Fallout 4 Post-Release Bullshit

[Sky]

[Sky]

Leaving a story area, swapped out of my charisma gear into armor. Piper turns and says "Uh, Blue? Where are your pants?"

Forgot to put on the ol' undersuit...

[CmdrSlack]

This game has so much depth. I'm level 18, I think, and I've not even gone past simply finding Diamond City.

I've leveled at least once solely by building a wall around Sanctuary and doing other building tasks in town. I don't have the power armor from BoS because I haven't yet started Act II. I hope that I'm not boned in that regard, because all I've done is mod up a minigun and winterize all of the starter power armor.

At this point, there's no way I'd restart, even if I wish I'd assigned stats differently. It looks like I can level my way out of most of my bad choices. It's also great just finding side things to do while getting to a specific goal. I bet I'll get distracted five more times on the way to the Castle, all the while building up new fast travel locations en route.

[apocrypha]

After 30 hours, I started over because, um, I tend to do that. Amazing how many little things I missed just in the starting area on my first run through.

I did exactly the same, but after 40 hours.  

Using Power Armor a lot more this time, because I know now that there's plenty of cores and its a lot of fun.

[Threash]

Maxed sneak + max melee distance + 10x dmg on sneak attacks + heat coiled super sledge = one shot legendary death claw.

[brellium]

After 30 hours, I started over because, um, I tend to do that. Amazing how many little things I missed just in the starting area on my first run through.

I did exactly the same, but after 40 hours.  

Using Power Armor a lot more this time, because I know now that there's plenty of cores and its a lot of fun.

Yeah, restarting too, many of my objections on the game are looking less of any issue and just stupid design choices (which people still need be live sacrificed for on the altar of the PC Master race), not playing on survival (I don't need to shoot super mutants 20 times in the head with a sniper rifle/laser with sneak attack criticals, I like having ammo), not building giant walls around settlements when wire walls will work better (turret LOS), and bad textures anywhere not inside a building (it's terrible that the game looks 100 times better inside building zones than outside, when it should look amazing outside like Skyrim), and abusing the hell out of power armor.

Now, just time to figure out to make my character look like Commander Sheppard.

[Mac]

So I was talking to this Settler about their Super Mutant problem only to be blown up by a Suicide Mutant during the conversation.

[Jade Falcon]

So I was talking to this Settler about their Super Mutant problem only to be blown up by a Suicide Mutant during the conversation.

Hmmm well.........she wasn't lying.

[apocrypha]

Well, sounds like problem solved to me.

 

[Brolan]

WTF is up with these lazy ass settlers?  There is work to do and they will not let me assign it to them.  Just get the trade screen.

[Trippy]

Are you in workshop mode?

[Tmon]

Been playing too much, I just caught myself hitting tab to try to exit a browser window.

[Brolan]

Are you in workshop mode?

Nope, that was the problem.  I thought I could assign them the same way as when they introduce themselves.

[Sky]

So I decided to fast travel less. I was making a routine trip back to report in on Quartermastery, and it was close, so I hoofed it...and came across a bunch of stuff I missed the first trip through as well as a few new things (random encounters, it seems, or time of day things). So that trip informed my decision.

So I'm encountering a lot more little things here and there once I start walking more...and then the bombshell...just travelling over a bridge I've crossed a half dozen times already...


This game is amazing.

[Malakili]

Yeah, I never fast travel in Fallout/Elder Scrolls by choice and it makes the games feel a lot better to me. 

[Lakov_Sanite]

Ok I've been checking under bridges for an hour now, please be more specific....

[Sky]

I googled it when I found a door that was inaccessible, it turns up in one of the faction plotlines. So you should come across it if you follow those.

[brellium]

So I was talking to this Settler about their Super Mutant problem only to be blown up by a Suicide Mutant during the conversation.

I was tailing a group of super mutants when they got attacked by a pack of dogs, one of those things took out the group of mutants and the dogs...

[disKret]

I googled it when I found a door that was inaccessible, it turns up in one of the faction plotlines. So you should come across it if you follow those.

[disKret]

WTF is up with these lazy ass settlers?  There is work to do and they will not let me assign it to them.  Just get the trade screen.

Some of them are kids or named NPCs that are not treated as settler.

[Brolan]

WTF is up with these lazy ass settlers?  There is work to do and they will not let me assign it to them.  Just get the trade screen.

Some of them are kids or named NPCs that are not treated as settler.

Yup, I think that's why Sanctuary's growth stagnates, too many lazy named NPCs.   And one of them actually has the nerve to say "I can't take all the credit" when you are doing everything for them.

[Rasix]

I sent Dogmeat and Strong back to Sanctuary about a week ago and they're still gone.  

There's just so much to do in this game. I love it.  Only last night did I even progress the story. It's not completely terrible and Piper is kind of fun to have around.  I do miss my Lone Wanderer carrying perk.  Somehow I seem to be at around 200 carry weight base.

[Falconeer]

I have already put almost 48 hours in it and I keep finding big new locations, hubs AND characters with completely new stories. It is unbelievable. A friend of mine asked me if I have finished the main story, but I have NO idea which one is the main story and I couldn't care less. It just all feels that good. I hope it never ever ends.

[Merusk]

I sent Dogmeat and Strong back to Sanctuary about a week ago and they're still gone.  

There's just so much to do in this game. I love it.  Only last night did I even progress the story. It's not completely terrible and Piper is kind of fun to have around.  I do miss my Lone Wanderer carrying perk.  Somehow I seem to be at around 200 carry weight base.

It's all the damn guns. I've got a minimum of 5 "always carry" weapons
* Combat Shotgun
* Silenced .50 cal Sniper Rifle
* .45 cal Combat Rifle
* Handgun (10mm silenced)
* Laser Rifle

Then there's 3-4 others I swap as I anticipate a situation:
* Cryolator
* Fat Man
* Missile Launcher
* Minigun

Add on any sort of armor and you're easily near 200#

I've decided on my 2nd play through I'm rushing the story to get to the institute. All my time in the wasteland has made me pick BOS/ Minutemen over them.

[apocrypha]

Also it feels to me that Aid items weigh more than in previous games. Drugs, food, water, etc, all adds up. Don't forget to dump Mods out of your inventory too after crafting.

[Tannhauser]

I was about to hit a raider base, examining my approach options when I saw a nearby ruin.  Thought I'd check it out first and found a secret tunnel to the very bottom of the raider base and killed their leader.  

Stalled out on my lvl 31 main; not sure which faction to pick.  My alt is 7th and is sneaking fun. I want to get to the point where I can reverse pick pocket grenades into my victims.

90 hours/played.  Taking a bit of a break for the holidays.  Haven't played even a minute of the new Hearthstone adventure yet.

[Sky]

I only carry a .50 sniper, .45 rifle for hip shooting and a shotgun for in your face indoors stuff. My armor is mostly deep pocketed, though I wonder about the lightweight vs pockets balance.

Wish we could SWTOR and send companions home to dump junk in the workbench.

edit: STR 3 character. Mostly Per/Cha for shootin' and sweet talkin'.

[Lantyssa]

Energy weapons are so much better for weight.  Then I realized I can take the pistol perk and turned my sniper laser rifles into sniper laser pistols...

I don't send companions to a main settlement as they'll eat up space.  I send all of them to the Red Rocket.  Has the bonus of making it easier to find them, too.

[Lakov_Sanite]

I console commanded 10k encumbrance and I don't feel the least bit bad.

[Evildrider]

Started a new game and immediately went to work on Sanctuary.. Spent about 3 hours clearing up the area and setting some stuff up and my computer decided to reboot.   Load up my save and I am back to where I first came out of the vault. 

[Surlyboi]

Something similar happened to me yesterday too. way down in the southwest somewhere, killed a bunch of deathclaws and a behemoth and then while trying to swap weapons, couldn't get out of the pip boy menu. Log back in and I'm back at sanctuary. 

[brellium]

Started a new game and immediately went to work on Sanctuary.. Spent about 3 hours clearing up the area and setting some stuff up and my computer decided to reboot.   Load up my save and I am back to where I first came out of the vault. 

I almost restarted again, and then I realized I'm level 10 and stole Duke's T60 armor, when I randomly bumped into him

It's going to be easy mode for the next half of the game.

[Trippy]

Something similar happened to me yesterday too. way down in the southwest somewhere, killed a bunch of deathclaws and a behemoth and then while trying to swap weapons, couldn't get out of the pip boy menu. Log back in and I'm back at sanctuary. 

I got stuck on a trading screen yesterday and had to reload a save.

[brellium]

Something similar happened to me yesterday too. way down in the southwest somewhere, killed a bunch of deathclaws and a behemoth and then while trying to swap weapons, couldn't get out of the pip boy menu. Log back in and I'm back at sanctuary. 

I got stuck on a trading screen yesterday and had to reload a save.

Tab bug.

[apocrypha]

If you get the tab bug try shift-tabbing to the Steam overlay and back, fixes it 100% of the time for me.

Hit level 39 this morning, and I'd saved 2 perks so that I could max out Armorer and Gun Nut when I did. Fully maxxed out a +25% damage Assault Rifle that I got from a legendary Raider. Had to turn the difficulty up to Very Hard because shit got trivial all of a sudden.