Whatcha doin' in the Wasteland?

[Captain Untouchable]

Assuming you're not stuck waiting on downloads or delivery vans, hopefully everyone's made it into the Wasteland by now! :dance

What do you guys think so far?

How many hours did you spend in that insane character generation screen? :ohno

How many of you yelled "Say hello to my little friend!" when you [leapt off the top of the museum and opened up on bandits and deathclaws with your minigun?]

I'm enjoying myself so far. I've mostly got sidetracked setting up my little towns and stuff, and fiddle-faffing in the crafting situation. Getting hold of adhesives (which you need to craft just about everything) is a pain in the butt: make sure that your settlements are growing corn, mutfruit, and tato - you can combine these with purified water in the cooking crafting bench, which breaks down into 5 adhesive each time. There's a little farm south-southwestish of where you start off (head for the Concord water tower; it's just on the other side), the farmer's wife had the veggies you need so you can head back to Sanctuary and plant 'em. (The plants need to have people working on them to grow... so make sure you plant them at Sanctuary, and not somewhere that has no people)

Biggest problem I seem to be having so far is ammo. Unless I just haven't managed to work it out yet, there doesn't seem to be an ammo crafting system, and while you can loot plenty of bullets for your pipe gun or shotgun from the bandits you keep killing, .45 or 10mm stuff seems a lot harder to come buy - and it seems to be damn expensive from the scant handful of traders I've stumbled across so far.

The world design is fantastic. There's a flooded quarry just east of where you start out that looks SO COOL, and there seems to be a little more variety (or at least, a little less copy/paste) in building designs than there has been before. The "dungeons" I've done so far have been really enjoyable - one of your early Minuteman quests is to go clear out a Corvega assembly plant... running through all those levels and gantries, trying to sneak past the spotlights without being seen, and taking out bandits with my trusty 10mm Pistol felt almost James Bond levels of cool. (That may have something to do with the fact that my character is currently running around in a tuxedo)

I have had some UI issues, mostly because I'm not using a widescreen monitor (everything is slightly squished, and the lockpicking UI just plain doesn't work), but aside from having to forgo a few safes and locked doors for now, it's not been anything game breaking.

[Charley]

My copy is ready to go on xbone but I'm holding off playing until Christin's pc version finishes downloading. We'll go in unison so as to not spoil each other's experience

[Loklorien s'Ilancy]

This game is so damn beautiful :eee

[Zereth Lancer]

My biggest complaint is my OCD "Loot Everything" personality does not work very well here because this time around there is incentive to literally loot everything. All the junk. In addition, it appears that items and enemies respawn in locations so you can just keep going back. I spent a good couple hours trying to loot everything from the Convega Plant. Picking up everything I could carry, dragging it back to town to break down, and then heading back to do it many more times. I eventually ended up giving up on that venture. Now that I have a lot of resources built up I'm trying to be more picky about what I pick up because constantly going back to town to break it down isn't much fun and I don't have any merchants to sell anything to other than the Farmer's Wife.

As for ammo, I was starting to have problems as my 10mm was running low, but then I got my hands on a Laser Rifle that I have tons of ammo for and I think I'll be okay now.

I've been splitting my time between missions and "raiding" locations for stuff. I dislike the towns. They are nicely designed; especially Lexington, but I don't enjoy sifting through all the houses for virtually nothing. The amount of scavenging in this game makes it feel more like a DayZ style game. Sometimes I forget I'm playing Fallout and think I'm playing one of those zombie survival games, especially with all the ghouls in the city instead of bandits.

Still, I'm having a great time in the wasteland.

[Scout Ravenwood]

I can't afford it and don't think my PC could run it so I've got nowhere :(.

I might just install Fallout 3 or New Vegas, or buy Fallout 1 or something to update with a totally different experience :P

[Halajiin Rabeak]

-- Removed. If I can't say anything nice about my experience in the game, I shouldn't say anything at all. --

[Captain Untouchable]

Planting crops is easy. Go to Resources, then Food, and then place them like any other item. You need one of that crop in your inventory in order to plant it, but that's as complicated as it gets.

[Halajiin Rabeak]

-- Removed. Nobody wants to read me being all bitter. --

[Sadie K'Vesh]

So... Don't do that aspect? It's not like you "lose" the game, right?

I haven't gotten that deep into the town building and all but that's never been my type of game (Minecraft held no interest for me kinda deal) but I'm going to give it a try anyway. If I don't like it...no harm done, there's places to explore! I'm cool with being selfish and letting the community die, I have vengeance to exact and a (totally grown up if not dead) baby to find. :lol

[Loklorien s'Ilancy]

For me, I absolutely love this new aspect of the game. It lets me deepen my wasteland experience and really put a foothold down that's more than a rented room or hotel floor (Lucky 38). I get to be industrious, and designy, and obsess over where to put my fancy chair and which barstool style to use (ALSO CAT PICTURES TO HANG ON WALLS YESSSSSS).

And then when I decide I'm satisfied for the time being, I can go out and shoot bad guys and live it up.

If I feel like letting the settlers die, then I'll let them die. They want me to do a water thing right now, and I'm ignoring it until I get my wandering fix satisfied. Hell, I may never do it.

That's the beauty of the game. You can ignore shit and do other stuff you would rather want to do.



edit - I actually really really like the new VATS. It makes it a little bit more frantic in a sense, and is very 'hey you can't sit and waffle over what limb you're gonna shoot'.

[Green Arrow]

I've never really used VATS in previous games. Up close it always felt a little cheaty, and at longer ranges I've always seemed to do better with a rifle and a scope than the percentage chance that VATS gives me. I'm much more pistol focused right now though, and the slow motion VATS feels more like dropping Adrenaline Rush as a Soldier in Mass Effect, so I've ended up using it more than I have in previous games. Still not "used" to it / the controls / etc, but I'm not hating the vibe.

I do really like the new skill/perk system. Probably should have researched it better in advance, because I picked my SPECIAL based on how I play New Vegas, and wound up immediately putting points in stuff to unlock crafting prereqs... but I like that lockpicking/hacking/etc is now a perk thing, and I like that the perks all feel more "valuable" now.

Has anyone come across an actual shop yet? Bumped into a few brahmin traders, and there's an NPC here or there who sells stuff, but I haven't found a reliable place to offload stuff / buy ammo yet.

[Droo]

On the new VATS, I can't say I'm a fan. I try clicking on the torso and I end up clicking an arm. So I try again, and click the arm again. In the end, I jib it off and just click anywhere, which, to me, makes VATS a bit redundant. I'm in favour of a challenge, but not when it comes with frustration, and at the cost of fun.

[Loklorien s'Ilancy]

Yeah, I can understand the frustration on that point with VATS. I've had a few instances like you, where what I thought I was clicking ended up being something else. I'm hoping it becomes easier to peg the more I do it though. Of course, I'm a lot like Jace in that I prefer scopes for long range attacks, so it may be that I hardly use VATS once I get a happy fun time sniper rifle of some sort. I've got the pipe sniper, but only about 6 rounds of .308 so I'm holding off on that one, heh.

[Zereth Lancer]

I didn't use VATS much in the previous games until I ran my Energy Weapon character in New Vegas. If you haven't done an energy weapon build before, one of the strongest builds is maxed out Luck + Perks that strengthen vats. Then you VATS kill everything, get insane crits during it, and get all your AP back from Dead Man's Sprint. Rinse and repeat. It's really strong. So much so that I got to the point in New Vegas that nothing was a challenge. Almost everything I could instantly kill from afar with my laser rifle with stealth damage, and anything else got VATS to death.

The new system is pretty much exactly the same as the old but without the game pausing. As for issues picking out the body parts you want; don't click on them. Use the WASD keys to aim things around. That seems to work for me. Hitting W to go from the torso to the head. I shoot just about everything in the face regardless of my accuracy. I'm less a fan of the new crit system. I liked getting random crits for TONS of damage in New Vegas. However, it does have merits. When I run into a boss or legendary enemy I aim for the head, hit space bar, and get a massive critical hit. Also the critical hit doesn't seem to miss. So that's a plus. I also am specialized into extra crit damage, so I don't know what it looks like without an extra 50% damage. Still useful I would wager. But yeah, I do almost all my fighting without VATS. I use it for tough enemies or hard to hit ones that move too much (Bloat Flies and Molerats are the worst).

If you need a shop there's a merchant in a gas station/cafe just south of the Historic Museum where you first meet the Minutemen. The merchant there is my favorite NPC so far. For a spectrum of merchants go to Diamond City. But be warned. Diamond City is one of those hub towns where you step in and immediately get assaulted with a dozen quests.

Also fighting Synthetics is so much fun. You can shoot their limbs off. I sometimes blow a leg off and watch them crawl around, or I'll shoot off their gun hand and leave them to stand there looking stupid. Synths are so far the hardest hitting enemies I've run into, but they are fragile. Glass cannons. Also fighting so many synthetics has given me so much energy cells I'll never run out of ammo for my laser rifle.

Speaking of which now that I have an okay assortment of weapons things are going much smoother. I have my all around laser rifle, a sniper rifle for long range pick offs, and I just picked up a combat shotgun for close range and boy it packs a wallop. Getting that close gets me killed but it great for ghouls. Also ghouls are downright terrifying in this game. They flock like zombies, and shooting them can wake up more in the area. I had a bunch fall off a rooftop at me in Lexington. That scared the pants off me.

Having the right companion has made the game way better. Dogmeat was okay because he's a cute doggy. Preston was a bore and useless in combat. Now I have Jack Valentine and I enjoy having him along with me, not just for his insight into the world but also because he has actually engaging dialogue. Feels like a real character. Preston feels so two dimensional. I've run into a few other companions who seem like they would be okay to drag around the wastes, but for now Valentine is the one for me.

I'm having more fun now that I've stopped blindly wandering the wasteland and am focusing on actual quests. There are so many locations I can't even imagine picking them all clean. It would take forever. I also stopped picking up everything and nit pick for specific things for the harder to get resources; like oil, adhesives, and electronics. I've let the few settlements I've rescued get by with a few turrets for defense and really fortified Sanctuary Hills. I wish there was an "overseer" mode where you could better equip, position, or assign your followers. It's a hassle to walk around in builder mode doing all those things. I have only seen one raider attack so far and I'm 32 hours into the game. Not sure if I'm just not noticing them happening and my settlers are fighting just fine on their own or the security score is keeping everyone away.

So yeah. The game was REALLY rough starting out. The new mechanics didn't make sense and I felt super week. Now I feel confident. So yeah. 32 hours in. Level 21 I think. I'm only rocking like 6 perks, leveled multiple times, and have dump extra points into intelligence and luck. Some of the perks require pretty high levels to upgrade further, so I guessing the level cap is really high. Not sure what the level cap in the other games was, since I usually became a god of death by level 20 and got bored. I'm pretty excited to try F4 on a harder difficulty in the future. I have a feeling it's going to get easy sooner than later.

Also I hate the male protagonist voice actor. Seriously. He sounds like a naive doofus when he isn't an angry, swearing parent. I hope the female protagonist voice actor is more engaging.

[Sadie K'Vesh]

Female voice actor is Jack from Mass Effect... Thus I just sass the hell out of everyone :lol

(haven't really done much to be honest but no complaints with her so far)

[Dasquian Belargic]

OMG so that's who the voice is. I've spent the whole time playing being like... "hmmm >: I have played as you before haven't I?"

[Halajiin Rabeak]

I'm at level 14 now, and have done a heavy focus on gun upgrades. I have low luck, but high agility and intelligence, so I'm able to sneak around pretty well. I've got myself a fully upgraded hunting rifle that is my sniper rifle, and I can take down a stunted Yao Guai in one shot, plus a combat shotgun maxed out to shred ghouls. The ghouls are massively changed from before, and I find them to be the most engaging enemy. I've only encountered a couple synths, and they've each gone down with a single headshot.

As far as my complaints about the story goes, well, I've found a way around that. I've thrown it out and invented a new one. I'm now an ex washing machine salesman who has grown bitter and disenchanted with a world that has no power or running water. So, as I can't sell washing machines (my one true passion) I am now out to "clean up" the wasteland by doing away with anyone who doesn't want a washing machine (every baddie and monster). This has honestly made the game far more interesting than the real "story," and I'm having loads of fun now that I have character motivation. Lots of sneak, followed by weapons that pack an extreme whallop. Laser rifle has been a handy destroyer of most everything, and I may re-make a laser sniper because it's good against robots.

The first fifteen hours of the game were garbage, to me, and it only became fun after I got equipment that wasn't literally garbage. It became much more fun once I applied my own story, and gave up caring at all about what the writers thought my drive and motivation should be. Still not a fan of VATS, but it's handy for quick little enemies. Pouring all my points into Gun Nut, Science, and stealth skills. Wish I hadn't applied so many to strength in the beginning, that was a waste. And I loathe all my settlers because they refuse the glory of a washing machine, too. The only clothing I keep is "laundered," because that's the only clothing worth having, for a washing machine salesman.

[Charley]

I've finally made it to Diamond City and the wait was worth it. My god, the sheer amount of stuff inside fenway park is ridiculous, and I finally got to put together an armor set based around a Red Sox jersey (even though it doesn't say red sox, we all know who it is).

I'm down to 400 caps and haven't really begun to be a wealthy bastard like I normally do in the other games. Part of that is that I have pretty low charisma, but hopefully that offsets a bit later. I do have plenty of heavily-modified weapons and armor, but it's getting tough to keep up with the curve. Adhesives are the most valuable anythings in the game so far, and if I was a smart man, I'd fix up Sanctuary Hills to one singular purpose of farming every little bit of stuff so I could make vegetable starch.

[Sadie K'Vesh]

Last night I found a raider camp with a tower. I climbed said tower and set off the air raid alarm... and then proceeded to laugh my ass off as an Alpha Deathclaw came out of no where and demolished all the raiders below.

...until I then realized that when it was over I had to go down and deal with him myself. :ohno

[Zereth Lancer]

Similarly, I battled through an extensive raider camp (still have to go back and loot it) and dropped down into a pit to continue exploring and ran face to face with an unexpected deathclaw. To say the least I almost died. Scared the crap out of me. I don't know if the Raiders were keeping it as a pet or what. There were corpses everywhere so they were feeding people to the damn thing. It was like their own private Rancor. I'm hoping to find a terminal with lore to support that when I go back in for a second spelunk.

I also aided a ship full of robots that think they are sailors. And watched a Brotherhood of Steel aircraft engage a group of raiders on the ground. It took forever to kill them.

[Loklorien s'Ilancy]

Haha yeah, I went through the hospital for caps as well, since it was in my quest list to search the hospital for caps. I figured 'hey cool, I'm gonna do this!' Get to the bottom, and SURPRISE YOU WIN A DEATHCLAW.

I'm now very suspicious of the miscellaneous quests my PipBoy gives to me O_o



Currently I've got three sets of power armor, and I'm fixing them up with intentions to collect more and make an army of suited up Minutemen. My own personal set is winterized and I've named it Ghost Bear in homage to MechWarrior 2.

[Captain Untouchable]

I haven't managed to play a whole heap (damned immune system decided I wasn't allowed to use one of my hands again), so I've mostly just been doing stuff around Sanctuary Hills. You get a surprisingly respectable amount of XP out of that, so I'm almost to Level 14 already - which is what I need to unlock the vendor stalls and things, and build myself a little market. I've got a few supply lines set up - not quite sure what they actually do, aside from linking (I think?) the workbench inventories for those locations; kinda hoping I can get one of my actual farms to start automatically sending me veggies, but I doubt it. May shift my focus slightly to the Abernathy's (I think that's their name) and move most of my farm technology out there: they have actual farmland, so it'll look a bit neater / nicer than having it in someone's back yard like I have at Sanctuary.

Would be kinda nice if you could recruit the Mr Handy farm (because robots are awesome), but sadly I don't think you can.

I do love that as you add recruiting beacons to your settlements, they start talking about them on Diamond City Radio. I've always liked the way that the radio stations acknowledge the stuff you've done as you advance through the game. Kinda hoping it's possible to meet the DJ from Diamond City Radio, so that I can show up in my Vault 111 suit and scare the poop out of him. :lol

Also... I heard the other day that there might not be a level cap for Fallout 4 - you can just continue earning XP indefinitely, and eventually end up with all the perks. Anyone know if that's true?

[Halajiin Rabeak]

I completed what had to have been the most fun and amusing mission set, so far: the "Silver Shroud" mission series, in Goodneighbor. It is accompanied by a wonderfully-crafted set of old-timey radio show programs that are really worth a listen through to all the episodes (about an hour or so of programming). I can't tell you how much fun I had while running around as the Silver Shroud. =)

Also, I've noticed that the moment I put on power armor, the number of enemies, their accuracy, and the damage they inflict increases. Take it off, and things go back to normal. It was to the point where I found power armor to be a detriment more than a help, so I've abandoned it and I'm just running around in a Vault suit. =P

Though, the "character of the game" award HAS to go to Nick Valentine. Easily the best character in the whole Fallout series, and one of my contenders for best video game character of the last ten years. It is well worth picking him as a companion, and sticking with him until his personal quest line (which is huge) is revealed to you. Highly recommended.

[Loklorien s'Ilancy]

Got my fourth set, a T50. I've been mucking about with where to put stuff in my settlements more than anything else, and I still don't have too awful much to show for it, heh. I do have a slew of settlements started, as well as fixing up some of the existing farms that join the Minutemen. Speaking of, I saw my first Minutemen patrol last night, and it was pretty cool. I'm not quite ready to do the siege on the castle I don't think, so I just continue to do a bunch of Minutemen missions and wandering and building.

[Halajiin Rabeak]

I've now got a laser rifle with fully unlimited ammo, and hits for 129. Sweeeeet! My settlement still hates me, no matter what I do for them.

[Charley]

I just got an unlimited ammo .50 cal sniper rifle, thanks to some dumbass legendary supermutant brute attacking my extremely well-defended Red Rocket station. One minute I was talking to Nicky V, the next I hear half a dozen gun turrets cut loose on the roof

[Halajiin Rabeak]

Niiiiiiice!

[Captain Untouchable]

I've been doing a lot of stuff with settlements and I've learned / stumbled across some stuff that isn't entirely obvious. Figured I'd offer some "pro" tips!

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Settlers: The maximum settlement size is based on your Charisma, and so may fluctuate based on the clothes you are wearing. The maximum number of settlers you can have in any one place is 21.

Size: The "Size" of your settlement (the bar on the right) represents the number of items you can place: furniture, decorations, crops, power connectors/cables, etc. If you're just fixing up the houses in Sanctuary and decorating them with cat paintings you shouldn't have too much of a problem. However, if you are building your own big structures this can become an issue. Make sure you aren't wasting space by having more beds than you require, upgrade to bigger generators / water purifiers as soon as you can, and get rid of your recruiting beacon as soon as you stop needing it.

Food, Drink, Defense: If there are raiders / super mutants nearby, they will occasionally drift over to your settlement. However, if your Defense is too low, your settlement will actively "attract" raiders who want to steal your stuff and break your things a la Fallout Shelter. You want to make sure that your Defense score is higher than Food + Water, and the higher your Defense, the more off-putting it will be.

Supply Lines: A supply line allows the workbenches in Settlement A to take from the workbench inventory from all of your other (connected) settlements. If you look in the workbench at Sanctuary, it may show that you have 20 copper and 7 tatos, but when you go to craft you may see that there is 43 copper and 73 tatos available, because it's looking everywhere. Settlements also do this with food and water: if you are producing 42 food at Abernathy Farm, that's enough to feed two full-size settlements, so you can get away with producing "not enough" food somewhere else.

Produced Items: Certain things will put items into your workbench. If you have a brahmin in your settlement (the naked kind, not the pack brahmin), you will occasionally get brahmin meat. Preston will put flares in your workbench every now and again. If you have shops in your settlement, each day they will put some caps in (based on happiness and population). Those scavenger workbenches will put a few bits of random scrap in your workbench once per day. If you have a water surplus, all of the extra water will become "purified water" in your workbench. This means that you can...

Water Farm: If you set up a few industrial purifiers, you will end up with a LOT of purified water getting made every day, for zero effort. Five industrial purifiers will make 200 water and cost 25 power, and you'll get enough purified water to make 2000 caps every time. You'll also need 200+ defense to discourage those raiders, but it's a really easy/convenient way to make sure you can afford to keep yourself stocked with ammo. If you're hurting for caps, just sleep in a bed for a few in game days, and you'll wind up with a nice little stockpile.

Doors are pointless: You can use a fence gate to keep a brahmin trapped, but all of your settlers (and companions) will open doors and leave them open. No one closes the doors (or the gates) when raiders come, and the raiders will probably just be able to open them anyway with minimal effort. If you're building a wall around your settlement, try to keep the number of gates to a minimum, and don't bother putting doors on houses - they'll just soak up your build limit and never be closed.

[Loklorien s'Ilancy]

Also, completing some quests will open up more items that you can craft, and some magazines will do the same once you aquire them.

Another thing also, there are unique settlers that you can get once your settlement reaches a certain size, and if you assign them to certain shops, they open up more options/items for you to browse through.

[Halajiin Rabeak]

My settlers seem hell-bent on being miserable. I have typically 11-13 settlers at a time, I've got 54 food, 46 water, 30 beds (just because), lots of power, and 412 defense. And my settlers are 26% happy. I even totally walled off Sanctuary, and cleaned the place up. Nothing makes them happy.

[Sadie K'Vesh]

I'd be miserable as hell too if I had to listen to Marcy Long's bitching all day. :| FFS game, just let me kill her already.

[Captain Untouchable]

Happiness isn't based on the "basic" amenities - it's influenced by extra stuff. People don't just want beds, they want lighting, chairs, and decorations. You want to make sure that everyone has a job, which means building and assigning people to shops, scavenging benches, defense posts, etc. Also, your presence makes people happier: every time you are off in the wasteland, happiness is going to slowly decrease. As a result, a larger population stays happier (because there are more people generating happiness).

Also, don't expect to max out happiness. To get 100%, you need to game the system and build a settlement with dozens of shops and other specific amenities to hit that number. There's an achievement for it, so it's one of those "do it later, if you are a completionist, but don't worry about it if you aren't". Seems like getting your happiness in the 80s is about the best you can muster without going out of your way for it.

[Loklorien s'Ilancy]

I've got Sanctuary and Hangman's Alley at a consistent 80. Everyone else is 60-70. I don't really do much, other than try to make settlements that seem cool to me. I've got plans to turn the drive-in into a sort of Mall of America place. Greentop and Abernathy are my breadbaskets, and Sanctuary is my water farm.

[Halajiin Rabeak]

I'd be miserable as hell too if I had to listen to Marcy Long's bitching all day. :| FFS game, just let me kill her already.

THIS. SO MUCH THIS!

[Loklorien s'Ilancy]

Mr. Goodfeels vanished after I set up my recruitment beacon at the Co-op :( I'll still be turning it into my wasteland hippy love-in commune, but if Goodfeels doesn't come back it won't be the same.

[Captain Untouchable]

There's some wonky bugginess with Goodfeels (one of Bethesda's known bugs), depending on which mode you put him in. You may need to use the console to bring him back if he doesn't reappear on his own.

[Loklorien s'Ilancy]

I'll do that tonight.

[Vince]

Killed Kellogg with three missiles.

"I think we both know how this has to end."

"Yes. Yes we do."

*pulls out missile launcher*

*Kellogg runs and hides.*

"YOU CAN'T HIDE FROM ME MOTHERFUCKER GET BACK HERE AND DIE LIKE THE BITCH YOU ARE!"

Running around with Piper mostly, because yeah I'm lonely. :P

I have to say, walking out of a Fort and seeing a huge airship and vertibirds in formation flying over the wasteland was AWESOME.

I haven't really walled places except for Sanctuary, and that's just the bridge. I place loads of turrets everywhere, and did the Castle mission with three people backing me up, which made it really intense. Lost one person only though, and that was actually pretty good, though I didn't notice until I walked past a pile of goo and realized, 'hey, that was my guy. shit.'

[Halajiin Rabeak]

Nick Valentine is literally the only person in the game I care about. I did the Castle mission, and all but one guy got shredded. I think I may have killed one because he walked directly into my line of fire, and my guns are stupidly overpowered, but I don't care. Unlike Skyrim, I feel a general sense of apathy and often antagonism against the NPCs in Fallout 4. I'm not sure why that is, but I'd be happy to eliminate most everyone I've encountered so far.

Perhaps it's because they refuse to buy or use washing machines...

[Charley]

By today or tomorrow I will have jet pack power armor

[Vince]

While I love my revolver to death, it wasn't packing the punch I needed consistently.

So I modded a Combat Rifle.

Now I am the proud owner of the spin off of the Combat Rifle: the E-11 Combat Rifle. :3

[Charley]

Oh man I've gotten some insane legendary guns.

An assault rifle with explosive bullets and a plasma shotgun that also does cryo damage. That is ludicrous

[Vince]

I have five guns I use on a regular basis:

Frances, a hunting rifle that does additional radiation damage that O can get upwards of three hundred damage in one shot

The Merasska Special, a .44 that I use which is basically a hand cannon

The Coward's Rifle, which is basically my sniping funsies

Vera, a shotgun I use for Yao Guai and Deathclaws

And the E-11 Combat Rifle which I use on the regular

I gotta say I'm having fun beefing up guns in this.

[Loklorien s'Ilancy]

I have a special attachment to The Clumsy Giraffe, my recon scoped and suppressed sniper rifle.

Then I have The Graceful Hippo, a combat shotgun that I've modded up to a decent 120-ish range.

Howlin' Mad Murphy is another sniper rifle with a long scope, a compensator, and a .50 receiver so that it drops a super mutant with two hits.

I'm not entirely gung-ho on something that will one-shot kill (unless it's an awesome longshot from a distance), so I'm not going power-mad on the hit points delivered right now.


I did get Mr. Finch's flame sword, and named it Dr. Scratchypaws, and I have a scoped bull barrel .44 that I named The Laughing Rhino. That one is fun to play with.


Once I build my pen-ultimate sniper rifle though, I plan on naming it Long Tall, since I named my character Sally >_>

[Captain Untouchable]

I have so many guns. D:

Mostly I use pistols. Most of the time I run around with a 44... I haven't got any legendary or unique versions of that gun yet, but it's still decent enough to one or two shot most raider / ghoul / super mutant type enemies I come up against. My back-up is the Deliverer, from the Railroad quest line... the damage isn't huge, but the rate of fire is super fast, which is great for close quarters eyeballing, and INSANE for VATS, I get about ten shots which can clear a room in a few seconds if I'm smart about it.

Archangel is my sniper, which has some sort of legendary perk to do with not being in combat an action points (I think?), which does not do as much damage as I would like. I just picked up and tricked out The Last Minute, which is the unique gauss rifle you can buy after you liberate the Castle, but I'm waiting to get more bullets to field test her. I have a combat shotgun called Katana, because combat shotguns are always fun, and I have My Little Friend, which is a submachine gun that does plasma damage, so it turns things into puddles of green goo.

I've got the Ashmaker (minigun with fire damage from the Bobbi No-Nose quest), and I've got one of the unique missile launchers (Party-something?) tricked out with four barrels and fire-and-forget targeting. I have one of those "fires an extra bullet" combat rifles, that I'm thinking of tricking out as a not-so-long-range sniper rifle of some sort, because it reminds me a little of my favourite gun from Mass Effect. I'm keeping an eye out for a decent assault rifle too - gonna call her Vicki, because it reminds me of the Vickers machine gun. I'd love something with the explosion perk too, preferably something I can make automatic because that seems like way too much fun.

I don't have any sort of melee stuff at the moment (my shotgun is my "ahhhhhhh get the fuck away from me!!!" weapon), but I may add that in if I come across anything nice.

I don't have any energy weapons though. I HATE them. They're too bulky, they fill up too much of the screen... may try and rig up a laser pistol in case that's any better, and I will most definitely have a gattling laser once I come across one... but I much prefer the bullet guns.

[Vince]

Holy crap Boston turned into a warzone. Raiders Super Mutants Brotherhood and Yao Guai and Deathclaws all fighting .

Fought a Shaggy Yao Guai who chased me through a running Raider and Super Mutant battle with Brotherhood peeps. Recon scopes are amazing in a related note.

[Captain Untouchable]

Paladin Danse has the same voice as Sovereign from Mass Effect.

The Brotherhood of Steel are all Reapers. #confirmed

[Charley]

Does picking a faction to build the relay result in committing to that faction? I picked the brotherhood to build it because I figure they have the most technical know-how, but I really don't want that to mean that I'm stuck with the Brotherhood because at this point I'm much more amenable to either the Railroad or the Minutemen (or hell, even the Institute if they convince me).

[Vince]

I do Minutemen quests simply because they give me locations on my map and on the way, depending on the distance I can level twice.

Also: Drinking Buddy is awesome but SO SLOW.

Also also: Running battle with Ghouls on rooftops and makeshift catwalks? Pretty cool.

[Kazahan]

Is it just me or is Curie like Eluna Matea with Palara's accent?

[Alis'ans'amey]

I've finally started playing Fallout 4! I'm not far yet though >.>

After discovering the character build options not only allows your character to be stick thin but also caked in make-up (despite being a wasteland survivor), I decided my character was the ex-supermodel trophy wife of her soldier husband, and designed her to be completely unsuited for adventuring. The perfect person to be killed off and have her baby stolen while her husband sets out for revenge... except... unfortunately, it happened the other way around.

Now she has to save the day in the wasteland with only her sky high charisma and average agility to help her :p.

So far, I'm just doing the standard story missions I think. Currently totally missing lots of raiders in power armour on top of some building because I can't aim AT ALL with a PS4 controller.