in the game with a sneak attack, including vertibirds. On survival difficulty.

That is so fething hot..

Oh that gauss rifle!

But that's a gauss rifle though. That's like always using a Fat Man and complaining it makes things too easy.

What about small arms? Do pistols, rifles and shotguns get that ridiculously OP?

I have a 400 dmg combat shotgun, a 350 dmg .50 REBA 2, and 300dmg .308 combat rifle. so, yes.

Add a x5,3 sneak attack with silenced guns and wel...

Oh, and my plasma grenades do about 800 as well.