Power Armor Training

[goatcha]

I continue to be constantly annoyed by the fact that Power Armor no longer requires training.

While I love the power armor system in Fallout 4, as opposed to the mere clothing it was in earlier games, the fact that it is now a vehicle makes the lack of any skill requirement to use (when all previous games required training) even more stupid.
It really is immersion breaking every time I see a common raider walking around in a suit, or indeed any time I think of that first save the minutemen quest in terms of a female character.

 

While the male (ex-soldier) should automatically have the required training, the wife should not.

Implementing a restriction into the game could be quite difficult given the new system, but I have two proposals, the latter I suspect being more feasible.

 

Proposal 1: Make it impossible to enter a suit of power armor if you lack the required perk and disable all raiders and gunners from using power armor.

 

Proposal 2: Anyone can wear power armor and gain the protection it affords against physical and radiation damage; however if you lack the training required to properly use it then you should suffer severe stat penalties while in the armour.

 

-5 perception

-5 charisma

-10) agility

-5 luck

 

There is no reason for strength, endurance or intelligence to be reduced, it's still power armor after all.

 

 

Who would have the training?

Brotherhood of Steel - either all members, or all members except initiates,

Atom Cats

The occasional (non-feral) Ghoul.

Anyone else it makes logical sense for, I haven't explored the game fully, but frankly that is all I an think of.

 

How does one acquire the training?

Its not a perk-chart perk, but more like the perks earned by impressing companions or collecting bobbleheads.

Male character has it automatically.
For the female character who was a lawyer before the war, it must be learned.

 

- Brotherhood of Steel when you are given your suit of PA aboard the Prydwyn.

- Atom Cats if you make friends with them. (perhaps its a reward for fending off a raider attack)

- Might also be possible to obtain a training manual from an undisturbed section of a pre-war military base or bunker.
However, that would require creating a book or holo-tape which one can read to learn the skill. Perhaps that could even explain the raiders and gunners, although I'd rather they just have the stat penalties.

 

 

 

 

[ronnyynnor]

This is a very good point and may I add that with using the power armor with no training or perk will result in the power armor moving slowly and not as fast as it would with a fusion core. So without training it would move just like it would if there was no power core. This is also seen in fallout new Vegas with the salvaged power armor (yes I know components we're stripped out of the armor) when putting it on you move slowly and it takes away 2 agility but as armor does provides protection. I as a PA fan am also annoyed that the training was taken out of the game. Edited February 12, 2018 by ronnyynnor

[Perraine]

They took it out for the "save the idiots" first quest. Obviously they could't be bothered re-writing the quest so that PA wasn't required (say, if you had no training) or just remove it altogether. The same happened with the "Anchorage Exploit" for FO3, where you could get PA training at level 1, just by doing the Operation Anchorage DLC. Bugthesda are nothing if not consistent, even in their laziness.