Should I buy it?

[Guest]

Okay, I have the Power Armor availabe to buy for me, I am at about 26k on my BOS scrip, and I just got done with the Coldwater mission, so should I buy the one power armor which costs 19k (with 106% barter skill from Stitch) or should I wait until the Avanced becomes availbale, or what, I was thinking of outfitting my Heavy Weapons guy with the PA so that he may survive the Robot Mission coming up in Great Bend, I have heard its tough, all my guys are outfitted with Metal Armor MKII (28k for a set of 6 ) What should I do? Is the PA going to improve my heavy weapons guy into a mini-god like it did in Fallout 1 & 2? Or is it just a slight enhancment, do I find PA in that mission? Because if I find atleast 1 Power Armor atleast mid-way through the mission I will pass on buying it for now...well cmon lets throw some answers at me

-Morphix
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[Guest]

I'm about 75% through with Great Bend. So far, it's tough but not impossible. I have plasma/laser rifles with all of my characters (even though they're not as accurate as sniper rifles, they do good damage on robots if they're close enough). Anyway, I haven't found any PA yet, and I doubt there is any in the mission. Aimed shots at the robots' eyes help out tremendously, since one the get blinded they don't have a chance at hitting you (assuming you're sniping). There's a couple of instances where you should probably put everyone on the roof and lure out the large lifter bots with one character. (They do MASSIVE damage and seem to have about 12 movement points!) The rest of them can be defeated if you do the old "pop in, take a shot, then go hide again" trick. Of course, if you're playing CTB mode, I don't know how easy the mission is....

 

[[PCE]el_Prez]

yeah, if you play CTB (like i do) i would get the power armor. also if your more of a heavy weapons rusher (like i am) then you will most definately need it. if your more of a sniper and sneaky guy (like my friend) then you could probably pull off the a couple missions without PA (depends on how good you are i guess).