PA is not heavy once you have the right Perks though it become very low weight. That's is the key its not an exploit its just good Perk distribution with the included Perk cards!
I'm carrying almost a full set of power armour, 3 weapons, clothing, >1000 .45, >1000 shotgun shells, 5 fusion cores and a boatload of aid. Total weight 98lbs. The heaviest thing is my stimpaks, since I have ~30 and they're 0.7lbs each. After that, the fusion cores as they're 3lbs each.
Power armour is extremely light unless you're carrying parts in your inventory. Parts on a chassis weigh zero. So the total weight of a fully kitted out power armour suit is 10lbs. Why use your limited special points to enable perks to reduce that 10lbs at all? You're probably carrying more weight in water! My shotgun would probably be heavier than my power armour if it wasn't for the fact that the faster shotgun reloading perk I have also reduces its weight by 90%.
I currently have 3 PA frames and partial sets, scavved without server hopping. I'm missing a left arm for my T45, a torso for my T60 and 3 pieces for my T51. The two spare ones take up 20lbs in my stash. I'll probably end up with a T60 set with a T51 torso when I get to a high enough level to use T60 and drop the rest in Flatwoods church as a strange surprise for anyone who might happen by. I leave stuff there from time to time, usually spare plans and recipes. Once a fully modded L1 pipe gun I'd crafted just to give to a new player if I found one. New players are so rare I travelled to one and dropped the gun and ammo in front of them.
I could server hop, but it seems too much like cheating to me and would spoil my enjoyment. The game is marginal anyway, so any reduction in enjoyment would be a particularly big problem. I'm having some fun taking photos, though.
Here's a strange thing that happened. I've built my camp in a very secluded place that's difficult to get to, but sometimes there are supermutants above it and once or twice one of them has wandered to the edge of the cliff and shot at my camp. They can't get to it, but it is only slightly outside the range of their guns so they can do a very small amount of damage. Every time, without exception, they shoot my corn plants. Just stand there, firing over and over again and sometimes doing a very small amount of damage to a corn plant. I'd like to climb up and ask them why they have such a strong dislike of corn
[..] Also PA Mods are not rare at all just server hop into Whitesprings bunker until they are offered for sale in the armoury.
They only sell X-01 mods, even if you do server hop (which I don't).
Someone did a video showing a lot of existing ingame mods for 76 for the X01 & X02 power armour. You have to server hop a lot but someone has found a huge number of mods!
Wait...X02 power armor? Where's that in FO76?
