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The anchorage power armor can, actually, be degraded with use.
It just has a stupidly high armor health (i think in the millions? its been awhile), but if you play long enough, and get it battered hard enough, it will eventually noticably degrade.
Oh yeah, in the same sense Dogmeat and the other non-human companions can be placed in the bleed-out state if you hit them with enough munitions.
I once aggro'd Dogmeat and I had to unload all my ammo just to get away. Couple (IRL) days later, he jumped me in a whole other place. The initial encounter was somewhere outside of Vault 101 (like, say, if I'd done Trouble on the Homefront, where Amata baits you into coming back, only to kick you out again after you clean up her mess), and the second one was on the highway, like south or southwest of the library, close to where the overpass is where the Super Mutant is with the minigun.
I think I knew the power armour was that way, but since I never saw it degrade functionally enough to care, I didn't bother. So, you say the health is ridiculously high... would you agree that if a player started Fallout 3, made a bee line to the Anchorage start area (I can't describe the area, but I'm vaguely familiar with where to go), and wore the winterised power armour for the entire game... do you think it's reasonable or feasible that it could take enough damage to lose even one point of its armour rating? Or do you think you'd have to take an inhuman amount of damage and actually be trying for that? Also, I cannot for the life of me remember if you can repair power armour like you can regular armour (by using one on the other). So I'm wondering if it matters.
I can play Fallout 3 any time I want, I think I own it on Xbox. If I play it on my computer, I'll need an emulator (it's a Mac, so, something like Wine). I don't see it getting ported to ARM64 any time soon... though Fallout 4 did (for Switch 2).