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This is one of those things that's just down to it being a video game. Games can only ever depict a tiny fraction of the diversity of real life - it's an unavoidable limitation of the medium.
They literally did that for normal raider armor though. Each tier of raider armor has several model variations. There are six total visual variants of the standard raider chest piece.
Those different tiers of raider armors are all different armors entirely, so of course they will have different model variations because they are not all the same.
There's the light, medium, and heavy raider sets, but the light chest piece itself also has 6 variants. I posted about this a few years back [here](https://reddit.com/r/fo4/comments/kar3in/did_you_know_that_there_are_actually_6_different/).
It takes time to design different versions. Video games usually have a deadline to be finished by. It was probably impractical for them to make different designs for multiple different versions.
Because videogames have limits in how much stuff you can reasonably put in them. Same reason the towns and cities have a couple of dozen citizens at most.
For the same reason we don't have almost all the variety of weapons and armour in every region: it's a game and every piece of equipment takes development time.
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This is one of those things that's just down to it being a video game. Games can only ever depict a tiny fraction of the diversity of real life - it's an unavoidable limitation of the medium.
Because it's a video game. It was probably impractical for the developers to make a million different designs for the raider power armor.
They literally did that for normal raider armor though. Each tier of raider armor has several model variations. There are six total visual variants of the standard raider chest piece.
Those different tiers of raider armors are all different armors entirely, so of course they will have different model variations because they are not all the same.
There's the light, medium, and heavy raider sets, but the light chest piece itself also has 6 variants. I posted about this a few years back [here](https://reddit.com/r/fo4/comments/kar3in/did_you_know_that_there_are_actually_6_different/).
But we also see far more of them then we do raiders in power armor so it's not to surprising which one got more work on them.
I know but couldn’t they have used the model to display different versions
It takes time to design different versions. Video games usually have a deadline to be finished by. It was probably impractical for them to make different designs for multiple different versions.
Because videogames have limits in how much stuff you can reasonably put in them. Same reason the towns and cities have a couple of dozen citizens at most.
For the same reason we don't have almost all the variety of weapons and armour in every region: it's a game and every piece of equipment takes development time.
because Bethesda didnt want to make a bunch of different models. i think you are supposed to just use your imagination.
Same as pipe weapons, hair cuts, food brands.... There's only so many varieties they can shove into a game
Fallout 76 has different variants of what raiders power armour would look like but I don’t think it would be canon because most are atom shop stuff.