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Guide to Power Armor Mod Changes
Helmet
Internal Database: All armours. Adding it to raider armour needs higher skill, as there is nowhere to store data in a metal bucket.
Rad scrubbers: T-60. Living in a world dominated by radiation, the Brotherhood does whatever it can to reduce the rads its soldiers are exposed to.
Recon sensors: T-51, T-60. Advanced recon tech brought in with the T-51 and carried across to the T-60.
Sensor Array: see Internal Database.
Targeting HUD: X-01. X-01's equivalent of recon sensors. Relies on the fact that the X-01 uses a digital visor rather than a bulletproof viewport (or at least, that's how I'm explaining the glowing eyes).
VATS Matrix Overlay: X-01. Partnership between Enclave and Vault-Tec resulted in the latter's targeting tech being integrate... -
N.B. The vast majority of what follows is my personal headcanons that I dreamt up while making this mod. To my knowledge none of it actively contradicts the established lore behind power armor.
T-45
The original suit of power armour, slapped together by West-Tek in a few years as tensions with China started to spill over into outright conflict. The engineers on this project were solely focused on getting it to work properly, with the intent of ironing out the kinks later.
This fix-it-later approach certainly shows. The T-45 has acceptable resistances to damage – certainly better than raider power armour and all but the best normal armours – but it will not turn heads. And that protection comes at a high cost: the armour suffers terribly when it comes to...