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Fallout 4 |OT| Atom Bomb Baby

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Pffft, no. This looks like a five year old engine with some graphical improvements.

But yeah, I do agree they need a new engine.

Do graphics really trump gameplay? Judging by the first day sales.. No.

Bethesda unfortunately knows this well enough so they'll just keep updating this engine for years to come.
 

Jintor

Member
trying to clear out a settlement site but as far as I can tell everything's dead but it won't let me use the workbench. Anything I can do to track down errant ghouls or whatever?
 
trying to clear out a settlement site but as far as I can tell everything's dead but it won't let me use the workbench. Anything I can do to track down errant ghouls or whatever?

I had that yesterday. I walked around, unlocked a door and there were two ghouls inside that didn't show up before..
 

Lanrutcon

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trying to clear out a settlement site but as far as I can tell everything's dead but it won't let me use the workbench. Anything I can do to track down errant ghouls or whatever?

Just remember not all settlement sites work like that. Some are opened by clearing the hostiles, others are opened by finishing a quest (either a static quest or a random radiant quest). Sometimes the sites that require a quest to open have hostiles there as well.

If you're confident the site is opened by clearning all hostiles, consider making a lot of noise to have the ghoul find you and checking for interior environments (basements, attics, sewers).
 

Zocano

Member
Well shit ):

[20 ish hour scripted event spoiler]
I must have missed the space ship crashing either due to weather or just moving quickly between areas, I came upon the wreckage just now. Oh well :\
 
Just remember not all settlement sites work like that. Some are opened by clearing the hostiles, others are opened by finishing a quest (either a static quest or a random radiant quest). Sometimes the sites that require a quest to open have hostiles there as well.

If you're confident the site is opened by clearning all hostiles, consider making a lot of noise to have the ghoul find you and checking for interior environments (basements, attics, sewers).

I found that if it's a quest given by a settler that'll eventually give you access to the settlement you can just
kill that settler and the rest there then go to the workbench and have access to it now.
 

Vex_

Banned
Well shit ):

[20 ish hour scripted event spoiler]
I must have missed the space ship crashing either due to weather or just moving quickly between areas, I came upon the wreckage just now. Oh well :

Good. This lets me know it doesn't disappear after a certain amount of time if you don't go looking for it right away.

I was gonna delete my game and throw my pc in the garbage if I missed something due to ocd
 

zXe

Member
I just discovered a holotape called 'Marc's Warning' next to an operations terminal on the second floor of Wilson Atomatoys Corporate HQ - just east of Diamond City. The voice of Marc sounds like the same English voice actor for Goku from Dragon Ball Z aka Sean Schemmel.
 

danowat

Banned
In St Andrews Station.

where you go to clear it out for a misc mission there are two areas I can't get into.
There is an inaccessible door with a keypad I have no code for, and there is a room in can't find a way into need the sandwich shop exit, anyone got an idea?

Also, children of atom, FU!!!!
 

N° 2048

Member
People need to stop stressing about carrying capacity.

1. Take Strength.
2. Take carry perks.
3. Wear power armor.
4. Mod your armor with pockets.
5. Pile stuff onto your companion/dog.
6. Stow stuff in a random container. Come back for it later.

and

7. There's way too much junk in the world, and limited uses for it. It makes more sense to note to loot what you need. Use the marking function.

Great tips but you know what didn't help me? The fact that in hours and hours of playing I forgot to dump stuff in My Aid.

I had a shit load of meat,melons (32 weight in melons),tato,mutifruit, you name it. Just went from 250-ish to 193.

This game is going to drive me crazy rofl.
 
So, is this a scripted event or or this just a thing?

After killing Kellogg. Exiting the Fort. Dawn is just breaking and I see this gigantic airship in the sky. The Brotherhood is here.
 
What's everyone's average weight? I'm struggling with being 246/265 or close to that. Makes looting hard. I use Dogmeat too but might have to get the perk...

I don't know how so many people can't get below 200. Maybe melee has a different mentality.

But i have like three weapons plus a couple of explosives, full heavy set leather armor (well it's ultra light weight), another suit for charisma, and like I only keep with me essentials in food/chems that I rarely use as stimpacks will always be my first go to. I also go back to my base after every run on a building/quest, and leave again with like 112/250 weight. I'll be getting more strength and some pack mules by level 50.

I can't take lone wanderer. I NEED a companion that isn't dogmeat with me as I need someone to take the attention from enemies that also does regular ranged.
 
Why the hell does KLEO's devastator chest piece have so much dmg rating on it?

Like it completely dwarfs all other armor.

You might not be late enough in the game. It's essentially a heavy armor metal piece. Just like with regular metal armor it favors high defense but it has a high weight.
 

Alpende

Member
Can i take off the silencer of a gun and put it on to other weapons? How?

Go to a weapons workbench. Select the gun with the silencer, go into mod mode, remove the silencer by putting a normal barrel on the gun, use the silencer on another gun of the same type.
 

iddqd

Member
Yesterday I wanted to mod my sniper into a .50 Cal. I needed all the resources and a "Gun Nut"-perk level 3.
I then realised that you have to be level 25 to actually unlock this perk. I'm level 21....

I just did that (as well as make it suppressed ) but the need for ammo is now even more real.
 
Just wanting to see if anyone else has this issue.

I have some side quests that I can't seem to pick up or hand in because the npc I got it from is a companion.

For example
I did Paladin Danse lost patrol mission. But I also killed Kellogg and the brotherhood arrived. When I went to paladin danse we went to the Prydwyn and the next thing I know he wants to join me.

Now there is no option to hand in the quest, all I can do is ask him how he is doing or get him to accompany me. Neither option gives me the ability to hand in the quest.

Is there a way to resolve that?
 

danowat

Banned
same caliber weapons only right?

Same weapon type only.

I don't know how so many people can't get below 200. Maybe melee has a different mentality.

But i have like three weapons plus a couple of explosives, full heavy set leather armor (well it's ultra light weight), another suit for charisma, and like I only keep with me essentials in food/chems that I rarely use as stimpacks will always be my first go to. I also go back to my base after every run on a building/quest, and leave again with like 112/250 weight. I'll be getting more strength and some pack mules by level 50.

I can't take lone wanderer. I NEED a companion that isn't dogmeat with me as I need someone to take the attention from enemies that also does regular ranged.

I only become encumbered when I lug around too much crap I don't really need.

I think the advice that many guides give to pick up EVERYTHING is wrong, and judicious use of the tag for search means you can be choosy what you pick up.
 

squidyj

Member
So I started a new character to do a melee stealth build and now Garvey isn't giving me the tenpines bluff quest and i don't know what to do :(
 
Is the pathfinding on Piper pretty bad for anyone else? She often has trouble following me up or down elevation such as wooden staircases etc. Codsworth doesn't have that issue (at least I can't remember).
 

GavinGT

Banned
Is the pathfinding on Piper pretty bad for anyone else? She often has trouble following me up or down elevation such as wooden staircases etc. Codsworth doesn't have that issue (at least I can't remember).

Maybe a bit worse. But the humanoid characters are so much easier to push out of your way that I would never go back to Codsworth.
 

kiyomi

Member
Is there a way of 'placing' your power armour onto the rig for it? I feel like there should be but I can't figure it out, so I'm just having to manually position myself before leaving the suit to make it look tidy. >.<
 

Lanrutcon

Member
Is there a way of 'placing' your power armour onto the rig for it? I feel like there should be but I can't figure it out, so I'm just having to manually position myself before leaving the suit to make it look tidy. >.<

Yes.

Climb out of your power armor. Then use the rig to open the repair interface. The suit will automatically be placed on the rig. I have many rigs at certain settlements. I should screenshot my collection, actually.
 
Is there a way of 'placing' your power armour onto the rig for it? I feel like there should be but I can't figure it out, so I'm just having to manually position myself before leaving the suit to make it look tidy. >.<

Yes.Park your power armour next to the frame, then click craft on the frame. If you then quit the crafting menu the power armour will be on the frame!
 

Tainted

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I've been playing for 65 hours and still haven't completed the story. I really should get on that.

55 hours here and I don't think I am anywhere near completing it. I have been doing pretty much every side quest which has become available to me as well as a fair chunk of exploring. At this stage, I have no barometer to guage how far through the story I am....but I really don't want it to end :)
 

AcridMeat

Banned
I spent way too much time making this for how unhappy I am with how it turned out.
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We need a shitload of copper.
There aren't enough colors for proper shading.

Also the draw distance isn't far enough for me to be able to see it from the roof of my house like I hoped, or even to get a better sense of the ship.

I needed ~30 of the big generators.
 
Just spoiled myself regarding a major brotherhood of steel plot point. Every now and then Rhys pisses me off as he's such an asshole, so I did a quicksave and went on a little massacre. Then
after killing Paladin Danse I noticed he had a Synth component in his inventory...
.
Mind = Slightly Blown.
 

Screaming Meat

Unconfirmed Member
I spent way too much time making this for how unhappy I am with how it turned out.


We need a shitload of copper.

There aren't enough colors for proper shading.

Also the draw distance isn't far enough for me to be able to see it from the roof of my house like I hoped, or even to get a better sense of the ship.

I needed ~30 of the big generators.

Holy shit. That's awesome.
 

Doop

Member
Is there a way to get Companion Spoiler:
Piper to use the guns I give her? Or will she only use her pistol?

Give the companion ammo for that gun, and they'll use it. If they don't use it, hit T to make them equip it (dunno the console controls).
 

Tainted

Member
I spent way too much time making this for how unhappy I am with how it turned out.

What is it actually that you are doing there to generate that billboard ? I havent mucked around with the base building stuff much, but I did look through all the items but I couldn't work out how they did this billboard in that promotional image pre-release. Looks like it is whatever you are doing there though

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I spent way too much time making this for how unhappy I am with how it turned out.
We need a shitload of copper.
There aren't enough colors for proper shading.

Also the draw distance isn't far enough for me to be able to see it from the roof of my house like I hoped, or even to get a better sense of the ship.

I needed ~30 of the big generators.
:O wow that so cool!!!
 

shiba5

Member
I spent way too much time making this for how unhappy I am with how it turned out.


We need a shitload of copper.

There aren't enough colors for proper shading.

Also the draw distance isn't far enough for me to be able to see it from the roof of my house like I hoped, or even to get a better sense of the ship.

I needed ~30 of the big generators.

Holy crap. That's amazing!
 
I forgot the setting I played Skyrim in until someone told me what it did which was make enemies 3 times stronger and makes you 3 times weaker! I was wondering why I had to use hack armor to defeat a boss at level 30 who dropped 3400 gold instead of the 650 you would expect from legendary bosses in the vanilla game.

I much like the combat in Fallout 4 so far at level 16 on hard but I deliberately started on hard knowing I can dial it up later in the game but I hope it doesn't get to the point where the difficulty breaks that... your problem gives me hope :)

I'm playing on PS4 so I don't have access to mods that makes the game harder, so what I'm doing is not putting any points into perks that give me more health, or makes me more damage resistant. The fear of becoming too OP is real.
 

McBryBry

Member
1) Valentine sounds way too much like James Woods.

2) Fun fact! Strong is voiced by Sean Schemmel aka Goku. I found this out after hearing a ghoul yelling at me sounding like a screaming Goku, so I looked it up and he is also Strong.

3) Danse sounds way too much like George Clooney.
 

joecanada

Member
Is it just me or is there wayy more loot than last time. I'm about 8 hours in I must have 150 guns. I guess because they don't need to be cannabilized to repair others? What do you do with old guns then? I don't see option to break them down? Sell them?
 

Bradach

Member
Just bought this online (PS4). I should have it by the weekend! I'm excited.

Any tips for a newbie? Any stat that I should focus on when creating my character?
 

zerotol

Banned
Anybody have favorite quests so far? Or least favorite? Haven't finished the game yet,

Quest title only. So far, favorite:
Silver Shroud

Least favorite:
the big dig

Honorable mention to
the last voyage of the uss constitution
 
Is it just me or is there wayy more loot than last time. I'm about 8 hours in I must have 150 guns. I guess because they don't need to be cannabilized to repair others? What do you do with old guns then? I don't see option to break them down? Sell them?

You can sell them or break them down into components at weapon benches. There's perks that allow you to get rare components from them.
 
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