The SCIENCE! Behind Power Armor in Fallout 4 

Not taking falling damage? That sounds like something a synth would do...

Just wait until he discovers the metal leg armor that negates fall damage

"most developers have fall damage in their games" Borderlands: Hold my physics.

Brotherhood of Steel incident report AD-851: Another initiate has jumped from the prydwen in a t45 power armor unit, initiate did not survive the impact, the only thing salvageable is the helmet and it is also the only thing we have to bury.

Still wondering why can you get poisoned by something like radscorpion, while wearing Power Armor :/

power armor can save you when jumping off of trinity tower, but a mosquito can still poison you thru your power armor... I only keep the power armors I find just to give it to my settlers cause they can use it with unlimited use. I somehow even have some provisioners wearing the dam things and then never get out of them

"I come to your games to get away from the reality!" *immediately puts reality into every single video he does* Oh.....

What if your fusion core runs out while ur falling

Gravity pisses me off. It's always holding me down.

Its about as realistic as a wrist-mounted computer than can run without transistors. :P

This should be titled "The SCIENCE! Behind falling in Power Armor." I was expecting an analysis of how the PA operates. Like how the pistons help give you more strength, etc.

Remember when Game Theory was like this instead of 296 videos about FNAF?

you made me understand physics better than my teacher ...

You know what's more dangerous than falling inside a Power Armor at gravity force? Falling inside a Power Armor at "Austin's Talking Speed". The PA would scatter to fucking pieces :,)

"ain't no gravity gonna hold me back" Well boys, we did it, falling down is no more

Dear Austin. I have a question for you. Not that you’ll likely see this since this video is nearly 4 years old and you have better thing to do anyway, but after reading like ten comments I decided nobody important has brought it up. First let me qualify my question with an observation I had while upgrading my power armor. When looking through the leg upgrades I noticed one was to add explosive vents to the legs, it increases damage to nearby enemies when falling from great heights and adds an explosion effect when you land. Now I’m no expert on explosions or collisions but when cars hit something at high speeds there doesn’t seem to be a super impactful shockwave that spreads from the impact in a radius. So this got me thinking that the energy from landing isn’t getting absorbed by the armor but dispersed by some magic device in the legs of the armor that takes all that kinetic energy and pushes it out in a explosion thus sparing the poor squishy innards of the individual within the suit and not sparing anybody unfortunate enough to be standing within some radius of said falling individual. Anyway my question is: Is this actually possible. And if so just how much damage should this blast actually be doing to the surrounding areas. It seems like it would be more than the game shows but I’m not informed enough to figured it out myself so if by some miracle of fate you see this, maybe you can. -Sincerely Jarod

so I have a question! who the fuck boarded up almost all the houses in the commonwealth.

6 frames = 1/10th of a second? So... console players fall slower?

"245 miles per f*cking hour" 😂

6:54 I love how all those meter things just go insane every damn frame

Does anyone remember proctor Ingram and how she lost her legs? It has to do with her testing power armor but was attacked by super mutants. The area she worked was high up and was hit by something and she was tossed off the area and and surived the fall but lost her legs and the power armor she hand on was destroyed from the impact. I just don't want to dig in the comments to find any hint of it.

Stunt pilots can get even up to 15 Gs for a short extended time. And the guy in the airforce who endured 43 Gs did so *backwards* which actually makes a humongous difference, which is what he was testing.

7:09 Can you imagine the results of that were dropped on someone? It gives me ideas of Fallout ODSTs jumping from Vertibirds and crushing sections of Chinese regiments and leaving craters in the ground.

I always figured that being futuristic tech, they found a way to put some type of inertia damper into the power armor to negate the g-force on the armor and wearer. That's pretty much the only explanation I can think of.

I break my falls with my jetpack. I don't like to be loud

I expected you to talk about the fact that a military-graded advanced power suit could only work for 30 minutes when fueled by a nuclear battery. But jeez I didn't expect all of the physic around fall damage :)

There are so many measurement problems with that falling speed calculation… It really should be measured in grid units per tick, not eyeballed heights per frame. Plus assuming power armor is only 6 feet tall is absurd.

Love the fact that I️ actually learned about this kinda stuff in ap physics. Brings back some good feels.

So will my PC survive a massive fall because it has a G-force graphics card? Yes! 1-0 NVidia AMD!

your math is inherintly wrong. The Fallout universe has NO terminal velocity, its not programmed, like in other games if you fall long enough you'll become a string of polygons falling in exess of 1 million miles per hour.

That guy who built that rocket train thing..... the blood vessels in his eyes busted but they healed in a few days

Never heard about digitally controlled valving for hydraulic cylinders.... I believe used for some Carrier Aircraft Landing Gear.

Are you MXR's immersion scientist?

For a more realistic experience... Use a jetpack on the PA. :P Short hopping the jetpack before landing should reduce the impact and Gs enough so that the PA's leg hydraulics don't instantly give way and hopefully the reduced G force won't turn you into tomato salsa.

2:43 that’s good driving

No one's afraid of heights but everyone's afraid of falling from heights

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Dear shoddy, what about the freefall leggings? Those make even less sense than power armor!

Reminds me of the poor guy in the Expanse turning into paste in one episode.

I am currently a sophmore in highschool and i have learned more about physics from watching your videos than my whole school career

Lmao I love this guy. Bethesda probably hates him lmao

Sooooo, we can finally train like Vegeta??

Remember to roll

You know how there's those new backpacks that suspend themselves on your back, taking the weight off of you? What if the frame connects to the armor in a similar fashion? You're basically floating inside of the power armor so when you land instead of you taking the force the frame moves inside the armor, sort of like absorbing the shock.

would it make sense if you died from falling even with the power armor unless you have the jetpack ? because the jetpack could activate while falling and slow down the fall to a survivable speed.

The power armor in the thumbnail is the T-49: Power armor of the storyteller

The Hank Green bit nearly made me spittake my breakfast. Well done, I never noticed how similar you two sounded before today.

Or you could say, put a tomato in a jar, drop the jar into water from, like, 10 metres? and your tomato has now been brutally mangled.

Power Armor is not new and improved. The fusion cores only last 5 to 10 minutes. That's the opposite of improved.

SUPERHERO LANDING!

I still sometimes come back to this video just to watch it again

There’s a noise the power armor makes after falling (I know in 76 it does) and I think that shows that it stopped your fall

Just use your jet pack on the way down to decelerate. That way you can stay immersive :P

Pneumatic shock absorption. That's the key, as its mention in one of the leg mods. It uses the compression of air at the moment of impact to decelerate your body and suit during the fall. WE HAVE THE TECHNOLOGY.

Since you mentioned him: most people do _not_ know that Philip Zimbardo seriously pushed his test subjects in the Stanford experiment to achieve the results he was expecting, making the entire study much more about *obedience* than inherent *cruelty* in humans. For more on that, I recommend the *Milgram* experiment, which tested exactly that - namely unquestioned obedience towards perceived authorities - and was much less presumptuous about it.

This is now my favorite video how did I not find this 4 years ago :D

Ah see, now we know where all that energy from the fusion cores actually goes: It isn't to power the armor, no sir, it is to counter all that kinetic energy caused from impacts/deceleration. How? No clue, but that is certainly where all that energy is going because it certainly is not all getting used to move around. Oh wait! Idea: the suit actually creates some sort of suspension field that actually maintains your internal organs suspension in your cavities by stimulating the fluids and structures in the body that keep your organs where they are supposed to be. Sort of like how you can run an EM field over magnetic objects to make them move (obviously over-simplifying but you get the point). If their scientists could figure out how to make compact FUSION happen and mass-produce said units I am sure they could come up with a way to generate a field that counters the negative effects of deceleration on organic entities with fluid cavities that contain delicate organs. Such a continuous field would of-course require a huge amount of power to maintain thus the reason for a power source capable of powering large building being deleted in mere hours if not minutes of continuous use. Ta-da! Fixed.

"I'm scared of falling and dying." Jumps off from extremely high places.....

I am not afraid of heights, I'm afraid of falling from any hight!

Actually, the player character is about 6 feet tall without power armour. The power armour adds a foot of height, so the power armour is 7 feet.

What's wrong with them is they run on NUCLEAR batteries that last for ~25 minutes.

I let my friend play fallout 4 for the first time. Walks into boston common "Oh look! Stuff! I BET I CAN FIND SOME MONEY MONEY!" "Bro,you should check VATS first" "Nah,I GOT DIS!" "HO MY GHAD A SWAANN!!"

damn, where were these videos when I was taking AP Physics??

You've got the song Hall of the Mountain King stuck in my head

dear shoddy cast: plz use metric mesurements. thank you.

*Suite made of titanium alloy about maby an inch thick* a fuckin raider hits u with his pathetic bat and it still does dammage not to mention small caliber bullets such as 10mm or 9 witch would most likely dew to the shape of the armour bounce or ricocheted off. And a feral ghoul or rad scorpion some how ignores your titanium barrier and poisons you or hurts you.... A decrepit rotting shit fuck can hurt you behind an inch of one of the worlds strongest metals

Fallout 4 power armor actually feels like a powered suit of armor instead of just heavy metal armor

Just imagine falling from a tall building into an open suit of Power Armor lying on the ground; basically the same thing.

In this next titillating episode of "Man nitpicks everything"...

So... how bad would the damage actually be with the Freefall legs? I'm guessing your body would be reduced to fine pâté...

Let's not forget that Proctor Ingram (The character) lost her legs due to a fall in Power Armor. Yet we the player, as stated in the video, take no fall damage when wearing power armor. Think about it.

was it just me that laughed my ass off when he started yeeting everyone in the bos at the end

I hate fall damage in Witcher 3. Super human mutant dies from a 10 ft fall.

I never realized video games needed to be uber realistic.

You said that you wanted to escape from reality in videogames, but still you’re wining

What if they have discovered inertial dampening both for the pilot and the armour? I have no idea how that would work, but it would be cool! I mean if they can contain all the power of a nuclear reactor inside a reactor core that's the size of my fist, I am more than sure inertial dampening wouldn't be too much of a stretch.

I did the research, And I have determined that the lightest commercially available slug for a 308 winchester (presumably the .308 round used in the Fallout franchise) that I could find reliable data for is 110 grains. That bullet, fired from a 24 inch barrel would generate exactly 3,316.34 Joules of energy at 100 yards. The most common bullet weight for .308 winchester 150 grains, which generates a force of 3,600 Joules. The most that T-51 power Armor can sustain is 2500 Joules, meaning that any one with a decent .308 hunting rifle and some ammunition could easily kill a soldier in power armor in ONE shot to the chest. Eat that, Bethesda! Kind of a fatal flaw, considering that the most common round for sniper rifles and medium machine guns to be chambered is 7.62x51mm NATO, which is the military variant of .308 and those would probably be the best weapons to use against power armour.

Something you seemed to forget about fighter pilots is that they wear pressure suits, which assist in preventing all blood flowing directly to their brain or legs.

And this is an armor Austin. You don't even saw the Freefall leg plates... 😅

Well, to answer your question... *Hold on, another settlement needs my help*

*cough* kinetic repulsors *cough*

Here's another problem with power armor: "Power cores power a building for years!" and yet...you run out of juice in a few hours.

I have a feeling those suits are equipped with shock-absorbing bits to help absorb some of the g-forces and stuff.

4:16 I’m literally playing KSP while listening to this and I glance down at the perfect moment to see a plane on a crash course with the ground.

shoddy's key board I customized to have keys to instantly spell "No-god-damn-sense"

Speaking of deadly heights you can locate the Freefall Legs (which prevent falling damage without need of power armor) in the Mass Fusion building. There is also a journal by the inventor who mentions that Power Armor have hydraulic shock absorption integrated into them.

Power armor must have some sick hydraulics to counteract this.

He forgot that time in this game is like 15 times faster than real time

I like the old shoddycast with the lore videos that were more than 6 minutes long that were also just narrated, no actors

The armor has bubble wrap on the inside to protect you from falling damage.

6:19 Sounds like my kind of hood

Okay, but Austin’s Hank Green impression is amazing

I learned about the Stanford Prison Experiment in my psychology class.

"It's not the sudden stop that kills you, It's the sudden deceleration" ....That's...that's what a stop is....

the one thing that power armor cant stop is fall damage from landing on water, i died from that in X-01 power armor because i decided to test out what would happen and it was death

I see a flaw in your math. You forgot the time it takes in in game seconds. So that would change your math completely and the player would be more likely to survive that amount of force. Sincerely, Ryan

What if you tried to theorize how the power armor would mitigate falling damage? Like now you know what the forces are... Now what would be necessary to ignore them?

and the teachers at my high school said that I wouldn't be able to understand physics

But, since you damage nearby enemies when fall, doesn't that mean that the ground absorbs a lot of the impact, spreading it out to nearby areas? It's enough force absorbed and spread to hurt another organisim.

Another psychologist that did an experiment like that was Stanley Milgram, he is one of the 9 studies we had to learn in my psychology class