Fallout 4 Post-Release Bullshit

[Rishathra]

What exactly do you need to make the settlements grow?  As far as I can tell, I've added plenty of beds, walls, power, defenses, food, to Sanctuary, and the happiness is at an upward trend, but there's still the same five losers moping around.

Also, I've seen people hammering away at the main house, and I have definitely seen them take off the little square panels and replace them. So I thought, 'cool, the settlers themselves will improve the look of the place over time!'  Except some time has passed, and I noticed that the place doesn't look any better.  They just randomly remove and replace panels.  That sucks.

Does anyone know if reverse pick-pocketing weapons and armor still works?  I've always taken great pleasure in improving all the little settlements by giving everyone better armor and repaired hunting rifles.  Now that they can actually regularly come under attack, it seems like an even more useful tactic.

[Falconeer]

You just talk to friendly NPCs and ask to trade, then put whatever you want in their inventory and press T on what you want them to equip from their inventory. Done. You can make them look good, or gear them up as effective killing machines. Try giving them a Rocket Launcher.

[Yegolev]

Oh crap I didn't realize you could make them equip things.

I decided to fortify the Red Rocket instead of Sanctuary because fuck everyone.  So much steel wall.

[Father mike]

What exactly do you need to make the settlements grow?  As far as I can tell, I've added plenty of beds, walls, power, defenses, food, to Sanctuary, and the happiness is at an upward trend, but there's still the same five losers moping around.

You need to build a radio beacon.  They'll start showing up fairly fast after that.

[Merusk]

What exactly do you need to make the settlements grow?  As far as I can tell, I've added plenty of beds, walls, power, defenses, food, to Sanctuary, and the happiness is at an upward trend, but there's still the same five losers moping around.

You need to build a radio beacon.  They'll start showing up fairly fast after that.

Yep, this. It's under power > misc

Your settlers are capped at 10+ 1 per point of charisma you have.

[koro]

I think my biggest complaint about the game so far is the lack of weapon variety. The depth of the mod system is pretty great, but it seems to come at the cost of the breadth of a wider selection of base weapons to tweak.

Maybe I'm just spoiled by the best of both worlds approached New Vegas went with.

[Merusk]

That was my complaint as well early-on but I think there's the same selection as Fo:NV had w/o the Gunrunner content. You just don't realize it because the raiders are so ubiquitous and only have pipe rifles.

Also contributing to this is that you can make any 10mm a 10mm Automatic so that's "half" the weapons eliminated there.

http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Fallout_4_weapons
http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Fallout_3_weapons

We're missing things like the Lever-action rifles and the useless BB gun, but overall there's about the same # and type of weapons. You also have to ignore some of the one-offs of FO3 like the Protectron's Gaze laser pistol. Something like that will be a Legendary Laser pistol in FO4.

[satael]

I'm enjoying Fallout 4 for what it is and I'm hoping for the future mods and dlcs to make it a really great game similar to how it turned out with Skyrim. My only (even if really tiny) worry is that Bethesda might try to sneak in the "pay for mods"-model they tried to implement with Skyrim (the rationale being that it's a new game compared to Skyrim's already established mods when the money-grabbing scheme was introduced).

[Merusk]

Considering they're bringing mods to X-box, that's exactly what they're going to be doing. There will be 'Bethesda Supported' mods which will have a DLC cost. PC gamers will always be able to patch and adjust because it's a Windows box.

[Sky]

Just have to reiterate how much I'm digging this. An explorer's playground, cool stuff around each corner. I like the little tie-ins strewn around, like


I just really liked how my random poking around felt really narrative without dialog, just bits and pieces to frame it.

I apparently joined the Brotherhood, I'm a sucka for paladins. Tried to rush to Diamond City, got whomped, then got bogged down in the city with the Brotherhood's police station because there's just so many nifty little combat setups. Hearing the crack of gunfire a block over is another visceral thing, am I going to rescue someone or just sit back and wing legs as two enemy factions duke it out...


If you can't get your money's worth out of this game, you're nuts.

[Jade Falcon]

There must be lots happening off screen in the back ground as I keep coming across corpses just randomly lying about. I came upon some bridge that had a legendary raider dead lying on top of it. Really enjoying how it gives the impression of more going on then what's just happening with the player.

[Merusk]

There must be lots happening off screen in the back ground as I keep coming across corpses just randomly lying about. I came upon some bridge that had a legendary raider dead lying on top of it. Really enjoying how it gives the impression of more going on then what's just happening with the player.

Yeah that and the chasing gunfire that Sky mentioned are what really drew me into FO3. It's nice to see they carried over into 4 as well.

I also enjoy several of the, "Oh shit, I shouldn't have done that" moments I've found. Like the siren I repaired that summoned 3 deathclaws. Oops.

[Tannhauser]

My settlement's going pretty good.  I have 8 Charisma, so I'm nearing my cap.  I keep all of my settlement stats (food, water, etc.) in the green.  I also provided power to the barracks and put a nice ceiling fan in each since I heard one of them complain how hot it was. Light and cooler now.  I've even converted my old home into a rec center with an icebox, jukebox, tv all powered.  I also have a pool table in the living room (which my wife would never let me do when she was alive so suck it!) and two cues.  I have three balls and on the lookout for more, hope to get them all.  #thestruggleisreal

Every settler I give a job to gets a hat so I know they are not free-loaders.   My guards have army helmets, sniper rifles and average armor.  Really wish I'd be attacked, would love to see how my people would do. 

[brellium]

My settlement's going pretty good.  I have 8 Charisma, so I'm nearing my cap.  I keep all of my settlement stats (food, water, etc.) in the green.  I also provided power to the barracks and put a nice ceiling fan in each since I heard one of them complain how hot it was. Light and cooler now.  I've even converted my old home into a rec center with an icebox, jukebox, tv all powered.  I also have a pool table in the living room (which my wife would never let me do when she was alive so suck it!) and two cues.  I have three balls and on the lookout for more, hope to get them all.  #thestruggleisreal

Every settler I give a job to gets a hat so I know they are not free-loaders.   My guards have army helmets, sniper rifles and average armor.  Really wish I'd be attacked, would love to see how my people would do. 

They'd put on your power armor that was left open.

[Surlyboi]

That's why you take the fusion core out when you leave it.

[brellium]

That's why you take the fusion core out when you leave it.

I've heard that doesn't work.

And it's a cheesy way to recharge your fusion cores.

[disKret]

There must be lots happening off screen in the back ground as I keep coming across corpses just randomly lying about. I came upon some bridge that had a legendary raider dead lying on top of it. Really enjoying how it gives the impression of more going on then what's just happening with the player.

I did not test it but are this really off screen happening or its just trigger when You are around, then stops when You leave the area and waits for You to come back?
I'm not sure if I'll miss something if I will finish something in the other part of the map and then come back.

[Furiously]

I finished the game in a rapid manner just to see  ending.

For the 2nd playthrough I'm trying to avoid doing anything. I love the micro-stories for each locale. Their dialog may suck, but the world is pretty amazing.  All the settlements calling in help every five hours or so gets a bit annoying, but I get to see other areas.  I also will suggest you afk or wander around the green diamond talking to all the guards. They give out some interesting tid-bits. Vault 81 is pretty cool too.

[Yegolev]

I did not test it but are this really off screen happening or its just trigger when You are around, then stops when You leave the area and waits for You to come back?

Philosophers have struggled with this question since the beginning of our ability to question the world.

I wasn't able to play (IT BEGINS) because I'm SURPRISE having my house painted.

[Riggswolfe]

That's why you take the fusion core out when you leave it.

I've heard that doesn't work.

And it's a cheesy way to recharge your fusion cores.

It does work. The one time I left a fusion core in I had to track down my armor. Ever since I make a point of taking it out my armor stays on the stand.

[disKret]

Philosophers have struggled with this question since the beginning of our ability to question the world.

 

[Threash]

Hearing the crack of gunfire a block over is another visceral thing, am I going to rescue someone or just sit back and wing legs as two enemy factions duke it out...

The best ones are when you hear gunfire for a bit and then there is a giant explosion.  Somebody fucked with a suicide mutant.

[Merusk]

Had one of those last night, it was glorious.

I've taken great pleasure when I get frustrated in turning on cheats and pulling out a fatman launcher.  Those mini-nukes are so much faster than missiles and very impressive. At one point I think I had 30 in the air raining-down on Diamond City Marketplace. 

I also got through the Diamond City portion of my quest, after the Dogmeat bit:

[Surlyboi]

I'll randomly get to work on something and then hear people popping off in the distance. Occasionally that popping will abruptly end with a flash and a big boom. Someone's got a fat man.

[Jade Falcon]

I was attacking some raiders last night that were entrenched around some old factory,either my gunfire misses or their miss tossed molotovs started a massive chain of explosions of old cars and trucks around the area that caused an explosion and massive fireball I didn't think was possible.Was one of those sit back and go 'woah' moments.Then happily run around looting all the crispy corpses.

[Threash]

Do you need to travel with a specific companion for their perks to be active, or do they just stay on as long as you got them already?

[Sky]

Yeah, cars and trucks torching off can be a real bitch. Learned that the hard way in the first yogi bear fight, then while in a car factory in the middle of a firefight against raiders with turrets, my distraction protectron was drawing enough fire that it torched off a car on the assembly line. Heard the first boom and ran for the stairwell. Nothing was left alive when the booms finally stopped. Awesome.

[Trippy]

I've died more to exploding stuff so far than any other cause. That red directional indicator is way too small and unobtrusive.

[Rasix]

And it's red.   

[Merusk]

RK, I found your first Fallout 4 Mod.

http://kotaku.com/fallout-4-mod-replaces-mini-nukes-with-your-baby-1743061501

[Sky]

The potion hoarding part of my brain won't let me use power armor :/ Are the power thingies rechargeable at some point?

[Merusk]

No, but you find a ton of them. I've got 8 right now and haven't bothered conserving by hopping-out to explore or when in safe zones, and don't have the Nuclear Physicist perk.

Really once I got over my same trepidation about consumables I found things went better with the armor than without. If I'm back-questing I'll hop out but main story and "oh this is a dangerous town" it's Power Armor all the way.

[Quinton]

I'll sometimes grab the power armor for stuff where stealth clearly is not going to be optimal, but, yeah, besides it conflicting with my stealth sniper approach to combat, I too hoard my fusion cores (though I think I've got about 10 now).

[rk47]

[Jeff Kelly]

I'll sometimes grab the power armor for stuff where stealth clearly is not going to be optimal, but, yeah, besides it conflicting with my stealth sniper approach to combat, I too hoard my fusion cores (though I think I've got about 10 now).

So Fusion Cores are basically the new health potions?