Well, its done.
I finished the main story line with the Institute. Looks like nothing but side quests and "go kill raiders" from here on until a DLC!
I have three X-01's (still can't find that damn leg for one of them!) and more BoS power armors than I can count.
If there was something I could change, it would be that power armor be a lot harder to get, or at least upgrade.
Starting off with the X-45 with missing pieces, it would have made for a lot more interesting and rewarding game play if parts and complete armor were extremely rare.
Walking down the street and finding a full X-51 set within the first few hours was so exciting, I thought I hit a major jackpot, but then you keep walking and keep finding them.
I thought fusion cores would be a problem, but sentry bots yield two every time and I have more than I could ever use.
Armors and cores turn into more of a hoarding mechanic than one that is essential to the game.
I would have liked to have that one single frame and have had to work and scrounge to slowly upgrade it as the game progressed. A Frankenstein power armor with pieces from Raiders and other places which slowly becomes the X-01 by mid-game.
I say mid-game because getting the white paint job as a reward at the end of the Institute story is great, but now Im at a level where I dont even need the power armor anymore, so it sits around in Red Rocket gathering radioactive dust.
Now I have the fully maxed out armor, all the perks, all the goodies I want, but nothing to do with them.
There is still more work to be done on settlements which should take a few more hours, but other than that, I am extremely pleased with the FO4 experience and looking forward to what comes next!
