have you tried the engine glitch? its pretty damn fun and if you use power armor you wont find yourself splattered against a tree

Any particular reason you don't use them? Probably the repair cost, eh?
'Cuz I finally got my X-01 suit completed on Sunday, and it is glorious.

Molotov Cocktail? Ya warmed me up, thanks... Asshole with a Assault Rifle? *Ping*.... ******* Synths? Nick a bit of your health while you mow them down.
Guy with a Missile Launcher? Face-hug them: "Fire it, ya pussy." ... But, Sentry bots and Deathclaws still pose a threat.

Plus, you reenact Bioshock 2 and trudge across the bottom of the ocean. Now I just need a mod that puts in their drill.

I'm a high charisma character that uses outfits to boost it for speech checks. I can get up to 15 with outfits but only 11 if im in power armor. I'd say thats worth it for me to not use it everywhere.

What weapon do you use while in the power armor? Because i used the minigun and it does not only suck but it eats ammo for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Not that the ammo consumption was unexpected mind you it's just that it deals so little damage.

I personally use my legendary dropped Assault Rifle, with all the goodies attached to it.
61 Ballistic damage, +10 plasma damage (legendary drop bonus), per round. 113 fire rate... It's a lot of hurt going down range.

I found a legendary pipe rifle
*insert laughter here*
that has "targets bleed for additional 25 points of damage". So far, that thing eats every enemy. On survivor difficulty.

I love playing submarine in my power armor
I just wish I could move a wee bit faster

The headlamp ******* sucks underwater too, i use the bright one and it barely makes a difference.

What deathclaws are you fighting? I fought a savage deathclaw that out leveled me in Salem with only t-45a armor. Though I did use up the entirety of my stimpaks, Quantum and ammo, and only my helmet remained after the fight. But it only crapped out near the end of the fight.

Hehehehe, I didn't even use power armor. I just shot the cunt. Tanked one hit from the ******* before his head exploded.

We don't tolerate easy mode ***** here.

Dear, don't you think that's a bit of an exaggeration?

Three stored crits from this.

I dont use power armor because i cant equip unarmed weapons in them.

There's modifications for that. It's only a matter if you want just raw power, bleeding damage or energy damage.

modded power armor arms: 15 extra unarmed damage.
power fist: 149 damage.

also when i wear power armor my carrying capacity is actually reduced by 20 for some ungodly reason.

you have to mod both legs to increase carrying capacity. if you're carrying 400 pounds of stuff, and you climb into power armor, all you're doing is adding 400 pounds to the power armor by default. so once you have both armored legs modded with increase carrying capacity, you wont have that problem for a while.

My default carrying capacity is 330 because i have 11 strength
i specced into idiot savant so my intelligence is 1.
im currently level 35.

i dont want to waste skillpoints just to nullify the penalty i get from wearing power armor, even if i get extra carry capacity, i still cant wield unarmed weapons, so its pointless.

I don't know what deathclaws you're fighting, I'm melee only and I take on legendary deathclaws with my sledgehammer and no companion just fine on hard mode; in fact, I can't find anything that poses a threat to my sledgehammer and I

Deathclaws are just terrible this time around, I blame lack of Damage Threshold.

stealth

You can put the stealth field modification on the chest part of power armor. It is pretty good but the only problem i have with it is that you cant aim down sights cause if you dont have a proper scope the guns sights will turn invisible as well.

Took out a legendary death claw in a Flannel, it seems to me that they no longer ingore damage resistance entirely, which was a severe nerf. Also the Furious Power Fist kills it in 3 hits, counting mutation....Starting to think I need to amp up my difficulty, it seems like normal was good enough earlier in levels.