The SCIENCE! Behind Power Armor in Fallout 4

[@joshuaolsen6509]

Not taking falling damage? That sounds like something a synth would do...

[@christopherdodge7043]

Hey, would you check out my channel and maybe leave me some criticism? It would mean a lot to me, thanks.

[@almaelma2372]

+CJ Dodge sounds like a synth

[@onyxtay7246]

+CJ Dodge Sure. Don't go on other people's channels to try to get viewers. (Its kind of rude.) Just make videos on something not many people do. (So not minecraft) Be unique, and try to add to whatever community is in a certain game. Then you might be able to get someone who's a bit more popular to give you credit for you contributions. That's a much better way to get yourself out there than asking people to check out your videos on someone else's channel. Just remember "If you build a better mousetrap the world will beat a path to your door."

[@christopherdodge7043]

Avarickan Honestly you have given me the best advice yet. Thank you

[@christopherdodge7043]

deathman the noob Oh well that sounds like something a SYNTH would say

[@Free_Krazy]

"most developers have fall damage in their games" Borderlands: Hold my physics.

[@fusionguy4996]

Fred Krazé that such a true statement right there

[@jessemorris744]

Really one of my favorite parts of borderlands, makes getting off a big ass building or mountain literally easy as pushing a button

[@lazerlight2235]

you require likes

[@MarkZeroGaming]

Ironically, Borderlands has at least a hand-wave of a reason for it: Pandora is a relatively small planet with lower gravity than Earth. Which is why you fall slower and can handle the impact without damage. Also because Borderlands is less about realism and more about action.

[@oneofmanyparadoxfans5447]

@@MarkZeroGaming EXPLOSIONS!

[@someloseronline0449]

Just wait until he discovers the metal leg armor that negates fall damage

[@waterwaifu612]

Gamerwolf 04 anything with acrobat effect or the free fall legs

[@rattled4806]

Still better than a huge chunk of metal

[@josephpayne113]

Or the Nuka World infinite ammo gatling laser

[@gypsyjr1371]

@@josephpayne113 Or any weapon with the unending trait. Wow, .50 unending automatic rifle with +ROF and -Recoil and +DMG = instakill on a lot of legendary enemies.

[@metenchephaly]

Lmfao freefall legs

[@madaremlap4960]

"I come to your games to get away from the reality!" *immediately puts reality into every single video he does* Oh.....

[@budokankan]

Lol. He does contrasdict himself allot doesnt he? XD

[@DHunter_47]

The Kingdom of God is at Hand John 3:16 King James Version 16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

[@DHunter_47]

@@budokankan The Kingdom of God is at Hand John 3:16 King James Version 16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

[@PeaseMakerYT]

Still wondering why can you get poisoned by something like radscorpion, while wearing Power Armor :/

[@frenchie1826]

+PeaseMaker The stinger cant get to you while in Power armor? I dont know its seem thats the only reason

[@archivehans]

+PeaseMaker people are lazy

[@sheldoomgaming7479]

it's sharp. it can break raider power armour in 1 hit sometimes. it sends a poison through the circuits into you.

[@benedictifye]

+Sheldoom Gaming digitized poison

[@olliegarner4601]

It likely gets through the armour and ends up spraying posion on you. Yes I knoe that is disentangle inside of you but this is Fallout. Likely mutated its posion into a fine acid.

[@matafaka5520]

power armor can save you when jumping off of trinity tower, but a mosquito can still poison you thru your power armor... I only keep the power armors I find just to give it to my settlers cause they can use it with unlimited use. I somehow even have some provisioners wearing the dam things and then never get out of them

[@AgeDrain]

How u get them to stay in?

[@ikariyabiollante867]

AgeDrain don't assign them to anything else, I would assume

[@matafaka5520]

AgeDrain yea like snoop mcdoop said just leave him as he is he will stay in the suit

[@LargeMike815]

matafaka maybe the blood bug posion gets to the flesh though gaps in the power armour

[@dionwoollaston5717]

i have an entire section in sanctuary dedicated solely to my power armour i have three and a quarter rows of power armour

[@mysteriousstranger9920]

Brotherhood of Steel incident report AD-851: Another initiate has jumped from the prydwen in a t45 power armor unit, initiate did not survive the impact, the only thing salvageable is the helmet and it is also the only thing we have to bury.

[@konstantinosrope-maker1228]

bu-ruh

[@rethnic437]

Bu-ruh

[@googisthegreat1397]

Bu-ruh

[@prestongarvey8884]

F

[@House_MAL]

Case file-19 the mysterious stranger

[@0Ciju0]

This should be titled "The SCIENCE! Behind falling in Power Armor." I was expecting an analysis of how the PA operates. Like how the pistons help give you more strength, etc.

[@delta390gt]

Tbh it's probably to get more people to click on the video.

[@eeshsinger]

Same this is more of a rant than a scientific analysis

[@nichsulol4844]

hydraulic armored insect

[@wyattdornewass2651]

​@@delta390gtfair enough.

[@butilikepizzatho4851]

you made me understand physics better than my teacher ...

[@butilikepizzatho4851]

thx c:

[@l0sts0ul89]

yep

[@jamesricks1855]

but i like pizza tho

[@charleswatson2088]

but i like pizza tho i just watched youtube and never attended a class. passed every test. (online colledge, unlv)

[@lancebot8224]

James Ricks OMG ur right

[@abbasnaser1961]

You know what's more dangerous than falling inside a Power Armor at gravity force? Falling inside a Power Armor at "Austin's Talking Speed". The PA would scatter to fucking pieces :,)

[@oXSimonXo]

+Abbas Naser How did you see this video 12 hours ago? Are you a wizard?

[@abbasnaser1961]

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[@afterpasthours7504]

+Hart Chor I want to know to ( Probably a Patron)

[@SoManyContent]

Preston Garvey: You know who are in more danger? The persons that are in this settlement. Here I'll mark it on your map.

[@RinIsArty]

+Abbas Naser Also you destroy the universe because lightspeed should never be exceeded.

[@Bertziethegreat]

Gravity pisses me off. It's always holding me down.

[@domquixote9975]

Why, just why?

[@Bertziethegreat]

Dominic Pyles Because it's punny.

[@comandercarnis]

That pun was terrible and love it, here have an internet cookie.

[@changlee1196]

Nobody likes it, but its the law.

[@demi-fiendoftime3825]

+Chang Lee God Damit Barb!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@Zenodeus]

Dear Austin. I have a question for you. Not that you’ll likely see this since this video is nearly 4 years old and you have better thing to do anyway, but after reading like ten comments I decided nobody important has brought it up. First let me qualify my question with an observation I had while upgrading my power armor. When looking through the leg upgrades I noticed one was to add explosive vents to the legs, it increases damage to nearby enemies when falling from great heights and adds an explosion effect when you land. Now I’m no expert on explosions or collisions but when cars hit something at high speeds there doesn’t seem to be a super impactful shockwave that spreads from the impact in a radius. So this got me thinking that the energy from landing isn’t getting absorbed by the armor but dispersed by some magic device in the legs of the armor that takes all that kinetic energy and pushes it out in a explosion thus sparing the poor squishy innards of the individual within the suit and not sparing anybody unfortunate enough to be standing within some radius of said falling individual. Anyway my question is: Is this actually possible. And if so just how much damage should this blast actually be doing to the surrounding areas. It seems like it would be more than the game shows but I’m not informed enough to figured it out myself so if by some miracle of fate you see this, maybe you can. -Sincerely Jarod

[@captainxeno8202]

Not to mention the fact that at no matter what height you fall from or how fast you're falling it still creates the same effect, it would make more sense the lower the elevation the weaker the impact and if you jump off a tall building or something it should do the explosive vent effect. Then again this is the game that has a nuclear explosion in a grenade and some ballistic weapons have a legendary effect that lets them shoot plasma sooo.

[@DaisFlaque]

The exterior of the suit does not stop the interior (you) from instant deceleration.. even if the suit could disperse its g forces.. it couldn't stop yours.. as you are a separate entity from the suit itself. Simple answer: no. It would not help at all, not in the slightest. Because you are not the suit, you are a squishy sack of meat stopping nearly instantly. Hope this answers it for you. Sincerely Dais F.

[@exoticmattertheone4365]

This is supported by the fact that individuals near the power falling take damage soooooo

[@couriersix4252]

Fallout is wacky look at me i got shot in my brian and im alive

[@mickaelfrimann]

@@couriersix4252 There are veterans walking around fully functional with half a brain

[@CaptainPositron]

Its about as realistic as a wrist-mounted computer than can run without transistors. :P

[@kabhes9040]

+CaptainPositron computers can run without transistors only problem is they will be really crappy like in the way of only text based and using disks as a hard drive and that kind of stuff. just like in fallout

[@DUCKDUDE4100]

+kab hes Yeah, but vacuum tubes are huge.

[@NeroXVLX]

+CaptainPositron BEHOLD THE POWER OF THE ATOM!

[@TheGreatTitanor]

Transistors eventually did get invented in Fallout, except not until much later.

[@viermidebutura]

+kab hes and weight tons - don't forget this

[@hydra5998]

What if your fusion core runs out while ur falling

[@wolfwarlordjake8992]

*Crunch*

[@Press_START360]

Jorb Nelson nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope

[@MissBits_]

you still dont take fall damage

[@LorenzSinclair]

It says: even with anything's on it, a power armor frame will still eliminate Fall damage

[@notsohappy2A4]

Nothing would happen because all that the core does is give power so you can move and use a flashlight, the springs that stop the fall don't need power.

[@0wolfclaw064]

6 frames = 1/10th of a second? So... console players fall slower?

[@CloppingIsMyThing]

love our hacks?

[@LordCommissarDrac]

+0Wolfclaw0 they fall slower in our perception, but the speed would honestly be the same

[@TORazorback]

The frame here is used as an arbitrary constant. Because it stays roughly the same, he can use it as a unit of velocity. Console players may decelerate in 3 frames, etc. But because you use all your measurements based on those frames at 60 fps, it works. You could do all the calculations at 30 fps and get the same results

[@epicman-er6do]

we fall slower ? yay now I get even more time to worry about the last time I saved !

[@DankDawson]

no they don't fall slower, they just naturally are slower, at everything

[@sontypohnenamen5161]

Remember when Game Theory was like this instead of 296 videos about FNAF?

[@Divine_Smite]

Dear Scott

[@dickatry2854]

Yeah but the FNAF videos were one of the best videos

[@abominationishere5403]

@Bill The Bull Gates pretty much :/

[@pontius428]

Frisk Dreemur not at all dumbass

[@XMAN-lb1op]

FNAF is what started game theory lol, so there's no remembering when it wasn't there because it was there since the beginning

[@noeliuscornelius1]

So will my PC survive a massive fall because it has a G-force graphics card? Yes! 1-0 NVidia AMD!

[@skylerburdisss5869]

let's do that

[@macgaming-gs6co]

Noelious Cornelious THAT MAKES NO GOD DAMN SENSE

[@JadeDude1973]

I often fantasized about shoving my old PC out the window. Just a little shove. No more than six inches to the left and two stories down...

[@slothonabike]

LOOOOOOOOL

[@johncochran8497]

32 ft/sec^2... The only way to accelerate a PC.

[@patrlim]

"ain't no gravity gonna hold me back" Well boys, we did it, falling down is no more

[@oneofmanyparadoxfans5447]

Now you have to worry about falling up.

[@bobthebuilder1360]

@@oneofmanyparadoxfans5447 i was playing skyrim and a mammoth just flew up for no reason then went splat and when I dY flew up I dont mean like 10 feet more like 200 feet up

[@oneofmanyparadoxfans5447]

@@bobthebuilder1360 He didn't perform his normal final smash, he performed his GOD TIER final smash.

[@articusramos808]

Does anyone remember proctor Ingram and how she lost her legs? It has to do with her testing power armor but was attacked by super mutants. The area she worked was high up and was hit by something and she was tossed off the area and and surived the fall but lost her legs and the power armor she hand on was destroyed from the impact. I just don't want to dig in the comments to find any hint of it.

[@TheAimanKhairi]

Correct. Was about to say that. Lore-wise PA doesn't remove fall damage but rather negate it. I assume Bethesda did this for gameplay reasons

[@shawnwilliamson4299]

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[@shadodancer4323]

she didn't lose her legs due to the FALL but being crushed by the TONS of Rocks that landed on her and and collapsed the armor around her.

[@audifg4]

it was by a mini nuke

[@RockSooks]

proctologist ingram ate a NUKE

[@th3glu3king42]

"245 miles per f*cking hour" 😂

[@micahphilson]

Stunt pilots can get even up to 15 Gs for a short extended time. And the guy in the airforce who endured 43 Gs did so *backwards* which actually makes a humongous difference, which is what he was testing.

[@animusreptorcrafting]

of course he survived it going backwards the front of your body is more flexible than the back and lacks this thing called a spine for your organs to shred themselves on

[@cadenorris4009]

Instantaneous G’s can be up to 9 or 11. More than that and it will still cause GLOC. A way the F-16 combats this is by angling the seat, meaning the blood isn’t being pulled away from your head as hard as a normal seat would entail. Actually, when you are moving forwards or backwards, G forces aren’t a problem. It’s when there is potential to pull blood away from the brain, or surge blood into the brain.

[@MG-_-1471]

so I have a question! who the fuck boarded up almost all the houses in the commonwealth.

[@NyuuMikuru1]

My theory is those are filled with dead bodies days/weeks/months after the bombs were dropped. You may have noticed there are no mass graves in the game.

[@MG-_-1471]

***** that is a theory but why cover up a window and door. My theory is that most bodies where burned or eaten by animals and humans trying to survive

[@Aerowarrier]

+Mitchell Gould After the bombs fell, the world went to shit in like, what, 5 years or so. People woukd probably board their windows to stop raiders, ferals, and irradiated beasts.

[@MG-_-1471]

Riley H. Yeah but there couldnt have been enough survivors to board up 2/3 of the buildings in game

[@Aerowarrier]

+Mitchell Gould they probably did it before they died from radiation.

[@sik3xploit]

What's wrong with them is they run on NUCLEAR batteries that last for ~25 minutes.

[@Kobrag90]

The amount of flesh ablative energy shit those things must be outputting is FUCKING TERRIFYING.

[@kingjonstarkgeryan8573]

sik3xploit It is a way to balance the game and they explain in game that using Vats, sprinting, and mods deplete your power supply at an insanely fast rate. Also if you have the Nuclear physicist perk it lasts forever.

[@kamenridernephilim]

7:09 Can you imagine the results of that were dropped on someone? It gives me ideas of Fallout ODSTs jumping from Vertibirds and crushing sections of Chinese regiments and leaving craters in the ground.

[@ShoddyCast]

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[@eldermaxson4998]

+ShoddyCast My coat

[@bensolo9806]

how is the jet pack able to lift the power armor and the person

[@krafterz12]

+ShoddyCast I like the X-01 and I like the mod that adds the X-02 or Enclave Power Armor.

[@LordStarbeard]

+ShoddyCast T-60, hands down.

[@BDRaz-owo]

I like the BOS Paladin Armour...

[@galloviking4766]

I expected you to talk about the fact that a military-graded advanced power suit could only work for 30 minutes when fueled by a nuclear battery. But jeez I didn't expect all of the physic around fall damage :)

[@OnlyFengs-z6w]

shhh

[@ghoztbooty1311]

EX-FUKIN-LAKLY WHAT I MEAN LIK REALLY?!?

[@flaumy]

Well, considering that maybe the batteries aren't 100% percent efficient from the start, the degradation of not being used for hundreds or years, and the fact that power armor would use a lot of energy could explain that.

[@The_Crimson_Fucker]

There's no excuse for any bit of military hardware that can only last 30 minutes in the field. That's fucking ridiculous, it would never get accepted. I preferred the old lore wherein power-armor, essentially, never run out of power(because it had a fucking fusion core, in it, it was powered by the same thing that powers the sun).

[@brownking96]

Keep in mind this is 30 minutes in real world time. If we take the game's time then each minute in our world is an hour in fallout 4. So that means power armor can last 30 hours on a single core, pretty impressive considering that they've been laying around for 210 years.

[@bubajack7461]

*Suite made of titanium alloy about maby an inch thick* a fuckin raider hits u with his pathetic bat and it still does dammage not to mention small caliber bullets such as 10mm or 9 witch would most likely dew to the shape of the armour bounce or ricocheted off. And a feral ghoul or rad scorpion some how ignores your titanium barrier and poisons you or hurts you.... A decrepit rotting shit fuck can hurt you behind an inch of one of the worlds strongest metals

[@OverlordDenooh]

you sir have brought up a more serious fuck up Bethesda has done

[@frankcarolingian8882]

pretty sure this is an issue with fallout in general.

[@killertruth186]

I guess Bethesda nerfed the shit out of it.

[@OverlordDenooh]

that is thing they could make it so high powerful weapons could still damage and after enough shots kill you but low power weapons and enemies wouldn't even make a scratch like a deathclaw will be able hurt you but a feral ghoul wouldn't,and they could make it so getting power armor is hard as hell and when comes to pre-war armor that you can only find 1 of each and have to keep them maintained or else once a peace or whole thing is gone it is gone and only way to get another peace or whole thing is from like the BoS but at really high price

[@hakeera1908]

yeah, i get why it's done for balancing reasons, but if they are going to make power armor as weak as it is right now then they should stop talking it up as a god suit in every terminal and any other lore you read about it, "one man in power armor can clear a Chinese occupied town" or talking about how they can take down tank battalions....you can't make this lore behind it then have someone get killed by a raider with a pipe rifle while wearing it...stops tank rounds, but not post war .38.....

[@cal_ibri4236]

6:54 I love how all those meter things just go insane every damn frame

[@gematriagrim666]

I break my falls with my jetpack. I don't like to be loud

[@808fishman8]

Still can hear you stomping around

[@XEpicGodX]

'cause jetpacks are silent. XD

[@Reroting]

Ikr like *sharp wistle* "I DONT LIKE TO BE LOUD" *jetpack starts up* *BUUUUUUUUUURURRRRRRRRRRKKKKKK*

[@thrakerzad5874]

I do it because its so easy to make people hostile if you land near them

[@waltrz]

This guy gets it.

[@MaximumHeresy]

Are you MXR's immersion scientist?

[@alexcook5794]

I believe, yes

[@sunnycloud69]

I believe soooooooo

[@milloot]

maybe...

[@ElimRawne]

If they would work together making vids it would literally explode my mind.

[@ym2045]

+Elim Rawne would be amazing

[@csnation]

For a more realistic experience... Use a jetpack on the PA. :P Short hopping the jetpack before landing should reduce the impact and Gs enough so that the PA's leg hydraulics don't instantly give way and hopefully the reduced G force won't turn you into tomato salsa.

[@ЯАнсиу]

Nope. The potential energy would still exist and your still slowing down very quickly. So jet pack hopping would FUCKING HURT. That is if your falling from a high distance.

[@PlutoProtogen]

depends on when the jetpack is activated and how much thrust it had, it could be done safelty if we had the tech today, we could find a way...

[@aidanadkins5922]

I always figured that being futuristic tech, they found a way to put some type of inertia damper into the power armor to negate the g-force on the armor and wearer. That's pretty much the only explanation I can think of.

[@pedroseba8753]

would it make sense if you died from falling even with the power armor unless you have the jetpack ? because the jetpack could activate while falling and slow down the fall to a survivable speed.

[@hikmolokov1056]

Pedro Seba Well, it depends how fast the jet pack is thrusting upwards. If the jet pack thrusts up at too high a power, it will be almost as bad as hitting the floor.

[@sofialaya596]

Pedro Seba But then it wouldn't be so cool

[@jasonjensen6163]

he showed how frame by frame you go from full speed to stop in 6 frames (or 1/10 of a second) so regardless of jet pack the force will hit you

[@dumpeeplarfunny]

Yeah, except the game will not allow you to decelerate if you're already falling. If you moving downward, with a jet pack, and try to slow your fall, it does exactly nothing.

[@Leongon]

The jet pack in the game barely can lift the armor from standing on the ground. If you already are falling it's really unlikely it's short and weak thrust will decelerate you enough back from terminal velocity to survive.

[@czarchive_6784]

I let my friend play fallout 4 for the first time. Walks into boston common "Oh look! Stuff! I BET I CAN FIND SOME MONEY MONEY!" "Bro,you should check VATS first" "Nah,I GOT DIS!" "HO MY GHAD A SWAANN!!"

[@Ksuhn]

what happened

[@gato815]

YOU ARE SWANN

[@czarchive_6784]

The swan was hiding in the pond waiting for someone to go near it.My friend thought that there was stuff floating in the river.Instead in was a Swan.

[@-Trauma.]

Czara Corsame I didn't encounter Swan until the third time I was passing through that pond.

[@souldanny.]

Me walking through well, anywhere, really: F5F5F5F5F5F5F5F5F5

[@jonesyboriginal9340]

Lmao I love this guy. Bethesda probably hates him lmao

[@barrydaemi6287]

+Brandon J I am also starting to hate him as well!

[@jonesyboriginal9340]

+Barry Daemi lmfao that's depressing.

[@Chopstorm.]

+Ghastly Grinner I'm actually pretty sure they would care. Shoddycast is a pretty big name in the Fallout fan base, so I'm sure Bethesda pays attention to what they do. As for whether or not they take everything this channel says to heart, I rather doubt that they would.

[@jonesyboriginal9340]

This was just a simple comment, why are you guys arguing back and forth on here... Over a video? If you don't like it, don't watch it, if you do like it then watch it. Simple fix. Enjoy your day guys.

[@TAMThomasTAM]

+Brandon J "THIS GUY MIXED SCIENCE AND VIDEO GAMES WITH THIS ONE SINGLE TRICK, BETHESDA HATES HIM, NERDS WANT TO BE HIM, REMOVE WRINKLES WITH PHOTOSHOP.", My kind of guy.

[@Monody512]

There are so many measurement problems with that falling speed calculation… It really should be measured in grid units per tick, not eyeballed heights per frame. Plus assuming power armor is only 6 feet tall is absurd.

[@Someguy6571]

Shit I'd say power armor is at least seven if not eight feet tall with how you stand in it. You don't actually have your feet in the power armors feet. Same goes with the hands too.

[@nichsa8984]

@@Someguy6571 how many cars during broken have nanobots

[@raket4852]

The power armor in the thumbnail is the T-49: Power armor of the storyteller

[@ЯАнсиу]

TheLivingTank we know it’s a mod originally created for the series, but was re-created by other people.

[@MercAKnot]

A year later and your comment is still useful, thanks

[@gloriachristopher8659]

I got that mod

[@JessidGallardo]

Thanks

[@fexywexy8425]

JUST USE BOS T-60

[@KiraSlith]

your math is inherintly wrong. The Fallout universe has NO terminal velocity, its not programmed, like in other games if you fall long enough you'll become a string of polygons falling in exess of 1 million miles per hour.

[@RymanRocks]

I like your reasoning, but that only further prove his point

[@ristomladich246]

nope not true... games can have a terminal velocity... Portal has it, arma has it, Flight sims have it..

[@albertozalon8477]

exactly my point

[@thatguy1035]

Technically, if no terminal velocity is programmed and you don't speed up when falling, then wouldn't the speed at which you fall be your terminal velocity?

[@KiraSlith]

Risto Mladich Games CAN, but most generally don't. Dereck Frehulfer no, you speed up indefinitely as you fall in Fallout. there is a pun there, I just can't put my hands on it. :P

[@ShiningDarknes]

Ah see, now we know where all that energy from the fusion cores actually goes: It isn't to power the armor, no sir, it is to counter all that kinetic energy caused from impacts/deceleration. How? No clue, but that is certainly where all that energy is going because it certainly is not all getting used to move around. Oh wait! Idea: the suit actually creates some sort of suspension field that actually maintains your internal organs suspension in your cavities by stimulating the fluids and structures in the body that keep your organs where they are supposed to be. Sort of like how you can run an EM field over magnetic objects to make them move (obviously over-simplifying but you get the point). If their scientists could figure out how to make compact FUSION happen and mass-produce said units I am sure they could come up with a way to generate a field that counters the negative effects of deceleration on organic entities with fluid cavities that contain delicate organs. Such a continuous field would of-course require a huge amount of power to maintain thus the reason for a power source capable of powering large building being deleted in mere hours if not minutes of continuous use. Ta-da! Fixed.

[@nichsulol4844]

basically this suit has a four forklift

[@okay8165]

2:43 that’s good driving

[@-libertyprimev1-902]

Dear shoddy, what about the freefall leggings? Those make even less sense than power armor!

[@someguyshere6968]

+Cameron Perez This exactly this, I want to know how that shit works.

[@drago2210]

+Cameron Perez oh yeah because all the other legendary items make total sense you know Kappa

[@-libertyprimev1-902]

Lord Drago of Kronstadt I'm talking about the stuff related to the video like the leggings, not talking about legendary effects

[@markwilliams9255]

+Cameron Perez although the guy said kappa, I still think he has a point. Free fall bonus is a legendary bonus

[@crye1127]

but it also had a story behind it

[@nickrivas6429]

"I'm scared of falling and dying." Jumps off from extremely high places.....

[@CanisMythson]

Power armor uses, or so I'd imagine, a specialized system that compresses the foot as it strikes the ground, in such a way that the forces are spread in a circle around the armor instead of through it. Couple that with the human inside being suspended in a skeletal frame that isn't actually flush with the armor, instead having pneumatic sensors and an impact-absorbing gel (which actually exists in early forms today) that takes blows and redirects them around the suit, thus allowing minimal force effects to be experienced inside the suit.

[@AlphaDingo990]

Combine that with some kind of sci-fi metal alloy and specialized construction and you solve the crumpling issue, or well, maybe at least

[@michaelsnachez5747]

1:46 that was a real guy in that crash test lol

[@danielhyson6079]

I did the research, And I have determined that the lightest commercially available slug for a 308 winchester (presumably the .308 round used in the Fallout franchise) that I could find reliable data for is 110 grains. That bullet, fired from a 24 inch barrel would generate exactly 3,316.34 Joules of energy at 100 yards. The most common bullet weight for .308 winchester 150 grains, which generates a force of 3,600 Joules. The most that T-51 power Armor can sustain is 2500 Joules, meaning that any one with a decent .308 hunting rifle and some ammunition could easily kill a soldier in power armor in ONE shot to the chest. Eat that, Bethesda! Kind of a fatal flaw, considering that the most common round for sniper rifles and medium machine guns to be chambered is 7.62x51mm NATO, which is the military variant of .308 and those would probably be the best weapons to use against power armour.

[@wedohedoshedooowee828]

I think of it similar to an early tank. Still vulnerable to Something bigger than what others are used to but still a huge threat to anyone who doesn't have the adequate power to take them down. Not to mention it's made harder when you remember that power armor pets you fire a minigun from the hip, if they could even get close enough to the soldiers in power armor then they could probably do something about them, but when you have 5 minigun trained on your position things get much harder

[@gloriachristopher8659]

DAMN YOU'RE SMART

[@ChaotiX1]

Sooooo, we can finally train like Vegeta??

[@tnomicvierling10]

Getting kicked in the nuts again and again?

[@sirdeatri2294]

+Tnomic Vierling "He keeps kicking me in the dick! Why does he keep kickin' me in the dick!"

[@PwnzratorX7X]

You're upside-down! Now you're not.

[@josiannaetienne]

go teamfourstar

[@brandonallen8612]

+Tribaldragon1 my room. 10 minutes 😉

[@Chroniclerope]

Pneumatic shock absorption. That's the key, as its mention in one of the leg mods. It uses the compression of air at the moment of impact to decelerate your body and suit during the fall. WE HAVE THE TECHNOLOGY.

[@nicolomatias2223]

You have no idea what you're talking about. How the fuck would you decrease the acceleration of your body? Those pneumatic fucktards are nothing to the forces you would experience during and after your fall. They won't be enough. When you land, almost every single bone in your body would disintegrate, blood vessels would pop, and don't even get me started on the power armor crumbling on top of you.

[@The_Crimson_Fucker]

First: That's Fallout lore, why are you chewing him out for it? Second: Physics in Fallout are different than in our world. It's in the lore.

[@nicolomatias2223]

The Crimson Fucker But even if we have that pneumatic shock absorption, it would still be basically useless

[@Hellsong89]

Distance of those shock absorbers wont be nearly enough to make one god damn difference, if we talk about terminal velocity. Sure it could so something in high of small building, but essentially will still take damage and die. Just fact that your brain is swimming inside of your skull and moment you hit the ground, your brain will be smashed into your skull (brain damage or death), cause that too need to stop from that speed. So yeah... Essentially humans are fragile as fuck and there is currently nothing we can do about that.. possible in the future, but not in our life time we see cyborgs that can withstand such forces with their computer based brains. God damn bethesda.. why you didnt add rockets/jets on the suit to cushion the fall..-.-

[@The_Crimson_Fucker]

Nicolo Matias 1: Eh...it could be excessively powerful? *shrug* if that's the case then it sure, as fuck, isn't modeled in the game. When I heard "pneumatic shock absorption", I immediately thought of the suit blowing air in to the ground just before it landed - it could create a dense bubble of air, creating a wider window of deceleration. 2: Fallout physics are different. Our laws don't, really, apply in full there(I mean...radiation makes you immortal...or it just turns you in to a centaur).

[@Ajaws]

Fallout 4 power armor actually feels like a powered suit of armor instead of just heavy metal armor

[@IAMMRPATRICKBORNAGAIN]

Just use your jet pack on the way down to decelerate. That way you can stay immersive :P

[@IAMMRPATRICKBORNAGAIN]

+patrick71682 It can also be used to negate the super hero landing, meaning you don't have to wait as long to shoot.

[@kalieb2739]

If you don't have to hit the ground to die its the stop

[@AlphaWolfShade]

+Potato Lord Your essentially hitting all of you innards with the a sledge hammer weighing however much your falling at. That's what kills you.

[@desertdude8274]

jullian rangel Thats why... IT WILL BE FIXED WITH MODS.

[@AlphaWolfShade]

Mega Corporation You're cool. I've seen a few of your comments here.

[@foreverknight66]

shoddy's key board I customized to have keys to instantly spell "No-god-damn-sense"

[@derykshaw5390]

and the teachers at my high school said that I wouldn't be able to understand physics

[@007batman8]

Deryk Shaw all it takes is being a fallout fan

[@suk_my_tiblets1508]

Deryk Shaw Fuck that teacher man.

[@timothyegoroff8333]

wow they sound like ass holes.

[@gary4014]

Apply anything to video games and bam, easy to understand

[@killerinstinctbaits]

That guy who built that rocket train thing..... the blood vessels in his eyes busted but they healed in a few days

[@VoltornElda]

SUPERHERO LANDING!

[@weldonwin]

+Voltorn Elda Really hard on your hips

[@PMW3]

+Voltorn Elda looks cool, but it's really hard on the knees.

[@XFlare17]

+PMW3 totally impractical, they all do it.

[@davidjavier9260]

Deadpool is Overrated...

[@davidjavier9260]

***** But Shrek is Love. Shrek is Life.

[@Jmaestro-sm4pp]

In the beginning "I play your games to escape reality!" 30 secs later "Your power armor makes no God damn sense!"

[@Kaziklu]

It is a game where stimpacks heal bullet wounds nearly instantly as well as crippled limps, head wounds etc and the small nuclear reactors in Cars blow up when shot (rather than melt down) It is totally possible that Power Armor has some extra mechanics that will prevent the damage.

[@Omegadad99]

Love the fact that I️ actually learned about this kinda stuff in ap physics. Brings back some good feels.

[@steevanatorotto6454]

dear shoddy cast: plz use metric mesurements. thank you.

[@Autumn_Actually]

+steevanator otto Austin usually does, if you look at his older science videos- though I agree, metric is the way to go even in casual science. And I'm a filthy American who barely knows it.

[@daggerdan12]

+steevanator otto I know, I was trying to do the math at the same time and I couldn't :(

[@Garynumber33]

fuck you and your metric bullshit do the conversions your self

[@CarribeanMonkee]

+michael bob Thing is metric units are also known among the scientific community as SI units, or the International System of Units. This is so scientists from different countries can discuss topics and workings out without needing to stop and do conversions.

[@BadHombre1]

No, American measurements > third world, primitive measurements

[@blowme3684]

You've taught me more than the common core has lol

[@geekinutopia5899]

Yeah, the communist core!

[@DarthVader-sp8fe]

Common core is useless

[@GeorgeMonet]

Power Armor is not new and improved. The fusion cores only last 5 to 10 minutes. That's the opposite of improved.

[@jade4781]

one lasted me like 30 minutes you have to conserve it

[@waltrz]

Nuclear Physicist perk

[@skullpoker69]

Everything you do that uses AP also uses up your fusion core. You can fast-travel, run, swim, jump, and fire from the hip forever and never use up your FC. Sprinting, VATS, Jet Pack, Power attacks, and Steady aiming are all going to use that thing up. The more AP you burn, the faster your core goes. I think I held my aim steady for the full AP bar and burned about half of my FC, you can burn a core up in about a minute this way. If you use AP a lot, go for the upgrades that reduce AP cost. Those are the Optimized Bracers and Optimized legs. Double up on both and a Legendary weapon with reduced VATS cost to get the most out of your FC.

[@yamingoat]

its called the nuclear physicist perk, also you find cores way faster than you use them even without the perk

[@m0L3ify]

I have no idea how Power Armor was effective out in the field during war when they use up power so quickly. I thought the military usually liked to equip their soldiers with stuff that, you know, lasts for days, not 10 minutes (or 10 seconds if you're sprinting or using VATS.) That makes even less sense than no falling damage.

[@eduardosc3434]

I am currently a sophmore in highschool and i have learned more about physics from watching your videos than my whole school career

[@capthavic]

Speaking of deadly heights you can locate the Freefall Legs (which prevent falling damage without need of power armor) in the Mass Fusion building. There is also a journal by the inventor who mentions that Power Armor have hydraulic shock absorption integrated into them.

[@hy3942]

Finally someone who understands the lore in the game...

[@gigletes]

That would have absolutely no effect...

[@gigletes]

thank you!

[@joshuamcdowell1460]

+Jamesgy The III Not steel. A titanium alloy that I'm guessing includes at least a little bit of osmium. And those hydraulic shock absorbers are being powered by a fusion core which powered massive generators for 200 years without draining a single percentage point of power. Of course...this is also a game that negates any and all fall damage as long as you manage to fall into water...but only if it's 5 feet or deeper...idk.

[@dillonnoble222]

+Jamesgy The III the same goes for fighter pilots but with training one could build up a a tolerance to G forces like fighter pilots do and also people who invented power armor built-in medical Integrated Systems into the suit to monitor Vital Signs and a minister medical supplies to the wear if needed also the suit is possibly pressurized due to the fact that when you're underwater you do not drown in your power armor

[@sonofangron2969]

So... how bad would the damage actually be with the Freefall legs? I'm guessing your body would be reduced to fine pâté...

[@luke8169]

+Demonflesh spawn if you were lucky...

[@TieJote]

+Peter Murphy Hint: Terminal velocity is inversely proportional to the mass of the object.

[@paytopray1468]

those suits where made to withstand direct hits with artillery shells so i doubt they would crumple. in addition, they made armor for your legs that can keep you from dying even without power armor so we can assume that they have found out a way to minimize damage. how that works, however, they never explain.

[@VelociraptorsOfSkyrim]

Except for the fact that the very same Steel Alloys that he said would crumple also survive direct hits from artillery shells.

[@kinkyfella1994]

And then in survival mode powerarmor gets wrekt with a few pipe gun bullets..lel

[@ARViuff]

+Terminally Capricious some serious force dampers maybe?

[@vadimkhen9110]

and also they made nuke launcher that shots two nukes consuming one

[@hamodaclamo7916]

+weldonwin The point Austin is making is that the impulse (change in momentum) on the person is too great to survive, as you land in the suit lets say there's about 60cm of travel that occurs as the knees bend and you accelerate from 245mph to 0. The only way to lesson the impulse on the occupant is for the acceleration to occur over a longer period of time and so you'll need more travel length for this to happen. Just like crumple zones in a car allow it to accelerate down to 0 for a longer period of time. It could work if the suit was bigger and there was enough cushioned free space in the suit for the occupant to move in it, like seat belts and airbags act in a car. But hey it's a video game, we play it, it;s fun :P

[@drxsasquach]

No one's afraid of heights but everyone's afraid of falling from heights

[@blackopsguy1023]

I like the old shoddycast with the lore videos that were more than 6 minutes long that were also just narrated, no actors

[@delcastilloarthur]

I never realized video games needed to be uber realistic.

[@MrBoro6666]

+Arthur Del Castillo Its a bit a fun

[@skeletor8951]

They don't, it's just fun to over-analyze things from time to time, especially when every once in a while they manage to chance upon getting it right.

[@Thatepicguy17]

It's a way to teach people about things like physics and make it interesting to a larger audience.

[@VIPERJ27]

+ThatDude114 holy crap never thought about it that way smart thing to say

[@Krysis_AC3]

+proudnoob124 Fallout 9 to 5

[@gamecrow8354]

Here's another problem with power armor: "Power cores power a building for years!" and yet...you run out of juice in a few hours.

[@Pwnopolis]

Core in building powering one light. Core in Vehicle powering multiple systems including life support....

[@gamecrow8354]

+Pwnopolis we only see it powering one light, but when it was designed, it was meant to supply ALL of the power for an entire building if not more.

[@hakeera1908]

It even says somewhere in game that a fusion core will power a suit of power armor for a 100 years or something like that

[@billfluffenstein5129]

Basically Bethesda retconned that shit so they could make a cool new game mechanic I think.

[@Pwnopolis]

Game Crow What are you basing this assumption on. I'm basing mine on the fact that remove the core & nothing in any building goes off but the one light. My statement is based on evidence, yours is assumption.

[@maytix6270]

There’s a noise the power armor makes after falling (I know in 76 it does) and I think that shows that it stopped your fall

[@HiiroRocker101]

What if you tried to theorize how the power armor would mitigate falling damage? Like now you know what the forces are... Now what would be necessary to ignore them?

[@badegg4909]

+HiiroRocker101 Inertial dampening. which is some pretty advanced shit. and lets be honest here, Most games don't do gravity force right. most of them are bounding around like they're on Jupiter.

[@Tk--cp9xw]

+Taylor Di Angelo not to mention they explain power armor physics in the game at mass fusion building when you get the free fall leggings

[@helgenlane]

Magic. There is no other method to stop it that fast without completely destroing your body.

[@badegg4909]

TheTekOr Oleg I mean, the forces according to shoddy's predictions? no way. you'd flat out die. but Like I said, most Video-games don't map gravity very well. neither do they tend to force you to sit through a six-ten second animation as the suit massively dampens the impact with shock springs. we don't see what's going on inside the suit. maybe the outer mass is stopped, but the player is still slowing down inside. it seems to take a few seconds to start moving again after?

[@helgenlane]

Taylor Di Angelo just look at how they stop Dragsters in real life.

[@xiiiultima]

"It's not the sudden stop that kills you, It's the sudden deceleration" ....That's...that's what a stop is....

[@TonyTone12]

No not really, when you are talking about a car crash you are still moving after impact. Not for long obviously

[@RisuCurse]

+Ice Bird Gaming Shhhhh....

[@Fil1204_]

If that's the case, every stop would be a deceleration so there would be no stop

[@il2xbox]

+Antone Williams A stop is still a sudden deceleration. Even if it looks like someone who hits the ground stops moving instantly, they don't. It's impossible to stop moving instantly. Because of newton's second law, that would require infinite force, which is impossible. So it will still take a very small amount of time to stop, so you will always still be moving after impact in any situation.

[@samuelyoung1]

+Ice Bird Gaming a stop means there is no motion... period... a deceleration is stopping but there is motion... period.

[@TheOsamaBahama]

The armor has bubble wrap on the inside to protect you from falling damage.

[@KGC-000B]

WHOA HOLD ON! you went WAY OVER THE QUESTION! we're talking about heights that would kill a normal human...not so high up that a person would splat on the ground!

[@Nick_Rodriguez444]

I learned about the Stanford Prison Experiment in my psychology class.

[@Nick_Rodriguez444]

Pretty cool stuff

[@username1660]

+AwesomeFiosGaming Remember when trolling used to be subtle and clever? I miss those times :(

[@helgenlane]

I learned about Stanford Prison Experiment because of the film "The Experiment"...

[@87weberdrex]

its pretty fucked up.

[@FGA39]

Nick Rodriguez Err... why should I care?

[@1337AssO]

How about calculating the energy consumption of the nanobots in MGS that make you immortal?

[@josephpayne113]

Daniel Liesche sounds like something a SYNTH would say

[@fiannakit]

*pulls out 10mm pistol*

[@Fil1204_]

When you put weights can you PLEASE include kilograms? I'm from Italy and I have no idea how many kg a pound (?) is.

[@Fil1204_]

Same thing goes for feet and metres

[@SaitoGray]

+Fil1204 I don't know the magic trick to convert feet to metter but one pound is about half a kilo.

[@gregistopal]

Just use a converter

[@Racer19E]

+Fil1204 Would be nice, yes. When roughly converting I think of a pound being 0.5 kg and a feet roughly 30 cm. Technically a bit off, but good enough to get an idea. :P

[@CarribeanMonkee]

+Fil1204 Agreed, considering it's a science based thing you'd assume that he'd use SI units.

[@arachnocrat]

Update on Zimbardo: He trained the subjects from the guards group to act like a-holes when dealing with the prisoners.

[@Tall_Order]

On the Prydwen, Ingram said she crushed her legs falling from a tall height in her power armor, which is why she's always wearing it now. So I guess the fact that the player doesn't take fall damage must be a mishap? Either that or Ingram is a real butterfingers.

[@ChannelNotFound]

+Wolfee Actually the player if the champion in falling from the highest place ever. No one survived jumping off the largest skyscraper but the player.

[@Muddabitch]

Ingram lost her legs in battle..

[@Tall_Order]

Yes but she says in game that she crushed them in her power armor from falling. It even says it on the wiki.

[@badegg4909]

could be an older suit model?

[@Tall_Order]

Taylor Di Angelo Perhaps. Though it's not mentioned.

[@thesunflowerseedenthusiast2481]

actually if you look at feet of a bare power armor frame you can see the hydraulics that kinda act a seat belt, catching you and letting that force evit, for your feet, which is why your taller in power armor and this hydraulic system is also mentioned in the terminal where you find the freefall armor legs. now those things don`t make sense.

[@thesunflowerseedenthusiast2481]

also there is alot of padding in the frame which may be used to fight g-force by using compression to reduce blood flow kind of like a flight suit for a fighter pilot.

[@nicolomatias2223]

+Logan Gray So you say that power armor negates fall damage? Bullshit. Those hydraulic fucktards are not enough to negate all those g forces, dummy.

[@nicolomatias2223]

+Logan Gray And those paddings you say? For them to be effective in this high speed high g-forces scenario, they need to squish your body so hard to push blood evenly across the body. But it would need to compress you so hard that you would literally be flattened out inside your power armor.

[@zjackshot]

Yes but you still stop moving with a tenth of a second even if it was half a second the forces would still almost certainly kill you instantly and if not you'd need major help to stay alive,you couldn't just walk it off

[@nicolomatias2223]

zjackshot Yeah I agree with that. The only thing that can save a person in a power armor in that situation is a jetpack.

[@Zal0vid]

Austin, could you do another The Science video on power armor?! For example how much energy would you need to power a suit of power armor for a day or maybe a series of videos on how would an actual suit of power armor work and or be made of.

[@SpearM3064]

+David Gonzalez Actually, an in-game advertisement for the T-51 power armor says the microfusion power core generates 60 kilowatts of power... that's enough to power about a dozen typical American houses.

[@SmugCoffeeMan]

You know how there's those new backpacks that suspend themselves on your back, taking the weight off of you? What if the frame connects to the armor in a similar fashion? You're basically floating inside of the power armor so when you land instead of you taking the force the frame moves inside the armor, sort of like absorbing the shock.

[@jacksonschumacher175]

The sad thing is what he explained took a WEEK for my science teacher to explain. (but she is still great)

[@kennethkustren9381]

Never heard about digitally controlled valving for hydraulic cylinders.... I believe used for some Carrier Aircraft Landing Gear.

[@saintsauce853]

does anyone notice the STORYTELLER'S FO4 POWER ARMOR IN THE THUMBNAIL

[@peppermillers8361]

yes.

[@jadelin2635]

i wonder where he got it in the game

[@ConnorLundeen]

STORYTELLER DATE CONFIRMED

[@saintsauce853]

Connor Lundeen I can't wait for the follower of the storyteller to be in FO4

[@ConnorLundeen]

Ranger Tanner?

[@brandanbates7622]

I know this is really old but i wanna know if you were in a tank of water that wouldn't break apon impact would it reduce it enough to survive.

[@ST-RTheProtogen]

I mean water wouldn't compress so you would either slam into the bottom of the tank or get imploded by the Shockwave going through the water and thus, you

[@Sherudons]

Jump off a building in power armor, land... and have someone open the soup tin that is left over. The armor... don't even think the armor would survive the impact with all the non solid parts.. since they can explode off you from gunfire. Human soup...

[@papaducknips3461]

I hate fall damage in Witcher 3. Super human mutant dies from a 10 ft fall.

[@jackkubik9341]

Just roll after the fall.

[@papaducknips3461]

Thanks, that helps. Point still stands though. Geralt should have legs of steel.

[@Abysslord1234]

+Dan Watson He probably doesn't die, justg shatters his legs, which in most places in the Witcher either will kill Geralt from, thirst/starvation, or gets him killed the more ... conventional way.

[@papaducknips3461]

+Kristopher Workman pleb means ordinary. kind of. if you're going to insult me sir. do it right. plonker.

[@papaducknips3461]

+Kristopher Workman good sir, step down before you hurt yourself. I've had a few rumbles in my day and don't mind having another.

[@portentouslad5051]

yeah! I'm really starting to love the series.

[@portentouslad5051]

P.S. Hey Austin have you see the failed-Humvee parashooter-drops-videos? as a point of reference, visually that is, as to what happens when a car hits the ground after being dropped out of a plain without the parashot opening. #RainingHumvees!

[@justingeer3049]

Are you from LinusTechTips or NCIX?

[@bradknightable]

+Portentous Lad *Plane

[@portentouslad5051]

lol plain, derp.

[@telictelacast1489]

you forgot time dilation in fallout its not 1 second = 1 second its 16 to 1 so you hit the ground at 15.3 m/h or about 23 g's

[@crispybacon4240]

That accidental John Green impression was uncanny...

[@Tripp426]

*Hank Green

[@crispybacon4240]

***** Right...

[@clericofchaos1]

I have my own theory about this. you said at the beginning of the video that when a car hits a wall, the wall doesn't move very much which transfers all of the energy back to the car. What if in this case the power armor is the wall and the ground is the car? power armor is clearly harder than dirt, and that would explain the damage dealing, ground shaking, shockwave that the suit sends out. that would also explain why humans in power armor are able to survive any fall.

[@falcon-eu1wu]

THAT is the stupidest thing ive ever heard yes the entire earth moves out of the way when you hit the ground also even if it did give way somewhat the ammount of force would still be enough to crush a tank into a tiny little cube

[@clericofchaos1]

falcon 1452 lol well not the entire earth but you clearly displace SOME earth. at that point all you really have to do is figure how much packed dirt it takes to stop the falling power armor and compare that to the amount of earth sent flying or to the size of the shockwave...or both. i'm not claiming to have a doctorate in physics, I just thought of something that seems like it makes sense.

[@EvLSpectre]

The dirt barely crushes and the shockwave is just the afterthought of that. Being that the ground does not NOTICEABLY compact and create a large crater, it can also be deduced that the amount of earth material moved has been minimal, making that argument null. Now, it can be argued that the material is just not modeled being moved, as that would necessitate a rather large amount of CPU/GPU power to calculate that with the variables in material, and speed. If it was however, the amount of material needed to be moved would be extraordinary large.

[@clericofchaos1]

***** eh plausible is enough for me. all i'm saying is the suits are near invulnerable. the lore even says you can survive a direct nuclear blast if you're wearing one.

[@EvLSpectre]

+clericofchaos1 Doesn't change the fact that the amount of deceleration is so great that you wouldn't survive. yes the suit is taking the main force of impact but your organs are not being supported enough. The amount of G straight down and back up through your body would be enough the burst them. Seen similar results in car and motorcycle accidents at much slower speeds then the speed you could achieve in the power armor.

[@fusionguy4996]

the one thing that power armor cant stop is fall damage from landing on water, i died from that in X-01 power armor because i decided to test out what would happen and it was death

[@zrt3128]

It's not the fall that kills you, it's the sudden stop. Except in halo.

[@METROIDER123]

I think its being said many times in the game that power amor has a hydrolics shock absorption system , if it is not said many times ( can't remember ) It is surely in the terminal in the little room at the Mass fusion building . You know , the room from wich you get the freefall leggings , wich also feature a hydrolic shock absorption system btw

[@METROIDER123]

To make more sense , There is space between the bottom of your boots and your feet wheen you're inside the armor , the hydrolic system is there and works like a car crash f.e. . moves a bit , and absorbs the force of the impact

[@Azumazini]

Yeah, that system isn't stopping your brain from impacting into the front section of your skull due to Newton's First law of Inertia. Basically, your brain would turn into mush on impact at that speed into your skull killing you due to speed in which the armor is de-accelerating. Basically, unless that suit has some kind of Star Trek inertial dampeners, you're fucked when you hit the ground at that speed.

[@jebus726cristo6]

+Azumazi Faiz to be fair the basis of this entire video is that you can survive fall from the moon. the games mechanic is flawed and allows you to fall from infinite height, power armor would at most only add 50-75% extra distance you could fall and survive. i dont know why they made it this way, but that's how it is. i also dont know why people think the game even implies infinite height survival, its just the mechanic they made.

[@Nimilphex]

+Azumazi Faiz So basically 2077 Powersuit designers ripped off the Iron Man suit concept from Tony Stark.

[@stoneystark5421]

+Lyellish yeah. And I like how Austin uses classical music for his vids that no longer fall under copyright laws. What are Mozart's descendants going to do? Sue? Lol

[@Reirainsong]

"Average human is six feet tall in power armor" Nope. Power armor in Fallout universe is not a relatively body-fitting Iron Man suit or Halo's Mjolnir; it has more in common with WH40K's or Starcraft's space marine suits, and adds up to 50 cm to the user's height (Unless you're playing Fallout 3 or New Vegas, where it was trimmed to regular armor size courtesy of the developers not wanting to bother with a completely separate set of animations). This conveniently means that boots might contain shock springs spanning the entire lower leg, and sufficiently sturdy to greatly reduce the effect of falls on the suit's operator (though obviously not at terminal velocity). Also, powered armor in fiction often has some very form-fitting internal padding and joints automatically locking in case of impact, preventing dislocations and broken bones. Having it survive relatively unscathed by landing from a couple stories is not exactly unbelievable.

[@wesleyeberly228]

also according to brotherhood logs you cant actually survive the fall from mass fusion with base power armor but they probably let the player do so cause gameplay

[@GremlinSciences]

The logs on the Prydwyn only say that the guy blew out his leg armor by jumping from that height, which is actually also supposed to happen to the player as such is mentioned in one of the loading cards. From this one broken mechanic it can be inferred that power armor frames have some method to direct forces beyond a certain level into the armor, allowing the armor to be sacrificed to preserve the life of the operator.

[@king696661]

Plus there's the fact that the armor is air tight so it's plausible that it's also pressurized inside the suit when fully equipped (no missing parts) potentially cutting the g-force down considerably on the person inside. It is powered by fusion cores after all which are mini fusion batteries, a Nuclear powered suit of armor.

[@TNGxBerzerker]

Just means he's falling even faster then if its one power armour height per frame

[@cessatiolux6250]

You forgot that space marine armor fits skin tight on Astartes, didn't you?

[@7outof10]

a video about chief falling from space in halo 2-3-4 ,please

[@ronjonrentrop8734]

And when the Spartans fell to reach

[@7outof10]

Yes

[@CarribeanMonkee]

In defence of that Spartans are genetically engineered to have much more dense, strong bones as well as muscle and ligaments. So calculating that is a testament to how strong they are.

[@K00Ldude98]

+CarribeanMonkee What about their organs though? their organs should still have been damaged.

[@samueljones8100]

In reach he had a orbital landing device which stopped him from splattering into the ground to hard.

[@Noone-of-your-Business]

Since you mentioned him: most people do _not_ know that Philip Zimbardo seriously pushed his test subjects in the Stanford experiment to achieve the results he was expecting, making the entire study much more about *obedience* than inherent *cruelty* in humans. For more on that, I recommend the *Milgram* experiment, which tested exactly that - namely unquestioned obedience towards perceived authorities - and was much less presumptuous about it.

[@heesingsia4634]

Does the armor have certain shock absorbers? Like those you have in your car? Where it compresses the shock caused by the drop? You know ,sorta like a very extreme version of air jordans?

[@DarknessXER]

+Hee Sing Sia You would still feel the G's and nothing will possibly stop those G's from happening. Nyu

[@faeheldin461]

+Cho Tengen Toppa Nep Nep Puchiko? is that you?

[@negie78000]

+Cho Tengen Toppa Nep Nep Wood pecker's bodily functions negate G-Forces to their head. The armor could be made in the same manner.

[@heesingsia4634]

+Cho Tengen Toppa Nep Nep is that like the G felt if someone ,like say jumped off a burning building into a firemen's safety net?

[@PataPannu]

+Hee Sing Sia When a person jumps into one of those nets, their bodies won't stop immediately, unlike if a person would jump on a concrete floor. Firemen's safety net is made of flexible material which mean that when a person lands on it, they don't just stop falling, their speed of falling is reduced significantly in few second until they come to full stop. That would not be possible in power armor.

[@Peanutcat]

WHERE ARE THE MEASURMENTS IN KILOGRAMS

[@notmasterchief6821]

You could just do it yourself y'know?

[@elitebelt]

Who gives a shit stop being a needy whiny little bitch

[@StaticSloth]

+elitebelt Wow. That was unnecessary haha. Are you 12?

[@The_world_is_not_worthy_of_Him]

Nah, I bet he's just pissed he can't get a decent paying job.

[@anomaly2733]

It's the superior measurement :-(

[@nikl2122]

Damn it shoddy, 5:18 air doesn't push up. it just provides resistance.

[@jakethornton7]

Same thing in this case. The air applies a force in the exact opposite direction in which you're falling.

[@kubaGR8]

Newton's Third Law of Motion.

[@amazonbass]

Exactly the same thing. It provides resistance by pushing up.

[@dylanchan7913]

Danilo Angelo The pressure of air also pushes up on it.

[@amazonbass]

+Dylan Chan Yes, but the upper pressure also pushes down. That is the way Zeppelins fly. The result is virtually zero.

[@raistlarn]

Reminds me of the poor guy in the Expanse turning into paste in one episode.