The Misfit Power Armor of Fallout!

[Music] good day Adams faithful it is I rad King Adam's humble servant here to deliver my final sermon on the power armor of Fallout we have seen t-51 Enclave power armor and the entire t- series of power armor in past videos and now it is time to look at all the non-conforming stragglers there is some great lore and obscure facts about the remaining power armors so crank up the RADS and get the fusion cores ready while we take a long look at the miscellaneous power armor of Fallout the first of the power armors I want to look at was first introduced in Fallout 4 although it seems like something like this should have shown up earlier in the series Raider power armor is about as mad Max as Power Armor gets that has various kinds and shapes of metal bolted welded and probably W glued into place because Raiders aren't exactly the brainest bunch at first I thought the Raider power armor was an existing power armor type like T45 or t-51 that was fixed and patched up over many years of raing and pillaging until not much of the original armor was left kind of a ship of thesias situation however after looking at the armor and comparing it to the other armor types I am convinced that Raider power armor is just scrap pieces of metal that were attached to an empty power armor frame there does not seem to be any old existing armor that had been layered over with metal patches and we can see more uncovered portions of the power armor frame than with any other kind of power armor near the hips we can see large portions of exposed frame and between the neck and pauldrons where the hosing runs is no armor shielding either however if I take a step back and I squint my eyes I can see some similarity between the Raider armor pauldrons and the t51 pauldrons which have a distinct shape and are much smaller than any other kind for these reasons I think it is most probable that Rider power armor isn't a patchwork of fixes to an existing armor but its own creation a number of salvaged pieces of metal that are attached by whatever means are available to the power armor frame the actual aesthetic is pretty great it's completely asymmetric which makes sense since it's a ramshackle design if we can even call this a design and this makes it stand out from the other power armors I know I've been ragging on the craftsmanship of the armor this whole time but there was some thought put into it it appears to be airtight with hoses leading from the chest up to the helmet and the armor does offer radiation resistance the two cylinders on the back also have finned covers that look like they are meant to to dissipate Heat and the rebar cage armor on the pauldrons and over the helmet kind of remind me of cage armor that can be seen on Modern tanks which are designed to help defeat high explosive anti-tank Warheads alternatively since most of the rebar armor is around the helmet there's a chance that it keeps people from getting too close grabbing or otherwise grappling with the power armored individual the helmet even has a crown for lack of a better term with cut rebar jutting from the helmet and this seems either defensive or just there to look cool or maybe both I can't say for certain what the intent is behind the rebar armor but if you have a different idea from what I proposed I'd love to hear it despite looking rather intimidating it is the weakest of all the power armors in the entirety of Fallout 4 and the armor pieces can only be upgraded one level unlike every other type of armor that can be upgraded up to five times increasing stats with each level the only advantage to the Raider power armor is that it is pretty dead simple to repair when a piece starts to wear out or breaks outright the armor only ever requires steel to repair parts unlike any other power armor that requires extra components like circuitry plastic or aluminum to be fair though the T45 armor also doesn't have strict requirements and it either matches or is superior to every single aspect of the rider armor the ridar armor can accept all the common power armor upgrades things like a targeting HUD internal database blood cleanser Etc but it does not support a jetpack one unique upgrade is called welded rebar and it increases melee damage and I'm not exactly sure how the upgrade only goes on the Torso and rebar can be seen in several places as an important structural component so maybe welding the structural rebar means a better transfer of kinetic energy when hammering on enemies now I may be wrong here it seems like there is some sort of computer or maybe the the central computer for the power armor that is taped to the side of the helmet and wires go out on one side to the helmet mounted light and out the other side into the helmet itself through the visor probably for the heads up display it also has a little antenna this only makes sense as some sort of computer or controller of some sort which would also show a clever reuse of materials there are some unique Raider power armor pieces the coolest of which is the overboss power armor which is worn by cter where he uses the special properties of this armor to unfairly fight and Slaughter any Challengers that survive The Gauntlet at Nuka World it has extra layers of metal on the chest piece that extend up and over the helmet with a tiny window to look out of most notably it is covered in what looks like a chain link fence and has an attachment on the back that allows couter to Electrify his armor the same way the bumper cars do through a rod that touches the electrified ceiling the chain link seems to work as some sort of Faraday cage allowing the electricity to flow and build up on the surface of the armor as opposed to going through the armor itself or cter either causing him to be electrocuted or the Armor's electrical systems to fail this has a curious effect of making him almost completely invulnerable in order to beat him the electrical charge has to be shorted with a squirt gun and then he will actually sustain damage from the player it has double the damage and energy resistance and more HP than the normal Raider power armor maybe due to all this extra metal it is impressive that these Raiders happened upon what is essentially Force filled technology in an amusement park with just common items there is a unique arm piece called Tess's fist that has a legendary effect that gives it x 4 durability which is good since Rider power armor typically has the poorest durability of any armor set it can be found in Quincy where a gunner named Tessa can be found supporting a mostly incomplete set of power armor that is either T45 or t-51 one and the unique right arm Raider piece the armor can be found fairly commonly at lower levels and three Raider bosses will always spawn with a different form of raider armor Boomer at Outpost simja has a mostly incomplete set of power armor with only the helmet and arm pie mounted Cudi at the Poseidon power plant has a full set of power armor and slag at the sagus Iron Works is not shown with a helmet and he has a T45 chest plate instead of the normal Raider chest piece I also want to let everyone know that the creation Club gave us this Abomination the horsepower armor it is a modified Raider power armor suit that uses a number of repurposed Giddy Up Buttercup Parts being used in every piece of the armor and adorning the top of the helmet with a crown fit for a psychopath it is also absurdly powerful for being made of a bunch of pre-war toys with over double the damage resistance and nearly double the Raider power armor HP for for reference it makes it as powerful as the highest model T45 and almost on par with the t51 model e and of course this is a fun little reference to the horse power armor from the Elder Scrolls that has become legendary amongst Gamers Raider power armor is also available in Fallout 76 where the only visual difference is that it is not as Rusty this seems to be a theme across many of the power armor variants and it's a great attention to detail since Fallout 76 only takes place around 25 years after the Great War not two centuries the one advantage it had in Fallout 4 which was being dead simple to fix and upgrade since all it required was steel or aluminum the armor now requires a whole host of other components to fix and craft however it does have the advantage of being the only power armor suit that players under the level of 25 can use and unlike Fallout 4 it now supports a jetpack it has no unique paints except for a blood eagle paintt which is pretty cool and as of this moment doesn't seem to be available to players in game a newcomer to the series first debuted in Fallout 76 in the steel rain update and is known as the Hellcat power armor the design is a good deal different from anything we have had before and it can be kind of polarizing the Hellcat power armor is primarily used by a group that wouldn't you know it call themselves the Hellcat company we know very little about the power armor itself and much of what we know about the Hellcat company is by connecting the dots and engaging in some speculation that can wait a bit and I don't want to get too far into talking about the Hellcat company because I intend to go more in depth with them when I go over different groups in the Wasteland the Hellcat power armor is rather bulky looking quite topheavy with a cowl so large it makes the x01 and advanced power armor in Fallout 2 blush also once you see it it you can't unsee it so I'm so sorry I have to do this down below the chest is some sort of apparatus with hoses going into it and it looks like a small little helmet with a head a visor of some sort and then a respirator portion even with two hoses coming out from either side I love to think about this power armor as being used by two people one standing on the shoulders of the other in all seriousness though one of the contextual Clues we get about this armor is that it is used mostly by the officers within the Hellcat company and this seems to be tied to a small reference in the pre-war portion of the beginning of Fallout 4 the news anchor speaks of the US fifth infantry division who just before the Great War were fighting Communists in the Philippines using mechanized hellcats it was never clear exactly what that meant since historically the named Hellcat has been used for both a World War I Naval fighter and a tank destroyer however after the steel reain update when the Hellcat Merc mercenaries were added we get to learn more about this group who have a military hierarchy a military logo a military aesthetic and they behave like their former Soldiers the connection between the Hellcat company their power armor and the news report in Fallout 4 do seem to be connected the power armor even has the Hellcat logo on the right pauldron the stats on the Hellcat power armor are interesting because the armor wasn't added as a clear upgrade to all other power armor variants although it was added much later the damage resistance is higher than t60 but lower than t-51 and its energy resistance is inferior to almost all other power armor types this power armor was really not built with energy weapons in mind which given the apparent lack of such weapons in Chinese hands maybe this makes sense one important aspect of the armor that can't be forgotten though is that each armor piece reduces ballistic damage by 2% each combined the whole suit with all pieces can reduce R ballistic damage by 12% which actually will give it Greater damage resistance to ballistic weapons than every other power armor except t65 t65 is just op as hell though it is important to remember that this buff only applies to ballistic damage and is not an overall damage resistance buff so bow weapons and missile based weapons will bypass this Advantage Hellcat power armor is available to the player after the completion of the main quest in steel rain where power armor parts can be crafted or purchased from the purveyor maybe we will see more of this rare power armor type especially seeing as the Hellcat company seems to get around quite a bit being found and active in the pit shortly after the war and later moving many of their operations down into Appalachia as they follow those sweet sweet caps in the middle of the US a largely ignored part of the country within the Fallout series Fallout tactics shows us a a unique power armor set that is used exclusively by the midwestern Brotherhood of Steel where did it come from where did it go something something coton n Jo really though we are not given any indication of where this design first came from but it is used only by the midwestern Brotherhood and even then its use is restricted to paladins one of the highest ranks within the Brotherhood no other type of armor is seen or even discussed in game and it is never given given an official designation the power armor is simply referred to as power armor in game in the intro of Fallout tactics we see a power armor set that appears to be a mix of the midwestern brotherhoods armor which I'm just going to call the horned power armor and t-51 the helmet here looks similar to t51 particularly the lens shape but the pauldrons are definitely from the horned power armor later in the introduction when it shows Brotherhood members in Chicago where the game takes place they can be seen very clear clearly using full horned power armor sets what does this mean honestly I feel like there's just some artistic license going on here and there wasn't really any meaning behind it seeing as these look like they are meant to be sketches in some sort of Journal of course Fallout tactics try to reccon the origin of the Brotherhood of Steel so it isn't implausible that they would also attempt to change the lore to make the horned power armor the historical armor of the Brotherhood of Steel at any rate the power armor is unlike any anything we have seen before although I do feel like there is a resemblance of the Fallout 3 black devil power armor that The Enclave has seen using the horns are obviously the big similarity but the eyes and respirator seem fairly close as well although the Brotherhood power armor is a lot more aggressive looking it does make me wonder if Bethesda used the horned power armor as inspiration for their own Enclave power armor in Fallout 3 I'm not sure there is any single inspiration for the way that the armor looks but I do think the helmet has some inspiration from the Predator helmet from the movies of the same name there is a similar overall shape in the eyes although they are golden and fully separated in tactics and there is a respirator and some holes around the cheeks the crown of the armor is a low angle sloping oval shape it's kind of hidden on either side by the horns but that is exactly the same shape as the Predator helmet and lastly a ton of C cbles and pipes protrude from the back of the power armor helmet that look similar to The Predator dreadlocks let me know if you agree because to me the similarities are striking there is just the basic power armor and the advanced power armor which look exactly the same and differ in their stats similar to how the advanced power armor and advanced power armor Mark I can be found in Fallout 2 the advanced power armor does say that it uses Advanced Alloys and upgraded servos which justify the stat boost over overall both the normal horned power armor and the advanced armor are better than any other armor in the game although there are some armors that will beat them out in very specific damage types this power armor like the t-51b before it was said in the item description to use a micro Fusion reactor and to be able to run years without refueling something kind of interesting is that ghouls are unable to equip and wear leather and metal armor for reasons that are not clear however they can wear power armor so try and make sense of that I mean super mutants can't wear any of the other armors but that makes sense because they are so much larger ghouls though they are approximately the same size as humans so if you think you know why this is the case I would love to hear it the power armor is extremely rare and very expensive and with only one suit that can be found in the wild in a hidden room at the Reaver base the rest are only available by purchase at the Brotherhood bunkers there is a brok token set of power armor that is the focus of a retrieval Mission at a place called cold water the power armor was stolen but in the process of being stolen and then retrieved by the warrior and their group it was broken beyond the point of use one interesting note about this armor is that the producer of Fallout tactics Tony oakden said in an interview that he wishes they could have redone the power armor design and try for a more retro look in order to fit in with the Fallout aesthetic a lot better it definitely looks like it was designed in the 2000s and is the most aggressive looking of all power armor suits so I'd have to agree with Tony in a place that has been described as Almost Heaven a corporate project was undertaken before the Great War that resulted in the exc1 17 excavator suits otherwise shortened to excavator power armor introduced in Fallout 76 the Gahan mining company was responsible for their creation and it has quite an elaborate backstory a stark contrast to the Hellcat armor that was first shown to us in Fallout 76 as well in the years before the Great War Appalachia was going through an automation craze companies and even entire cities like woga were replacing human laborers with robots and artificial intelligences many people feared for their jobs and livelihoods and amidst this new period of Technology induced paranoia the Gahan Mining Company sought to create something that would Empower human miners to mine more efficiently while being better protected from the many dangers of mining this was envisioned as an armored powered suit that would protect miners from cave-ins and contaminated air while being durable enough for mining hours on end and carrying enormous loads of ore Gahan mining employed a member of the US military's research Corp named Harold Frost to lead the design team and having military experience and exposure to power armor Frost set about creating a specialized form of power armor which resulted in the excavator armor with a unique design not drying heavily from any existing designs the Prototype did however utilize a T45 reactor and the Prototype showed a lot of Promise leading Gahan mining to create an ad campaign showing off their new toy and making it known that they were interested in human laborers enhanced by machines not replacing the people with machines entirely like horn wri Industries was a competitor that were all in on automated mining machines or Auto miners the excavator suit received upgrades when a number of flaws were identified the suits were outfitted with Advanced Mineral detection sensors that allowed the miners to identify the most mineral Rich ore increasing their overall yield even more the original design started to have durability issues the materials that were initially chosen were cracking and were riddled with mcro fractures this necessitated the development team to opt for a much more durable and much more expensive material black titanium which held up much better apparently this refit of black titanium caused the suit to be heavier which put extra strain on the reactor powering the suit the team was forced to create an ultra sight reactor and although this did solve the power deficiencies it came with a catch ultrasite was a novel mineral with Incredible potential as an energy source and only one company had the techniques to mine deep enough to extract it Atomic mining services use nuclear detonations to mine deeper than anyone else and so they let the Gahan Mining Company buy Ultra site for their excavator reactors but it wasn't cheap and they locked the Gahan Mining Company into a long-term contract although things were coming together Atomic mining Services revealed their new invention the autom Miner that they hoped would be the new big thing in mining and it made the excavator research team very nervous if those new autom miners were better than the excavators they stood to lose a tremendous amount of money because this had been a very costly project in an interesting move the Gahan company openly challenged autom miners to a competition to see which invention was the superior mining technology horn R industrial purchased some Auto Miners and took up the challenge Gahan mining was hoping that their Superior mineral detection technology combined with the indomitable human Spirit would be enough to beat out the tireless Auto Miners and they were almost right a note from the senior vice president of horn rght industrial mentions interventions written in quotes into this man versus machine Showdown whatever these interventions were the autom miners worked flawlessly and at Peak levels beating out the excavator suit team by only one truckload this spelled disaster for Gahan whose stock price fell and most other mining companies opted for the autom miner technology rather than the excavator suits horn R Industrials started to move on their plan to perform a hostile takeover of Gahan salivating at the thought of using the Advanced Mineral detection technology in the excavator suits but the Great War put an end to this scheme although there were at least five excavator suits made there are none that are laying around anywhere for the player to find themselves but the plans to build the Armor after the quest minor Miracles as well as being purchasable from a few vendors the excavator power armor is not particularly intimidating looking and in terms of damage and energy resistance it is the worst of all power armor options however it does have good radiation resistance this makes sense because this armor was not made for combat it wasn't designed to stop or deflect incoming rounds or bolts of energy it was meant to allow miners to work in harsh environments and have a higher likelihood of surviving a cave in this would seem to make the power armor completely unappealing however it has one trick up its sleeve when a power armor frame is equipped with all pieces of the excavator armor the player gets an additional 100 lb of carry weight which is nothing to scoff at for this reason players will often have a set of excavator power armor if they are looting areas or expect to pick up a large number of items another cool effect is that if the left and right arm of this armor is fitted to any power armor frame mining for resources is four times as efficient meaning that a vein of any certain resource will yield four times as much of that resource this is no doubt due to the mineral detection technology that is allowing the player to more thoroughly and efficiently extract minerals the armor is not cheap to repair or build requiring resources like black Titan titanium and it can take a bunch of different paints which I recommend since I don't think the base paint is all that interesting but it does give the impression that this power armor is an industrial machine it also takes most common power armor mods and for some reason can take the welded rebar mod that I mentioned in the Raider power armor section so does rebar not mean what I think it means I do love that Bethesda gave us a power armor that was not meant to fight in combat and has a unique set of strengths and weaknesses I do want to address one thing though this is the use of an ultra sight reactor for the excavator prototypes there is a unique paint called surveyor which claims to be the early prototype of excavator armor that Gahan mining developed like many atom shop paints it can go onto any power armor not just excavator and even though it does look a bit different you can tell that they are related what is most interesting is that the reactor on the back looks much different although functionally it it is still the same accepting a fusion core for power this is what the ultra sight reactor looks like apparently but since this is a skin and not an actual suit of armor we can't see anything about the characteristics of the armor and how it differs from the in-game excavator suit I think it would be cool though to be able to recover plans to make an ultra sight reactor and give their power armor a boost all right so this next one is technically not a power armor variant but since Fallout or we wouldn't have any power armor without it power armor frames or chassis were a huge shift in how power armor was portrayed and changed the way that the players interact with it in all previous games Power Armor was another inventory item just like clothing armor or a weapon just a lot heavier then Fallout 4 came around and turned years of power armor precedent on its head with power armor frames the frame are much more like a vehicle they can't be thrown around on your back or in your pocket anymore and they are much larger than the average person because they open up and the user steps inside the armor the power armor frames can be used without any armor equipped and they still provide a benefit to the player it has 60 damage energy and radiation resistance which isn't amazing it is lower than heavy leather armor so you know we're not breaking any records here since the chassis is what is powered and has all the motors and servos it boosts your strength by one and it will eliminate all fall damage anyone who has used power armor in Fallout 4 knows these effects well and it makes sense that it is the power armor frame that makes this all possible and not the armor plating that is on top there are only two completely empty frames that can be found in the base game one at the riv satellite array and one at the atam cat's garage all other frames have at least a few pieces of armor attached to them of varying types since the power armor frames exist in this unique place of being used by the player but unable to be put in the inventory there are some strange quirks killing an enemy in power armor will not allow you to remove the power armor frame although you can loot the armor pieces off the body the frame is unobtainable and maybe this could be explained as some sort of fail safe power armor was cutting edge technology on the eve of the Great War and I'm sure any Chinese forces would have been delighted to scavenge any and all power armor making the frame unusable when the wearer dies unless there is some sort of specially encrypted key that only technicians can use could be a way to prevent or slow Chinese Salvage attempts where the armor couldn't be retrieved or self-destructed that is absolutely pure speculation but there's one condition where you can get a full full enemy power armor while they are wearing it the fusion core that powers the armor is in the back and partially exposed targeting the fusion core and damaging it until it blows up will cause the MPC to hop out of the now mostly immobile power armor just throw in a new Fusion core and you're ready to rock notice I said mostly immobile because contrary to what you would think with these huge hulking metal suits you can move around them without any Fusion cores it is very slow goinging and of course you can't use things that require power like the jetpack this I also find interesting but it would make sense to engineer the frames in such a way that unpowered movement is possible even if it's severely limited I can imagine many situations where running out of power and needing to go a small distance to safety or maybe to stash the armor somewhere would benefit massively from manually activated Hy Hydraulics looking at the frames where the user actually stands is several inches above the bottom of the frame's foot and the user's hands don't go all the way to the power armor hands either looking at them they're fist shaped they seem to be gripping something but it isn't exactly clear how they are transmitting the commands to have the fingers and the hands move how they're supposed to there is one frame that is unobtainable by the player under any circumstance and that is Proctor Ingram's frame Proctor Ingram suffered a grave injury as she was fixing and testing power armor during a battle sometime before the events of Fallout 4 a nuclear detonation caused The Cliff face that Ingram and her crew were on top of to collapse and she barely survived because she was piloting a suit of power armor for testing she was far from unscathed though the armor sustained massive damage to the legs and as a consequence Ingram lost her legs below the knee as well Ingram is a very very valuable asset to the Brotherhood and her Fierce and independent Spirit wouldn't let her be immobilized for very long a custom power armor frame was created that allowed her to use it just like everyone else although she no longer had legs we don't know what these modifications would be but that alone makes it obvious that there are sensors within the legs that are necessary for using the power armor otherwise she could have just used a normal Power Armor frame the fusion core in her power armor is locked and you cannot steal or destroy it and cause her to leave her frame I doubt Bethesda wanted to have players see Ingram get out and Float there in air or spend the extra time giving her special animations since she has no legs you know now that I think about it a sron have an animation to drag their bodies around when the legs are destroyed so no that would be cursed power armor frames in Fallout 76 are largely the same as in Fallout 4 but they do have some differences a power armor frame will inherently make the player immune to limb damage in addition to all the other benefits like no fall damage increased strength Etc in Fallout 4 power armor frames could not be put into the inventory but Fallout 76 changed that getting out of the power armor or frame the player has the option to collect their power armor where it is held in inventory and only weighs 10 lb to get back into it just redeploy from your inventory and hop in like you normally would leaving the frame deployed but unused for around 2 minutes will cause the power armor to be recalled into your inventory so it's actually pretty easy to keep track of your power armor which sometimes was an issue in Fallout 4 any power armor paints that were bought in the atom shop cannot be dropped for use by another player dropping the frame will destroy the unique paint jobs the frames are not level locked any player at any level can hop into a frame but armor pieces are Level locked with the more powerful armors requiring higher levels to use similar to Fallout 4 enemies that die cannot have their frame looted from them it is interesting that with weapon and armor durability reintroduced with Fallout 76 the frames do have a health meter but they never actually deplete they are functionally invincible Fallout 76 released an update in September of 2022 that let players explore the pit a location that was first seen as a DLC for Fallout 3 it was an exciting prospect to see what p Berg would be like only 25 years after the bombs fell especially because the pit was one of the best Fallout 3 DLCs things were a gigantic mess which really is not all that surprising because in the Fallout 3 DLC it was an utter hell hole we learned of two new factions that were battling it out in the industrial ruins of Pittsburgh the Fanatics and the Pittsburgh Union or just Union the Fanatics are comprised of many groups of Raiders that are held together into a loose Group by a unified ing leader they only care to control the pit by any means necessary and employed the Hellcat mercenary group to do so they are primarily fighting the union which has a unified group of survivors that are fighting back against the brutality of the Fanatics the union originated as the survivors that were part of the Steel Workers Union in Pittsburgh before the city descended into chaos their expertise related to metal working LED them to creating their own unique power armor simply known as the union power armor the power armor is very rare though and the player can only get the armor parts by crafting it themselves after leveling up on the season 10 scoreboard or by buying parts from a vendor in the pit this design is interesting it's also a post-war design and I do have to wonder where the union was running into Power Armor frames from which they could craft their armor we don't really know anything else about it unfortunately so let's take a look at at the stats the damage resistance is the second highest in the whole game trailing just behind the beastly t65 and beating out t-45 t60 t-51 and x01 power armors in this regard that's really funny to me we have these armors that the military was creating spending all this money to research and develop and some post-war metal workers scraping by day-to-day not knowing if they would even see tomorrow were able to create power armor with better damage resistance than almost anything the US milary could maybe the origin is more complicated than that and this design was one that was being developed by the military and the union just copied it or maybe finished the armor now it's important to also state that as good as the damage resistance is the energy resistance is not nearly as good it only beats out the excavator armor T45 and even Raider armor have better energy resistance than the union power armor which is incredibly pathetic to me me this actually makes sense though if the union power armor is made out of really high quality steel and created and machined by Steel working experts I can see how they could give it really good damage resistance but lack either the expertise to make the armor resistant to energy weapons or they just didn't know or consider protection from direct energy weapons regardless the radiation resistance is also very low when compared to other armors being beat out even by Raider power armor which is like 50% rebar by weight this I think is strange because if there is one thing to remember about the pit it's that it is kind of radioactive you would think that they would have tried to keep that as a priority when making this armor but apparently not instead it gets a carry buff over the other armors although it's still not as good as the excavator armor and also a large poison resistance something that the other armors don't have this might have to do with the many trog enemies that have some sort of sort of acid or toxic ranged attack and this armor was made in order to protect from such threats I think the armor looks pretty cool in game better than in the promotional art and it has a very industrial look I actually think it looks like the kind of power armor that firemen or emergency response units might wear so I think they did a good job designing it to not look like a war machine Fallout Brotherhood of Steel let's go this m piece of a game has only one kind of power armor in it just plain old Power Armor and another more powerful version called Advanced power armor that follows a pattern established with Fallout 2 was also done in tactics and so the tradition carried over into Fallout Brotherhood of Steel which was the next game to come out chronologically the armor itself has a vague resemblance to t51 although it is its own power armor with its own back story the armor was developed in the pre-war by voltech who wanted to have their own kind of power armor as well as Advanced Weaponry in order to assist the surviving elements of vault tech and the members of the secret vault to better survive in the post-apocalypse it isn't clear why vault tech didn't acquire t-51 since they were so intertwined with the US government they almost seem like their own Department maybe they deemed the current offerings insufficient and decided to use their own development teams to make something better naturally it is the best armor in the game and isn't seen or encountered until the end of the game when the player discover covers the secret vault three suits can be purchased at the secret vault and one suit can be found in a locker so you Penny Pinchers can get a hold of a suit too one interesting thing is that before power armor was considered an entire unit even the helmet the armor was not divided up into its constituent Parts in Fallout Brotherhood of Steel however the entire armor is considered four main parts the power armor the power helmet power gauntlets and power Boots the power armor also seems seems to look drastically different depending on the sex of the player the male version looks like what you would expect while the female version is very paired down and accentuates feminine characteristics I guess I shouldn't be surprised though since this is the first Fallout game to implement boob physics but it just seems unnecessary to change the armors so much between the two Sexes the advanced power armor looks the same like all the games before it and is about a 10% increase in protection over the basic model all right I did my due diligence can I get out of here now I hope you're sensing a trend amongst these power armor variants that we're looking at here Fallout 76 has a lot of them this next one is no different although it should look pretty familiar ultrasite power armor has an interesting backstory as it is only possible to produce in Appalachia as far as we know this is because this power armor relies on ultrasite Ultra site a unique material that was discovered and exploited by the pre-war mining companies in in West Virginia ultrasite is radioactive and likely due to that it glows a yellowish green color but it seems to develop in hard crystals that are a dull gray when the glow isn't shining through this material was first discovered by the atomic mining services that we spoke of when talking about the excavator armor and they found ultrasite by detonating nukes at the bottom of old exhausted coal seams this let them get to depths that no one had yet reached and that is where this precious resource is found it is used primar ly as an energy source and despite looking like a crystal of quartz or a chunk of glass it is burned in order to release its energy not the most elegant way to extract energy I suppose but if it works it works the potential energy within ultrasite is so potent that it started to be in heavy demand where it was used to power the excavator power armor reactor as well as used in a refitted Poseidon energy plant after the Great War however another group saw a different use for ultrasite that didn't involve burning it for fuel the Brotherhood of Steel had an Appalachian chapter start up not long after the events of the Great War when Roger Maxon the founder of the Brotherhood of Steel made radio contact with Elizabeth taggerty a commander of a unit of US army rangers this isn't the story about the appalachin Brotherhood I will save that for another time but in the back and forth between the West Coast Brotherhood and the Appalachian chapter the presence and potency of ultrasite was discussed and the West Coast Brotherhood saw potential using the material in the construction of a new kind of power armor the designs were created by the West Coast Brotherhood of Steel and the finalized schematics were transmitted to the Appalachian group for them to follow and create themselves there were were some problems like with coolant leaks but the Appalachian Brotherhood just didn't have the Time Manpower or resources to fully build this ultrasite power armor before they were exterminated by The Scorch plague like many of the other groups that had Survived the Great War as such the only Ultra sight power armor that can be found is the armor that the player can create and the plans to craft the power armor are obtained after finishing the main Brotherhood quest line the stats on the armor are solid it has stats very similar to t-51 power armor which it is clearly based off of it almost has the exact same damage resistance 60 less energy resistance and almost 100 more radiation resistance I would guess that the dip in energy resistance is because of the replacement of the ablative silver layer that the t51 had that was purpose-built to help reflect direct energy weapons I say this because the base Ultras side armor is a distinct blue color not the metallic gray green or blue of the t-51 that we know has this special coating it trades weaker energy resistance for greater radiation resistance which doesn't make it Superior to t-51 just specialized in a way that would make the player cons consider where they are going and what they are fighting before choosing what armor to use of course this armor requires Ultra sight to craft and repair each type which can make this a demanding power armor to keep in tiptop shape but it can be rewarding also this armor like the excavator and Rider power armor before it can accept a welded rebar mod what does this mean I like the look of the armor every single piece is different in some way but it is very clear that it is arrived from t-51 my favorite part would be the splitting of the icelet into two distinct pieces and cleaning up the respirator part of the helmet and I think it can look pretty sick with some of these different Power Armor paints there is a unique variant of ultrasite power armor known as the Strangler heart power armor and as strange as that name is its appearance is even stranger it is a suit of Ultras sight power armor that has been overgrown by Strangler Vines moss and other vegetation and as such it has has its own unique effects that set it apart it was first introduced in the nuclear winter update and only obtainable by doing Vault 94 raids that changed with the wastelanders update where plans can now be bought from regs a vendor in Vault 94 who only deals in Gold Boolean as all good vendors should the vegetation adorning the power armor is a paint that can only be applied to ultrasite armor so you can actually remove it and it will look just like a normal suit of Ultras sight although this wasn't always the case Strangler plants are unique to the Meer region of Appalachia and the result of uncontrolled power from a Garden of Eden creation kit or gek vault 94 was equipped with a gek as well as seeds and a lot of other research equipment to run agricultural experiments at a certain point after the war a group of Outsiders were welcomed into the Vault where they took advantage of the overly trusting Vault dwellers and ransacked the Vault while looking for loot throughout the Vault they came across Ross the gck and rather curiously they thought it might be some sort of mind control device to air on the safe side their leader named Cole ordered to have it destroyed and when someone shot it with their minigun the gck exploded bathing the area with sweet sweet RADS and a green Cloud was seen coming out of the Vault and spreading south and east this concoction of radiation and growth stimulants resulted in the mutation of vegetation that created Strangler plant plants and much of the Meer stranglers consists of numerous strong vines that have a proclivity to grow just about anywhere but have a preference for living organisms and they are all controlled by a Strangler heart some Enclave Research into stranglers found that they can induce Euphoria when they get a hold of a person and they will even experience quote incomprehensible voices the Strangler heart can control organisms usually myurs or feral Ghouls and only until the heart itself is destroyed will the or organisms no longer be under the Strangler influence so at some point someone in a suit of ultrasite armor fell victim to the Strangler Vines and someone was able to recover the armor and use it like normal unfortunately we can only guess the backstory for what this suit is and you know I have a couple questions why does a guy from Vault 79 which isn't related to Vault 94 or the Strangler heart plants sell this armor how does he have plans for a power armor developed by the Brotherhood that was never actually built how do you craft an armor that is covered in Strangler Vines do you like make the armor and then leave it in your nuclear Garden for a few days the Strangler heart power armor has very similar stats to ultrasite power armor which makes sense the energy and damage resistance are the same and the Strangler heart gets a radiation resistance boost to 500 which is the highest of any power armor it also causes the player to do acid damage when attacking or simply being close to an enemy this additional acid damage used to stack and could really deal impressive damage but that has since been patched out the crafting requirements are steep after buying the plans for each part with gold Boolean they require a legendary module even though none of the parts themselves are legendary and they also require a novel material called Vault steel previously called Vault 94 steel this is only attainable from purveyor murmur being bought with scrip and the material cannot be dropped although it isn't clear why this metal is so special is this the metal that was used in the vault construction and therefore a special alloy if this is ultrasite power armor why don't we use ultrasite in its construction I have to admit that while I think the idea is cool and it is definitely a unique power armor it is also frustrating on so many levels and with that we have gone over every single kind of power armor in the series but if Fallout 76 does what Fallout Fallout 76 does best I'm sure we will be seeing new power armor in the not so distant future until then though this will have to do and now I'm leaving you but not before thanking my patrons and YouTube members that I'll be honest I take you for granted if you like what I do I would love the support whatever that looks like I'm just glad you're here and that I can hopefully make your day a little bit better embrace the glow brothers and sisters please be kind to others and yourself at needs you and I will see you [Music] soon

Channel: RadKing

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Keywords: fallout, power armor, hellcat, raider, union, ultracite, strangler

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Length: 47min 42sec (2862 seconds)

Published: Mon Oct 23 2023