Enclave Power Armor Comparison in Fallout Games

Comparison of the Enclave Power Armor in all main Fallout games (Fallout 2 vs Fallout 3 vs Fallout New Vegas vs Fallout 4 Next Gen)

00:00 X-01 (Fallout 2, F:NV, F4)

0:43 Enclave Power Armor (F3, F4)

1:17 Enclave Tesla Power Armor (F3, F:NV, F4)

2:05 Hellfire Power Armor (F3, F4 Next Gen)

2:35 All Pieces Comparison

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[elcentinelafo]

Ok. I think I will have to explain this myself.


Let's start from the beginning.


The X-01 was a prewar prototype developed in the Withespring bunker before the Great War. After the bombs fell, Modus sended the blueprints to the Poseidon Oil Rig.


Decades later, the Enclave started to improve this power armor, manufacturing the Advanced Power Armor MKI (APA MKI).


By the time when Fallout 2 tooks place, the Enclave had developed not only the APA MKI, but its successor: the APA MKII.


The APA MKII was used by several soldiers of the Enclave around 2242. For example, Sg. Arch Dornan. It can also be found at the Poseidon Oil Rig.


What happened when Bethesda released Fallout 3? They changed the style of the APA MKII. Now, the canon APA MKII looks like the "Enclave Power Armor".


Now, pay attention:


In Fallout 2, you can clearly see that the APA MKII is better in every single way than the APA MKI.


So try to do as if all the statistics of the power armor in Fallout 3 had never existed. This is because what Bethesda did with the power armor in Fallout 3 was the biggest disaster of all the lore of Fallout series.


Several decades after the release of the APA MKII, the Enclave developed the Hellfire Power Armor, which could be called "APA MKIII". Something really important is that Lonesome Roads refers to this power armor as "Prototype X-03".


To finish this, I will make some points:


The X-01 is not the APA MKI, but the prototype used to make it.


The X-02 has never existed, but would be a very good name to refer to the APA MKII. This armor is better than the APA MKII in all ways (ignore Fallout 3, please). To confirm this, read the lab terminals of the Citadel. They say that the Enclave soldiers look almost the same as the ones seen in 2242 at the west coast. Also, you can read a tactical evaluation of Enclave forces, which says "Armor: Advanced Power Armor MKII", meaning that is the same that you can find at the Poseidon Oil Rig, the same that Dornan uses.


The Hellfire Power Armor is, actually, the sole model of Enclave power armor that is really called "X-03", and you could call it "Advanced Power Armor MKIII", if you want.


Hope that this helps you.

[snakeinthegrass]

The Hellfire has a special spot in my heart. The Enclave made special power armor just so they can burn muties to death with more ease. It brings a tear to my American eyes…

[foureleveniv-xi]

You’re out of uniform, soldier! Where is your Power Armor???

[archdornan]

The Enclave armor featured in fallout 2 and new vegas isnt XO-1, but rather APA MK1 / 2, a highly advanced suit created by the Enclave on the San Francisco oil rig post war.
The XO-1 was the prewar prototype of this armor. The Enclave just improved and finalised the design, they're related, but not the same.

[films]

Critique Fallout 4 as much as you want but they got power armor RIGHT! All the other games its just a cool suit of armor, but 4's power armor? You could bear hug the megaton nuke while it went off and be absolutely fine!

[yjaeger]

Despite having lots of flaws, I gotta say Fallout 4 power armor is the best. It perfectly fits what power armor should be, older games feel like it is just a very heavy equipment. Kudos to the dev team for at least getting on point with something

[tomoxi]

wasn't enclave power armor from fallout 2 and NV a MK1 power armor?
i think it's not same as X01 power armor (x01 was created before great war, and mk1 after)

[lucassalles]

Say what you will about Fallout 4, but one thing you have to admit, they nailed the Power Armors.

[rat]

Arcade's power armor and the Outcast t-51 is probably my favorite power armor designs across all games. That being said, Fallout 4 still makes power armor FEEL the best.

[mpg]

Always liked how the Enclave armors helmet is designed to look like an angry wasp (the eyes) with horns

[unloyal]

If theres one thing that the newer games did so much better is that it got using power armor perfectly to a T, you feel strong inside one.

[Tritonofclansakai]

Fallout 4 has the best power armor in all the games by a design point and realism.

[sinehxn]

x02 gotta be my favorite. love the horns

[person]

imagine a person using the fallout 4 X-01 suit and starts running towards you irl

[selemanecu]

what I like about the x-02 and the hellfire power armor is that they bear a striking resemblance to the power armor of the midwestern brotherhood I like the reminder that they can end up just like the enclave or even worse than them and yes I consider them canon and the calculator destroyed and simon barnaky rescued (yeah he is my asshole so what? plus it's sergeant hartmann). I like that Maximus in the TV Series shares his name with Maximus Leader of the Dagger Squad that assist the Warrior in taking Vault 0.

[thiagoaurelio]

The X-01 is my favorite, it looks so good.

[Nate-bnkk]

By the time i found the helfire in fallout 3 was the time the game was unplayable due to the game constantly crashing. Still my favorite armor type tho.

[travismeta]

Fallout New Vegas looks badass with the running animation

[ZeonicFenrir]

While it's unclear if they are related (something people will often argue about the X-01 and the APA from FO2), I would also toss the power armor & advanced power armor from Fallout Tactics alongside the X-02 Black Devil armor, as it seems to have been the IRL inspiration for its Fallout 3 incarnation. Lore-wise, FO Tactics is in a gray area where only parts of it are canon, namely BoS airships and a detachment heading east before Lyons, while the retconned origins of the BoS, indicating that they came form a vault, is certainly not canon.

[ix-nine--pc]

Advanced Power Armor my beloved. Titans of the New West gives it such a glow-up in New Vegas!

(APA ain't the same as the X-01, there are very clear and obvious differences both in design and lore, so I refer to them seperately. Thanks for the video though!)