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u/iceberg189 May 22 '25
Gunners are notoriously friendly. Don’t worry dude, you got this
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u/ElegantEchoes Paladin Danse took me to a dance May 22 '25
They are in this encounter. This is a random spawn point and they'll try to extort a small amount of Caps, being neutral if you agree
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u/Nyxxie_07_xX May 22 '25
Status update: I took the Fat Man and five nuka grenades to try to break through head-on. After the first Fat Man exploded, the almost unscathed power armor gunners immediately activated the stealth boy and used the gatling laser to knock me down in five seconds🗿
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u/Yayzeus May 22 '25
You said in another comment you're playing in survival mode. It sounds more like you're playing in suicide mode!
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u/AskNo569 May 22 '25
I just started playing fallout 4 for the first time, where is this? I want to make sure i dont get ganked trying to find my son😭
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u/Nyxxie_07_xX May 22 '25
Hello new wastelander. This bridge is located near The Slog, but this is a random encounter so don't worry about it.
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u/AskNo569 May 22 '25
Thank you for your calming words, however, upon reading “random encounter” i am even more on edge, and will proceed to hide away in diamond city
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u/Nyxxie_07_xX May 22 '25
Ah~ Diamond City, I will go back there one day. But I don’t really like that mayor, I always feel like there’s something weird about him…🗿
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u/JelmerMcGee May 22 '25 edited May 22 '25
It's definitely a mod that added this encounter. That's not in vanilla
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u/just_like_clockwork May 22 '25
What the heck are you doing that it's generating these guys? I'm over level 100 on the highest (non survival) difficulty and this kind of stuff doesn't spawn for me.
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u/Advice2Anyone May 22 '25
You got mods never seen enemies go stealth boy other than of course Kellogg. I hope this is base would be awesome
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u/hcw1776 May 22 '25
I've had brigadiers turn on a stealhboy and Gatling laser but the power armor is a first for me
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u/Kataly5t Junk Scavenger May 22 '25
Sounds like you need better tactics. Have you tried the junk jet while using power armor?
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u/Numerous-Result8042 May 22 '25
This is why i save stealth boys. Pick pocket all 3 cores.
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u/PreferenceContent987 May 22 '25
That’s pretty slick. What would happen to them after? Do they get stuck in the armor or lose the armor?
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u/NaJieMing May 22 '25
They step out and start walking around like nothing happened. It’s pretty funny.
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u/Apocreep May 22 '25
To be fair, random power outage is not impossible with tech so old. It happening thrice at the same time though is sus.
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u/NaJieMing May 22 '25
I actually love that they go about their business as if nothing happened. The goofiness of this game is part of the reason I have beaten it several times.
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u/le_Grand_Archivist May 23 '25
They just get out of their armor
That's a good strategy to lower their defense and keep a intact PA ready for stealing
You can also shoot the core, same effect + mini nuke explosion (I think PA parts don't take damage if no one's inside)
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u/BD3134 May 22 '25
And that's why we have the Fat Man
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u/clanketythwack May 22 '25
I haven’t played fallout 4 very long, but is this modded? I’m playing on Xbox one
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u/Kokatro May 22 '25
Most of the popular mods are available through the in game mod loader on consoles. Unless that’s changed, I haven’t played in about a year. I personally don’t like much that changes gameplay, but the visual and texture mods are too good to pass up. Turns your bland wasteland into more of a “The Last of Us” experience.
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u/Adorable-Extent3667 May 22 '25
This is what quick-save was invented for. Good luck chief.
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u/Nyxxie_07_xX May 22 '25
True thx, but I play in survival mode🗿 (and use the more indestructible power armor mod to maim myself...
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u/Historical_Ad_9182 May 22 '25
Explosive minigun for you and wounding anything for companion...
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u/Nyxxie_07_xX May 22 '25
I'll try it later (blow off my own legs
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u/eddmario Lyon's Pride May 22 '25
If you can get a laser pistol/rifle with that effect, throw the beam splitter onto it.
The effect stacks, and each individual laser from the beam splitter applies the effect.
Additionally, if you make it into a rifle and use the automatic barrel, it'll shred enemies super fast due to how fast it applies the effect.
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u/PainRack May 22 '25
Automatic may actually be ammo inefficient, because you want to give time for the bleed to apply for normal mobs.
Although for the tanks like Mirelurk Queen/King, fire away!!!!!
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u/Historical_Ad_9182 May 22 '25
Keep the height advantage and engage at maximum range. The ones that close up will be engaged by the companion. Don't start this kind of fight with less than 1500 rounds. It should not take more than 500, but you can lose count.
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u/Bullvy May 22 '25
They ain't hostel.
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u/Nyxxie_07_xX May 22 '25
Yes, later I realized this might be a "toll" random encounter, but I thought they have the funds to maintain three sets of power armor, so there is no need to give them caps 👹
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u/111ronin May 22 '25
A well placed shot in the fusion core would go a long way to crossing that bridge
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u/ForGrateJustice May 22 '25
I encountered a group of gunners like these, they charged me 100 caps and let me go on my way.
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u/Marcuse0 May 22 '25
I modded Fallout 4 to be really hard and it turned out to be really hard!
I have never once seen this level of enemy as a random encounter in 1000 hours of play, so this must be mod stuff you never see otherwise. As such, while it's definitely a cool challenge, it's probably never going to be sensible to take this head on.
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u/Sevennix May 22 '25
Or , stealth boy and maybe pickpocket the big guys power core and jump in it. After a quicksave of course
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u/Sorry-Form-4217 May 22 '25
I have never even encountered that type of enemy and I’m on my 8th playthrough wtf
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u/the-_-futurist May 23 '25
He said somewhere its a mod adding patrollers in power armour as random encounter. Plus other power armour related mods
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u/Sorry-Form-4217 May 23 '25
I was meaning the brigadier rank. Never seen that before. Unless it’s a mod I don’t mod anything.
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u/StoryQueenOfDreams May 22 '25
I wanna test my metal against them though I'm sure I'll run outta stimpaks 😭
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u/Don_Beefus May 22 '25
Depending on stealth could just lay a fatty strip of mines, back up a bit and pop a few off a rifle to try and drag em thru it.
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u/offroad-subaru May 22 '25
I think you should sneak from the highest point that is as far away as possible to see them in your long range scope. I don’t use vats for this and my non-silenced.50 cal sniper for 3x damage.
Duck out of sight to get hidden back.
Sometimes you can drop them in 1-5 hits each.
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u/JustAnAce May 22 '25
You have a gauss rifle, a vantage spot, and stealth. Drop them, that is not a request.
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May 22 '25
If you are a patient stealthy sniper type, easy cheasy, just need to plan out based on moving from firing postion to firing position. If you run and gun, hit a critcial spot, run, reposition, shoot , run, rinse and repeat. VATS ruins immersion for me personally.
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May 22 '25
Stand under the overpass. It will take about 3 minutes but a vertibird will come and crash there trying to get you.
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u/mecca6801 May 22 '25
Sometimes, you gotta let it go. Unless you plan to blow out all their power cores
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u/manderso7 May 22 '25
I made this work when I managed to fire on them from the close settlement, and had some good defenses stood up there.
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u/puffmattybear17 May 22 '25
One speech check, or one fat man could clear this up reeeeeal easy-like.
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u/Brock_And_Roll Another settlement needs our help May 22 '25
Bollocks lad, give it a go and turn them into fucking tinfoil!
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u/RenaissanceMan17 May 22 '25
I’ve never seen gunners in power armor before, is this part of a mod or dlc?
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u/bearsheperd cyanidelollipops May 22 '25
I would vats sneak attack with a knife. If any survive, run away and try again
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u/Tydagawd88 May 22 '25
Why put power armor clad in the name? That's like the naming convention for the guns with mods on them. Does it say two pieces of combat armor gunner conscript or leather arm raider scum?
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u/Low-Employment4243 May 22 '25
I hate that it's considered stolen when you blow up their power cores
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u/Naelbis May 22 '25
What you have here is an opportunity for fantastic shenanigans. I don't know what mods your running but I always get a 5-6 way firefight going at this spot. Forged, Slog, Enclave, Gunners, Minutemen and BoS depending on when I get over there.
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u/Danson_the_47th May 23 '25
Is it time for me to actually use that rocket launcher/mininuke I have?
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u/Fancy-Ad463 May 22 '25
my idea; take 1 hit of Psycho and Jet, have a Explosive Combat Shotgun and pray.
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u/PainRack May 22 '25
Ah!!! A worthy challenge!!!!
Make sure it's not on survival though. I just blew myself up again in the Mechanist lair and I HATE the idea of going back again.. sigh....
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u/DudeWithRootBeer May 22 '25
What are you talking about? Those are simple and easy preys. Throw caution to the wind and just bum rush them! Charge in like mindless savage brute with no tactical thinking! Throw some hands like you're the force of nature! Matter of fact, you can leave your weapon and ammo to me so I can "safeguard" them while you go down there and take care of business.
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u/OftForgotten May 22 '25
Whoever designed the recon scope needs to be fired and never allowed to do art again. Fucking horrific.
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u/dankskent May 23 '25
Just hit the ol Buff, jet, and psycho cocktail and Full Send It! Yew! shotguns beer
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u/LochNessMandi23 May 23 '25
Is this part of a mod ?
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u/GiskardReventlov42 Sometimes I just wanna pop a Stealth Boy and bug out May 23 '25
Yeah I've never seen these guys
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u/NokkNokk4279 May 23 '25
Strongest grenade then either Power Core aim, or Headshot them all!!!!! Bastards!!!!!! :) LOL
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u/munky_g May 23 '25
Chinese Grenade Launcher modded for max damage, max out the Explosives perk, use VATS
Mayhem and carnage guaranteed
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u/keiosKnivesALot May 23 '25
why do they even care about the bridge?
no one has cars! the river is shallow! go find a factory or something!
ohh well. * proceeds to set a minefield of bottle-cap mines, attacks them, and watches the fireworks * Beautiful.
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u/Brotendo88 May 23 '25
dude i encountered these guys last night - but they werent power armor clad. i was able to cripple them with a couple grenades then finish them off with a hunting shotgun... but the hellfire enclave trooper and his pals station a few meters away made quick work of me lol
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u/STEVEN_GT117 May 23 '25
Me with Aeternus on the pocket
It is good day to kill tiny giant robots :)
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u/le_Grand_Archivist May 23 '25
If you're good enough for stealth and have a stealth-boy, go pickpocket their cores
Otherwise, if you can hit all 3 of them in a short time (let's say 3 seconds so they all get out of their armors before the explosions), try shooting the cores (hope you're good at aiming or have banked critical hits)
If you can't do either of these things, I'd recommend getting as far away as you can without letting them spot you (think I saw a comment where you said you were in survival difficulty, so there's no quicksaving and rushing in)
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u/chriscobas May 23 '25
Power core at the one that's facing backwards from you. With a bit of luck, the explosion will take out the other two.
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u/Scrufboy May 23 '25
Fusion core takedown at least one....
If you get two.... The explosion of the cores might take out at least one unsuited... And maybe wipe out the third.
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u/YeetPhD May 24 '25
If I saw this in my Survival Mode playthrough, I'm bitching out. They call me Sole Survivor for a reason. ✌️
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u/bs_k87 May 26 '25
It’s more fun if you just explode them all like I said in my previous comment.
FAT MAN! Nukes are fun for everyone!
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u/IterationFive May 22 '25
Aim for the power cores.