to be honest the raider power armor should have more variety in their looks due to different raider gangs so they can feel like they have more personality

I think the rebar cage on the raider power armor is used for protection against creatures like deathclaws and mirelurks

I like the fact they added power armour frames in 4. It makes the suit feel heavier and more powerful than previous games. Plus it adds to the creativity of players to add whatever pieces they want/ find onto it

The rebar is for explosive protection. I think the logic for ghouls not being able to wear regular armor is a combination of too heavy and sticking to the ghoul. Imagine taking off some tight leather pants when your skin has the consistency of a rotten peach and the logic of them being able to wear power armor is that it's self supporting and air conditioned.

I think a possible reason why the Union PA has more damage resistance than most other PA is because it's not made to be mass produced, allowing to be more heavily armored. Anything that's Mass Produced in the military has to have a balance of affordability and usability. Meaning that you aren't getting the best it could possibly be. With PA this would mean lower protection. This even explains T-65 being as superior as it is because it was only ever meant to be used by Secret Service agents, meaning it wasn't meant to be Mass produced and so they could put the very best tech and materials in it.

What I like about the Excavator armor backstory, is the fact that it’s basically “John Henry, the steel-driving man” but cloaked in quasi retro-futuristic, sci-fi garb. Interesting folktale, I recommend giving it a read!

I can see the rebar cage working as a pretty good crumple zone for melee attacks as well.

My theory of ghouls not being able to use leather armor in tactics is that on a hot day I stick to my leather couch, maybe if a ghoul wears leather their skin sticks to it and "comes off" in the leather.

It took me a while to warm up to power armor being a frame you step into rather than just another outfit, but since I've been replaying New Vegas again I find it makes a lot more sense with how they changed it.

With how common random bits of power armour are including whole complete frames you would think raiders wouldn’t need to make they own bits of armour

What surprises me is that there's little to no "non-raider", but still patchwork armor available...

I love how 76 showed the concept of civilian power armor. I'd like to see more since i can imagine plenty of industries would gladly replace bulky industrial vehicles with these if they could.

I'm a big fan of raider PA, just love that scrap aesthetic

Instead of Raider Power armor, all armors should come with a salvaged versions, so you can have tons of variety in your scrapower armor

I actually think the Tactics Brotherhood Armor looks badass, but definitely looks like the kinda thing the bad guys should be wearing.

U.S. Navy Vet… One of my favorite civilian misnomers that will forever be ingrained in culture is that the term “Military-Grade” means top-notch. It’s quite the opposite in reality. More often than not it equates to the cheapest possible material to do the job with the fastest production rate. For any items outside of military use, you may as well slap “Organic” on it, too, cause it doesn’t mean a thing

I think the "crown" of the raider armor is just a mounting for the light. Happy Great War day! 54 years to go!

My favorite (aesthetically speaking) of these less common types has to be the union power armor. It really gives the feel of something heavy and durable meant for hard work in a place like an industrial steel foundry. Equip the person in the suit with an Autoaxe and you got a heavy duty steel worker and melee tank.

My theory on why Ghouls can wear power armor and not others; power armor is a suit with a sealed environment, like a space suit, so it can be worn more comfortably than other armor types

Raiders were able to build this in a CAVE with a box of scraps!!!

I just realised when you showed the Hellcat Company logo, the Latin words on it translate to “Death From the Seas” That gives a lot more weight to theory of the armour being amphibious assault armour. As well as indicates that the Hellcat Company may be a marine company that survived the war and turned mercenary.

Ive always loved how Procter negan uses the frame for her crippled legs

I'm surprised no one tried to make Mirelurk Power Armor. I think it'd look sick!

I believe that the Hellcat Power armor might have been aquatic/amphibious pre-war, given it seems designed to be used under high pressure and its headlamp is only visible to the player and human npcs

Overboss PA is absolutely fantastic and I love the aesthetic.

I feel like there should have been a legendary black titanium Excavator suit named John Henry

Headcanon for the Horned PA: I think the Midwest chapter of the BoS started out with T51 sets before making their own distinct power armor sets after welcoming a pack of intelligent deathclaws into their ranks and that new power armor took inspiration from those deathclaws. It should be noted that it is possible to make allies with a pack of intelligent deathclaws in Fallout Tactics and considering how inclusive the Midwest chapter is, it couldn't be that much of a stretch

Wouldn’t be surprised if Midwest Brotherhood Armor was made in a research facility and can only be found in the Midwest and the brotherhood found it and made it their faction armor. Kind of how the Excavator Power Armor can only be found in West Virginia.

I love the Ultracite & Excavator Power Armor. They look so cool and their stories are pretty fun(the lore on the Excavator is my favorite). I have them both on display at my camp lol 😂

If you have the punch through wall perk allowing the targeting of the core from any angle. However the power armor is marked as stolen. However you can't force the enemy out of their armor even if you destroy their core in 76.

The crown is likely just for the flashlight, and the rebar cage is most definitely for defending against head trauma (melee attacks) since a steel helmet like that is more than likely not suspended like a hard hat.

Tbh, the Hellcat armor was (at first) the main reason why I completed the broken steel missions, it's sick af. I wanted it since I first saw it, and I just so happened to hit level 100 when I got it, so that's something

Glory to Atom

glad you talked about the misfits of the PA. yeah raider one should have been a thing for years

I dont think the intro news is talking about the hellcat company because he calls them "Our mechanized hellcats" prolly just a nickname for the forces, if he said "give em hell boys" I wouldnt assume that the "hell boys" were a faction that existed. Also the mechanized hellcats he mentioned are off fighting the Chinese over on the other side of the ocean, bit of a swim to get from there to west virginia.

It honestly would be cool to see Ultracite reactors get used properly in 76, Like I could see them fitting perfectly into a new MODUS/Enclave power armor myself. but than they would have to actually do that Enclave DLC they been teasing us on since wastelanders.

worth of note that the hellcat power armor ALSO leaves a lot of the frame exposed, maybe even moreso than the raider armor (main locations are around the neck when viewed from the top, and around the belly area though its less visible here with the default colors as the hellcat matches the color of the frame's belly)

Honestly, raider power armors the best armor in this fallout 4. It just looks so dope, it’s so fun to play with. It fits the aesthetic so well. It looks like you could fix it by just ripping off a stop sign from any corner of the world.

In Fallout 4, you CAN obtain power armor frames from enemies. You have to shoot and destroy the fusion core in the back of the armor. If they aren't killed by the resulting explosion, the enemy will eventually exit the power armor, allowing the player to enter it. Given that you have an extra fusion core. Edit: i jumped the gun with my comment. Lol

I always enjoyed the different designs of power armor, for all of my grievances with Fallout 4, I felt like Power Armor was the best part, being able to mix and patch parts, my usual go with the XO1 body, T51B arms, T60 legs and the T51B helmet, and Fallout 76 made it even better

I like to think of the Hellcats as America's equivalent of the German stormtroopers of WW1, and that's probably where Bethesda got the inspiration. Think about it. German stormtroopers were a specialized group of elite soldiers that utilized submachine guns, shortened rifles, and Modern-at-the-time Body Armor to storm trenches and assault positions. So America having a unit that's specialized for that same reason, with power armor that's designed specifically to resist ballistic weaponry, makes a lot of sense. Add to the fact that they survived the end of the world and even thrived is a testament to how trained they were. Just like the stormtroopers of old.

Maybe the reason that ghouls find leather and metal to heavy but the power armour has hydrolic systems that supports the user to move around and that takes a lot of the weight away for them

Yo I come back to these videos often because you do them properly. You deserve a lot of flowers and credit for your efforts compiling the lore in a accurate way.

There is another way to get a empty power armor frame, Arturo in Fallout 4 has them in his shop.

Excavator Power armor is probably my Favorite PA in Fallout 76, the carry bonus and it's unique look makes it amazing for me and it looks really good with most cosmetic skins. I just wanted to add that all power armors in Fallout 76 have a hidden stat of 42% damage reduction for a full set, regardless of which one you are using. Fallout 76 also has a legendary effect called overeaters which increases overall DR to 6% per piece the higher your hunger meter is , giving you +30% DR for a full set of Overeaters, which stacks with the DR already given by PA so a full set of Overeaters Power armor will give you 72% overall Damage resistence and that is not counting the resistances you get from the visible stats. In conclusion the extra carry weight, mining bonuses and the legendary effects make Overeater Excavator Power armor one of the best PA's in 76 and most sought after. Great video btw.

I'm guessing the rebar cage on raider power armour is there to protect the wearer from neck injuries, since if someone in full power armour fell onto their head, the damage to their neck from the weight of the armour could easily be fatal. Especially on a suit with a jetpack.

I love the Tactic Advanced Power Armor so much, it's so great

adore your content man, your naration is just top tier, both relaxing and makes you super invested in the subject, keep it up!

Hellcat Power Armor is my favorite design I just wish the chest piece looked more similar to the X-01 Chest because it’s chest piece just looks like it was broken at one point and never repaired.

One potential reason for ghouls not being able to wear leather or metal armor might be the deterioration of their skins. Those armors might come in contact with their mussel or tissues directly, causing extreme pain (because of coarseness of the leather) and/or even lethal infection (rusty metal, you don't want that in direct contact to an open wound IRL). You can even see ghoul armors have cloth lining in Tactics. However, in lore (though not in game prior to FO4) power armor seems to be closer to the exoskeleton, which supports itself and can get away with no skin contact at all, and would therefore be safe for ghouls. Environmental Suit would have polymer lining as the inner most layer, if FO has similar hazard suit technology similar to real life, and it would also be safe for ghouls.

my theory as to why ghouls cant wear leather or metal but can wear power armor comes down to temperature. If its hot enough and you sit on say a leather car seat without a shirt on, you may stick to it a bit, metal is a conductor which carries heat really well. And given that a ghouls skin is already necrotic and falling apart, having either of those two materials heat up and burn , or stick to them and may subsequently injure them if they try to take it off. Power armor on the other hand may be temperature controlled on the inside.

Well talking about how you would operate the power armor frame (at least the hands), the "Better Marine" cinematic from Starcraft 2 is a nice way of showing it

Ghouls probably can’t wear a lot of different things because of their skin falling off. But power armor frames don’t seem to touch the body in all places so that would be my guess on why they can wear it

Imma be honest out of all the cropos you find in fallout garahan is one of the few that I actually respect as there excavator suit was meant to allow human miners to keep there job hell if it wasn't for hornwright sabotaging the man vs machine contest it would have won which suck blows

Raider power armor is such a cool idea, so many possibilities, like, imagine if the forged or rust devils power armor, imagine all the different varieties there could have been

For the abandoned Power Armour frames, its simply because they're too heavy. Try the carry move on a PA corpse, it won't lift. The BOS have learned you can scuttle the armour (where you found them in that pit) - which I believe fries the circuits.

I thought due to what it looks like amphibian equipment on the Hellcat Power Armor, it was the Power Armor of the U.S Marine Corp.

I always collect all the power armor i find then customize and display it, yet i literally never use any of it….no idea why

10:15 absolutely wonderful, my life has been at the very least slightly improved by this

Thank you for doing what you do. You have taught me more about Fallout than anyone else. Really helps build my fondness of this series/world/universe into something greater.

I love the raider PA they remember me the improvised spaced armor made by Soviets in their tanks in Berlin to avoid Hollow charges of panzerfausts or bazookas in general and also the Syrian T 72 and T 55 tanks more recently wich look from a mad max setting or actually straight from fallout.

Ah yes the Midwest power armor. The most wtf armor of fallout. It's cool but it doesn't make any sense.

I'm almost definitely not the first one to do this, but whenever I loot pieces of PA off of someone who was wearing it, I always make sure to shoot at the remaining pieces they have equipped before looting. This sets the carry weight to 0 and although it costs materials to fix, it's the reason I have a chest with upwards of about 100 different pieces of PA, both mixed and from complete sets

In Fallout 4, you can find power armour workstations in a lot of different places that are not of military significance. Red Rocket stations, factories, private residence garages etc. This suggests to me that there were civilian types of power armour in use pre-war. They were likely used for heavy lifting and/or work in hazardous environments... a lot like the Excavator model in FO76. I am not aware of any Fallout 4 concept art of civilian power armour types, but it would not surprise me to learn that there were plans for such things.

Ingram does have legs when she goes out of her frame. when you enter the frame it becomes a normal frame. I discovered this due to a bug with the settlement in the airport

The most underrated power armors imo

Honestly Raider Power Armor shows just how ingenious some of them can be, even among lowly cutthroats Rigging a processing unit to read information like target data and munition displays is a difficult task. The fact these guys can do it without any formal training speaks to how dedicated they are to being professional bandits

Great video as always, would love to see a lore video on the Appalachian brotherhood and enclave from you

I'm loving the "New Age" of fallout tuber's. Radking, Triangle City, N_orte. Fuckin legends

Does it bother anyone else that the metal power armor twists and blends with the idle animation? (Most noticeable in the stomach)

I like the power armor change that Fallout 4 did how it made Power Armor like a mech suit instead of a suit of Night Armor

Excavator Power Armor is probably my favorite power armor in the series because it makes 100% sense that a tool meant for war getting repurposed for something practical back at home and I just love the industrial look.

The Hellcat Armor has little helmet for those of us who happen to share our body with a conjoined twin named Kuato. How very woke of the designer and manufacturer.

Rad, have you found, or done a video on the the Freefall Legs? Found in Fallout 4 in Mass Fusion building.

The rebar spikes on the helmet is probably for if a creature like a death claw for example, biting the head. The rebar would tear up the death claws mouth and make it let go.

I know you covered the Giddyup Buttercup Armor, but I wish you had mentioned the Captain Cosmos armor too. It’s my personal favorite power armor variant

Cope cages on power armor is wiiiiiild, great video as always

On the subject of power armor frames: Looking at a different franchise (starcraft 2) we see that the hands in Marine Power armor there are handles similarly to the PA frame. The hand at full extension stops before the mechanised digits begin, however the opening cinematic shows a control device that the user's hand is gripping onto that would ostensibly translate input from flesh digit to mechanical ones. It's possible that the PA frame is using a similar type of device in theory but is not rendered in engine because Bethesda considered it to be too much work for such a minor detail. It would however track with what appears to be a pressure mat that the users feet rest on to move the legs, that or the whole thing works on nuclear magic/the DRIFT system

The rebar cage, reminds me alot of the early detonation cages that are placed on tanks and other vehicles, designed to trigger a rocket or impact detonating explosive prematurely, and it would make sense as a defence against blunt force dispursing the force over the cage instead of on the actual armour, meaning you can replace just the rebar when damaged and leave the underlying armour intact

I like that the spotlight of the Raider helmet is just a mag-lite strapped to the side of the helmet 😂

I appreciate the hard work compiling all the footage for this video. I feel bad skipping through much of the fallout 76 footage, but oh well 😅

Every time I found a piece of lore in fallout 76, the words in my head were "They thought THIS should be canon?" Every time I found another retcon on the BOS, I rubbed my temples until they were sore. 😂😭

On the hellcat armor, the "little mask" on the chest area reminds me of an SCBA "self-contained breathing apparatus" but made far more compact than the navys version for divers. I used to use its precursor the OBA "oxygen breathing apparatus" for firefighting in the navy. Both would be pretty handy at keeping radiation dust from getting into your lungs and eyes. The draw back would be were to find replacement tanks and canisters for them. But if you did find a supply it would help you out and reduce your exposure.

I've always thought of the midwest power armor being a light weight, more agile variety of power armor due to it's sleek and more fitted appearance. I think it would potentially be used in a rescue/ scouting operation.

Doesn't the unnamed raider with the mini nuke in Lexington always spawn with raider power armor?

You could have been helping this settlement i just marked on your map inatead of watching this, is the commonwealths safety not important to you? [Preston Disliked That]

Maybe ghouls can wear power armour as there’s a synthetic inner lining on the frames? Something made of a fabric or rubber perhaps

I always loved the Midwestern BoS Armor. I too feel that the Black Devil Armor is a nod to it given the Enclave at Raven Rock also stopped at Chicago for a time. Given the early photo shows the BoS Paladins in T51b but the Chicago Paladins in the Midwestern Armor it stands to reason that they found suits in Chicago and combined them with their own existing armor to create a unique armor for their area. The Enclave in FO3 opting for Black Devil over traditional Mk II is maybe MK II is too Maintenence and resource heavy for a reeling Enclaves industrial base to keep up with. The idea the Enclave and Midwest BoS had a dust up also explains how the BoS lost Denver to Caesar and his Legion.

Kinda wanna see updated versions of the NCR power armor you can build or as a skin alongside a Legion themed Raider/Roman one.

Maybe the reason post-war power armor is so good is because pre-war, they were focusing on not only resistances but also comfort. While post war, resistances are all that matter

the midwestern poweramor variant seems like they found an X0-1 set and applied some of the innovations to old T51 sets and wanted something that would instill fear in those that came across armored Paladins making them easier to pacify

the rebar being a countermeasure to Melee makes some sense, as the most common enemies a Raider might come across would be wild creatures or Feral Ghouls, nothing hurts more than trying to punch a piece of metal that stabs back at you... Sadly this is not a functional feature of the vanilla game.

My theory of ghouls not being able to use leather armor in tactics but they can use power armor is that their skin (if you forget fallout 4) is damn near peeling off, so if they wear metal or leather armor, it could stick/mold onto the armor ripping their skin off, but the power armor may not be touching their skin directly so there's no fear of it ripping off

One thing I love about the hellcat PA is the red visor, get yourself a Gat laser or any big gun and shine the visor in a dark room, looks awesome and always end up going back to it. With modded armor pieces and legendary it's actually one of my best pa models I have and buffs my special stats beyond any other I have available. The legendary and modded parts make up for low DR and most enemies I encountered in 75 use ballistic damage weapons so it works out great mostly. I usually only switch if I'm going against robots ect.

I love the Raider Power Armor so much. I always wore it over the (objectively better) marks, because it looks so radical.

15:34 fun facts, the fleshy membranes coming out of the Yautja/Predator head are in fact canonically referred to as “Predlocks”

I love how raiders can build better power armour than the NCR can in new Vegas

not gonna lie. I’d wear the Ultracite everyday. dope af PA looks like an advanced T-51

im a huge fan of excavator pa. i just like the design a lot. plus the weight carry and mineral bonuses are based as hell. so much lead.

You reminded me of my first good set of PA. I had a good, well upgraded set of power armor I used on tougher missions on my first playthrough of FO4, but attacking Brotherhood head on in the airport proved to be a bit to much to me, so I left my armor and proceeded to mostly rely on stealth and cover. At the end of the mission smth blows up and it made my best suit of armor buried under the rubble, unobtainable 😢 I also had unique Tesla parts on it