Fallout 4 Post-Release Bullshit

[apocrypha]

So, mods/patches I am hoping to see soon include:

• Performance improvements/bug fixes, obviously.
• Better building interface, including some sort of higher viewpoint.
• Separate keybinds for bash & grenade.
• Corpse highlighting.

BTW there's some great dialogue you can overhear if you're attentive. I heard a couple of raiders talking after exiting from the rear of the Hardware Store yesterday - if you happen to catch that conversation wait and hear it out. Funny stuff.

[jakonovski]

Ok I'm definitely starting to dislike the new dialog wheel. Confusing choices and lots of atmosphere lost right there.

[satael]

My biggest gripe so far is the inability to remap some keys like hold breath in scope mode. It's really infuriating that I have to remap the nostromo for just this instead of just changing the key from the game menu. 

[jakonovski]

I'm just using the controller, no hassle that way.

I also have a question: is there some way of getting raw materials for crafting other than carrying junk and dumping it into your workbench storage whenever you visit?

[MrHat]

I'm just using the controller, no hassle that way.

I also have a question: is there some way of getting raw materials for crafting other than carrying junk and dumping it into your workbench storage whenever you visit?

I've been dumping it all off on my companion until they get full.

[Trippy]

I'm just using the controller, no hassle that way.

I also have a question: is there some way of getting raw materials for crafting other than carrying junk and dumping it into your workbench storage whenever you visit?

If you are in an area with a workbench if you walk around the area you should see a prompt about holding down a button to bring up the workbench menu (default is V on PC). You should see a green wall around the borders of the settlement when activated as you continue to walk around. As you walk around in this mode objects you can scrap will highlight in yellow under your reticle and you will see a menu option pop up that will let you scrap the item (default is R on PC). You can then just walk around scrapping pretty much everything in sight -- fences, cars, trees, junk on the ground, even entire small buildings minus their foundations.

[Ragnoros]

I also have a question: is there some way of getting raw materials for crafting other than carrying junk and dumping it into your workbench storage whenever you visit?

Some shops sell lots of 25 crafting materials for ~500-1k caps, depending on type.

[Hawkbit]

It's very good. I'm not sure why I can't call it great, but it's very good.

They missed an opportunity with the PS4 touchpad. I figured they would have incorporated that into Pipboy somehow, but nope.

Scavenge and salvage all the things.

[Bunk]

I'm just using the controller, no hassle that way.

I also have a question: is there some way of getting raw materials for crafting other than carrying junk and dumping it into your workbench storage whenever you visit?

Yea, even the wandering vendors will sell material "orders". You buy them and they go straight to your workbench.

I do agree having bash/grenade on the same button is stupid - sometimes it will start trying to bash a railing instead of throwing a moltov over it.

As for the wheel - yeah, Id like more detail certainly, but those skill checks are still in there. You give a great answer on question one of the SAFE test if you have Science for example.

[jakonovski]

Thanks, I'm hoovering up entire settlements now. Rarer mats are still an issue, but I guess that's gameplay.

What difficulty are you guys playing on? I started on hard and even regular raiders are a huge threat. Can't even dream of killing supermutants yet at level 9. It's great!

Guns are also quite rare, just endless and useless variations of the pipe gun. I have one tricked out shotgun and just acquired an SMG that is pretty great. But they're out of ammo all the time. I'm spending points on stealth just to able to safely take out at least one enemy.

[MisterNoisy]

Thanks, I'm hoovering up entire settlements now. Rarer mats are still an issue, but I guess that's gameplay.

What difficulty are you guys playing on? I started on hard and even regular raiders are a huge threat. Can't even dream of killing supermutants yet at level 9. It's great!

Guns are also quite rare, just endless and useless variations of the pipe gun. I have one tricked out shotgun and just acquired an SMG that is pretty great. But they're out of ammo all the time. I'm spending points on stealth just to able to safely take out at least one enemy.

Get the Scrapper perk ASAP - you get screws and other rarer materials when breaking down higher-level guns.  As for difficulty, I'm playing on Normal - I'm playing as my usual stealth ranged type, and the AI is still as silly as ever in Bethsoft games, so there are huge piles of raider corpses at certain corners that mark where I've been - pick off one dude and his friends all line up single file to get some combat shotgun in the face.

[Threash]

Scrapper and Scrounger are a must.

[rk47]

What difficulty are you guys playing on? I started on hard and even regular raiders are a huge threat. Can't even dream of killing supermutants yet at level 9. It's great!
Guns are also quite rare, just endless and useless variations of the pipe gun. I

I run on normal and found some mobs are too bullet sponge for their own good. Low damage weapons are terrible in this game, firing them felt like a waste of time.
If you actually follow the main quest, they shower you with a lot of goodies like power armor. I'm still using a Laser Rifle reward I gained on first hour of the game till near the end of the main quest chain because I never bothered with the whole crafting and modding. I just felt normal difficulty will not force the player to delve too much into crafting and modding which isn't challenging, just piling more tedium with repeated backtracking to get those materials. I basically put on the power armor I get from the Minutemen opening and 'powered' thru the main quest till it broke apart. Ditched it, joined brotherhood of steel, suddenly 100% condition BoS Armor, 10 Fusion Core from just looting boxes in their base, 30 laser weapons from following one of their mission, 5 mini nukes.

Deathclaws are a waste of ammo and can be outrun anyway, and that's how I dealt with most encounters that I felt unrewarding to the amount of effort you put.
Char Build started as a joke, but the unlocked Luck perks carried me through most fights easily.
ST 5
PE 1
EN 1
CH 5
IN 1
AG 5
LK 10

[Lucas]

Investigative Journalism, Gamespot Edition:

http://www.gamespot.com/articles/fallout-4-release-leads-to-dip-in-pornhub-traffic/1100-6432296/

EDIT: although, to be fair, this was first reported on pornhub itself 

http://www.pornhub.com/insights/fallout-4-release-traffic (link looks safe to me)

[Teleku]

[Fabricated]

The gunplay and melee is way better.

Plot and dialogue are awful and pure Bethesda shit. I enjoy all of the awkward pauses between my dry as cardboard character and the NPCs as the scripting desperately tries to catch up. Maybe NV spoiled me for good dialog and having tons of options on stuff to say.

[Quinton]

My build out of The Castle continues... witness the start of its transformation to Fort Awesome...

My gun collection as of Lv20 (about as upgraded as I can get with Gun Nuts 2 and Science 1):
http://imgur.com/a/sG3As

[Threash]

My build out of The Castle continues... witness the start of its transformation to Fort Awesome...

That's incredible.

[Morat20]

I'm not far in, I'm still trying to fortify Sanctuary. It's pretty much an island, so I've got the bridge secured but I'm worried about the one leading to the Vault. And don't want to find out that the enemy AI can ford the river the hard way.

So I started working on a wall. Kinda trying to figure out some of the tricky areas (like where a house butts right up against the build barrier, so I can wall it off sorta but couldn't get to large sections behind it anymore.) The main bridge is somewhat fortified (wall, door, sentry position, some upgraded turrets) but I just realized I could place turrets on TOP of roofs. I just need to find 'stairs' in the build menu.

[Ginaz]

I'm not far in, I'm still trying to fortify Sanctuary. It's pretty much an island, so I've got the bridge secured but I'm worried about the one leading to the Vault. And don't want to find out that the enemy AI can ford the river the hard way.

So I started working on a wall. Kinda trying to figure out some of the tricky areas (like where a house butts right up against the build barrier, so I can wall it off sorta but couldn't get to large sections behind it anymore.) The main bridge is somewhat fortified (wall, door, sentry position, some upgraded turrets) but I just realized I could place turrets on TOP of roofs. I just need to find 'stairs' in the build menu.

I think its under wood structures.

[jakonovski]

Whoah, you can do wrestling moves in this game. I was jamming the melee button up close and my guy picked up and slammed a raider to the ground.  

[rk47]

Hostile vertibird swoop overhead, side gunner starts firing at me. Switched to missile launcher. Hit the gunner dead..explosion took out the pilot as well. Vertibird crashed. Explosions.

[Quinton]

My first encounter with a Deathclaw in the wild ended with my demise as I anticipated, but not *how* I anticipated.... it picked up a car and threw it at me!   Ouch.

[jakonovski]

So, uh...I'm getting only right leg armors from legendaries. I've got like 5.

[Father mike]

So, uh...I'm getting only right leg armors from legendaries. I've got like 5.

Have the same problem, except with right arm

[Falconeer]

Can't describe how much I am liking this game. It's Fallout 3 with updated graphics, and I can't see anything wrong with that. So much to do, to see, to explore, to kill. Radioactive heaven.

Oh, out of a million things, that feeling when you pick up a radio signal and you have to follow it and find the source and find out what happened, and get to live a micro-story without even interacting with a single NPC makes me love gaming even more than ever.

[Threash]

Does building walls and shit actually help during attacks or is it just the actual defense that matters?

[Tannhauser]

I've only had one attack on one of my bases.  I had no defenses and I got a heads up asking if I wanted to defend.  About seven ghouls attacked.  I do have stout defenses at Sanctuary, but no attacks there yet.  So I guess I don't have the answer to your question. 

[Merusk]

Does building walls and shit actually help during attacks or is it just the actual defense that matters?

It depends on the layout of the city. I've seen multiple reports that mobs will spawn inside sanctuary and had had one supermutant inside the city when I was last attacked. I'm pretty sure the area he showed in was sealed-off so I'm guessing he spawned inside. There were 3-4 outside my walls getting chewed-up by my turrets, though.

The smaller farms and the boathouse, however, prove to be very defensible with walls.

[Rendakor]

The only attack I've had was at one of those settlements you get from a quest (Tenpines, I think) and it had no defenses. I just showed up and killed 3 Raider Scum, who were milling around in the town center.

[Quinton]

I missed (or didn't get) an attack alert on Sanctuary, and my pip-boy showed 0 population after (OMG!).  Turns out I only lost one person I think (8 to 7) when I arrived, but they damaged my turrets, generators, and almost every food plant.  It's unclear to me if the attack would have been that bad if I showed up while it was underway, and also unclear if sufficient defense makes attacks never happen or just far less likely. 

[Sky]

Holy crap this game is good.

[Falconeer]

1000 Deathclaws vs 100 Brothers of Steel. 

[Ironwood]

I'm having an ace time replaying Fallout 3, but I'll admit to seething burning jealousy at you all.   

[rk47]