Can we all agree Bethesda did power armor right?

New Power Armor System- Yay or Nay

  • Better than old PA

    Votes: 17 15.6%

  • Worse than old PA

    Votes: 19 17.4%

  • Better, but you get it too early

    Votes: 59 54.1%

  • No difference

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Other

    Votes: 14 12.8%
  • Total voters
    109
That it could last for a very long time, possibily 100 years. No clue. But definetely more than in Fallout 4.
 
Self-contained suit of advanced technology armor. Powered by a micro fusion reactor with enough fuel to last a hundred years.

So at full charge these puppies last 100 years, give or take.
 
We need moar lewtz/WoW/scavenge simulation was the most likely culprit.

The more busy work/loot simulation one can throw into a game, the more one can advertise 'increased gameplay hours'.
 
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DarkCorp said:
We need moar lewtz/WoW/scavenge simulation was the most likely culprit.

The more busy work/loot simulation one can throw into a game, the more one can advertise 'increased gameplay hours'.
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Those additions would be a great thing if there was still a singleplayer RPG in the game. Instead they took that part out so it's just an empty MMORPG with terrible linear dialogue wheel
 
See, the thing is, game development has finite resources. When focus is placed on SHINYS, MMO bullshit, lewtz, etc, other things of substance get put on hold.
 
DarkCorp said:
See, the thing is, game development has finite resources. When focus is placed on SHINYS, MMO bullshit, lewtz, etc, other things of substance get put on hold.
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There is a disease among AAA developers. It makes them believe people who play singleplayer RPGs want to play an MMORPG in singleplayer form. Whoever started this trend ruined video games for me. On the plus side of that, I'm a lot more productive now.
 
Irwin John Finster said:
DarkCorp said:
See, the thing is, game development has finite resources. When focus is placed on SHINYS, MMO bullshit, lewtz, etc, other things of substance get put on hold.
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There is a disease among AAA developers. It makes them believe people who play singleplayer RPGs want to play an MMORPG in singleplayer form. Whoever started this trend ruined video games for me. On the plus side of that, I'm a lot more productive now.
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It seems like a more recent development among RPG's. And the thing is, it gets criticized every time by customers and even by mainstream reviewers. It's clearly not wanted and yet they continue.
 
It's just fancy right now. Just as how MMORPGS have been extremly popular and fancy things to release after World of Warcraft. When ever a company, like EA, Blizzard or if you want Bethesda is releasing extremly succesfull titles - succesfull in terms of sales. Someone, maybe in a nice fancy suit doing the finances, steps in with the idea, we need that money too! Pumping out some kind of title every year, like DLCs, Addons, Sequels or what ever. THing is, this concept doesn't work for every game. The graveyeard of killed franchises and game-development studios is quite large. I mean you can't just turn Commandos in a shooter like CoD. And making everything open world is not an inherent guarantee for success. Yet, some people see nothing but Dollar signs where they want that sweet CoD money. But they forget, only CoD, makes CoD money.
 
I liked the old one better. But I'm playing by wearing green Combat Armour anyways, so I don't care that much. :smile:
 
TorontRayne said:
Eddard said:
Pros

1. I see everyone complaining on this about the lore retcon concerning the power supply. Who cares?
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I care. They could have went about it a different way instead of retconning shit that was clearly stated in the old games.
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yeah especially they've named the power supply "Fusion core" wich implies it operates on principal of Fusion
like on the sun where two deuterium atoms collide to form hellium atom and excess energy. it's not a regular lithium batery where stored power would degrade over time it's an atomic device, and not to mention deuterium is a stable isotope of hydrogen so no way of degrade over time here... it has no half- life cycle because it is not radioactive only way it could be damaged over time is that the gas would leak out and pressure would be gone but that way it would be a piece of crap and could not work as a battery any longer.
Lore friendly approach would be perma fusion cores but ultra/extremely rare
or or make it so only t45 PA uses fusion desposable cores and the rest uses the millenium batery or how much was it sepose to last..
If i'm not mistaken according to the lore, only early PA's had a replacable short term battery. The t51 and advanced power armor had the heavy duty power cell that lasted a couple centuries.
or was the early PA's disposable baterries Fo3 lore?
 
No. Fallout 4 might have improved the effectiveness of PA, but really, treating it as a goddamn vehicle which runs out of fuel for about 15 hours in-game was stupid. Fallout 1/2 had the best iterations of Power Armor because not only did it actually behaved as Power Armor, it was rare, which Power Armor should be.
 
5545Trey said:
No. Fallout 4 might have improved the effectiveness of PA, but really, treating it as a goddamn vehicle which runs out of fuel for about 15 hours in-game was stupid. Fallout 1/2 had the best iterations of Power Armor because not only did it actually behaved as Power Armor, it was rare, which Power Armor should be.
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I agree with this 100%! I don't understand how 4 has the best version of armor. I prefer the Fallout 1 & 2 versions since you couldn't get it in the first quest by stumbling into the next shithole town to get it.
 
Well, they only had several years of development time and no actual time pressure due to the late announcement date, so obviously there's going to be a lot left on the cutting room floor.
 
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