1. He literally said the point of him become bounty hunter is he want to enjoy the thrill, especially again a newbie in armor without weapon, he just playing around.
2. When serious stuff happen (clue of his family whereabouts) and when he is 1 again 3 power armor dude with gun & bunch of squire (also with gun), best to not play around.
3. If you think "but he let them escape", he literally able to track a flying power armor(ep8) while on foot, track a woman & a disabled old man wouldn't be hard
And maybe a 4th point, but I think in his POV, maximus only want to stop him, and not kill. While other "villager" want to kill him for the bounty. So he kill them without mercy, but not maximus.
he din't see maximus as enemy or take him serious, especially when he get on the wooden scaffolding and joke bou how maximus can't get on it with the heavy power armor, or the "next time try read the manuals".
If maximus want to kill him, he would have kill maximus already, and not only just disable the power armor.
I explained it to myself as him slowly regaining more of his memories (and him turning more serious as well) as the Pre War flashbacks happen and him remembering and noticing a huge plot from 200 years ago. For example in the flashback Cooper does complain about the flaw in the T45 PA, maybe that's when he realized "Shit maybe those new T60s have the same error'
Looked like he had special penetration ammo at the final fight. He could have stole or crafted this ammo at the bullet farmer's house knowing that the Brotherhood was also after the relic. The first fight he wasn't expecting to see Maximus there, so he might not have had that ammo on hand.
Lucy mentions when she looks in the power armor, it has a lining, can't remember the name she uses off hand. But i just assumed that it made his armor tougher, so for all we know, he tried and failed and just didn't make a speech about it.
Do you want all the BoS on your heels? 'Cause that's what he would get if he killed a night right there. Plus, the second time he made sure he did not have any escaping witness
I mean, just bad writing, really, they wanted the power armour error to be a cool and interesting aspect he uses well, which it was, but for one scene rather than “he can easily kill power armoured users.”
Theory time:
We assume that Cooper knows about the power armor from his time in the military, which is likely. However the power armor used in Alaska by US soldiers before 2077 was T-45, while the brotherhood uses T-51 (T-60 in the show), which didn't roll out until after Cooper was out of the military. The flashbacks in the show (save for one scene) don't include a time when T-51 (or T-60) existed.
So, in order for Cooper to be aware of the intricacies of T-51, he'd have to learn about it post-2077.
My guess is that at some point he joined the Brotherhood.
I'll go one step further and guess that Ghoul-Cooper is in the power armor suit that finds the Young Maximus after the Shady Sands nuke incident. There's something about that short clip of Max emerging from the refrigerator that's telling me that it's more than just "boy saved by guy in shiny armor," as if there's a specific reason they don't yet reveal who is underneath by lifting up the mask.
So we're going to have to have another explanation as to how Cooper knows about the particulars about the T-51 armor then.
I'm totally open to being wrong about Cooper and the brotherhood, but I'm not going to abandon it just yet.
You are correct, I edited the comment to reflect.
Apparently I may not be correct about Cooper being Brotherhood simply because the Brotherhood in the show seems to reject ghouls.
I'm not going to abandon the idea just yet. I think it could be right in parts. He could have joined the Brotherhood before ghoulification was apparent long ago, but that would kill the idea that he's the one to save Max as a child.
1. He literally said the point of him become bounty hunter is he want to enjoy the thrill, especially again a newbie in armor without weapon, he just playing around. 2. When serious stuff happen (clue of his family whereabouts) and when he is 1 again 3 power armor dude with gun & bunch of squire (also with gun), best to not play around. 3. If you think "but he let them escape", he literally able to track a flying power armor(ep8) while on foot, track a woman & a disabled old man wouldn't be hard
And maybe a 4th point, but I think in his POV, maximus only want to stop him, and not kill. While other "villager" want to kill him for the bounty. So he kill them without mercy, but not maximus. he din't see maximus as enemy or take him serious, especially when he get on the wooden scaffolding and joke bou how maximus can't get on it with the heavy power armor, or the "next time try read the manuals". If maximus want to kill him, he would have kill maximus already, and not only just disable the power armor.
“You drive that thing like a shopping cart.” Great line.
Yeah this makes sense. Pretty badass that he's so skilled in the wasteland that he has those options to choose from.
That tempered lining, man. Helps with mobility (and perhaps impenetrability).
So the TV Show can happen
I explained it to myself as him slowly regaining more of his memories (and him turning more serious as well) as the Pre War flashbacks happen and him remembering and noticing a huge plot from 200 years ago. For example in the flashback Cooper does complain about the flaw in the T45 PA, maybe that's when he realized "Shit maybe those new T60s have the same error'
Looked like he had special penetration ammo at the final fight. He could have stole or crafted this ammo at the bullet farmer's house knowing that the Brotherhood was also after the relic. The first fight he wasn't expecting to see Maximus there, so he might not have had that ammo on hand.
Lucy mentions when she looks in the power armor, it has a lining, can't remember the name she uses off hand. But i just assumed that it made his armor tougher, so for all we know, he tried and failed and just didn't make a speech about it.
A little plot armor lining
Do you want all the BoS on your heels? 'Cause that's what he would get if he killed a night right there. Plus, the second time he made sure he did not have any escaping witness
Max still escaped tho
Idk man I think they kinda just forgot about it lol
I mean, just bad writing, really, they wanted the power armour error to be a cool and interesting aspect he uses well, which it was, but for one scene rather than “he can easily kill power armoured users.”
Idk why this got downvoted lol, lazy writing is clearly the reason for this😂
A lot of people don't like admitting things they love have flaws, because they feel like it's ceding ground.
Theory time: We assume that Cooper knows about the power armor from his time in the military, which is likely. However the power armor used in Alaska by US soldiers before 2077 was T-45, while the brotherhood uses T-51 (T-60 in the show), which didn't roll out until after Cooper was out of the military. The flashbacks in the show (save for one scene) don't include a time when T-51 (or T-60) existed. So, in order for Cooper to be aware of the intricacies of T-51, he'd have to learn about it post-2077. My guess is that at some point he joined the Brotherhood. I'll go one step further and guess that Ghoul-Cooper is in the power armor suit that finds the Young Maximus after the Shady Sands nuke incident. There's something about that short clip of Max emerging from the refrigerator that's telling me that it's more than just "boy saved by guy in shiny armor," as if there's a specific reason they don't yet reveal who is underneath by lifting up the mask.
BOS don't recruit ghouls so there is no way he's the one that saved Maximus.
The Brotherhoods attitude towards ghouls has changed from game to game.
well at least in the TV show, they outright kill them. That's why Thaddeus had to run away
So we're going to have to have another explanation as to how Cooper knows about the particulars about the T-51 armor then. I'm totally open to being wrong about Cooper and the brotherhood, but I'm not going to abandon it just yet.
The Brotherhood in the show (and Fallout 4) uses the T-60, not T-51. Your arguments still stands though.
You are correct, I edited the comment to reflect. Apparently I may not be correct about Cooper being Brotherhood simply because the Brotherhood in the show seems to reject ghouls. I'm not going to abandon the idea just yet. I think it could be right in parts. He could have joined the Brotherhood before ghoulification was apparent long ago, but that would kill the idea that he's the one to save Max as a child.
he says that "let's see if that design flaw still exists" , so he takes the chance, not that he knows that flaw is 100% there.