How Does The Power Fist Work

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Has anybody actually though about the interior design of the Power Fist (lore, not game design), and how it works. I know Nuka-Pedia has a article on it but it doesn't really explain much...

So how does the Power Fist work?
 
I thought it was pretty clearly an electrocuting armored glove, so it would hit harder by virtue of being a big metal thing, and by "zapping" whoever you smack with it.
 
I would imagine it to have some sort of powered ram device to amplify the attack and a shock absorb system to keep the users hand from shattering upon impact.
 
Vice Gray said:
I would imagine it to have some sort of powered ram device to amplify the attack and a shock absorb system to keep the users hand from shattering upon impact.
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This is what I though also. On New Vegas in VATS when someone is hit with a Power Fist, if you look close you can see (and hear) a hydraulics system push a metal plate (the one in front of your knuckles) forward, and part of the back of the Power Fist to slide into the front part, and then retract back out of the front part again after the punch is over.

So I'm guessing there is a hydraulics system which adds pressure to that metal plate, and in turn adds pressure to your punch. Apparently enough pressure to decapitate someone or take off an arm/leg with one punch. I can't recall how many times I did this in Fallout 1.
 
I always tought it had a Hydraulic Plate that springs when you punch, in the first 2 it's powered with microfusion cells.
 
Yeah that used to piss me off. The Super Sledge to. I would run out of "ammo" when I critically needed it the most.
 
The Super Sledge had this weird animation thing.

For the Power Fist, in the first 2 games, you can see that it has some wires or something like that.

My theory is that those wires are what shocks the victim, and Microfusion Cells power them.
 
Small Energy Cells, otherwise correct. My theory would also fit in with the energy powering some servos to increase the punchability of the hand/weapon, but as to figure out exactly how that works is beyond me.
 
If you follow the dev diaries of FO3, they're pretty open to the fact that all of the weapons are their own "neat" and "cool" ideas. Practically none of the new incarnations of the original weapons were intended to be modern explanations of the unexplained originals, but rather Bethesda's own reimaginings of them. As far as they were concerned, the Rail Gun and Power Fist were the same thing; cool. And naturally, like most of the game, FONV's Power Fist just carried over from FO3's. The modern Power Fist really shouldn't be counted as an explanation as to how the original Power Fists worked, because they were deliberately different interpretations of the "same" weapon.

I was under the assumption we were trying to figure out what the original Power Fists did, because in those same dev diaries, Bethesda was pretty clear with how theirs worked. Hydraulic fist. But the original Power Fists looked nothing like that. They appeared to be little more than fully-metal (badass looking) gauntlets, but they were powered by Small Energy Cells. Hence my understanding of it being a really BIG "brass knuckle" with electrocuting properties.
 
The devs also said they added into the story line that the FO 1-2 power fists did in fact exist in the Fallout world, and were apparently an "older" version of the Power Fist in the Fallout universe.

But yeah, what we were talking about was how Fallout 1 and 2 power fists worked.

Also, when I was talking about the power fist decapitations, I was talking about Fallout 1, not 3 or NV.
 
http://fallout.gamepedia.com/Power_fist_(Fallout)

The gauntlet uses servomotors to increase strength. I assume it's basically a power armor for your fist.
 
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