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[NRDL]

Is it really worth it upgrading your initial set of power amor?  Or do later models just so utterly eclipse even a buffed out T-45?

[scriver]

Codsworth has decided to suddenly hate me, for some reason.

[motorbitch]

yes but no.
the mats you need to upgrade the t-45 are abundant. but by the time you have the perks to upgrade it much, you will have a better power armor.
still, the upgrades you can do should be worth it. iirc its almost only steel you need.

edith sais:
checked it, repairs are cheap for t-45, but upgrades arent. aluminium will be rare once you start doing a lot of armor upgrades, and more fancy weapon mods need that stuff too. you can buy alu in diamond city tho.
guess it depends how much you use that armor. personally i only started using P.A a lot when i already had a t-60

[Flying Dice]

Yeah, just save your mats. The full set of X-01 I mentioned finding earlier you might not actually encounter through random exploration, but the other full set you almost certainly will, and it's only behind a mid-difficulty terminal.

[That Wolf]

There was a question that reffered to power armour linings under the mod slots? It refers to the upgrade, like t45f. It refers to the f.
Its pretty silly but expect that from beth.
Yeah the first explosive weapon I got was a combat shotty and it owns everything and can even blow down braced doors.
Oh and any legendary (insert type here) ghoul just shoot a leg until its lame then the melee the head, saves ammo and life.

[BigD145]

Aluminum cans and such are quite common. I'm having adhesive shortages in general and I pick up all the glue and duct tape.

[Gabeux]

Anyone else following the adventures of fort ginger?
Spoilers in the videos I guess but idk I've read through this thread.

I am. I watch all Robbaz videos as soon as I can, and I watch his old playlists too. I'll soon run out of stuff to watch. 


The obvious tip about mats, is that..never forget to mark the resources you need. You'd be surprised how, when exploring, you bump into good stuff like aluminum, circuitry, copper.
I played half the game not knowing that dinner trays converts to like 3 aluminum or something, and that coffee mugs converts to ceramic (DERP). And I remember there's a factory that probably used to produce trays, because the conveyor belts are full of them.

Later in the game, if you have got the "caps finder" (Luck 1) perks and discount (char 1) perks, buying shipments is usually worth it (even though adhesive is expensive, so if you're not lazy it's better to plant crops).
I was making a lot of money just from "caps finder" perk, so I'd use "surplus" caps on shipments of steel, wood, copper, adhesive, etc. Really worth it if you don't have the patience to stop doing quests and dedicate time to scavanging exclusively. I couldn't find/remember where to buy shipments of aluminum, though, so power armor upgrades would eat through aluminum really quickly.

E: I'm playing very casually on a new character on survival mode. It's really good. But damn it can be stressful when something sponges through all your ammo and you're left thinking if you can survive the next adventure or not.  I'm making melee this time, but I don't plan on playing more than a couple hours per week.

[Flying Dice]

Aluminum cans and such are quite common. I'm having adhesive shortages in general and I pick up all the glue and duct tape.

Trust me, aluminum becomes more and more scarce as your crafting perks go up. Adhesive is never common, and screws/cork/leather will be problematic from time to time, but at 4 Guns/Science/Armorer you need hundreds of units of aluminum to do all the upgrades you want.

[TheBronzePickle]

A lot of stuff needs aluminum, yes, but anywhere with raiders is going to be filled with cans, and there are lots of places with raiders. Adhesive's only really common in maybe 3 places I've found, and otherwise it's scattered about, which means a lot less targeted raids and a lot more roaming.

[Vorbicon]

Aluminum cans and such are quite common. I'm having adhesive shortages in general and I pick up all the glue and duct tape.

Use your settlements to plant corn, mutfruit and tatos, with another settlement that's on the waterfront to purify mass amounts of water. 3 corn, 3 tatos, 3 mutfruit and 1 purified water makes veggie starch, which gives you 5 adhesives each. I haven't run into adhesive shortages in a long time. I also have a ton of excess water being produced for trading.

[Neyvn]

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I had a Toolbox filled with ammo. Only ammo. All the time I have been playing and the ammo I haven't been using went into it. Cells, Rounds for guns that would be useful, Rounds for Guns that are OP....

Game decided to respawn loot into Sanctuary. I thought the toolbox was made by myself, but nope. It was there from the beginning....

ALL THE AMMO GONE!!!

Note to all. Don't store things into items that highlight yellow when in Construction Mode. They are lootspots. Not containers...

[sprinkled chariot]

Are there any ,, special upgrades" for power armours, that are not basic t-45? Something like unlockable through quests or finding books stuff.

[miauw62]

For aluminium I also like picking up TV dinner trays, those seem to be quite common.

[BigD145]

For aluminium I also like picking up TV dinner trays, those seem to be quite common.

TV and Surgical trays. Probably 1/3rd of all cans are aluminum.

[jocan2003]

Are there any ,, special upgrades" for power armours, that are not basic t-45? Something like unlockable through quests or finding books stuff.

There is a piezoelectric power armor chest based on the T-45 series i think? its a unique that give increased AP regeneration if in contact with radiation.