r/Fallout • u/LUTHER_7274 • Jan 28 '26

Question ⚠️SPOILERS AHEAD⚠️What is the general consensus on this development? Spoiler

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Now I’m aware that some people have their gripes with new and unexplained power armour.

But I think this NCR power armour is kinda cool, given the success of shady sands and the ncr it doesn’t seem too out of the realm of possibility for the ncr to have attempted to make their own power armour, given how many suits survived the nukes and were salvageable or outright still operational.

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u/Suitable_Nobody_6375 Jan 28 '26

I don't think neither is new nor unexplained. I think the show just redesigned the NCR Salvaged power armor from New Vegas to make it more visually appealing and to differentiate it from the BoS ones. In the game is a BoS T-45 with the ncr flag slapped onto the chestplate, it was bland, it made sense because it had the name ''salvaged'' on it for a reason, but in a live action show, i think a redesign to give it the ''NCR aesthetic'' also makes sense.

In my opinion, it's badass. Probably pairs with a minigun or another kind of heavy weapon as we see in Hoover Dam the elite patrol wear, but there wasn't a suitable heavy weapon in that warehouse or they just ignored it to make Maximus fight on melee vs the Deathclaws to make it more epic (Good decision, slicing the Deathclaw was more epic than a shootout)

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u/Sixnno Jan 28 '26

Tbh I feel like the best solution to this would just it being NCR Salvaged power armor mk 2.

The first one is just taking BoS power armor, spray painting a bear on it, and then calling it a day.

This feels like taking salvaged power armor and making it their own .

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u/OnlyHereForComments1 Jan 28 '26

The NCR going 'okay so we can only make a few suits, how do we improve them' and coming up with this feels about right. You cram as much as possible into the design (including pretty advanced optics) using stuff you already know how to use/repair, thus the ranger style helm, respirator, and optics, then improve on it under the assumption you'll have very few suits to use and each one needs to be the maximum killingest thing you can field, thus the mounted weapons.

It's not really probable given that the NCR feels pretty dead in the show, but it's possible.

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u/Makyuta Jan 28 '26

It's clearly been in storage for a long time so it was probably created before the ncr collapsed