Just to add a bit lore to the T-51 vs. T-60 debate: The 51 in Lore is definitely better than the 60. The reason why the 60 was made, and potentially rushed, resulting in the same flaw the 45 had, was the Fact that the 51 had one glaring drawback as far as usability goes: The Frames for the T-51s were all custom made for the Soldier who wears it. Meaning one 51 only fits one specific Soldier and if that guy dies or retires, you can throw away the Frame. The T-51 is the high quality hand tailored suit by a Italian guy named Giovanni. The T-60 is good old capitalist American mass produced, and the T-45 is made in Bangladesh.
There's literally nothing in lore that says the T-51 is actually directly better than the T-60 and the Fallout Show confirms the T-60 became the main power armor of the US before the bombs dropped.
@@tylerellis9097 The T-51 was still considered the Pinnacle of Power Armor, even after the T-60 rolled around. And it started to become the Main Power Armor. It by no means replaced the other Models, especially the T-51 before the War, because there were only a couple Months time between the T-60 going into service and the Bombs falling.
@@tylerellis9097 I feel like it's worth pointing out that the "main" power armour does not equate to the "best" power armour. For a real-world example, the F-22 performs far far better in combat than the F-16, but the US operates more F-16s than it does F-22s. The reason is that the F-22 was too expensive and complicated to replace the F-16 in large quantities. Now, the F-35 is replacing the older models instead, even though the F-22 still outperforms F-35 as a fighter. So here's how I choose to think about it: F16 is like T45 - Really good, easy to mass produce, not the most performant of the bunch. F22 is like T51 - Best technical performance by a small margin, but expensive to build and maintain. F35 is like T60 - Much better than T45, close to as good as T51, but cheaper to build, easier to maintain. Or for another example from within Fallout, look at Combat Armor. It's nowhere near as good as even T45, but of course they made way more combat armor than power armor, because of course simple protective plates are way easier to manufacture than power armour for issuing to the majority of troops. At least that's what makes the most sense to me.
As I understand what I've read, and the direct impressions I get, infer that the T60 was probably the most common in the days before the bombs, but that doesn't make it the better armor, just the most produced. In Capital Wastes, you find more T51 and T45 than T60 I felt, where as in the Commonwealth, you mostly find T60 and honestly I find more X01 than anything there in my exp.
WHERE IS YOUR POWER ARMOR?! 😡 Dont have any??? Do you expect me to believe it, maggot? The truth is you've lost an expesnive peace of army isue equipment! The suit is gona come out of your pay, and you will remain in this man's army until you are fiiiive hunfred and ten years old, which is number of years it will take for you to to pay for a Mark 2 power combat armor YOU HAVE LOST. Now report to the armory and have new suit issued to you! Then report back to me, private! DISMISSED 😡
@@TheUnknown-og3zoDon't have any? *YOU EXPECT ME TO BELIEVE THAT, MAGGOT?* THE TRUTH IS, YOU'VE LOST AN EXPENSIVE PIECE OF MILITARY EQUIPMENT! YOU WILL REMAIN IN THIS MAN'S ARNY UNTIL YOU ARE: 510 YEARS OLD! NOW REPORT TO THE ARMORY AND HAVE A NEW PIECE ISSUED TO YOU, YOU ARE DISMISSED!
(Pls dont kill me for saying this) Me personally I wear Power Armor only when needed. For me its more of a tool but for many people it seems its their whole identity in the game.
Depends on the Character my poor institute coward lives in it's armor while my main just loves to yield a power fist. And Hank the Tank my Railroad agent looks always bully s a suit of Hellfire despite wearing normal armor.
Agreed, I'm personally doing a playthrough with powerarmor banned and it's actually been a lot of fun, without having thousands of damage resistance you need to fight a little more carefully, you can't fly anywhere and stealth boys are a resource, it's also cheaper considering clothes and armor don't break, and the shirt on my back doesn't use fusion cores (but once your out of the early game that doesn't matter anyways)
Usually depends on my character. Sometimes, I have a character who in my canon, is glued to their armour. What is a knight without their armour? But when I play as a character who more reflects me, and my go to play style, I usually reserve power armour as a last resort or upgrade as well. Like when the BoS attacked the Castle, I fought off a few waves alongside Minutemen (modded with more tactical gear and guns lmao) and then retreated into the armoury to use my T-49.
I don't blame you, power armor is fine, but there comes a point where it’s simply too OP in terms of its availability. Sure, it serves its purpose of turning you into a tank, but the lack of enemies with advanced power armor (raiders end up being a joke), the ease of obtaining fusion cores even at the beginning, and finding loads of power armor scattered around the map make it lose its value. In the end, it feels more like a nuisance and even a "cheat" because of how ridiculously easy it is to make yourself almost immortal.
The T-51 power armor is what comes to mind when I think of power armor, but then again I grow up playing Fallout 1 and 2. So it holds a special place in my heart.
I grew up with 3 and new vegas but once I got thru the classics I would say t-51 is the most iconic. When 4 dropped and I finally saw all the accurate power armors I geeked out lol
I have too many T60s to count. Since power armor can’t be damaged as long as they’re empty I just use them as perimeter walls for my settlement. Since traditional walls can’t mesh together too well. Took awhile though to make the perimeter. They’re indestructible which hands down makes them better than walls/fencing. And what I like about power armor overall is that it makes great cover. If your armor is taking too much damage, hop out and take cover behind it. Your armor will stop taking damage and you won’t have to worry too much about repairs. Edit: if you are planning on making walls made of power armor remember to take the fusion core out of the power armor, otherwise your settlers will hop in them and leave them in random areas.
I legit lost my enclave power armour to a caravan guard. I didn't take out the fusion core, and now I'm 1 power armour less and pissed I can't tell them to gtfo of my armour, but at least she can survive on the road
Fun fact, there are technically two more ranks of BOS power armor you can get besides the main three designs. Knight Sergent Gavil and Elder Maxson both have unique armor ranks on their power armor, meaning if you kill them you can loot those pieces giving you the elder rank mark and the Knight sergeant rank mark.
Fun fact about the Raider Power Armor's Thermal Protection mod for the legs: it literally only makes you immune to that specific pool of molten slag to grab the incinerator. Go and test some of the other pools around the factory, but you should probably quicksave first.
The X-02 and Hellfire X-03 definitely needed to be rare or appear way later in level. The Enclave Remnants Quest and its linked stuff should have appeared around Level 25, with the X-02 and X-03 armor only fully appearing on the soldiers until Level 30. It wouldn’t cheapen the blow of finding much better Power Armor.
I was trying to going to Dunwich Borers to clear it out for a quest, found an enclave outpost. Ran away, fast traveled to Santuary to sleep and get gear. When I woke up, the troopers were right there in the middle of sanctuary and all my settlers and trashcan Carla killed them. I just had to shoot the Hellfire trooper in his fusion core to get him out. Then I had literally the best version of Hellfire in the game, as far as I'm aware. Mark 6. 20 hours later, when I found X 01 in the Fort Hagen Satellite Array, I was disappointed to find out it wouldnt even be as good as my Hellfire until I upgraded it to Mark V.
Also weren’t the XO-2 and 3 weaker than regular armor since it’s basically paper in fallout 3 (I know they tuned down the enclave to ensure any person rushing the story can still take them on in early levels but seriously their armor is a joke)
I didn't know what the reward for the Black Devil quest was, so got it at level 40 or so. Very fun, since that was right around the time I felt my power level was falling behind, since I was investing in a bunch of different perk trees.
I've obtained my X-02 differently. Left Finch farm, was probably doing the quest to find Paladin Brandis, when I was attacked by a group of Enclave soldiers and their captain was wearing an Enclave X-02 and had a note on him that started a quest. Just looted the pieces off him and put it on a random power armour frame I found earlier. Only had much worse power armour before this on this character.
I actually really dig that design flaw the show added. It's so fallout how they never bothered to fix it even though they knew about it. It also shows that Cooper called maximus' bluff and was just toying with him.
It might actually be that the suit Maximus had didn’t have the flaw, or rather had it fixed accidentally. On the vertibird in episode 2, Maximus questioned Titus about the tempered lining on the chest plate of his t-60. That might actually be what saved him lol.
@@LeoPirSal It's that, and what people seem to overlook (or ignore so they can cry) is that the Ghoul still basically used a shotgun slug sized armor penetrating round. So it's not like this flaw is a easy to exploit "insta kill button", you still need the appropriate Ammo for it on top of very specialized knowledge, making the chance to kill a PA wearer with a lucky shot a solid zero.
@@starhammer5247 You are correct, the T-51 is better then T-45 and 60. The T-51 is what you get when you finish the testing stage and get combat ready PA. Honestly I love how T-45 was a stop gap armor until the T-51 was able to be completed.
Fallout 4 really made Power Armour the most fun part of the games for me, being able to literally climb into a suit of armour is so cool. That being said I love the T-60 the most with the Sentinel paint job. Ad Victoriam!
That is something I liked. Power Armor is described as turning infantry into walking tanks, and they essentially turned it into a vehicle. You can feel why it turned things around in the Great War.
I got a wounding plasma rifle on my playthru and then proceeded to find an explosive submachine. Basically a dupe of spray n pray if I wanted one for companion too. I like the wounding auto plasma has great range. Even if plasma is slow.
@CyberController- i had a plasma infused 44 on a pistol playthru. Was neat because would still gooify enemies at random. Most things were 1 shot with anyway.
@@KayJay940I have a wounding plasma rifle too that I use the flamer version of and it shreds. Only problem is it also shreds ammo, so I use a mob that allows me to craft ammo
Personally I'm a fan of t45 head t51 arms and legs with x01 chest. The t45/51 pieces are there partly because of appearance preference, but mostly because they only take steel to repair. X01 brings the big defense boost and just looks good.
Not gonna lie, my favorite power armor actually became the T45 because of its ease of repair. If I ever have to repair limbs, then all I would ever need is a little bit of steel and maybe some circuitry (I’ve never had the chest piece break under combat). It may not be the best power armor but as a level 169, I say that more than acceptable for my work. The X01 is my second favorite just for its cosmetic design as well as the T51. I never did like the T60 because I personally found it to be a uncreative addition, it was clearly added as a way to give the player a shiny toy to go after and I honestly can’t help but think of Buzz Lightyea- I mean Paladin Dance when I see this overly chunky and bubbly suit. The Enclaves X02 series of suits (including the HellFire) is cool but I don’t wear it because of its stereotypical bad guy design and it honestly just never looked great, it was clearly meant to be worn by a edgy villain and that simply isn’t compatible with my character, but the design is very sleek and it matches Enclave perfectly for who they are as they’re clearly more mysterious and evil than even the Institute.
Even though Fallout 3's cover features the T-45, the T-51s were the best armours in that game. Both the B model and the Winterised version. So T-51 is still the most iconic imo
The T-51 was more of an Easter egg in Fallout 3, so it reasonably makes sense to be as powerful as it is, and it's always nice to have an alternative to cool, but limited T-45 and the laughably edgy Enclave designs.
Actually the best power armor (by the numbers) is a Chimera - Hellfire head, legs and torso with X-02 arms. Unless you want to use the devil's inferno mod in which case you would substitute the x-02 torso.
Out of everything I think the Enclave Quest from the Creation Club, I think the Enclave is most likely to be Canon, as in the Show, the BoS Elder Cleric Quintus said that their mission to find the Enclave Scientist defector was given to them from “the Highest Clerics in the Commonwealth” now how would the BoS in the Commonwealth find any new information on the Enclave in the Commonwealth? I think the Enclave Remnants CC Content was made to answer that. Presumably after destroying the Institute, the Eastern BoS discovered the Enclave Remnant Outposts and Bases and managed to find up to date information on their latest projects and personnel of interest.
I like the T-51 the most, design-wise. Reminds me of the Cylon Centurion from the 1978 Battlestar Galactica series. That being said, the T-45 also looks great and it's by far the least bulky option which makes it feel a bit more realistic. I have no idea where my character's arms and legs are supposed to go inside of that huge Hellfire armor. I really don't like anything about the X-02s appearance and given that it's only marginally better than the X-01 I'll probably consider the X-01 to be my "endgame" set. It would be neat if the Hellfire, X-01 and X-02 sets were more specialized, allowing the T-60 to be the best overall set as far as raw protection is concerned.
The first Fallout I played was Fallout 2, which is why I think of X-01(or Advanced Power Armor) as my iconic one. It looked really cool back then... way more intimidating than anything else available. Running into a random encounter squad wearing those in the wastes was a death sentence.
I don't usually wear power armor... but when I do I wear the Nuka World Quantum X-01 and put Cait in the X-02 with a hotrod color scheme. I also tend to use Old Faithful, The Problem Solver, or a Gatling Laser and have Cait wielding a Tri-Barrel Minigun. I actually like looking at the X-02 more than I do using it. The eyes look menacing... and those tesla coils... brah! Super badass.
I was 17 or 18 when Fallout 3 arrived, watching that intro and the t45 showing up really made me feel like “im screwed”! Before it even began. Its a strange but very joyfull moment when a game comes out and you play it for the first time, even more so when it was launched back in 2007 or 2008. Same happened with Shenmue when i first bought the Dreamcast in 2000. Those were the times of gaming era!
I’ve always seen the X-01 helmet as insectoid. But you said bird. And then one of my friends said it looked like a frog when I asked him. Now I don’t know what to think.
I love my Liberty power armor (from the mod of the same name), especially with the Institute paint and ultraviolet headlamp. It's like walking around in my own mini Liberty Prime! 😂
Being that you can purchase the frame from several different vendors for around 2400 I believe it was and then just add the pieces until you have an entire set basically makes it to where you have an infinite number of power armors available at any given time. Rowdy at the Atom Cats garage sells individual pieces and while they may not all match the same model but you can still build a suit right there
Explosive shielding is the best paint for power armor. It reduced explosion damage which does massive burst damage. Now you don’t need to worry about fatman wielding raiders and gunners.
I enjoy taking a random power armor frame straight to Nuka world and just clipping into the display to get the quantum X0-1 early because it's my favorite set
I got the enclave X02 power amour at around level 20, when I did the kill pyro quest. Now i feel like I can do literally anything compared to the t51 amour I had before.
Really?!! I’m pretty new to the the fallout lore and games I’ve seen 2 & 3 played through on TH-cam and watched my roommate play 4 when it released. Just actually started playing myself 2 months ago (Fallout 4) and I’ve been hearing on TH-cam video after video after video that X-01 usually won’t spawn until level 28+. I just hit 27 yesterday and have YET to find a X-01….. so all I have to do it that msision to get a guaranteed one??!!!!
@@zhx6219 X-01 is only a prototype after all. The Advanced Power Armor (Fallout 2 and New Vegas) and the Hellfire Armour are the pinnacle of Power Armour design. Or at least should be.
In my first play through. I’m currently using the x-01 helmet and torso I found in the wild and the BOS limbs I got for joining. I have the strength boosting military paint on the suit
Nothing, and I mean nothing, will compare to a Legacy Shiskabab with explosive legendary perk and samurai power armor in Fallout 76. peak gameplay. OMG I didn’t even realize it was you SAM! Haven’t played CP 2077 in a minute!
HOLD ON so this means I already have the enclave X.02 on EARLY GAME??? I got ambushed by the enclave near sanctuary and absolutely crushed a guy with a full set of it
I'll need more time to play all the games and get saves/a deep understanding/footage but my hope at some point is to make fallout videos covering topics that span mutiple games in the series.
T51 is the best set for Survival unless you set up a settlement network. The ease of upkeep out in the wilds in relationship to the protection it provides is amazing until you are above level 50 or so.
my first fallout game was Fallout 4 yet the T-51 is my favorite and the one i think of when hearing power armor (although Tony Starks Iron man suit also comes to mind, specifically the Mark 1)
Honestly, I really like how different the Overboss armor is. It's cheap to fix, and pretty easy to upgrade. I slapped Cait in it because the T60 I had her in broke and I wanted to keep exploring Nuka-World, and was pleasantly surprised with how she managed. Plus, it fits her as a cage fighter!
The power armor I envision first (question at 12:40) is always the T-51B. It's on the cover of Fallout 1, it's the armor you wear for the first 2 games. The T-45D was created by Bethesda for Fallout 3 where they kept the T-51B (and gave it it's name/model number) as a unique suit of which you only ever find 1 (discounting Anchorage DLC). The next coolest is the OG Enclave armor, not the weaker ceramic version from Fallout 3, but the one that Fallout 4 brought back.
New Vegas had way better weapons in my opinion than 4 and without a doubt my all time favorite gun was "This Machine" which as we all know is the classic rifle M1 Garand. I absolutely love taking This Machine into Dead Wind Caverns and cleaning out the deathclaw population that lives there... The only drawback of This Machine was that it didnt have a scope and you had to look down iron sights but still the best weapon in the game in my opinion.. New Vegas had so many amazing weapons like the Ballistic Fist, Grenade Machinegun, La Longues Carabine (im sure I misspelled that one), Gobi Campaign Sniper Rifle, This Machine, That Gun etc... the list is so long. New Vegas was and still to this day in my opinion the best Fallout ever made and imagine how great it would have been if Obsidian had some real money behind them at the time of making the game how amazing it would have been
I find that T-51 onwards the armour is so good that even though stats wise there are actual best armours they’re all so good that it’s rare that you’re ever going to run into anything that you can’t handle
3:12 I was watching this vid in hopes of finding the best armor to use in my current playthrough but I just can't help but rewatch this specific part of the video
X-01 always my favorite. Even as someone who has only played Fallout 3+, I’ve seen enough of Fallout 2 and the aesthetic has always been the most iconic to me
The first power armor I think of is the Tesla enclave Power armor, idk it was just so fun doing a energy weapons playthrough with that. Plus just so sick looking.
I’d personally recommend the overboss PA for anyone wanting to tryout a melee build in survival mode. That regenarative beast can be brought back to full health with some desk fans. Even though it is not as durable as some other PAs, it can surely take a great hit before getting back online the moment you spot a wild station while travelling.
Interestingly, the X-01 we see in Fallout 4 is not the Mark 2 Advanced Power Armor used by the Western Enclave. The Enclave actually designed the Mark 2 Advanced Power Armor based off of the X-01 (that is, the new lore given to us in light of Fallout 4's release in 2015). Meaning the "X-02" Black Devil suit is really, the X-03, or, Mark 3, and the X-01 could be referred to as the Mark 1 (but Mark is used to denote something that actually saw operation).
You can get the X-01 even before setting foot into the park itself. After defeating Colter, leave the park and head west. There is a junkyard of old amusement park rides. In the main building there is a Star Core (up the stairs, in the loft, near the Alien animatronic that shoots at you.) The loot resets every in-game day or two, so you can repeatedly fast travel back to the Commonwealth, nap, then head back to the junkyard to pick up another Star Core. Lather, rinse, repeat.
Just recently stumbled upon the black devil suit while messing with the enclave quest line. Never seen it before and started to freak out lol but that all black imo looks the best.
Right after getting the hellfire set from the new update, I got ambushed by the enclave soldier with MK VI hellfire armor. Its been carrying me super hard, but its expensive as shit to repair and doesnt feel very durable
I am a sucker for T-45 Power Armor because Fallout Three was the first Fallout game I played, I eventually want to upgrade the T-45 suit that you get early on to a full model E.
There is a magazine that allows you to paint non-enclave power armor with their paint, it's a pity you didn't include it in this very detailed video. P.S: The fallout tv show is not set in the Mojave xD
I saw something black with mean red eyes around those broken motorways near dunwich borers. Level 20 I got basically nailed quickly. Level 28 I am going there with Mr.X suit to see what that is. I seem to remember enclave on the screen. I want that suit.
Ome thing i dont get is how people have difficulties obtaining these power armour. When i get ambushed early on in the game by Enclave and track them down, one of their soldier was wearing Hellfire Mk.6, the final upgrades iteration. And then i attacked their base in the glowing seas, killed all their power armour user, and multiple of them has the X02 Mk4 armor, i just salvaged the parts and put it on my existing frame. And since i killed them eith flamethrower, effectively cooking the man inside, the armor piece were large undamaged. So i essentially gained access to the X02 armor very early on in the game.
Using the X-01 power-armor, wielding a minigun, getting welcomed at Vault 88 gives me flashbacks towards Fallout 2’s intro.
Heheh gun go brrrt
You just gave me a very good idea, once I obtain a xo1
@@Rodin-f9e oh no
@@Rodin-f9esame, i need 2 suits, a follower and 2 miniguns
Time to pay Vault 81 and 88 a “friendly” visit.
Just to add a bit lore to the T-51 vs. T-60 debate:
The 51 in Lore is definitely better than the 60. The reason why the 60 was made, and potentially rushed, resulting in the same flaw the 45 had, was the Fact that the 51 had one glaring drawback as far as usability goes: The Frames for the T-51s were all custom made for the Soldier who wears it. Meaning one 51 only fits one specific Soldier and if that guy dies or retires, you can throw away the Frame.
The T-51 is the high quality hand tailored suit by a Italian guy named Giovanni. The T-60 is good old capitalist American mass produced, and the T-45 is made in Bangladesh.
There's literally nothing in lore that says the T-51 is actually directly better than the T-60 and the Fallout Show confirms the T-60 became the main power armor of the US before the bombs dropped.
@@tylerellis9097
The T-51 was still considered the Pinnacle of Power Armor, even after the T-60 rolled around.
And it started to become the Main Power Armor. It by no means replaced the other Models, especially the T-51 before the War, because there were only a couple Months time between the T-60 going into service and the Bombs falling.
@@tylerellis9097 I feel like it's worth pointing out that the "main" power armour does not equate to the "best" power armour.
For a real-world example, the F-22 performs far far better in combat than the F-16, but the US operates more F-16s than it does F-22s. The reason is that the F-22 was too expensive and complicated to replace the F-16 in large quantities. Now, the F-35 is replacing the older models instead, even though the F-22 still outperforms F-35 as a fighter.
So here's how I choose to think about it:
F16 is like T45 - Really good, easy to mass produce, not the most performant of the bunch.
F22 is like T51 - Best technical performance by a small margin, but expensive to build and maintain.
F35 is like T60 - Much better than T45, close to as good as T51, but cheaper to build, easier to maintain.
Or for another example from within Fallout, look at Combat Armor. It's nowhere near as good as even T45, but of course they made way more combat armor than power armor, because of course simple protective plates are way easier to manufacture than power armour for issuing to the majority of troops.
At least that's what makes the most sense to me.
As I understand what I've read, and the direct impressions I get, infer that the T60 was probably the most common in the days before the bombs, but that doesn't make it the better armor, just the most produced.
In Capital Wastes, you find more T51 and T45 than T60 I felt, where as in the Commonwealth, you mostly find T60 and honestly I find more X01 than anything there in my exp.
@@tylerellis9097the show shits all over most of the lore
"Well, basic training must not be what it used to be, because you drive that thing like a fuckin' shopping cart!"
nate or your character is supposed to be a vet so I think they received proper pre war training so yea
@@natethecommissarMy settlers say different
@@natethecommissarhe’s qouting the show
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@@natethecommissar think Nate gave Nora some tips on how to use PA? Lol
YOU ARE OUT OF YOUR UNIFORM SOLDIER
SIR, I DON’T HAVE ANY POWER ARMOR! SIR!
WHERE IS YOUR POWER ARMOR?! 😡 Dont have any??? Do you expect me to believe it, maggot? The truth is you've lost an expesnive peace of army isue equipment! The suit is gona come out of your pay, and you will remain in this man's army until you are fiiiive hunfred and ten years old, which is number of years it will take for you to to pay for a Mark 2 power combat armor YOU HAVE LOST. Now report to the armory and have new suit issued to you! Then report back to me, private! DISMISSED 😡
@@TheUnknown-og3zoDon't have any? *YOU EXPECT ME TO BELIEVE THAT, MAGGOT?* THE TRUTH IS, YOU'VE LOST AN EXPENSIVE PIECE OF MILITARY EQUIPMENT! YOU WILL REMAIN IN THIS MAN'S ARNY UNTIL YOU ARE: 510 YEARS OLD! NOW REPORT TO THE ARMORY AND HAVE A NEW PIECE ISSUED TO YOU, YOU ARE DISMISSED!
@@TheUnknown-og3zo Dont have any? YOU EXPECT ME TO BELIVE THAT MAGGOT?!
YOU HAVE LOST A HIGH VALUABLE MILITARY EQUIPEMENT THATS WHAT ARE YOU SAYING!!!
(Pls dont kill me for saying this)
Me personally I wear Power Armor only when needed. For me its more of a tool but for many people it seems its their whole identity in the game.
Hot take: i only use power armor as decoration display x)
Depends on the Character my poor institute coward lives in it's armor while my main just loves to yield a power fist. And Hank the Tank my Railroad agent looks always bully s a suit of Hellfire despite wearing normal armor.
Agreed, I'm personally doing a playthrough with powerarmor banned and it's actually been a lot of fun, without having thousands of damage resistance you need to fight a little more carefully, you can't fly anywhere and stealth boys are a resource, it's also cheaper considering clothes and armor don't break, and the shirt on my back doesn't use fusion cores (but once your out of the early game that doesn't matter anyways)
Usually depends on my character. Sometimes, I have a character who in my canon, is glued to their armour. What is a knight without their armour?
But when I play as a character who more reflects me, and my go to play style, I usually reserve power armour as a last resort or upgrade as well. Like when the BoS attacked the Castle, I fought off a few waves alongside Minutemen (modded with more tactical gear and guns lmao) and then retreated into the armoury to use my T-49.
I don't blame you, power armor is fine, but there comes a point where it’s simply too OP in terms of its availability. Sure, it serves its purpose of turning you into a tank, but the lack of enemies with advanced power armor (raiders end up being a joke), the ease of obtaining fusion cores even at the beginning, and finding loads of power armor scattered around the map make it lose its value. In the end, it feels more like a nuisance and even a "cheat" because of how ridiculously easy it is to make yourself almost immortal.
The T-51 power armor is what comes to mind when I think of power armor, but then again I grow up playing Fallout 1 and 2. So it holds a special place in my heart.
I grew up with 3 and new vegas but once I got thru the classics I would say t-51 is the most iconic. When 4 dropped and I finally saw all the accurate power armors I geeked out lol
The T-51 is the most iconic but tbh my favorites are the T-60 and X-o1
But honestly after making a t-51 build I enjoyed it alot I beat the game as a minuteman it was really fun so I gotta make my new favs X-01 and T-51
Same, grew up on fallout 1
i think of t 60
That raider being lauched 5000 feet in the air and then flying back down at 3:14 was so funny, glad you kept it in
Glad you noticed. I didn't actually see him falling back down until I was reviewing the footage in the editor 😂
His people needed him
I have too many T60s to count. Since power armor can’t be damaged as long as they’re empty I just use them as perimeter walls for my settlement. Since traditional walls can’t mesh together too well. Took awhile though to make the perimeter. They’re indestructible which hands down makes them better than walls/fencing. And what I like about power armor overall is that it makes great cover. If your armor is taking too much damage, hop out and take cover behind it. Your armor will stop taking damage and you won’t have to worry too much about repairs.
Edit: if you are planning on making walls made of power armor remember to take the fusion core out of the power armor, otherwise your settlers will hop in them and leave them in random areas.
Haha that's pretty neat and creative!
Wait wait, so the vast wooden walls I build around my settlements can take damage?!
Wait this is fucking brilliant lol
Bro built his own Titan walls
I legit lost my enclave power armour to a caravan guard. I didn't take out the fusion core, and now I'm 1 power armour less and pissed I can't tell them to gtfo of my armour, but at least she can survive on the road
Red makes it go faster.
WWWAAAAAAGGHHHH never changes!
I thought the same thing!
War Hamer 40k
@@Antidragon-nl7by Warboss Ram Pearlork told us dat!
Dis git gets it
How did you manage to fulfil my hyper fixation for cyberpunk than months later the same for fallout 4. Good shit
Glad that my hyper fixation is fulfilling your hyper fixation
@@SamBram you got me through cyberpunk , now it's time to guide me through the wasteland
Fun fact, there are technically two more ranks of BOS power armor you can get besides the main three designs. Knight Sergent Gavil and Elder Maxson both have unique armor ranks on their power armor, meaning if you kill them you can loot those pieces giving you the elder rank mark and the Knight sergeant rank mark.
Larsen In Far Harbor has the Knight Captain BoS IV T-60 C too
@@tylerellis9097can you get it?
@@jakespacepiratee3740 If you pickpocket his Fusion Core yeah.
Fun fact about the Raider Power Armor's Thermal Protection mod for the legs: it literally only makes you immune to that specific pool of molten slag to grab the incinerator. Go and test some of the other pools around the factory, but you should probably quicksave first.
Bethesda moment
And it seems like you could've reached that without walking in the lava. One of those grabby sticks or a cane
Tested and I survived? They all don't hurt
The X-02 and Hellfire X-03 definitely needed to be rare or appear way later in level. The Enclave Remnants Quest and its linked stuff should have appeared around Level 25, with the X-02 and X-03 armor only fully appearing on the soldiers until Level 30. It wouldn’t cheapen the blow of finding much better Power Armor.
I was trying to going to Dunwich Borers to clear it out for a quest, found an enclave outpost. Ran away, fast traveled to Santuary to sleep and get gear.
When I woke up, the troopers were right there in the middle of sanctuary and all my settlers and trashcan Carla killed them. I just had to shoot the Hellfire trooper in his fusion core to get him out.
Then I had literally the best version of Hellfire in the game, as far as I'm aware. Mark 6. 20 hours later, when I found X 01 in the Fort Hagen Satellite Array, I was disappointed to find out it wouldnt even be as good as my Hellfire until I upgraded it to Mark V.
The Hellfire isn't the 03. It's creation was in parallel to the 01. It'd be more accurate to call it the X-01.5.
@@mimictear6788 dang it, when is bethesda gonna get their Advanced Power Armor straight and just bring back APA Mark 2?
The Real version.
Also weren’t the XO-2 and 3 weaker than regular armor since it’s basically paper in fallout 3 (I know they tuned down the enclave to ensure any person rushing the story can still take them on in early levels but seriously their armor is a joke)
I didn't know what the reward for the Black Devil quest was, so got it at level 40 or so. Very fun, since that was right around the time I felt my power level was falling behind, since I was investing in a bunch of different perk trees.
I've obtained my X-02 differently. Left Finch farm, was probably doing the quest to find Paladin Brandis, when I was attacked by a group of Enclave soldiers and their captain was wearing an Enclave X-02 and had a note on him that started a quest. Just looted the pieces off him and put it on a random power armour frame I found earlier. Only had much worse power armour before this on this character.
Same
Yeah, that's the new quest that next-gen update added. Originally, you were only supposed to get the Black Devil as X-02. Now you can get multiples.
I randomly found the black one
@@pushfrog18 I assume the gate wasn't open.
Keep the X-02 black and give it red eyes (red tactical lamp). Become the hero this wasteland deserves.
I actually really dig that design flaw the show added. It's so fallout how they never bothered to fix it even though they knew about it. It also shows that Cooper called maximus' bluff and was just toying with him.
It might actually be that the suit Maximus had didn’t have the flaw, or rather had it fixed accidentally. On the vertibird in episode 2, Maximus questioned Titus about the tempered lining on the chest plate of his t-60. That might actually be what saved him lol.
@@LeoPirSal
It's that, and what people seem to overlook (or ignore so they can cry) is that the Ghoul still basically used a shotgun slug sized armor penetrating round.
So it's not like this flaw is a easy to exploit "insta kill button", you still need the appropriate Ammo for it on top of very specialized knowledge, making the chance to kill a PA wearer with a lucky shot a solid zero.
It was likely only present in the T-60 and T-45, seeing as one is essentially just an upgraded version of the other. I doubt the T-51 has that issue.
All great points. Thanks for contributing.
@@starhammer5247 You are correct, the T-51 is better then T-45 and 60. The T-51 is what you get when you finish the testing stage and get combat ready PA. Honestly I love how T-45 was a stop gap armor until the T-51 was able to be completed.
Fallout 4 really made Power Armour the most fun part of the games for me, being able to literally climb into a suit of armour is so cool. That being said I love the T-60 the most with the Sentinel paint job. Ad Victoriam!
That is something I liked. Power Armor is described as turning infantry into walking tanks, and they essentially turned it into a vehicle. You can feel why it turned things around in the Great War.
One of the BEST changes Bethesda made
Ad victoriam sentinel. Long live the brotherhood
"Give me a Black Devil and my plasma rifle, and I'll take on the world"
I got a wounding plasma rifle on my playthru and then proceeded to find an explosive submachine. Basically a dupe of spray n pray if I wanted one for companion too. I like the wounding auto plasma has great range. Even if plasma is slow.
@@KayJay940 I got a plasma infused plasma pistol once, very funny.
@CyberController- i had a plasma infused 44 on a pistol playthru. Was neat because would still gooify enemies at random. Most things were 1 shot with anyway.
@@KayJay940I have a wounding plasma rifle too that I use the flamer version of and it shreds. Only problem is it also shreds ammo, so I use a mob that allows me to craft ammo
I'm so happy you chose Fallout as your next focus game series! You just never miss, dude.
Personally I'm a fan of t45 head t51 arms and legs with x01 chest. The t45/51 pieces are there partly because of appearance preference, but mostly because they only take steel to repair. X01 brings the big defense boost and just looks good.
Not gonna lie, my favorite power armor actually became the T45 because of its ease of repair. If I ever have to repair limbs, then all I would ever need is a little bit of steel and maybe some circuitry (I’ve never had the chest piece break under combat). It may not be the best power armor but as a level 169, I say that more than acceptable for my work. The X01 is my second favorite just for its cosmetic design as well as the T51.
I never did like the T60 because I personally found it to be a uncreative addition, it was clearly added as a way to give the player a shiny toy to go after and I honestly can’t help but think of Buzz Lightyea- I mean Paladin Dance when I see this overly chunky and bubbly suit.
The Enclaves X02 series of suits (including the HellFire) is cool but I don’t wear it because of its stereotypical bad guy design and it honestly just never looked great, it was clearly meant to be worn by a edgy villain and that simply isn’t compatible with my character, but the design is very sleek and it matches Enclave perfectly for who they are as they’re clearly more mysterious and evil than even the Institute.
Even though Fallout 3's cover features the T-45, the T-51s were the best armours in that game. Both the B model and the Winterised version. So T-51 is still the most iconic imo
The T-51 was more of an Easter egg in Fallout 3, so it reasonably makes sense to be as powerful as it is, and it's always nice to have an alternative to cool, but limited T-45 and the laughably edgy Enclave designs.
t45 is one of the best armors for survival mode gameplay because on most of upgraded versions it need only steel to repair.
Actually the best power armor (by the numbers) is a Chimera - Hellfire head, legs and torso with X-02 arms. Unless you want to use the devil's inferno mod in which case you would substitute the x-02 torso.
Out of everything I think the Enclave Quest from the Creation Club, I think the Enclave is most likely to be Canon, as in the Show, the BoS Elder Cleric Quintus said that their mission to find the Enclave Scientist defector was given to them from “the Highest Clerics in the Commonwealth” now how would the BoS in the Commonwealth find any new information on the Enclave in the Commonwealth? I think the Enclave Remnants CC Content was made to answer that. Presumably after destroying the Institute, the Eastern BoS discovered the Enclave Remnant Outposts and Bases and managed to find up to date information on their latest projects and personnel of interest.
I like the T-51 the most, design-wise. Reminds me of the Cylon Centurion from the 1978 Battlestar Galactica series. That being said, the T-45 also looks great and it's by far the least bulky option which makes it feel a bit more realistic. I have no idea where my character's arms and legs are supposed to go inside of that huge Hellfire armor. I really don't like anything about the X-02s appearance and given that it's only marginally better than the X-01 I'll probably consider the X-01 to be my "endgame" set. It would be neat if the Hellfire, X-01 and X-02 sets were more specialized, allowing the T-60 to be the best overall set as far as raw protection is concerned.
Take a like and my love for that OG Battlestar Galactica reference. God, i loved watching that show as a kid.
Great vid Sam. I'm glad you went into a good amount of detail on how the suits differ mechanically and in lore! Very comprehensive!
Before like 2 days I had only T-45
But just now I got the X-02 and Hellfire power armor
I absolutely love the Raider power armour, it just feels badass running around in a hunk of junk
I loved the “let’s get to it” as he put in the fusion core
The first Fallout I played was Fallout 2, which is why I think of X-01(or Advanced Power Armor) as my iconic one. It looked really cool back then... way more intimidating than anything else available. Running into a random encounter squad wearing those in the wastes was a death sentence.
I don't usually wear power armor... but when I do I wear the Nuka World Quantum X-01 and put Cait in the X-02 with a hotrod color scheme.
I also tend to use Old Faithful, The Problem Solver, or a Gatling Laser and have Cait wielding a Tri-Barrel Minigun.
I actually like looking at the X-02 more than I do using it. The eyes look menacing... and those tesla coils... brah! Super badass.
I was 17 or 18 when Fallout 3 arrived, watching that intro and the t45 showing up really made me feel like “im screwed”! Before it even began. Its a strange but very joyfull moment when a game comes out and you play it for the first time, even more so when it was launched back in 2007 or 2008. Same happened with Shenmue when i first bought the Dreamcast in 2000. Those were the times of gaming era!
A detailed and very interesting vid Sam. I learned a lot about power armour.
I’ve always seen the X-01 helmet as insectoid. But you said bird. And then one of my friends said it looked like a frog when I asked him. Now I don’t know what to think.
I definitely think it has a kind've beak. I guess insectoid would depend on the insect
@@SamBram I see where both you and he are coming from and it’s making me question my entire world view.
@@ElectricheadPt1 it's almost as though every organism on earth (probably) evolved from one another
I kinda like how insectoid & alien-like the enclave armor & the enclave as a whole is, very otherworldly
@@titanium_meat It’s 100% my favorite design for any of the armor in any of the games.
The horse armor is fun and I’d recommend the captain cosmos quest, it’s really cool the armor is good and the gun you get is crazy
Thanks my dude I appreciate you taking time out of your day to look through this
the design of x01 it's really amazing, its top of mind!! but x02 its really down of mind😂
The oblivion overworld music during the horse armor part is amazing
I love my Liberty power armor (from the mod of the same name), especially with the Institute paint and ultraviolet headlamp. It's like walking around in my own mini Liberty Prime! 😂
I fully upgraded T45 and use that. Fallout 3 was my first Fallout game and it's grown on me
Being that you can purchase the frame from several different vendors for around 2400 I believe it was and then just add the pieces until you have an entire set basically makes it to where you have an infinite number of power armors available at any given time.
Rowdy at the Atom Cats garage sells individual pieces and while they may not all match the same model but you can still build a suit right there
Explosive shielding is the best paint for power armor. It reduced explosion damage which does massive burst damage. Now you don’t need to worry about fatman wielding raiders and gunners.
I enjoy taking a random power armor frame straight to Nuka world and just clipping into the display to get the quantum X0-1 early because it's my favorite set
I got the enclave X02 power amour at around level 20, when I did the kill pyro quest. Now i feel like I can do literally anything compared to the t51 amour I had before.
Really?!! I’m pretty new to the the fallout lore and games I’ve seen 2 & 3 played through on TH-cam and watched my roommate play 4 when it released. Just actually started playing myself 2 months ago (Fallout 4) and I’ve been hearing on TH-cam video after video after video that X-01 usually won’t spawn until level 28+. I just hit 27 yesterday and have YET to find a X-01….. so all I have to do it that msision to get a guaranteed one??!!!!
@@Gemgang x02 is from a quest after the update. x-01 is a different model
When I need to review Fallout 4 armor stats (and lore), this is the video I go to. Good job, thanks for putting all of this info together! 👍👍
great video, great info and great voice. good job !
I love how the institute paint looks on the power armor plus I give my overboss power armor on my power armor creation club Buddy
X01 is the greatest. God bless the Enclave, God bless America
*laughs in fo3 literally indestructible winterized power armor*
Amen brother
What about the XO-2? That's better then the XO-1 well I'm pretty sure I don't know
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X-01 is only a prototype after all. The Advanced Power Armor (Fallout 2 and New Vegas) and the Hellfire Armour are the pinnacle of Power Armour design. Or at least should be.
No, fuck the enclave, ad victoriam, for the brotherhood, the enclave killed james in fo3 and tried to kill majority of life with the FEV virus
In my first play through. I’m currently using the x-01 helmet and torso I found in the wild and the BOS limbs I got for joining. I have the strength boosting military paint on the suit
is it only me who finds t-45, t-51 and t-60 synonymous with the franchise, others just look too weird which doesn't look like power armors
Nothing, and I mean nothing, will compare to a Legacy Shiskabab with explosive legendary perk and samurai power armor in Fallout 76. peak gameplay.
OMG I didn’t even realize it was you SAM! Haven’t played CP 2077 in a minute!
You'll grow out of it. I hope.
@@DarthWall275 lol never, played the game since release. Definitely better builds out there though
HOLD ON so this means I already have the enclave X.02 on EARLY GAME??? I got ambushed by the enclave near sanctuary and absolutely crushed a guy with a full set of it
I love your fallout videos i hope you make ones about older ones
I'll need more time to play all the games and get saves/a deep understanding/footage but my hope at some point is to make fallout videos covering topics that span mutiple games in the series.
I honestly have such a hard time not using X-02 now because having the jetpack and a dmg mod is just so useful instead of choosing one or the other
Gotta love the spoiler for the fallout show at 5:10
what an arse ngl
T51 is the best set for Survival unless you set up a settlement network. The ease of upkeep out in the wilds in relationship to the protection it provides is amazing until you are above level 50 or so.
True, the increase in repair cost for the T60 is substantial
Great video, thanks. It brought back some fond memories from years ago : )
Great video! It's also worth noting the devil's inferno upgrade can be obtained for free in the lair with the Black Devil X-02
I love this channel in part because it seems like I'm playing the same games at the same time.
Great video, man
Full X-01 but with a T-51 helm, I like feeling sleek.
3:44 i had no clue. I just did the ironworks mission last night and died like 3 times trying to get it.
my first fallout game was Fallout 4
yet the T-51 is my favorite and the one i think of when hearing power armor (although Tony Starks Iron man suit also comes to mind, specifically the Mark 1)
Honestly, I really like how different the Overboss armor is. It's cheap to fix, and pretty easy to upgrade. I slapped Cait in it because the T60 I had her in broke and I wanted to keep exploring Nuka-World, and was pleasantly surprised with how she managed. Plus, it fits her as a cage fighter!
Thank you Sam, on my first play through, having a ball, 👍👍👍
Take care mate,
Melbourne, Australia
Thank you mate. Glad that you're enjoying the game!
The power armor I envision first (question at 12:40) is always the T-51B. It's on the cover of Fallout 1, it's the armor you wear for the first 2 games. The T-45D was created by Bethesda for Fallout 3 where they kept the T-51B (and gave it it's name/model number) as a unique suit of which you only ever find 1 (discounting Anchorage DLC). The next coolest is the OG Enclave armor, not the weaker ceramic version from Fallout 3, but the one that Fallout 4 brought back.
So i put only 1 into luck, but apparently real life luck overrides the luck stat because i found 4 POWER ARMOR CORES IN SOME RANDOM BOX
lol same
i just found 3 fusion cores
IN A BLOODY TRASH CAN
Could you do a unique weapons ranking next? I’ve never played 4 but if new Vegas is anything by to go off of they’ll be awesome
The New Vegas ones were better cosmetically speaking since they actually had unique Designs. But Fallout 4 has more Unique effects.
Sorry to disappoint man
New Vegas had way better weapons in my opinion than 4 and without a doubt my all time favorite gun was "This Machine" which as we all know is the classic rifle M1 Garand.
I absolutely love taking This Machine into Dead Wind Caverns and cleaning out the deathclaw population that lives there...
The only drawback of This Machine was that it didnt have a scope and you had to look down iron sights but still the best weapon in the game in my opinion..
New Vegas had so many amazing weapons like the Ballistic Fist, Grenade Machinegun, La Longues Carabine (im sure I misspelled that one), Gobi Campaign Sniper Rifle, This Machine, That Gun etc... the list is so long. New Vegas was and still to this day in my opinion the best Fallout ever made and imagine how great it would have been if Obsidian had some real money behind them at the time of making the game how amazing it would have been
Been loving your videos for a while now!
i love raider power armor i just wish it had more upgrades making it more like a pipe gun for power armor that sucks but is cheap and customizable
I like the X02 armour with the X01 helmet, enclave paint and purple eyes. Has the best look imo
I find that T-51 onwards the armour is so good that even though stats wise there are actual best armours they’re all so good that it’s rare that you’re ever going to run into anything that you can’t handle
I think the hellcat armor has some lore in fallout 76 so it might have an actual thing to make it cannon
I'm impressed soldier by your sheer amount of power armor I will give 5,000 caps for one power armor each
3:12 I was watching this vid in hopes of finding the best armor to use in my current playthrough but I just can't help but rewatch this specific part of the video
X-01 always my favorite. Even as someone who has only played Fallout 3+, I’ve seen enough of Fallout 2 and the aesthetic has always been the most iconic to me
The first power armor I think of is the Tesla enclave Power armor, idk it was just so fun doing a energy weapons playthrough with that. Plus just so sick looking.
I’d personally recommend the overboss PA for anyone wanting to tryout a melee build in survival mode. That regenarative beast can be brought back to full health with some desk fans. Even though it is not as durable as some other PAs, it can surely take a great hit before getting back online the moment you spot a wild station while travelling.
Interestingly, the X-01 we see in Fallout 4 is not the Mark 2 Advanced Power Armor used by the Western Enclave. The Enclave actually designed the Mark 2 Advanced Power Armor based off of the X-01 (that is, the new lore given to us in light of Fallout 4's release in 2015). Meaning the "X-02" Black Devil suit is really, the X-03, or, Mark 3, and the X-01 could be referred to as the Mark 1 (but Mark is used to denote something that actually saw operation).
You can get the X-01 even before setting foot into the park itself. After defeating Colter, leave the park and head west. There is a junkyard of old amusement park rides.
In the main building there is a Star Core (up the stairs, in the loft, near the Alien animatronic that shoots at you.)
The loot resets every in-game day or two, so you can repeatedly fast travel back to the Commonwealth, nap, then head back to the junkyard to pick up another Star Core. Lather, rinse, repeat.
The goat sam bram just keeps giving
Glad I'm having my beautiful X-02 with Inferno's now and keep it pristine all the time.
the hellvire always got me.
cute power armor.
and x02 of course the best for daily.
I would love to see a "Pack Faction" version of the X-O1 armor, just making it look like a mashup of animals, like Mirelurks and Ghoulrillas
T-60 is my favorite look. Just perfection.
Cyberpunk 77 radio stations ranked.
Just recently stumbled upon the black devil suit while messing with the enclave quest line. Never seen it before and started to freak out lol but that all black imo looks the best.
I've always gravitated towards T-51 the most both for asthetics and balance between protection and maintenance cost, it hits the goldilocks zone imo.
Right after getting the hellfire set from the new update, I got ambushed by the enclave soldier with MK VI hellfire armor. Its been carrying me super hard, but its expensive as shit to repair and doesnt feel very durable
12:36 my favorite is the T60 My first game was fallout four and you get it from the brotherhood of steel around mid game
my go to is X-02 armor and X-01 helmet
My favorite one is the Nuka cola power armor. It is a nice mix of goofy and hilarious, but also horrifying
The Fallout TV show made Captain Cosmos CC canon since they mention Johnny Morton as a fellow actor of Cooper Howard and Charles Whiteknife
I am a sucker for T-45 Power Armor because Fallout Three was the first Fallout game I played, I eventually want to upgrade the T-45 suit that you get early on to a full model E.
There is a magazine that allows you to paint non-enclave power armor with their paint, it's a pity you didn't include it in this very detailed video.
P.S: The fallout tv show is not set in the Mojave xD
I've been using the Quantum XO-1 since I got it. I'll get the XO-2 after I finish Far Harbor.
I mean , union is hard to beat , but I have been known to cruise in excavator armour, I just love how it looks like a truck
I saw something black with mean red eyes around those broken motorways near dunwich borers. Level 20 I got basically nailed quickly. Level 28 I am going there with Mr.X suit to see what that is. I seem to remember enclave on the screen. I want that suit.
Ome thing i dont get is how people have difficulties obtaining these power armour. When i get ambushed early on in the game by Enclave and track them down, one of their soldier was wearing Hellfire Mk.6, the final upgrades iteration. And then i attacked their base in the glowing seas, killed all their power armour user, and multiple of them has the X02 Mk4 armor, i just salvaged the parts and put it on my existing frame. And since i killed them eith flamethrower, effectively cooking the man inside, the armor piece were large undamaged. So i essentially gained access to the X02 armor very early on in the game.