Granted, the Lyons Brotherhood was able to develop some type of coating to protect them against the plasma weapons, so I assume the same could be done for the T-51. The only weakness that the T-51 would have would be plasma weapons, not being able to withstand the extreme heat. The T-60 was described as a replacement for the more difficult to manufacture T-51, in some places double plated, and said to be much more heavily reinforced than the T-45 I think, making it close to being on par with the T-51 sans the curved defences and ablative silver layer, though anyone with enough silver could do the same for the T-60. That suit would have been the bees knees. If that wasn’t enough, it was coated in an ablative layer of silver that harmlessly reflected laser and direct radiation emissions, and the suit was hermetically sealed to prevent ambient radiation damage. The curviture of the armor was specifically designed to allow some bullets fired to simply ricochet off the armor without landing a direct hit, making it even more protective, and giving it a chance to survive hits from higher joule carrying bullets and armor piercing rounds. We can only assume the F model is really beefy. That’s most small arms fire right there and it’s utterly impervious to them. The T-51b was specifically stated to be able to absorb more than 2500 joules of kinetic impact. In lore, it goes T-45d as the oldest, and hence worse, T-60 as relatively cheap and decent, T-51b as expensive and great, and then the pre-war X-01 and it's subsequent various post-war Enclave PA offspring as the best in actual combat effectiveness since they are newer and more modern. In F76, they made the T-51b better than the T-60 because that's what it was all along. In NV, since Remnant's armour was rarer, it was allowed to be better again.įallout 4? They had just introduced the new model, the T-60, so they wanted to make it better than the T-51b so it didn't immediately get outmatched, but kept X-01 pre-war prototype for the future enclave PA the best because that's what it was meant to be all along. They flip-flop on this issue in the actual games depending on which is newest in which game, as well as for balancing reasons.įallout 3? They wanted a lot of power armour on both sides, hence the T45d, but wanted the OG T-51b to be king, hence why Enclave armour is worse. We encourage all users to post sources, including and not limited to both Fallout Wikis.Īnd while you are at may as well give the subreddit that inspired this one some love: Please report irrelevant posts and comments to the Moderators. Please add depth to post replies.Ĭomments and posts from accounts less than 24 hours old are auto-removed by the filter. This includes youtube videos, discord servers, subreddits, etc.Īll posts and comments, in end, come down to moderator discretion.Īll top level comments shorter than 25 characters are auto-removed by the filter. Low-effort/single-word/link-only posts or answers will be removed.Ībsolutely no self promotion of any kind. Posts that are pure speculation/opinion and cannot be backed up by lore will be removed. If neither wiki has an entry on it, nothing is known about the area in canon as of yet. Refrain from asking about the fate or state of any place that isn't explicitly mentioned in-game. Posts or comments complaining about Fallout/developers may lead to a ban.

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