Fixing EVERY Power Armor Retcon in the Fallout Series 

I guess T-60 is in the TV show because reinforcements came from the Commonwealth 🤷. Maybe the West Coast Brotherhood discovered a few suits that were being shipped to California pre-war as well.

My favorite part of Fallout 4's fusion cores are how you take them out generators and the building's still powered.

So basically, surface level, what we want is: -Fallout 4/76 style and engagement (walking tank) -Fallout 1/2 levels of defense (Critical Hit! 0 Damage) -No fusion cores, go back to teeny fusion reactors that'll last us hundreds of years -Power armour training depends on the model, servos and all that -Yeah yeah yeah, you can paint it -Welcome to Camp Navarro. So you're the new replacement... You're out of uniform, soldier! WHERE IS YOUR POWER ARMOR? Dont have any? You expect me to believe that MAGGOT? The truth is you've lost an expensive piece of ARMY ISSUE EQUIPMENT. AND YOURE GONNA REMAIN IN THIS MANS ARMY UNTIL YOURE 510 YEARS OLD, WHICH IS THE NUMBER OF YEARS IT WILL TAKE FOR YOU TO PAY OFF A MARK TWO POWER COMBAT ARMOUR, THAT YOU HAVE LOST! Report to the armory and have a new suit issued to you, then report back to me, private! DISMISSED!

I do like how the power armour looks bulky and actually powerful in fallout 4 but it feels so cheap because of how easily it can be aquired

A minor correction. According to the lore, all of the NCR's power armor was salvaged after the battle at Helios One. Since only 1 confirmed person in the NCR(I'm strictly talking about New Vegas here) had power armor training(coloner Royez from the long 15), they had to remove most, if not all, of the electronics from the suits, essentially turning them into really heavy metal armor

I've always thought the T-60 is merely an upgraded T-45 to keep up with the T-51, much like how older fighter jets are upgraded to keep up with their more advanced counterparts.

One thing I'll give 4 and 76 is they made the powerarmor size wise about as big(a little bigger but slightly) as it was in 1 and 2.

When all is said and done, the introduction of "Power Armor Frames" was an excellent idea. It actually made Power Armor feel different and stronger than basic armor.

The fusion cores for armor is wild. This little core can power entire vaults but shits itself in an iron man suit in 30 mins

I wrote in another video once how to save the T-60 armor: Make the T-60 a post-war armor developed by the East Coast BoS using salvaged Enclave technology from Adams Air Force Base, and remove it from the intro and all Pre-War locations. This shows that the BoS are actively developing new technologies (as implied in the Fallout 1 ending), as well as explaining why only they have this model. It also explains why the T-60 is so aesthetically similar to the T-45, their original armor used in Fallout 3.

I think Power Armour training should should work in 3 tiers, untrained: baseline Comes with debuffs like slower move Speed, less AP and more energy drain. Self taught: a perk, should Just be normal Power armor Power armor training: a perk you could get with factions like BoS or enclave, with buffs like energy efficiency and reduced recoil

9:35 Not only was Nate in the U.S. military, but he was a soldier operating with the 108th Mechanized Infantry at the Battle of Anchorage. Nate had direct experience with soldiers in his unit who were Power Armor operators.

I wish Fallout would make a return to the more 'cold-war-punk' aesthetics and style that the T-51 and X-01 has.

Okay, take the scene in Fallout 4 where you first get the armor. You go get it, but you're sluggish as hell like you're over-encumbered, but you can still tank everything and shoot the raiders. Then the death claw shows up. Instead of you killing it outright, Preston fires a flare from the balcony, scaring off the death claw like how they worked in Lonesome Road. Then you'd just have to find some way to learn how to use the power armor. Boom, cool moment right off the bat, but you don't get busted stuff right away. (Edit) The male sole survivor point is redundant since it doesn't explain how the female character could know.

somthing i think fallout 4 missed out on, is the lack Ports, in fact there is not large shipping port in all of fallout 4. in the fallout 4 art book, it shows large shipping ports with cranes and large railyards. which would make sense. because in the lore boston its set out to be a major navel shipping port. this would also back up your claims on why the T-51 Is in boston.

I always thought the T-60 should’ve just been a post war power armor created by the brotherhood between Fo3 and Fo4 similar to how the enclave created several suits post war.

Fallout 4 is set at a timescale of 1:6.67. Any time measured in-game must be put through this formula to get its real time equivalent. So while the fusion core may only last 20 minutes in-game, it actually provides 10 hours of marching time at a brisk pace

Where is your Power Armor! It got retconned! Go to the Armory and learn how to use it!

"I am not a sir! I work for a living you mo-ron! You will call me Sergeant or Sergeant Dornan do you understand me? "

It always baffles me why people try to find lore reasonings for engine limitations. Art direction and what is actually feasible are two different things

Regarding fusion cores, I can imagine cores being a stopgap measure so that the US could field more power armor sooner. While on board reactors certainly have better, practically limitless lifespans, I can see that they may take a while to build, especially in the final months before the Great War. With that in mind, I can imagine fusion cores would work as a temporary measure, allowing more power armor to be fielded (especially in defensive roles where they can have their fusion cores easily topped off and their drawbacks would be less of an issue) before being retrofitted later with a proper reactor. Hell, this could be applied to gameplay. Have fusion cores be the main power source for most of the game and allow one to use power armor sparingly for most of the game. Then, towards the end, you can either find a reactor in a quest (be it side or main, the former possibly allowing sooner access given various factors) and that let's go all in on taking the power armor around.

12:55 The thing is that it’s heavily stated that the Enclave has access to far superior technology than the Brotherhood of Steel in fact it’s possible to hear soldiers mention that Enclave weapons could easily pierce any Brotherhood power armor and that’s maybe 10 or so years after the events of fallout 2. So I’d guess it would probably extremely powerful because considering the APA was meant to replace the X-01 which was in testing just before the war. Also it’s very likely that the schematics for the mk II were lost with the destruction of the oil rig and they would have to find a new design.

In terms of T60 weirdness, it could be a refit of the T45 suit which was planned to start replacing the T45 when the bombs dropped. Would explain the similarities between them

I always interpreted the Vault Dweller's ability to use power armour to be tied to how the only usable suits being granted to the player after becoming an initiate of the Lost Hills Brotherhood, so it's likely they received some level of training, it's just not specifically stated in game

My head canon justification for Nora being familiar with weapons and military equipment was that she was originally in the army. Maybe even that’s where her and Nate met. She did her time and went to law school on the government’s dime while Nate went career soldier.

23:55 I still wish we got the riot shield and club, along with the first minigun design. I feel like we got robbed of those, even the other variants of secret service armor like the light and medium variants.

For the Fusion Core, they should of made it explaining the aux functions or V.A.T.S requires more charge to compute while in power armor so it draws from the Fusion Core

9:00 when you get Power Armor training either from the BoS or from the Enclave in New Vegas the opposing fraction is suprised when they want to give you the training but you already have it. I doubt this is a physical limitation but rather a knowledge one since the power armor the NCR salvaged is very inefficient just to bypass the training. The modifications make it easy enough for everyone to use it tho

I always thought that Power Armor Training was put in place so the Lone Wanderer doesn't get end-game gear in the first hour due to looting it off of a dead paladin and New Vegas didn't remove it for the same reason.

Power Armor Training seems to be so you dont lock up the servos or something about moving in it. I think in Fallout 4 case, they could of been produced so the regular solider could wear it and use it instead of being trained to move.

I'd like to reiterate my point that I believe that the ballistic damage reduction Effect for the hellcat power armour is due to an active protection system. This seems likely due to the strange protrusions on the chest possibly being pods for a hard kill system or some sort of electronic soft kill system. As active protection systems are common on modern tanks with systems such as trophy it's not out of the question the fallout universe developed them for power armour

And now T-45 and T-60 have a weld weakspot. And T-60 got to west coast.

7:15 Yeah this one of the reasons I use a mod that makes fusion cores limitless again with some changes. Gatling Lasers use normal Fusion Cells, Fusion cores are more expensive and they're not used as ammo. Makes more sense this way as most Fusion cores in buildings save a few are kind of tricky to get. They're insanely expensive, one can cost up to 16,000 caps, so in a way they're used for powering certain other items such as generators and power armor exclusively.

There's also the Chinese Power Armor, which is currently worn by Red Army Remnants in West Virginia. It's existence was vaguely hinted at in New Vegas with the Pulse Gun, but was only formally introduced in 76.

22:25 Equipment which technically was added to WV canonically as well as having been used by the few human riot officers overseeing the robots handling the Automation riots of the Ash Heap region.

I like how the show has done it, the frame mech suit type design is still there, and so are the fusion cores, but the fusion cores last MUCH longer as we see Maximus using it for days. The training is also sort of there but not 100% needed, as maximus didn't have any training but could still use it, just not well.

90% of the complications can be chalked up to Bethesda just going wild with power armor and not considering the gameplay or lore ramifications of doing so. No wonder the East has more power armor than the West. Although you can try justify it with speculation, the most realistic reason is that Bethesda simply puts tons more of it in their games. It’s less of a rare end game armor set, and more just tossed around as Fallout imagery because it looks cool and it’s powerful.

23:40 I mean I know it is the Secret Service PA, but it always bothered me that no one sent into the reactor to repair it was wearing PA or radiation suits. You’d think they would’ve outfitted their own secret service better than that. Now admittedly you could say the suits were damaged by this point or something, but still, that never made sense to me.

one thing you forgot is that raider power armor has the least amount of rad resist because the torso only gives 100 while the other torso's have 150

My personal headcannon for Nora being able to use to use power armor is that Nora was also in the army, thats where she met Nate, but Nate when career in the army, she got HD and went to law school. So this is how she can shoot, use power armor and everything else so effectively. She is also from the military, just for a shorter period than Nate. Nate is quite the high ranking member of the military, he was gonna have a speech in Funeil Hall too, the guy was no low ranking soldier, at minimum Nate was a captain or even a major. Nora was likely a sargeant or maybe a NCO

As a classic fallout fan who grew up playing 1, 2 and tactics I really love how you tied the interplay and bethesda universes into one coherent lore

I definitely love the fallout 4 style of power armor way more than the other ones. It actually feel like "power armor" and you feel like a walking tank when you're using it.

T-60 is my favorite PA in terms of appearance. I've always preferred the T-45/T-60 helmet vs the T-51B and X-01 helmets. And I love that the T-60 is just a more compact and slimmer version of the T-45. The PA that comes close for me is APA which is a slimmer version of X-01.

1:50 There's another reason, in the first two fallout games you could rarely get to a place unless it was a recognisable big place or had the coordinates. Small places were very hard to find while passing through the desert. There might have been more power armors lying around but nearly impossible to be found due to the vastness of the desert.

My head canon for inferior Enclave armor from 3 onward was due to the destruction of the oil rig in FO2. In FO2, the Enclave were literally the secret service surrounding the president, they definitely had the best while the rest had to make due.. Heck their cadets used T-51Bs. After Oil rig is gone, the advanced plans and advanced materials were lost. And so they had to make do with whatever they can produce. Hence their "black devil armor" looks more metallic reminiscent of the original T-45.

We get a holotape in nuka world were 2 raiders captured a suit if brotherhood pa, they couldn't control it and fell off a cliff

Furthermore regarding factions like the Gunners I'd just make them a large raider tribe that was directly descended from the former US army and former Enclave personnel who integrated with them after the fall of Adam's AFB, teaching them how to use power armor to exert control and become a more dominant faction in the Commonwealth.

5:30 you realize the letter designations are in FO4, they appear when you upgrade it

I always laugh a bit when I see people expect every new Fallout game to only use the T-45 and Enclave armors. You really think the AMERICAN MILITARY wouldn’t spend billions of dollars to develop, invent, and build multiple models of power armor? Just look at how many tank variants existed during WW2.

From a lot of supplemental bandaid lore fixes BGS has released (most of which should have been around as early as FO4 but eh, at least it actually happened), here's the gist of some of the weirder power armor stats and lore: -T-60 is a reinforced, upgraded version of T-45 due to T-51 being way too expensive and difficult to mass produce. It's basically just making the T-45 plates thicker and adding some QoL internal mechanical upgrades, and it's supposed to be slower than T-51 but gets the job done. The transition of the T-45s into T-60s just started right before the war so most T-45s never got the upgrade. -APA Mk2 armor is supposed to be an extremely mobile power armor capable of mobility, flexibility, and speed of a non-power infantry soldier with T-45 levels of protection, which is actually a crazy good compromise that reaches an amazing balance of speed and defense. However, this makes it less effective when used against other power infantry due to other power armor models being more protective and not really caring much for mobility, making it unfairly good against non-powered enemies but painfully mediocre vs opposing power infantry. It's great for quick operations, raids, and skirmishes but less so for direct, prolonged combat. -Hellfire armor is basically the APA Mk3, the pinnacle of power armor technology which integrates the mobility o the APA Mk2 and the massive protection of the APA Mk1. It's implied in Lonesome Road that this is the result of perfected Duraframe plating as the resources to reinforce the eyebots with it was redirected to the Hellfire production. So it's implied that the suit is a huge mass of advanced Duraframe plates. -APA Mk1 is a "heavy PA" of the Enclave armors, being the slower but way more durable counterpart to the MK2. The Mk1 and Mk2 are technically supposed to be used in tandem with each other for different roles, both being different types of upgrades to the T-51 but hyper focusing on either defense or mobility, not both. -X-01 is technically the APA Mk0, being the experimental pre-war state of what would become the APA series armors. Weirdly enough, this is the only power armor that has its roles and limitations expressed in gameplay, as it was nonsensically resource-hungry to produce and maintain to the point where it was only ever really good for promotional purposes like with Nuka World crossovers since mass producing them was stupid even in pre-war times, but the public didn't know this and it could be used as a big, shiny, "hey we're making more cool stuff" symbol. The Enclave took many years to turn this into the APA series armors since engineering this thing to a more affordable state while maintaining its protection was a bitch to do. -Hellcat armor is just a suit of whatever model power armor was issued to the Hellcat Armored Brigade, which they then customized to look like how it does. The Hellcats are mentioned in the pre-war segment of FO4 in the news, so they are a surviving military unit who just liked making their power armor look cool but not really any more effective.

Has anyone mentioned the fusion cores might be exactly what they say they are? Modern fusion experiments use very difficult to produce fusion targets, which require the rest of the reactor to put fuel through it and generate power. Perhaps combat and movement wears them out quicker and you're not even supposed to think of them as being fuel. A little bit of on-board drinking water is all you'd need to power a suit, while a settlement could feed more fuel through the core and it wouldn't be taking damage to its precise calibration constantly so it would last a long time. Kinda makes fusion cores in robots a really inefficient (post war) and short-sighted use of them!

My opinion on power armor training is that power armor is essentially like operating a forklift or some other heavy machinery. Someone can teach themselves but in 3 and NV when you join up to get your power armor you are given on the job training to operate it

I prefer the fallout 4 style of power armor. But the fusion core time is ridiculous. It should last MUCH longer than a few minutes, If not infinite, I dont care if it's OP, Or for gameplay balance, I don't see the point of power armor losing it's charge when the charge should last for centuries.

about the T45 power armor in DC, iirc the BoS when arrived and set their base at the Pentagon, they found a lot of T-45 there. There was a conversation or terminal log about it

I like the idea of the slimmer variants being different models, since I like both versions.

I always thought to myself: it was said that power armor's nuclear reactor will last hudreds of years, and fallout 4 takes place 200-something years later, meaning nuclear cores are running at the last crumbs of energy.

Bethesda missed an opportunity to make t45 and t60 brotherhood creations. T45 was a cheaper less effective substitute for their damaged t51 armor during the events of FO3. After defeating the super mutants and enclave the east coast brotherhood had time and resources to really refine and improve the design into t60.

22:45 the brotherhood is producing T60 on their own this can be found out from a terminal in FO4

One weird thing about X-01 is that nuka cola corp. got access to one and just put it on display, absolutely ignoring the fact that it exposes a military secret for the whole world to see.

WHERE IS YOUR POWER AMOUR??!

My headcanon for Nora knowing how to use power armor is simple. She was a member of the army's JAG team. (JAG is the militaries legal team essentially) So she could be knowledgeable of how they work and such, perhaps she had training on it as well? Either way it is my head canon explanation.

Fallout 4’s next-gen update has canonized X-02 (APA MkII) and X-03 (Hellfire) armor in the commonwealth

Game Theory did a video on the fusion cores, and he noted that the cores were in lore mentioned (in Fallout 1) to last around 200 years. His math said that the hydrogen fuel in the cell would be on their last legs at the start of Fallout 4, so @10 hours of use (depending on activity) was considered plausible.

The Boston, Virginia, DC and New York areas has a high numbers of population, which means more riots. Hence the needs for more power armours.

8:05 - Nope, this actually makes sense about how degraded the fusion cares are by Fallout 4's time. Shoddycast actually did the math (so much math) about how much energy could possibly be in a fusion core and how long it would last. Turns out that the fusion cores would likely last only about 60 days past the start day of Fallout 4 because they were that degraded. He cites his sources and math as to how he came to the conclusion. And guess what? The lifetime matches up with Fallout 1 saying how long that they would last. So someone at Bethesda either got very, *_very_* lucky with that or they actually did their homework. Knowing Bethesda, I'm guessing lucky. Video here: /watch?v=bA76-cixf-s

I actually like to think the power armor exoskeleton retcon helps to build a grounded reason for power armor training. It's not just a massive suit of armor, it's an entire piece of hardware and technology that requires indepth understanding to properly wield.

That’s one thing I absolutely love about FO4, power armor feels like an advanced piece of mobile armor instead of an outfit . I would like to see more items on the hub in future games however. Mods in FO3/NV perfected the hud in PA, I had weather, storm notifications and needs monitoring, I miss those days.

You have to be my favourite fallout RU-vidr. Please continue the amazing work

21:45 I mean there is the huge nuclear arsenal in what is now the Glowing Sea. I mean, wouldn’t you want a force of PA users defending that place?

So someone sat down and crunched the numbers for the Fusion cores. and they found a specific radioactive element that had an appropriate half life and power output to make it so that it would make sense to use it in a high draw item like power armor, but be nearly depleted at the 200 years post war that Fallout 4 takes place. so the Fusion cores ARE the micro fusion reactors that would last hundreds of years, but it's not dependent on them being used for hundreds of years, it's just the fuel runs it's self out over time, used or not. And when you get them in FO4, the high draw Power Armors drain the internal storage in minutes, and the little nuclear fuel remaining wouldn't refill the power fast enough to be of use.

I've always just headcanon'd that the armor in Fallout 4 (Especially the T60) are all on the *FRAME* of the T-45, specifically the variant that chewed through Microfusion Cells (Now Fusion Core) too much to be reliable. Like putting better armor on the Chassis of an old school Jeep

Austin from the Game Theory series The Science! (and also Shoddycast) did some math regarding the longevity, and lack thereof, of fusion cores. The math was interesting.

There's another instance of a fusion core's operational life being mentioned in Fallout 4: SSG Michael Daly's log. His power armor is on the roof of the museum of freedom, abandoned approximately 3 days after the bombs fell due to his fusion core burning out.

- T45 First power armor, Started use during resource war. Most common, cause they wanted TONS of the stuff! - T51 Second power armor, Used to finish resource war. Still lots since it was the main go to, and they had time and resources to pump out these bad boys! No major design flaws. - T60 Had a bunch of T45 laying around after the creation of T51, so we took improvements from T51 and made T45 better. That took time (which there wasn't a lot of before the boom) and resources (which were getting thin) so not a ton made it out there, but the T45s would have eventually all just been replaced by these... eventually. - T65... not sure on this one, pretty sure not cannon... or at most would have been blue prints in concept only pre-war. Might have been the blue prints for what the American government was going to reveal as the next step to power armor... but no suit would have existed. - X01 design built to replace T51, but expensive, and only for use by shadow government. While a handful of blue prints made it around to various contractors in secret to make "proof of concept" models, very few ever actually existed pre-war... any that did, never saw service. Also there would have been HUGE material cost to create them and designs would not have been refined to allow mass production, or contained flaws that would have ended with a lot of wear and tear, further increasing rarity, or any chance of coming across one. - Hellfire proto-type... possibly blue print concept to allow survival in radiation or extreme fire conditions (possible the enclave believed this would be a major issue pre-war). No actual suit was made, but my theory is the zax had a copy of the blue prints shipped which allowed it to make a set. This would also mean the facility would have to have some secret armor producing capabilities, but not out of the realm of possibility. - Advaced power armor, took a lot of deaths, but they finally made an X01 that was semi-mass produce-able. Though not in large quantities, and would require huge investment to make. Obviously the best! - Advance Power armor MK 2, Lost a lot of production power, not as many resources, but still need to mass produce enough to armor all the troops! Not as good, but we can still crank them out! Accounts for the drop in quality from the MK1, but still allows Enclave access to a power armor. - Hellfire... Well pre-war Enclave were kinda right... fire is in a lot of areas, so having extra fire protection is important. Blue-prints worked on until a practical post-war version could be produced. - Excavator... there are five suits total that exist... maybe a few people found them and made more, but with lack of production capabilities... doubt it. - Raider... Deserters from the military that eventually took their knowledge of how to use power armor and used it to form gangs... knowledge passed down from leader to leader. Also using low ranking members of gang to try it out until either they die, or get it... - Hellcat ... not cannon I guess? Or possibly an actual mercenary company? Honestly don't have a clue... looks cool but terrible idea from a lore perspective.

My favourite suit is Ashur’s (from the Pitt) or the quantum suit (from Nuka-World) Ashur’s is just cool, much like the Divide power armour but (imo) cooler. And Quantum just has a nice colour 😂

9:43 If memory serves me right, in the black and white cinematic flashback, the default Nate is shown in the PA.

I remember a mission in FO tactics where you were sent to an old military base to retrieve a stock pile of fusion core batteries. I know that game isn't exactly canon but some of the dialog might shed light on what the old canon was for them.

Nice to see you're getting a lot more love, it's fantastic to see, good luck

T-60 power armor wasn't publicly known about in 2077 when the bombs fell

id love how to see they do power armour in the up coming show, I really hope its not CGI

Great video, but I see several issues. Sadly, I'm a bit in a rush right now, so I'll only point a couple quickly: -The T-51b at Fort Constantine was supposed to be instead be the T-45d Prototype Medic Power Armor, as you can read in the terminal that disables the field: "The Armor R&D terminal which controls the stasis field reads "Medical Armor Prototype" in its prompt" fallout.fandom.com/wiki/Prototype_medic_power_armor -In the files of New Vegas there's an unused Enclave Shocktrooper Armor, supposedly cut content for Fallout 3, HOWEVER, while it remain unused for New Vegas, Obsidian did gave it proper New Vegas stats: DT 35, Health 1,500 fallout.fandom.com/wiki/Fallout:_New_Vegas_armor_and_clothing#Heavy Sort by DT, high to low, and the armor will appear at the top of the list. Based on those stats, it would have been the best PA in New Vegas, followed by the Remants Armor (DT 28, Health 400), T-51b (DT 25 Health 2,000) and T-45d (DT 22 Health 1,000). As a side note, Obsidian also kept the T-51b as the PA with the highest radiation resistance, +25, with both Enclave PAs having only +15 and the T-45d +10. I'll try to post some other observations later but that's all I can afford to check right now.

I love the inclusion of a frame in F4, however I think it would have been good to have PA limit and extend abilities, like in PA you can't use pistols, big fingers. However heavy weapons can be used un encumbered. In old fallout games some weapons had strength limits, this should have been left and PA could remove this. F4 made weapons bigger so in PA weapons would appear appropriate, so if some weapons were incompatible with PA that problem could be solved. Lastly too much PA is in game F4, especially x01

Don't forget that Power Armour, most definitely the laser weapons use an enormous amount of energy.

My fav suit of power armour is the mid west Brotherhood power armour

Another frustrating part about fallout 4s power armor is the speed. They're all the same speed, even though some of them like the T-51 and X-01 are designed to be really fast. No doubt the raider power armor would be really quick too being made of scrap metal. Theres not upsides or downsides to the armors, they're just flat armor increases and its incredibly disappointing.

My headcanon while playing fallout 4 was always that fusion cores are rechargeable (but most factions don't know how to do that - only the Brotherhood of Steel and maybe a select few specialists running shops). Either that, or they're like shelf-charging batteries and as the fissile material powering them depletes over hundreds of years, they recharge more and more slowly - meaning that, when you find an "unused" fusion core, it's just one that hasn't been used for a few months, and if you allowed the core to sit around for a few months or years, it would eventually charge back up. I always imagined that either the brotherhood has the ability to recharge fusion cores, has so many that they can store the "spent" cores long enough for them to recharge and still have a supply of charged ones to use, or they've spent all the time since the war improving power-armor and fusion-core technology and they've modified their cores or suits to be far more efficient than the ones that existed pre-war. I think the most logical explanation though is that fusion cores operate like batteries that recharge on their own via fusion and over time, the recharge rate slows to the point where it takes months or years to recharge itself. Then to explain the armor that never runs out of power in previous games, maybe the Brotherhood of Steel has manufactured their own fusion cores in the years since the war using refurbished manufacturing plants or newly-built plants based on pre-war schematics. That would explain a lot. It would explain why Danse has that never-ending power armor and isn't in a hurry to steal *your* fusion cores - he wants you in power armor because it makes you more useful, but doesn't want to give you one of the very rare, irreplaceable recently-manufactured fusion cores that were brought over on the prydwyn for use in their operations in the commonwealth. It would also explain why the fusion cores in the show that came out since you made this video are limitless, why other power armor in California is limitless, why Danse has limitless power-armor power, but why the sole-survivor from 114 does *not* have unlimited power-armor power and needs to keep scrounging up old fusion cores. I think fusion-core lifespan must be a function of the fusion core's age and since the major nation-spanning factions we've seen all use power armor, it stands to reason that at least some of them have produced fusion cores in the years since the war. *ESPECIALLY* the brotherhood and enclave. One is focused on restoring the US to it's former glory and arose from the military (who likely had some scientists who knew how to make fusion cores). The brotherhood's sole purpose is to restore and guard old tech to keep it from the wrong hands - they use power armor more than any other faction so surely they have a vested interest in manufacturing cores. We've seen larger nuclear reactors being operated post-war, so why wouldn't some enterprising group of scientists be able to refurbish some old manufacturing equipment or find a way to refurbish old cores with new fissile material?

Excellent and well thought out like always

Thanks for the great video it was very interesting

The great video although here are some things to consider about t-51b in Appalachia. It's more likely that the abundance of it comes from the military units in the area and not from the remnants from DC. We know that taggerty's thunder was performing war games with several Marine divisions in the area after coming back from the front lines and that these war games would determine different missions preferences in the upcoming offensive into China so it's more than likely that the thunder and the Marine divisions probably had suits of t51 power armor if they have come back from the front lines. We also know that taggerty wanted to recruit only from military personnel either current serving or past serving so it's more than likely any remaining military units in the area would have joined the Brotherhood of Steel bringing their suits of t51 we can confirm this by the corpses of fallen Brotherhood of Steel members and power armor are all using the t-51 model. Another potential explanation for all the power armor within Appalachia could be explained by the key assets located within the region such as white springs, westtech, vault 79, arktos, etc. We also know that they had companies such as Grafton steel mill working on military products as well.

On fusion core history, at the top of the concord museum (fallout 4), there is a holotape where a US solder's holotape was drained shortly after the bombs dropped.

Worth noting that the '-b' or '-d' suffixes in fallout 4 are obtainable by upgrading your armour to the models of that letter. For example a T-51-b is simply a T-51 model B. Bethesda is definately saying power armour alwats had a frame. Which not only feels better from a gameplay perspective but also makes more sense as power armour.

20:47 West Virginia also boasts a military training camp who was running exercises pre-war and seemingly with PA as we saw with the poor soldier in the trailer who saw the bombs fall. We also have the Government Bunker and Vault 79. I think I recall something about senators having been provided a suit (can’t recall which type) to get them to the bunker in the event of an emergency and i’d assume their bodyguards would also get a set. Also we do see a number of military freight trains (judging by the crates) that sport partial sets of PA.

Using Power Armor in Fo3 when I first obtained it felt so- underwelming, but the moment I set eyes on the Power Armor in Fallout 4, I- was already jumping in my seat, and god, the feeling of being a near invincible soldier built out of Pre-War training and equipment was so badass.

The game mechanics of fallout 4's powered armor really helped make powered armor feel amazing, the problem is they give you access to it waaaaay too soon and make it way too accessible. There's no build up, there's no earning it. Just, HERE YA GO! First mission! In a similar vein pipe weapons were an interesting beginning of the game concept but are obsolete before you even pick up your first one!

Before Fallout 4 was out I assumed the T-60 suit was an upgraded version of the T-45. An easy, respectable change of the lore to be "The Eastern Brotherhood upgraded their T-45 units by modifying them after the defeat of the Enclave, using the large quantities of X-02 suits they had at their disposal."

Great video topic if there was a new suit of PA created Post War what faction do you think should have it and what abilities do you think it should have? In my mind Mr House could create two version of a H-Infinity suit where one is designed to act as a mobile life support system for himself with weapons and defences to counter any threat in the wasteland as a final layer of defence & a H-Lucky as a stranded model for his human workers that has a built in teleporter and matter converter to act as a module suit that can adapt to any situation that House has programmed into it.

One fusion core can power an entire building for 200 years, but can only power a suit of armor for 15 minutes.

I think it'd be cool if the usability of Power Armour was something you could optimise. Like you can wear the recon armour which makes the P.A. work better (?) but it means your actually character doesn't have as much protection as they would if they were wearing more tanky apparel. I also think it'd be cool if Training was something you had to get in tiers, but maybe higher tears are only accessibly after a certain point/if you make certain choices. Or if P.A. prowess was a skill you could improve, so you can make a build specifically geared toward using P.A., or make a build where you're better off without it

Great video really helps to clear something up

What if Big Mountain invaded the Mojave during the build up to the Second Battle for Hoover Dam?