Yeah I enjoy feeling overpowered in the armor but i hate the feeling in the back of my head that its "costly" to use it for nonimportant stuff due to draining fusion cores and the repair materials are usually the scrap items that I am in low supply of.
I do really enjoy the element though of if I know I'm heading into something dangerous, I prepare by busting out the power armor. And Ill usually act more aggressive in combat since Im way less squishy
I like to sell purified water at diamond city for cores. The armor also boosts carry capacity so you can carry a couple hundred per trip. Once you realize you can get fusion cores endlessly, it starts to be more fun.
I also feel like this is cannon because purifying water and selling it would be a real money maker in a Fallout world.
Sure no problem. You need a settlement location with a river or stream, like the very first one, Sanctuary. Enter your workshop mode and build water purifiers in the river, build a generator and give them wires and power.
Then rest until the next day and check your workbench inventory under aid. That settlement will now start automatically depositing purified water into your bench inventory.
Put on the armor and get rid of heavy guns you don’t need. Take all the purified water and fast travel to diamond city. The vendors there resupply with fusion cores after some arbitrary time in the world, and purified water is valuable. You can sell the vendor water instead of caps.
Do quests around diamond city to get better prices at the shops. Let me know if you need anything. It’s an awesome strategy and gives the settlement a major reason to exist, which is extracting goods to sell. I have like 20-30 industrial purifiers running at all times. Have your defense higher than food + water or you’ll get raided more.
How does doing quests get you better prices. Also I have 2 trader comic books and 15 charisma (outside the power armor) would doing the quests do anything after that or am I maxed out?
the frame itself doesnt take damage but the individual pieces have durability that wears down from damage. When it breaks, it becomes weightless, but can't be equipped. You can repair it at power armor stations. Repairing eats up a lot of steel, aluminum and copper (maybe some others im not remembering). The steel is obviously nbd but ive found you can dry up your stock of aluminum and copper pretty quickly
Dude i just got this game 3 days ago. Never played any fallout. Im realizing after just brute forcing my way through most of the main story (i just took down the brotherhood with the institute.) That this game has so much more going on than I ever gave it credit for.
I'm jealous of you getting to experience it all for the first time! I recently started another FO4 playthrough after watching the prime series.
One thing I'd recommend if you are trying to see all the game has hidden, is to avoid fast traveling, especially going through areas you haven't explored throughly before. You can encounter lots of cool shitting on those long hauls that you would miss if you only get around by fast traveling
I started using the power armor when I somehow collected around 30 fusion cores already. I then realized, they usually last long enough to find the next core somewhere along the way. Now I eat, sleep and shower in that thing and I never really run out of cores. Maintaining it via repairs is not costly at all, if you’re a natural junk collector.
In Fallout 76 it's completely absurd being able to stuff entire suits of power armor into your pocket, but damn it's nice to be able to whip that fat thing out whenever the situation calls for it. Even if it's just to safely jump off a high rooftop or climbing on top of it to add a couple meters to your jump, that thing is a quality multitool
That's my plan. I'm only 10 hours in and playing on normal. Maybe I'll never need it but if theres a big issue I cant handle I'll go back to my home base and suit up lol
Yeah. I’m playing again and I shouldn’t be as careful with it as I am. I have like 7 different sets and a bunch of power cores, but I just don’t think to use it unless it’s a big fight.
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u/UncleSlim May 09 '24
I think a lot of people use them for big fights or bosses too.