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This is awful.

Did they...

Man.

I wasn't very interested in this but I think I'm just going to pass entirely.

Look no excuses, this is just straight Grognard shit on my part, I'm gate keeping, I'm being elitist, whatever.

Why even have the Brotherhood if you're just going to have them die like mooks? Why put all that effort in to power armor, the iconic symbol of the entire series since the first game, and have some guy with a handgun shoot holes through it? And not even through the faceplate or anything, right through the armor itself? Why do this? What is the narrative purpose here? One frag grenade killing a guy in power armor isn't, like, that's not the point of power armor. These things are one-man tanks that turned the course of the war with China, that make people damn near invulnerable to anything short of plasma rifles and rocket launchers. You want to show your guy is a bad ass have him take out a bunch of raiders or NCR troops. Have him fight a death claw. This is just, idk, completely deflating the mystique of one of the core symbols of the series. The Brotherhood's whole thing, narratively, is being high-tech badasses who can out fight everyone in the wasteland. They only lose the NCR/Brotherhood war because of small numbers and their insularity making the vulnerable. You want your guy to beat them, have him do something clever like drop the ceiling on them, or put their comrades in danger so they have to retreat to protect them, not just shooting right through their armor.

I was so psyched back in 1998 when I found the brotherhood bunker and convinced them to give me power armor and suit me up. You went from being a pretty tough badass to a god of war and carnage. Normal weapons flat out couldn't hurt you without landing crits and you could suddenly survive bursts from miniguns and combat shotguns without blinking. Lasers were damn near useless against you. It was awesome.

And now it's thirty years later and they're having brotherhood knights die like chumps? for what? To show how cool he is? They're just going on to undercut, totally destroy, the mystique of the coolest damn thing in the series?

This sucks.