Of Deathclaws & Radscorpions: A Fallout Thread

i don't know if it's obvious but mods can be moved from item to item, so if you soup up a 10mm and then get an awesome 10mm from a legendary, you can just strip the mods off the old one and stick them on the new one.

*waynes world voice*

I did not know that!

should clarify that you still need to have another mod available to take its spot even if it's just the "base" mod it's set to (which is still a mod that requires components, unless it doesn't). fortunately the base mods usually take very little to make.

to be really clear, every time you make a new mod the old mod will be sent to your inventory and can be freely attached to other weapons/armors of the same type after. also they don't have to be in your inventory to use them, you can put them in your settlement inventory and they'll still be available at the workbenches, which is helpful because they have weight.

basically sprinting toward cannibalism rn, maxing endurance. in three levels i am gonna eat a few dudes.

really enjoying that the detritus hunt has a tangible payoff in this game, crafting seems really well put together. wish i had more time to dive in, luckily the weekend is nigh

xp this also means that every time you kill a dude you should look closely at their weapons and armor because you can strip their mods and use them on your own guns or vice versa, including mods that are still perk-locked

crafting is fun

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1jGnFt78H8

gosh darn it ilx, this thread made me realize i gotta get this game to keep up. had only about 2h to play before bed last night, spent the first 45-60m making my couple look tolerable (spoiler: i failed), another ~15m getting the pip-boy app to work, another 30+ thru the intro (glad i spent all that time working on my couple!), and then i got to codsworth/red rocket/the little town at the start, died a couple times bc shooting feels weird in this game...

wondering why the fuck i do this to myself

stupid question (again):

in order to modify your weapons/armor/etc, you need to use the workshops. the workshops are scattered across different areas of the map. sometimes i want to use a certain workshop, but it's located far away from where all my Junk is stored (in Sanctuary). i know it's possible to share your settlement inventory across different settlements, but not until you establish some sort of link between them, which i'm not able to do yet. i also know it's possible to build workshop/crafting areas in Sanctuary so you don't have to travel elsewhere to use them, but i'm not a high enough Leader for that, either.

so what do you all do when you want to use a workshop that's not at your primary settlement? go to the primary settlement, load up yourself and a companion with a bunch of crap, and then go back to the workshop in the middle of nowhere, then bring your surplus junk/items back to the primary settlement when you're done? it all seems so tedious!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSTHOqO6A7Q

it all seems so tedious!

it all seems so tedious! it all seems so tedious! it all seems so tedious! it all seems so tedious! it all seems so tedious! it all seems so tedious! it all seems so tedious! it all seems so tedious! it all seems so tedious! it all seems so tedious! it all seems so tedious! it all seems so tedious!

it really does!

i haven't even gotten as far as the part you jsut said and i am dreading it. WHY DID I BUY THIS

I love this game but they did a terrible job at explaining or tutorializing their systems.

Those crafting benches? You can pick them up & move them, so I gathered everyone from around Santuary and ringed them by the garage.

Also, you know how you can build shit that apparently needs people assigned to it? Crops or guard stations or scavenger benches? You hafta select somebody in build mode, then click again on the thing you want them assigned to, otherwise they'll just wander about the neighborhood not doing shit but letting all those mutfruit trees rot.

You can set up a logistical resupply between settlements, apparently, but you need a point or two in Local Leader. I've freed a coupla settlements, but haven't outfitted the Red Rocket station yet.

Also, hold up on feeding drugs to Mama Murphy before she starts asking for the in-game version of PCP.

so which settlement are you guys using? i haven't done anything w/ them yet (i went to the Corvega factory to clear it out for those guys in Tenpines Bluff and then i intend to head down to Diamond City) but it seems like Sanctuary, Red Rocket and Starlight Drive in are also potential settlements?

In Sanctuary, you can find benches for weapons, chems, cookery, armor, & power armor.

Also, it didn't occur to me that you go from 3 dirty water -> 1 purified water at the food bench because you are _boiling_ it.

I found a free paint job option for my power armor parts that increases the Agility stat, which is nice.

In Sanctuary, you can find benches for weapons, chems, cookery, armor, & power armor.

ooooooh. duh, i should have searched around in sanctuary a little more because i hadn't found the chems or cookery stations. that should solve my problem of having to travel to other places.

this stuff is all explained in the help menu accessible to you every time you pause the game

red rocket also has every workbench off the bat

Waiting for the inventory mod that lists separates between underclothing/liners and armor/overcoats. The tuxedo can be worn in addition to your armor, the vault-tec lab coat can not.

Built a decent laser rifle with a quick fire rate last night and took out a water plant full of super mutants. Wow, they really _did_ improve the shooting by leaps & bounds. Played until about 130am because I'm easily addicted.

Ah, I didn't actually check the help menu.

yeah this finally started clicking last night - started playing yesterday evening and the next time i glanced at the clock it was 2:00AM.

I still can't get the pip boy app to work, but I'm pretty sure this has more to do with my home network and/or some Win7 setting.

The mods you can graft onto your power armor are awesome when you start really looking into them.

I do need a green pip/marker on my hud showing where my companion is, tho. Dogmeat will run off and find something but echolocating him doesn't work too well.

erg, didn't realize the Local Leader perk requires 6 charisma. i started with 2 charisma because i wanted my guy to be a total social idiot. didn't realize i'd be leading a settlement!

luckily you can fix that w/ just 4 levels

love the soundtrack already, would pay $$$ for radio DLC. was pleased when I found out that "It's A Man" is sung by Betty Hutton, who I was only recently made aware of via Kristin Hersh's autobiography "Rat Girl".

Yup, David Ortiz now in the game:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jq3EKv-HNR8

AAAAaaaaand the MLB are already being dicks about it:

http://deadspin.com/mlb-gets-huffy-over-fallout-4-david-ortiz-modification-1742405344

holy shit those sentry bots are something else, especially when they have to cool down. (I'm only watching someone else play)

Gave F4 a try last night. I think me and Fallout games just were not meant to work. It's like looking at a really beautiful painting that upon closer examination is held together w scotch tape and wires.

So I'm in Concord trying to fight this Deathclaw in the city and I found a storefront to hide in that he can't get me. Unfortunately I emptied out ALL of my ammo into him and now have nothing. This always happens to me in these damn games. Where is the ammo?

Game is fine, if you like Fallout u probably will love it, but I can't see what the fuss is all about. Are people really that into moving digital trash around?

I died right in front of that museum w the Deathclaw down the street in front of me w no ammo while "Blue Danube" was playing on the radio. So now I'm in a Groundhog Day-type scenario where I keep respawning only to hear the exact same piece of music over again and get killed in 5 seconds.

were u in the power armor w/ the minigun?

hah no. i met w the militia leader who told me to fight for him and decided to role play instead. "screw fighting for this guy's whatever it is, i am looking for my baby." bad idea. now i can't find him.

go in the museum

gotcha. ive been many times but if the power armor is there then maybe i missed it.

the shootout in the museum gave me heavy bioshock infinite vibes

ime so far (still pretty early on) the game really opens up after concord

yeah adam i found that segment totally dispiriting too and i ditched those people as soon as i got the power armor / killed the deathclaw. i haven't really used the power armor since tho so it may not really have been necessary to talk to them at all, but i think the game rly expects you to so you should get it over with. i had same impression as mordy--it started feeling like fallout right after that--but admittedly

Are people really that into moving digital trash around?

yes.

lol sorry that was a cheap shot.

not really!

my char got her head shaved and coldly fucked someone over in a drug deal. now it makes sense to ask her to kill deathclaws.

Man, you can go from feeling cocky about having a decent store of ammo to feeling deflated after one mission. This won't get spoilery or anything, but pretty early on into the game I went inside a grocery store and wasted hundreds of bullets on about 35 or so feral mutants. Got some cool shit as well, but probably wasn't worth going into until later on in the game. Or I'm just a terrible shot. What sucks is I only have a few dozen bullets left, and I don't think it's enough to complete an early-on side mission request that I was headed to prior to making the grocery store diversion.

Is the game designed so that you are supposed to melee attack people more often, at least in the beginning? I have a very strong character with the melee attach perk, but it still seems impossible to use that against packs of feral mutants (I've tried).

Is the key, early on, to avoid the side missions and just head straight for the main quests (I've yet to go to Diamond City, for instance)? I played FO3 but had a lot of the same issues I'm having now with regards to ammo scarcity.

I haven't had any ammo problems. I think that's because a. I've been scavenging/searching thoroughly and finding caches, as well as of course hitting up all dead bodies for more ammo and gear, and b. Check what guns you're using. You have a few different weapons running off different ammo types and some might be more plentiful than others. I love the shotgun but it runs off shells which I rarely have. Ditto .308 which powers some powerful guns I have. By contrast I have like 328x .38 and plenty of weapons (which mostly aren't my favorite) that run off it. I rarely use melee weapons; I'd rather hit enemies with the butt of my gun when we get too close. Also I try to use VATS whenever it's up which can help conserve ammo if you use it correctly (and make use of the criticals). I also have not been to Diamond City and instead hitting up all the locations between there and the opening on the map.

Was the grocery store the mart thingy, like from the earlier game? Because I just activated the bot and let it take care of a lot of them.

me2

do the settings you can give them matter? i made mine a medical drone bc i thought maybe he'd heal me but i think maybe it just gives them a different set of responses + the same behavior

I picked security? or law enforcement? No idea how it affected the behaviour though.

ammo's been fine for me even on hard. it's vats. espesh the crits, which are really useful.

and espesh w things like the feral mutants who move so fast and erratically. you need to hit them in the head.

(ghouls.)