mod Idea: Calling in your power armor

[abandonator]

an Idea I had, and would love to make a reality, is something that popped in my mind when I saw a BoS knight drop out of a vertibird with his powerarmor and slamming into the ground li.ke a real badass.

I've added some more ideas posted by others and myself during the topic here. So not all credit goes to me on this one. I'll try to credit where it's due on the ideas. But this way it's all together in the first post.

The BoS way:

1. the badass dropdown

you could call in your powerarmor. you drop like a signal grenade, and a vertibird comes flying over and your armor drops down to the ground, with the awesome powerarmor drop animation and damage.

2. the halo drop pod (credit to Daminoth for this one)

The armor is in a pod and warps in in the sky above grenade, pod has rockets that propel it to the ground and has an amplified aoe fire effect similar to the leg mod. pod the opens revealing armor.

The Institute way:

you assign a power armor to use, and get a power armor relay grenade. Like the synth relay grenade, you throw the grenade and you can relay in your power armor.

maybe even if you no longer need it, you could put in a callback device or something like that, wich makes the power armor relay back/despawn.

the institute spawning in will be the easiest one to pull of I think, as you can build of the synth relay grenade.

The minutemen way kelstr33 and demonocolips
you build an aritillery cannon on steroids, wich can shoot in a power armor

ofc the Geck would be needed for these ideas.

Edited December 19, 2015 by abandonator

[xJaegermeifter]

Shut up and take my money.

[Erasofwar12]

Omg orbital drop power armor right on top of your enemies!

[Athanasa]

Yes. All of my yes. And some HNNNNGH for good measure.

[Mythos214]

I thought you meant have the armor leave from wherever it is and come running up to you, since it's basically a robot that you wear, lol. The vertibird and synth grenade idea sound cool too though.

[netramz]

Yeah let's totally trust the vertibird pilots with our precious powersuits lol

[MrHazardous]

I wanted to use a certain ICBM launching vehicle or building to call in armor ;P

Edited December 14, 2015 by MrHazardous

[elspath]

I like this idea. When i sow the topic i though of the exact same two entries for both the brotherhood and institute.

[abandonator]

I thought you meant have the armor leave from wherever it is and come running up to you, since it's basically a robot that you wear, lol. The vertibird and synth grenade idea sound cool too though.

 

Yeah, also a possibility, but I'm not realy a fan of that, as if feels quite unlorefriendly. + you'd have to balance the fusion core use etc.

someone also had a cool Idea to make your suit fight autonomously like the iron man suits.

Did like that idea tho, you could balance it by making it high level perked, having max robotics expert and hacker for example.

 

But an issue would be, as I see it: what happens when it "dies"? does it shut down? does it get unusable? because as an npc dies, power armor is non usable. and you basically would have to make the armor behave like an npc

 

 

Yeah let's totally trust the vertibird pilots with our precious powersuits lol

 

I think they're quite capable, + they'd only have to do a high flyby do drop it down.

 

I like this idea. When i sow the topic i though of the exact same two entries for both the brotherhood and institute.

 

I had this funny Idea of having a gen 1 synth running in your power armor to you, then exit it as it says: " here you go, have a nice day sir"

[Fahrvergnugn]

 

But an issue would be, as I see it: what happens when it "dies"? does it shut down? does it get unusable? because as an npc dies, power armor is non usable. and you basically would have to make the armor behave like an npc

 

 

Make the suit "npc" as essential so it doesn't ever really "die" - and script it to power down and hunch over when it "dies."