I recently acquired a full set of overeaters power armor and noticed I practically just don’t take damage, like at all. A big part of this I attributed to the dodgy perk activating as I have 3 powered parts of power armor so I’m always topped up on ap but I still found it odd that even boss level enemies practically just tickle me. After finding the damage reduction formulas in the game and using a graphing calculator, depending on wether or not armor rating and then flat percentages are taken out after or the reverse, a melee attack from earle doing 220 damage would only do roughly 2.5-3.5 damage. This is without dodgy in the mix, or emergency protocols/ nerd rage. I’m honestly surprised how much damage you can resist in this game and I highly highly suggest anyone running a bloodied build to use overeaters armor sets and for super tanks like me, well I guess just enjoy never dying.

All testing was done using power armors 42% damage reduction, and 5 separate instances of over eaters 6% damage reduction as they don’t stack additively. The damage resistance I used was 450 but even going down to 400 only changes the damage by about 0.2.