I "eliminated" him...Quote:
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I "eliminated" him...Quote:
Originally Posted by bdoughty
Well, it looks like I just got fucking Willy Wonka'd.
After waiting a week, I got the mission prompt to go see Jack Cabot (I decided to let Lorenzo out and then immediately kill him by the way). I didn't immediately go there, but did eventually. Jack looks old, "Mother" is dead, and all Jack does is blame me for her death and I can't do jack fucking shit to get the goddamn gun Jack is suppose to give me.
So not only do I not get an unlimited supply of Serum, I now don't get the damn gun.
http://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/2016...5bebbf826b.jpg
Fuck you Cabots.
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This game is in sale at Eb games for $25 and an even swap for Diablo so I am picking it up today. No harm if I don't like it. My son wants to play it too and I think it should be on for him. Going into grade 7 next year.
Did you at least get the Charisma Bobblehead?Quote:
Originally Posted by SmoothPancakes
You have seen the Preston Harvey jokes but I finally found an image that explains it all.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rudy
http://i.imgur.com/qmlROlU.jpg
It really is a fun game. I never really did anything with the Fallout series until 3, and even then I never got past Megaton. I had no clue what I was doing, I nearly got killed by some beast mere minutes after I left the Vault, etc. Plus I thought the beginning of the game, the intro, was boring as shit.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rudy
I forget what game I ended up moving onto, RDR, GTA, something, and just never got back to it. Now that I've read up on the mechanics of the game, learned some of the back story, learned the combat, I can't put 4 down. Even though I have a massive backlog of shows to watch on my DVR, I can't keep from just jumping on Fallout 4 every chance I get.
My advice, read up on SPECIAL and the perks and get an idea of what kind of character build you want to go with, or at least start with. For instance, I went sneaky but high powered. My strength (with boosts) is 13, Charisma 11, so I can pass every single speech check in the game regardless, and now working on Agility which is 7.
I have Gunslinger at level 4 (will be maxed out after next time I level up), Rifleman maxed out, Gun Nut, Armorer a Science! maxed out since I can literally build anything at any settlement and mod any and every gun and armor, and then Sneak at level 4 (will be next after Gunslinger for maxing out), along with other random perks like terminal hacking and safe lockpicking.
With those perks, I can get within mere feet of enemies before they even realize I'm there (making VATS super accurate) and I can drop just about any animal enemy in less than 5 shots, and any humans (raiders/gunners) and even mutants in a single shot, head or body. My main rifles and guns that I carry pretty much do damages between 150 and 200 damage per shot, at ranges from 134 to 263. With Sneak, I no longer trigger trip wires or landmines, I can literally walk right over top of them and nothing happens, I no longer have to worry about or even care about where I'm walking.
And you can just as easily do an entirely different build. Since there are a shit ton of perks (I don't even know what level you'd have to be to unlock and max out every single perk in the game), there is essentially an unlimited number of ways to you can build your character. Much deeper and much more freedom than many other RPGs.
Yes I did, I made sure I got that and the journal. So it wasn't a complete and total loss, but I'm still not happy getting screwed out of the gun because of a damn bug/glitch.Quote:
Originally Posted by bdoughty
I already hated him going into the game for the first time (just from reading about him) and I hate him even more now. I intentionally avoid that ass whenever I'm in Sanctuary.Quote:
Originally Posted by bdoughty
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The story is good. The characters are fun. The missions are exciting. HOWEVER... EXPLORATION AND BUILDING SETTLEMENTS is what I love about this game.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rudy
Wow. That's deep in terms of specializations. I am going to be lost lol.
Finally made it to Act 2 last night. Completed Reunions and Dangerous Minds last night, and also finished the Automatron storyline and now have the Mechanist's Lair as a settlement.
Tonight the focus will likely be The Glowing Sea, Shadow of Steel, maybe a couple BoS quests after Shadow of Steel, Part whatever number I'm on of Randolph Safehouse, and then maybe wrap up with Hunter/Hunted depending on the time.
Slowly getting there. In terms of exploration, I now have almost everything discovered. After fully exploring the Glowing Sea and the Natick and Fort Hagen areas, the only remaining parts I haven't visited yet are the Quincy neighborhood, the Murkwater Construction Site, up around Warwick Homestead and then Spectacle Island. By count, only 15 places left to discover before I have discovered 100% of the Commonwealth. Almost there.
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Flies are annoying and I start the game up and my enemies are radioactive flies! Super annoying! I find it hard shooting them. Do you just melee these pests? I feel lost. Rpgs can feel so intimidating at the start with having to learn the world, xp stuff, looting, crafting, maps etc. I'm getting attacked by bugs and trying to remember how to heal myself. Is there no map HUD? The line graph on the bottom and lack of an overall map hurts.
Overall map? There is one on your PIP-BOY, assuming we are talking about the same thing. As far as the line graph on the bottom, it would be annoying if VATS did not exist but it does and when you go into it you can toggle between all of the enemies in every direction.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rudy
In regards to shooting and being new to the series, do not try to play this as a standard shooter and play it more as an RPG (which means using VATS) to increase the accuracy of your shots and less bullets. When you start out the guns are not very accurate and shooting those bugs can be a pain. As you get better with the game and get better guns you will become less reliant on VATS but it is still a great way to detect enemies, frag mines, etc.
If you have yet to bring up VATS, here is a guide.
http://www.carls-fallout-4-guide.com/vats/
Had no clue about VATS. I need to learn.
There is a ton to learn. Just go back over this thread and get some tips. You can lower the difficulty two steps below the default of normal as you get used to it. No shame in it as you are new to the game, as you get better slide it back up. Be sure and look over the perks to see what king of build you want to run with and remember you do not want to just put all the perk points at the top, in the SPECIAL attributes.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rudy
Just remember the most important thing. Save often.
Oh hell, I'm level 60 and I still use VATS almost religiously. It let's me know if I'm about to walk into a shit storm or just plain be able to hit those goddamn blood bugs, rad roaches, mole rats, bloatflies and the occasional stingwing.
I also like to use it regularly when assaulting raider or mutant camps because I can usually kill 4 or 5 enemies in an instant via VATS without any of them being able to react and fire back. Sometimes I can clear out an entire camp with a single VATS aided assault, other times, I just have 2 or 3 stragglers to clean up by the time I'm done in VATS. Makes it much easier when you only have to take on 2 or 3 enemies at once vs 7 or 8.
And yes, SAVE OFTEN! I can't begin to tell how many times having a RECENT backup save has saved my ass from mistakes. I have the game options set to autosave every 5 minutes via exiting the pip boy, and I will routinely pause the game and create an entirely new save myself right then and there just before I hit certain spots of missions, as a CYA backup.
Most nights, when I'm done playing, I'll go through and delete all the old saves (I think I had 15 one night between autosave and my manual saves) and then create two fresh saves wherever I am when quitting. That way I have two saves files, one as a potential backup in case for some ungodly reason the other were to somehow end up corrupted.
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The shooting is so much better on Fallout 4 compared to past games, I rarely use VATS where I'd use it all the time before.
I have my moments where I find it less than useful. Shots from distance, I find I have more accuracy and control and much more likelihood on actually connecting with shots when I skip VATS and line up my rifle or sniper shots on my own.
Up close, VATS is nearly 100% accuracy, but when you get out fairly far, it really seems to be serious hit or miss, even when firing at a body part with 65 or higher showing.
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Is there a way to scrap multiple guns and armor at once? Now that I have the Scrapper perk maxed out, I want to finally start scrapping everything I've amassed, especially since the Workshop in Sanctuary is getting so goddamned laggy, but I can't say I want to scrap 14,350 pounds of guns, around 2 or 3,000 individual guns, one at a time It's gonna take hours to break down each gun individually.
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Nevermind, I found a way. For the individual, single guns, I can still quickly do them at the weapons workbench, but for the guns grouped in masses of 6 to 70+, I can just drop them on the ground, go into settlement building mode and scrap them all in seconds similar to cleaning out random crap from a new settlement.
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And the Apparel wins the race! After breaking down 14,350 some odd pounds of weapons, I'm now about to begin breaking down exactly 20,100 pounds of apparel.
I have really gotta go through and clean this damn thing out more often!
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I don't know how, but I somehow missed the release of the Contraptions Workshop. But in the few hours since installing it, I love it! I've been horribly low on .308 ammo for the past two or three days.
I set up an ammunition builder and just pounded out 2,000+ .308 shells. My overpowered baby Overseer's Guardian is back in action!
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As fun as this game is, you can tell, without even looking, that Bethesda is the one behind this game. Jesus Christ the bugs and glitches are never ending, just like every Bethesda game. I constantly have to exit and reenter the game just to get my stupid settlers to actually assign to the things I tell them. I try to move settlers to other settlements, they don't leave. One settlement showed a population of 7, I only could find 3, even with ringing the damn bell.
The biggest goddamn annoyance, the fucking crashes. Just now, and for probably the 15th time since I started playing, the game just randomly and suddenly freezes and crashes to the Xbox dashboard. It happens nearly every other time I get on. Great, now I get to completely redo everything I did since the last time saved.
You should be wanting to save religiously because you never know when you might meet an enemy that would massacre your ass. Not because you're fearing the game suddenly crashing for the 100th time in the next 5 minutes.
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Settlements are problematic. I am constantly fast travelling back to settlements to "reset " them. Zero beds and no water... then you go into workshop[p and have 21 beds and 18 water. That being said, they are IMO the best aspect of the game.Quote:
Originally Posted by SmoothPancakes
Yeah, I'm having the problem right now with the Starlight Drive-In. They have 24 beds, 100 power, like 100 water, like 300 defense, when I'm physically there, and yet the first moment I fast travel away, those numbers are all 0. Drives me up a wall.Quote:
Originally Posted by jaymo76
Like I said, it's a standard Bethesda game. Fun as hell, but incredibly annoying bugs and glitches throughout.
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Just wait until you try all those cool mods, that will freeze your game to the point where you wish they never offered them. Every one of those nice green in the commonwealth are just a freeze waiting to happen. Every mod I have tried has had some glitch that broke the game, outside of the cool new scopes and nuka cola pip boy. Even the little key ring mod will glitch with other mods that require keys or you accidentally delete it.Quote:
Originally Posted by SmoothPancakes
Just tedious trying to fine some enjoyment of the mods. Load orders affecting the mods, then you have plugins for mods that will break other stuff trying to fix things that were broken by the mods.
Ah crap. There goes my longing desire to start enjoying mods once I finally finish the story.
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Oh mama, I love me some artillery! I completed Taking Independence and Old Guns over the weekend. Finally getting a chance to get back on since Sunday.
My next target for Tinker Tom's MILAs was Corvega. Screw fighting through a dozen plus raiders. Three artillery grenades, signalling my four artillery pieces in Graygarden, and there were a whole two raiders left alive by the end of all three bombardments, lol.
Also completed Here There Be Monsters, so I have 3 homing beacons to potentially call in a nuke strike from Zao and the Yangtze. Only thing I'm not sure of is if I can get any more homing beacons were I to swim back out to the sub, or if those three nuke strikes are all I get, so I'm extremely hesitant to use them at the moment.
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You get three, just like a genie gives three wishes and you can't ask for more.
Damn, that's what I was afraid of. Well, I'll have to save them for a special use. The artillery strikes will do more than enough for now.
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You can use them in Far Harbor, I would advise saving one for that area. You will know when.
Sweet, that's good to know. Sadly I found out the artillery strikes have a limited range. Had to go on a mass building tour at a bunch of settlements to hopefully get a large portion of the map covered by artillery strikes.
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Releases August 30th
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIneiOpuS2M
Oh man... I am looking forward to that. For the last DLC for the game, they are certainly going out with a bang. How many more years will we have to wait for Fallout 5? Just think, if NCAA Football were never cancelled I would not have discovered this game.Quote:
Originally Posted by bdoughty
New patch to get ready for Nuka World. Out on PC/Xbox and next week on PS4.
http://www.gamespot.com/articles/fal.../1100-6442837/
Best Patch EVER! :DQuote:
Jun and Marcy Long are no longer essential after completing "Sanctuary"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SG1o0nUNfMk
Wasn't Jun the whiner and Marcy the bitch? :D
Yup, but I always felt bad for Jun. He actually married this person, so I would be moping around and depressed all the time too. Plus they lost their child. I just left him be and never even assigned him work. With Marcy I would plant a couple tato as far away as possible to reduce the amount of interactions.Quote:
Originally Posted by JBHuskers
:DQuote:
Originally Posted by bdoughty
I need to get back to this sometime eventually. I've been saying that since March I think :D
I would love to be playing it but my kindness got the better of me. One of the neighbors kids had his appendix burst on him a few days ago. This same thing happened to me when I was a sophomore in HS. Kid is going to miss a few weeks of school and miss some of his senior year playing football. All he had was an N64, so I donated my XB1 to him until he got back to starting classes.
Really kinda missing not having my console.
Finally a winter mod and I am without by XB1. :fdown:
https://mods.bethesda.net/#en/worksh...detail/2622635
Sounds cool. Have to admit that I was very excited about mods but after all the glitches they cause I turned them all off. I may try this one though.Quote:
Originally Posted by bdoughty
Anyone try out Nuka World DLC? It is now available on xbox1 (ps4 too?)