Increased Fusion Core Rarity

[Imrinfected]

Design-wise, Bethesda clearly inteded for power armor to be used as a valuable but expensive weapon. Something to deploy when you're desperate and save until you really need it.

 

In practice, their target audience must be super mutants because they throw fusion cores at you like candy. I and everyone I know, despite using the power armor non-stop, practically have warehouses full of fusion cores.

 

I have no idea how people are making mods right now outside of resource replacers but somehow people are managing. When the sdk is released I can do this myself but until then, if someone can make a mod that removes fusion cores from the loot table and merchant tables, I'd be grateful.

 

I'm pretty sure power armor was initially balanced around only using fusion cores you get from generators. You know, those things you have to fight through entire dungeons to get to and have a whole model, animation and sequence dedicated to them. Valuable stuff. Then you can find the exact same thing for 500 caps in diamond city, or 6 of them in a crate in a super mutant outpost.

 

Pls fix

[Bongfuhrer]

I would like to see such mod aswell. And the same with chems.

[Kellar21]

Well, the BoS, some of the Raiders and some Gunners, do use PA non-stop so they're not that rare, however I can agree, I did have 50+ cores by level 25 and I used the PA a lot(also had the Nuclear Phisicist Perk).

 

You would however shaft the Gatling Laser(my main Fusion Core waster right now)

[Imrinfected]

Well, the BoS, some of the Raiders and some Gunners, do use PA non-stop so they're not that rare, however I can agree, I did have 50+ cores by level 25 and I used the PA a lot(also had the Nuclear Phisicist Perk).

 

You would however shaft the Gatling Laser(my main Fusion Core waster right now)

So all you gotta do is, in the same mod, switch the ammo type from fusion cores to micro fusion cells. Do this by creating a new ammo type and switching names, then assigning that ammo type to the gatling laser. Rename the original micro fusion cells to small energy cells. Then you can control loot tables for gatling laser ammo without destroying the balance for other energy weapons and their ammo frequency. Then drastically reduce fusion cores in the loot tables, leaving them only on power armored enemies, in those generators and spawning inside power armors.