I got a Never ending Double Barrel Shotgun from a ghoul yesterday. And then I found a dollar on the ground, on my way to school. My luck was definitely 10 that day.

aeternus isnt that great since i got compulsive reload disorder

Question: in Fallout Lore, shouldn't a Fusion Core power a Power Armour for about 100 years?

The gun is obviously using one fusion core all at once to open a quantum wormhole to another plan of existence, where it harvests an unlimited energy source called magica. It then uses this magica to fuel its normal operations of emitting burning beams of light in the direction indicated by the orientation of the weapon's barrel. It needs further fusion cores loaded, because of a hardwired safety feature in the original weapon, that won't let the gun try to fire without a fusion core inserted, which the original modifier of the weapon never took out, because they were lazy, and it worked well enough.

I'm kinda sad you can't put a beam splitter modification on the Gatling laser. I mean, who doesn't want a fully automatic laser shotgun with infinite ammo?

it sounds like tom hanks is giving me fallout information and i love it!

The never ending effect is supposed to let you load all of your ammo at once, meaning you never have to reload, but because of how the Gatling laser ammo works with the fusion core it acts really weirdly.

The Gatling Laser fusion core use is buggy at the best of times, often inserting new cores automatically. Probably the dichotomy between the cores and the shot allowance is what is causing the Neverending enchantment to glitch. With all other weapons with Neverending (Prototype UP77 "Limitless Potential" at University Point) it fires rounds straight from your inventory without the need to reload, effectively giving you an unlimited magazine, but not infinite ammo. On that note: Neverending missile launcher is the ultimate weapon.

I use a mod that creates a Gatling Laser ammo type. You create gatling laser ammo at the lab station where 1 Fusion Core = 500 ammo. This allows this weapon to work properly, similar to all the other legendary weapons with the Never-Ending prefix, consuming ammo until you are out without reloading. Never-Ending just means you never have to reload.

From Fallour wiki: "If the user has one or two fusion cores in the inventory, Aeternus will fire off 1 or 2 rounds before fully depleting the cores. If one has at least three fusion cores, the fresh loaded weapon will use a seemingly random portion of one fusion core before reaching "unlimited ammunition." This is valid up until one loads a new fusion core either by equipping another weapon, modifying the Aeternus in a weapons workbench, or increasing the amount of fusion cores in ones inventory."

My god, it bugs me so much more than it should that you aren't using the rapid fire version

At a glance, when showing the jet pack glitch, it looks as though you were still using the 5 cores you had stacked together. If that is correct, then the fact that the 4 were showing zero charge might explain why they cycled through very quickly only giving you a small amount of boost from the jet pack. This would be related to the question surrounding why they were registering zero in the first place upon using the Gatling laser. I'd love to look at this code. I suspect it's an easy fix. Finding it will be the problem.

The fastest way I found to spawn the Amoral quest was to quick travel back to the commonwealth and then quick travel back to nuka world. It usually took 2 (maybe 3) tries but it would spawn the quest pretty consistently.

Umm ox... Charging barrels with aeternus? (or however you spell it) charging barrels is for sniper-ish builds or for saving ammo. Saving ammo with unlimited ammo?

Fusion cores aren't rare if you buy them. And they are relativity cheap if your using them as ammo. I ran the calculation and even at 1 charisma when fusion cores cost 670 caps, you'll still be spending a mere 1.34 caps per shot, a huge contrast to any laser rifle which would cost 3.6 caps per shot with 16 charisma or 10.05 caps per shot with 1. and 1.34 is the most expensive the Gatling laser will go. Not to mention the fact that you can reduce ammo consumption greatly with charging barrels, increase shot yield by up to 1100 with nuclear physicist and the repair bobble head near Lexington. With all of this combined the cheapest ammo will get is 0.218 caps per shot. Although to be fair it is still a gun best suited for a heavy/power armor build with good intelligence due to the fact that most mods are blocked behind a Science! level 4 requirements.

The Gatling Laser on its own is buggy enough. When you switch weapons, it always ejects the current fusion core and starts on a new one, eventually creating a massive and annoying list of partially used fusion cores. Applying that legendary effect was a horrible idea, making something that's already buggy an absolute glitch fest. I wish someone would make a mod that makes the Gatling Laser load ammo like the Junk Jet.

I think the intent of the Neverending Legendary Effect (since I've seen it on a few others) is that you just don't have to reload and it just pulls ammo straight from your inventory. I expect that the effect just bugs out because of how the weapon effect, fusion cores and, possibly, the Nuclear Physicist perk interact

Aeturnus is, I think, related to Eternal so it's probably closer to being pronounced like that. As far as the Never Ending effect goes, if you happen to find it on a smaller gun like a pistol or a rifle what happens is that you can load your entire inventory of ammo into the weapon, that means it's "unlimited" because that's how much you can carry(if you don't mind moving slowly). On an automatic weapon this effectively means you can keep firing a never ending stream. Not sure how this effects the Aeternus though. Considering this comment is pretty late I wonder if you have a better idea of whats happening.

You had asked for info experience about getting this. I fortunately didn't have any problems as reported by several players. The arena showdowns started with the first one after I came back from doing a radiant quest for a tribe. I would go do another tribe radiant quest, return, and was informed another fly was coming through the Gauntlet's web. This happened every time until I was able to get the Aeternus. So, basically I did five radiant tribe quests and immediately did the arena battles. Sounds like I lucked out and the game performed correctly. This was a great video about the gun and how it effects power cores. Please keep up the awesome work!!

Well Ox, this gatling laser is what we in the business call "A Bethesda Moment.". Your best bet is to avoid it like the plague.

after you kill all the raiders and completed open season quest yes you still can do Amoral Combat quest, but its alot harder to get so if you killed all the raiders but want this weapon you still can it will just take some time. also, if you had a problem where you killed the rogue knight and he doesn't have the aternus on his body just look around, he has a randomly generated legendary thing but to get the aternus look on the ground its not in his body if you do it after open season it will be raiders there, they wont be hostile until after you kill the challenger, you can also pick pocket the raiders(before or after open season) and if you get caught nothing happens

The reason 600 became 4 is because it shows the amount of fusion cores you have - 1 which is why it uses the full core if you have only 1

Thanks for the great video, I had wondered how to get the legendary Gatling laser, now I know. Thanks, Oxhorn!

Every time I read or hear someone say "when the modders come up with a fix" I [sob, cry, slit wrists]. PS4 Anguish Syndrome.

The weirdness regarding the fusion cores getting depleted works as follows: When you equip Aeternus, it plugs a fresh (i.e. 100 / 100) core into the gun. This will display in the ammo display as 500/n, where n is the total number of fusion cores in your inventory. The level of charge in each of those fusion cores is not relevant in calculating n. As soon as you take your first shot, the display will be brought to n-1/n. If you check your inventory, the previously fresh core will be at .2(n-1) / 100. It will remain at that level for as long as Aeternus remains equipped. The core gets instantly "burned" down to that level, but never any further. If you unequip Aeternus and reequip it later, this will occur again, and another fresh core will get burned. Thus, the closer you are to having 500 cores in your inventory, the less your cores will get burned when you unequip and reequip Aeternus. While this does mean that Aeternus does (annoyingly) deplete your overall access to fusion power over time, particularly if you swap weapons frequently, the thing to bear in mind is that sustained fire from a Gatling Laser will normally deplete a core in just under twenty seconds. Partially depleting a single core whenever you unequip Aeternus is _far_ less of a strain on your resources over the long term. I am uncertain as to what occurs if you have more than 500 cores, or if you have the Nuclear Physicist perk (which effectively increases the magazine size of Gatling Lasers), as I have not tested those conditions. I suspect that in the former case, the result would be that your cores don't get burned at all. I suspect in the latter that your cores would become _more_ burned, as the core would be set to (n-1)/(5*1.25) / 100, (n-1)/(5*1.5) / 100, or (n-1)/(5*2) / 100 at rank 1, 2, or 3, respectively.

oxhorns voice is cool enough to tell a story and smooth enough to listen to as you try to come down from a weekend of doing blow and fall asleep

@Oxhorn. I never had an issue with fusion cores, when I started the game I had a fully speced out intelligence and the first perk I picked when leveling up was Science! and that allowed me to go into sanctuary and build the biggest water purifiers, I then farmed for resources and traded them for all the necessary components to build a ton of these things along with a ton of generators with the 10 power rating. With this I am producing 600 purified waters per day. And I just go to diamond city with as much as I can cary and still fast travel and trade them for fusion cores, armor, weapons, anything I need. So I have a nearly limitless supply of fusion cores.

Never Ending just means you don't have to reload. Ammo is still consumed until you're empty. Anything else a glitch.

As a general rule, Latin words with "AE" in them, are either phonetically pronounced as "ee" or as "eye". So it would be named either "Eternus", or sound as if it's called 'Eye'ternus. I think in this case, it would be safe to assume it's pronounced "Eternus".

5:15 I think what happened is you used the jetpack just as soon as the fusion core ran out, then it saw all the other fusion cores as one unit of ONE fusion core. That's my assumption.

Love this gun. Had to figure out how to use it before I saw this video. I usually give my companion my full fusion cores and carry two empty ones for the laser.

Thanks, I heard that this weapon is extremely bugged and if not handle correctly it can completely fuck up your fusion cores. However no other youtubers seems to mention it

Cool, haven't heard about this weapon yet, thanks

My issue with the third rank of nuclear physist is the grande issue, half the time i hit z thinking i have a grande equiped and endup throwing out a useful fusion core by accident

Bit 'o trivia: "Clips" are the metal links in a disintegrating ammunition belt. Such as those used on miniguns and Ma'duce. "Magazines" are the reusable containers you load bullets into, then insert into a weapon.

Im not sure why Oxhorn but these early Fallout 4 videos sound different, probably microphone or something but definitely have a different feel to them. Feels like yesterday watching these

Lol the gunner Sargent said oof

I figured it out! And then I posted it on the wiki. When firing the Aeternus with a fresh fusion core, the shown ammo will always become 1 less than all the fusion cores ones inventory. The remaining charge of the active fusion core is not equivalent to this number. If the maximum number of fusion cores in ones inventory is 1, the ammunition in the clip will become 0, causing the fusion core to deplete and vanish. As such, the Aeternus is nearly completely useless if one has only 1 fusion core in their inventory. Additionally, if the amount of fusion cores in ones inventory increases while the Aeternus is out, the current fusion core will instantly be consumed and the clip's ammo will become equal to the remaining fusion cores in ones inventory, then decrease by 1 when you fire the Aeternus again.

I think the "scrounger" perks give you a chance to find multiple fusion cores at once (or missiles, but doesn't happen with mini-nukes)

i noticed when running around in PA with this gun if your armor core depleats, you have to unequip reequip to get gun to keep firing as when the PA core gives out you spare core count on the gun drops to 000

0:20 "I ate your noose"

The trick to farm aeternus was very helpful and I love it. I don't like having the charging barrels on it because I like the rate of fire on the regular one. I didn't get it nearly fully upgraded it was a normal Gatling laser.

When you use your power armour, the game uses the fusion cores with the least amount of charge first, so because those 4 fusion cores claim they have a charge of 0, when the power armour 'use' them first. When you go up to your power armour, if you have a FC on you, you will put in into the power armour, if it doesn't already have one, the power armour never checks if a fusion core is empty because if it is empty it leaves you inventory, so you would not normally be able to put an empty FC into the power armour anyway. When a fusion core becomes empty, the FC itself sends a bit of code saying 'i am empty' and then the power armour ejects it, the only reason the jet pack effects this is because the jet pack draws more energy then normal, so the jet pack itself has to check the amount of energy in the FC to see if it is enough to take off, because of this it immediately uses up those four FC after realising they have a charge of 0. It is the job of the gun/ power armour to remove the fusion cores from your inventory, the fusion core doesn't remove itself. This is why the power armour doesn't remove the FC until you use the jet pack, because the FC is already empty, it doesn't give the power armour the peace of code saying 'i am empty', because it should have already been taken out of your inventory by the thing that had emptied it. This is why it works non stop with those FCs, since the power armour's only interaction with the FC is to draw a certain amount of energy from the FC, and to eject it and remove it from the players inventory when the FC says it is empty. Because it never gets the message from the FC saying it is empty, it just continually uses energy, never realising it is empty and ment to be ejected. I have no idea why the gun depletes them and still leaves them in your Inventory tho. That is the bug, if the gun took out the empty fusion cores from you inventory then the power armour would work fine, due to it theoretically never needing to check if the fusion core is empty, since there should never be a time where the player has access to a completely depleted FC. The fact that the gun doesn't take out the fusion cores from your inventory, suggests that it was ment to not use any ammo, because then it would never need to take out an empty fusion core. So the bug probably is something to do with the amount of ammo it uses. Probably be able to fix this by altering a single variable, if it was a complicated mistake, it would not have made it threw debugging. The reason that the FC meter on the power armour is right is because it does check the level of charge of the FCs. It just doesn't have any effect on the attual power armour or the FC. Sorry if this is a shit explanation, didn't know how to right it any better. Also correct me if i got anything wrong.

well when you have 65,000 fusion cores like me, that's not a problem

Gatling Lasers are buggy as hell to begin with. Aeternus just highlights existing failures. So the way the "Never Ending" (Unlimited Ammo Capacity) Legendary Mod is supposed to work, the weapon has no maximum magazine size and feeds directly from your inventory. Gatling Lasers, because they use an unconventional ammo relationship, could then theoretically become glitched into infinite ammo. Unfortunately it does not actually work like this. Because the magazine for a Gatling Laser is actually a script independent of your inventory, using a Never Ending Gatling Laser causes unreliable consumption of fusion cores. Generally each time you equip the weapon, it will consume one fusion core to start firing. If you only have one, this reduces your inventory count to zero which then stops the weapon from functioning (but also burns out the core). It is unknown when or if Bethesda will fix this, and no modders to my knowledge have come up with a fix for it yet. I am aware of one workaround, changing the ammo type to fusion cells instead of cores and eliminating the fancy magazine script from the weapon but this causes other issues. Gatling Lasers on their own are actually the most cost effective weapon regarding ammunition. 600 rounds per Fusion Core, where each Fusion Core costs between 300 and 500 depending on your relationship with the vendor and your level of Charisma/barter bonuses. The net cost is always slightly better than one shot per cap, maxing out at about two shots per cap, which gives you a better cost effectiveness than even .38 ammo. If you have at least one or two decent water farms, you can afford as many fusion cores as you could possibly need. The perks that reduce fusion core depletion also affect Gatling Lasers in that a core ejected from the Gatling Laser will have a percentage of its charge left based on your bonus to fusion core depletion from perks, further increasing their ammo efficiency. The final rank of Scrounger also affects Gatling Lasers, placing a fully charged fusion core into your inventory when it procs. Honestly, your Two Shot Gatling Laser is a better bet overall, as it will have a higher damage output and be less buggy. When/if this is fixed, then Aeternus becomes the do-all-end-all weapon it seems intended as.

Sounds like an interesting weapon, but the best bang for your buck is definitely the laser musket. However, for an auto weapon, I must recommend the explosive mini gun. That thing is just a firehose of death.

just a question do the Raiders need to be alive for this, or even after you killed them all?

Back in 2015, when fo4 was realeased, I bought it and I haven't ever used one fusion core ever. I currently have 1,472 cores!

A Broadsider with the Never Ending or Explosive effect and plasma flamer with the Explosive and Incendiary effect are what I like.

I gave Aeternus to Curie. When companions use it, it does consume fusion core but the cores will not drop below 1/100. They must have multiple cores in their inventory as a single core will expend itself just like in your video.

I thought that the never ending legendary effect meant you didn’t have to reload

Well based on the usual behavior of the legendary modification it has its supposed to just have an unlimited magazine. like a wazer wifle. it should just make it so you don't have to reload.

Thank you this sounds like a great weapon. I'll have to try and get this quest to trigger. Also, I have no idea how to pronounce "Aeternus" either. My best guess is ay-TURN-us.

Oxhorn. Idk if someone already mentioned but at 5:04 when the fusion cores came out when you used the jetpack. Maybe you hit the grenade button by accident with the nuclear physicist perk fully leveled will drop a fusion core like a grenade

Use it with the standard barrel way better fire rate it is op then

PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT FOR FALLOUT 4 PLAYERS (PLEASE LIKE THIS COMMENT SO PEOPLE WILL SEE IT) I literally just tried Oxhorn's method of triggering this quest on PS4 after watching this video, and encountered a DANGEROUS bug where you can accept the opportunity to fight in the arena multiple times when talking to the guy in Nuka Cade. If you do so, this will in turn cause multiple enemies to be waiting on the other side of the opposite door when the fight starts, The PROBLEM is the game bugs out and only one of the enemies takes damage from your attacks. All the others will be COMPLETELY INVINCIBLE to attacks from both your character and NPC's. In my game, I was able to kill the one enemy in the arena that WASN'T invincible, and exit the arena after the doors opened. However, the invincible enemies were PERMANENTLY trapped in the arena fighting the Nuka World raiders that usually spawn inside when you tell to the Nuka Cade guy you wanna fight in the arena. If your playing on PS4 and use Oxhorn's method of farming Amoral Combat, It's IMPORTANT you save before accepting the quest from. Nuka Cade guy.

I never had problems with Gatling Lazer + Power Armor. I used Nuclear Physicist and I had ranks in Scrounger. I don't know if it's because of the latter perk, but I would regularly at higher levels come across stacks of fusion cores in containers. It was only in the beginning that I somewhat had to worry about fusion cores, but I could buy any extras I needed from vendors.

Finally Fallout 4 has its own Infinity! )))

the aeternus is full of shit It drained almost all of my fusion cores

i think this is a glitch cuz i have a never-ending legendary effect on my double barrel shotgun BUT,it still takes up shotgun shells...the only thing different is that i dont need to reload it

I have to have 2 fusion cores i umderstend date. But what hapen if a have the good ones(fusion core) and the gatling lazer ones in my inventorie?

You seem like a pretty chill dude.

I never had the issue of fusion core rarity, i personally think them as well as power armor is tooo easy and prevalent throughout the wastes, the game has become a joke easy to beat even n survival mode because power armor is everywhere, ive found hidden armor all over the place, stolen raider armor, and people selling or holding fusion cores, and generators with them abudant, ve had over 100 fusion cores and nuka world is worse as they have them everywhere, ive gotten a stack of 5 or more off a few enemies and then bought more from merchants

Pretty sure the name Aeternus is parallel to the word "Eternal", so pronounce it like that.

from the wiki Aeternus is a unique Gatling laser that bears the "Never Ending" legendary effect. Although it uses the "Never Ending" effect, its actual effect gives the weapon true unlimited ammo. It will use a portion of a fusion core when first fired, but the core's charge will not decrease again while using Aeternus.

Before I got the Gatling gun I was level 98 and using a explosive shotgun (very op), it was the only thing that could do damage to high level enemies until I got the galling gun. Sooooo glad that I got it.

aeturnus- ah-tuh-nis silent R. yes that is the CORRECT way to say it. its the name of a young medievil knight that betrayed his country in the middle of a war, because he met his mother who was an older/aged nurse for the enemy. he gained the name aeturnus when he became a traitor. my family descended from his blood line, and he was the one i studied the most on for my family tree project back in elementary. we had to fill 8 big papers with the branching. and that means from me to my mom [no dad, because adopted at birth, etc, and nothing more known on my blood family other than mother and grandmother...not much to go on from there] so...me to my mom to my grandparents, to THEIR parents to THEIR parents rinse and repeat. when i hit that era i was at two papers aside each other at the top, so i had aeturnus' mother [and un-named father who was a tailor. thats all on him] and he interested me the most. is that the reason for this weapons name? possible...since i've seen a computer in an older game mentioning a BOS traitor who stole a prototype laser weapon. [gatling laser?] and it was never recovered. well thats all i can say on this, take this info as you will, but its what i think, since it matches with other tid bits from the series :P

The funny thing about Aeternius is that the ammo changes to how many fusion cores you have on you (for example; you have 70 fresh fusion cores but the magazine in Aeternius is 69, for all intents and purposes the fusion core drains to match the amount of fusion you have). To prevent the fusion core from being drained, you have to A) not wear power armour or B) carry 750 or less depending on a specific perk fusion cores at once.

Aeternus is amazing for followers, I have it on Danse with 2 0/100 Fusion Cores and he fires it non-stop all day long when traveling.

I'm a bit late to the comment party here, but the Never Ending legendary effect is supposed to make it so you never have to reload. Usually, weapons with it will still consume ammo, but it's treated as having an infinite magazine capacity. I never did try the effect on a Gatling Laser, but I suspect I'd run into the same issue without any sort of patch. This is likely because Gatling Lasers don't use ammo in the normal way and each fusion core counts for a certain number of shots. Most other guns are one ammo for one shot.

+oxhorn sometime you can find fusion cores in ammo boxes,can and other containers the point is you can get lucky sometimes and get cores in containers

I had a glitch for a while when I picked up the "limitless potential" laser rifle where it actually did have unlimited ammo and didn't consume at all. It bugged so "bad" that it transferred over to all of my other laser weapons and even my gatling laser stopped consuming power cores. It was sweet until one day it just randomly quit bugging and started using ammo again.

That different gun description happened to me too but on shotgun. From what I found, it seems like this sometimes happens with Legendary modifications mod. I think that after gun creation it stores the description screen because you haven't seen it. When you find legendary gun of the same type, that stored screen triggers.After that it should work correctly.

This reminds me of some of the things that occur in my game [ps4] where with power armor and gatling laser, if a core is used and repalced in the armor, the gatling laser is considered out of ammo when you pull it out because the core that would be used is being used by power armor. The thing is that the never ending is meant to make it so you never have to reload, which works fine with all weapons because the ammou limit is the total rounds you have in your inventory. However fusion cores are odd because 1 core =500 rounds but is displayed at 500/1. The only thing i can think of with the power armor jetpack is the game is glitching that one core is in use, and all others are not, which makes them 0/100 for some reason? and that makes it so technically your power armor is running on free energy as well but displayed as empty, and when you use the jetpack it uses power core energy from the 4 0/100 removing them and leaving you with only the 1 that is in the gat laser which can't be used for two things. The coding on the power cores, which make more problems when you dig in.

Very interesting. I got aternus. But the amoral combat quest came so easily for me. All i had to do was leave nuka world through the pip-boy map. Came back and EVERY SINGLE TIME i walked through the gates i heard the raider chatter about the alarm and so began the quest amoral combat. I must have done this quest about 30 times it was crazy. But very entertaining none the less. HOPE THIS HELPS ANY OF MY FELLOW FALLOUT FREAKS.

I like the new power armor system... it makes power armor feel awesome... like, not just a cool skin with more armor... but actual POWER

The neverending legendary effect basically means that you never have to reload, I think the difference is that it uses part of a core, probably a glitch in the programming between the legendary effect and the ammo type.

The never ending perk mean you never have to reload when using the weapon. I’d expect it might act weird with fusion cores since a perk can not only increase time in a power armor, but increase magazine size for the Gatling lazer

if you reload before you fire your last shot with a gatling laser you can sell the used core for full price. also i personally never had a problem running out of fusion cores when using power armor / gatling laser. i switched about 3/4th of the way through my main character and i have over 2/3rds of the fusion cores i started with, and i have never bought any ammo with that character (including fusion cores).

I actually found out that it drains your fusion cores to like 8 power, and then it switches to the next fusion core and starts to drain that one. It's also fun because you can get the barrel to shoot more high damage shots but slower, and if you go into 3rd person and repeatedly zoom in and out really quickly makes it shoot way faster with way more damage

You were right when you said it haha. It's a good name for a weapon that has ammo that can go on forever.

If you DONT understand basically what’s happening is the never ending effect only works on normal ammo and since fusion cores aren’t classified as normal ammo which is why it never kills the fusion core

Thank you and if you go in and out of the door it will also work but what got it for me was just running around in there for about 1 minute then going back out

I got it on my third Amoral Combat quest. For me it took my ammo counter down from 600 to 001 and never changed no matter how many times I fired.

Im pretty sure at 5:24 since the Aeternus (however you say it) has unlimited ammo,when it fires it will use ammo until there's no more charge in the fusion core,but keeps shooting which is why the fusion core in your jetpack instantly dissapeared(btw if he explains it after 5:24 then I haven't got there yet)

When your power armor replaces the fusion core, it says you don’t have any ammo for that gun. Just switch to another gun, then switch back to the aeternus. Hope I was some help!

That’s really cool especially when other weapons that say the same thing “unlimited capacity” but this one is confusing but I think Bethesda did this because that would suck if it used an individual fusion core every time it shoots unlike other weapons

You should use the standard barrel. Not only does it sound beast, but it has a higher dps and isn't much harder to control (especially since you're using mouse and keyboard).

What happened with the fusion cores expanding instantly when you pulsed the jet back is... The fusion core used on your power armor expired as you took off Then instead of replacing the fusion core the game used the number of fusion cores as the "charge" on the current fusion core

oxhorn, love all your videos. I'm kinda stuck right now I have done 4 battles of amoral combat & cannot get it to do a 5th.I've spent almost 8 days in the wasteland, traveling back and forth between commonwealth & nuka world. I've done missions, side quests & actual main story lines to try to get the 5th or next battle to start. I have to try your exit through& back into cola cars & then exit cola cars into nuka world. any other info related to this issue I'm having?

So far, so good. Working on my third enemy now.

As a 24/7 power armor user, I've noticed that fusion cores are quite common. I wish we had more interesting variants of the gatling laser instead of just unlimited ammo or faster fire rate.

The issue is that the Neverending legendary effect does not give truly unlimited ammo. Rather, it allows you to use your ENTIRE ammo pool as your magazine. This is why a Double Barrel Shotgun with this effect is near godly, allowing it to take full advantage of it’s high damage output and high fire rate, WITHOUT RELOADING, but you will eventually run out of ammo, as the effect still draws ammo from your INVENTORY instead of a magazine. The issue with your Jetpack, is that while testing the Aeturnus, you consumed the charge of nearly all of your Fusion Cores, and the jetpack consumed the final charge, and your Power Armor frantically cycled through all of the empty cores in your inventory, until you added more, fully charged cores with scripts.

The best way to do the Open Season quest is to wear the Quantum X-01 Power Armor with Aeternus against the Raiders so that it's like Nuka-World itself is killing off the invaders.

At 5:00, that is completely intentional. Your cores are still at 0 charge. Using your jet pack ate through your power, so the game put a fresh core into your suit. But that core was already depleted from the weapon. So it replaced it with another, already depleted core. One big issue with the power Armor hud is it doesn’t tell you how much power is in the spare cores, just the number. That is what happened. You loaded 4 empty cores at once.

5:17 well remember that the stack of 4 is 0/100? It really took effect when you consume it thru power armor instead of aeternus

I find that if you pick up a few decently priced items when you are exploring, like guns or armor, buying fusion cores is far more viable than finding them

I think all the weird bugs are because this legendary effect would better be described as "unlimited clip size". I had it on a plasma rifle, with this effect, supposing you acquired no more ammo, you would have no reason to reload. I think that due to the nature of fusion cores as a "multiple for one" ammo type that the math to get them to never need to reload is probably causing glitches. I think it only appears that you never expend ammunition, but that infact you do. It appears that upon loading/reloading the gun all fusion cores are equipped into it, but are left in inventory as a stack with 0 charge, excepting the one currently being drawn from, this one show your current progress through a typical clip. I think this explains your strange power depletion event with the power armor jet-pack. That all your fusion cores are loaded into your Aeternus, including the one currently equipped by the power armor, and as soon as you try to draw from the cores your inventory updates, grabs a fusion core with zero charge, and then immediately depletes it. Supposing you wished to utilize this weapon with a power armor I would recommend exiting power armor, dropping all but a few cores, equipping and loading the Aeternus, then entering your power armor, then collecting all the extra fusion cores.

So basically what I think is that Aeturnus needs two fusion cores for the ammo to register. (Confusing I know) The core needs to be put into Aeturnus to have something to shoot. But for some reason it needs another core to make it unlimited. When 600 turns to 4. The 4 represents 4 cores. It's not never consuming as it still consumes the fusion core, however you can just shoot forever. I'm assuming it's like the laser rifle Shaun gives you. "Wazer wifle"

there are a few weapons with the effect on them in base game, like the Limitless Laser Rifle. The way the Unlimited perk usually works is that it makes it so you can have all ammo loaded into the gun. It's a little buggy already, you basically reload an amount depending on how long you have the weapon equipped. The ammo isn't technically unlimited, just the clip size. The issues with this are probably happening because fusion cores work weirdly as ammo by themselves already, so having a gun that uses them with an effect that is sort of buggy already just confuses the hell out of the game.