Fallout 4 Post-Release Bullshit

[Sky]

Going back into a game I left mid-plot and have no goddamned idea what I was doing, where I was going, who are these people. Blah.

[Yegolev]

Just shoot them all.

[Merusk]

That's  how I do things. 

"Ok, this one won't die. He's important so I should talk to him." *reload*

[Sky]

Just shoot them all.

Are we still talking about contractors?

[Yegolev]

Yes.

[Khaldun]

The sleep thing is a bit odd, or maybe bugged? I just slept 20 hours and I'm still getting the insomnia icon.

[Merusk]

Based on insomniacs I've known, sounds about right. You've sat in bed for 20 hours, nobody said you actually slept. 

[Signe]

I saw this bausome mod that is so cool and I really want it and it's named Spring Cleaning but I can't get it to work.  :( 

So disappointed.

[Fabricated]

Which conversation? I've finished a run through of Far Harbor except the Red Death, all the near saves to that lead to a black screen instead of the fight.

It's

[Jimbo]

I saw this bausome mod that is so cool and I really want it and it's named Spring Cleaning but I can't get it to work.  :( 

So disappointed.

Hey do you have Nexus Mod Manager? I use Scrap Everything-- Scrap Everything
It is addicting, makes cleaning up your settlements fun, but be careful! You can scrap the roads really easy if not paying attention or something else that you can't re-build, so save often.

[rattran]

Which conversation? I've finished a run through of Far Harbor except the Red Death, all the near saves to that lead to a black screen instead of the fight.

It's

Oh, that one. Yeah, mind numbingly stupid, but a lot of the conversations with him are. I'm just sad that I dragged Nick through the expansion, but didn't get any of the additional dialogues.

[rk47]

The sleep thing is a bit odd, or maybe bugged? I just slept 20 hours and I'm still getting the insomnia icon.

Insomnia is a disease.
Tiredness is denoted by bed icon.
A first aid icon means you're suffering from a disease. Go check PipBoy under Status for description of the disease you suffered.
The only way to cure it is to take Antibiotics or see a doctor pay for a regular health treatment.

[Sky]

"Doc, I've got insomnia."
"Here, take two antibiotics."

 

Obamacare!

[Signe]

I saw this bausome mod that is so cool and I really want it and it's named Spring Cleaning but I can't get it to work.  :( 

So disappointed.

Hey do you have Nexus Mod Manager? I use Scrap Everything-- Scrap Everything
It is addicting, makes cleaning up your settlements fun, but be careful! You can scrap the roads really easy if not paying attention or something else that you can't re-build, so save often.

Yes, I'm using Nexus.  I used some of their mods in Skyrim, too, a while back.  I did get it to work finally.  It was something stupid I did.  I try to keep away from Nexus and Curse until I've played through most of a game.  I get carried away when it comes to mods.  Like now, for instance, I have all the clean up ones (get the one that cleans up dead stuff like bloatflys and skeletons), the giant pylon that can power all of Sanctuary instead of having to stick one in every three inches which is completely stupid, and one that gives you longer wires.  I'm also completely naked, have Harley Quinn's face and I'm covered in insanely bad tattoos. 

:(  I have no self control at all. 

[justdave]

Don't feel bad, Signe! My Skyrim install has close to a hundred mods, some of them for the most trivial crap. The launcher creaks when it starts and I'm afraid to update any of them for fear that everything will come apart in midair; you're probably not *that* bad.

[Jimbo]

And I need to read better, or wear my readers all the time, I thought you were sitting there playing naked with your face painted...

[Sky]

And I need to read better, or wear my readers all the time, I thought you were sitting there playing naked with your face painted...

Unsure you're incorrect.

[Jimbo]

Have you all heard the Raiders talk to each other? They have the funniest story about some dude making noises.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khvtJoyNNc0
I'm wondering how developed this guys story is :)

[apocrypha]

Loved that little interlude, even made the wife come and listen to it. Haven't seen or heard anything else about that particular story though, I think it's just that one conversation.

[Khaldun]

The Raiders have a kind of mini-narrative on their computers in some of their major headquarters--it sort of leads up to the Iron guys, the flamey-explody ones, but it also traces Preston's group back to the south.

They also do talk a bit more about the stuff you're up to if you sneak up on them.


Survival mode gets really hard when you actually have to fight, as it should. I've actually used the Minutemen flare gun a couple of times and I also set up way more carefully when I'm taking on even three or four bad guys. Mines are way more important than they were. I desperately want a good sniper rifle but I still haven't found one so far.

Also having all the allied settlements you can get is really helpful.

[Sky]

Have you all heard the Raiders talk to each other? They have the funniest story about some dude making noises.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khvtJoyNNc0
I'm wondering how developed this guys story is :)

That was a nice touch, I remember that dialog.

On the other hand, youtuber playing on a console and doesn't shift position to listen to the voice actors. There is so much garbage on youtube.

[Merusk]

I liked that the story was over at the 1:42 mark but the video ran for another 1:30 or so with nothing else. (I skipped through.)

I feel a need to reload for that part and try throwing grenades. See how they raiders react, I'm guessing they don't.

[Jimbo]

From Youtuber's it seems the Raiders that fake help and lure you into the warehouse by Diamond City will tell that story. Then there is two raiders over near the parking garage near Trinity towers that tell the story of him doing a drive by and throwing a pretend grenade while riding his pretend motorcycle. The Raiders and the Super Mutants both didn't kill him but let him drive away.

[apocrypha]

Then there is two raiders over near the parking garage near Trinity towers that tell the story of him doing a drive by and throwing a pretend grenade while riding his pretend motorcycle. The Raiders and the Super Mutants both didn't kill him but let him drive away.

Ohh I've missed that one. Will try and find them when I next fire it up :)

[Signe]

So I modded the fuck out of this game.  On the plus side, I have nicer tattoos, craftable cats and a pet deathclaw.  There is a down side, though.  :(  Like glowing, pink hands and two sets of eyes.  I put on some sunglasses, which I can deal with, and some gloves.  The gloves are a problem.  Even though I can't see my hands, I know that inside those gloves they are pink.  And glowing.  I think I'll start over.   

[Sir T]

Radiation and mutation is bad, m'kay?

[Yegolev]

I stopped reading at "craftable cats".

[Brolan]

Just finished the quests for Far Harbor and it was a decent enough expansion.  Just like the original game it presents you with moral questions where there are no good options, just least worse ones.

Liked most of the quests except the last memory recovery one.  For that one I would like to punch whoever decided to make it that much work.  I don't know how many hours I wasted on that one.

Lot's of new weapons and armor.  I fell in love with the new lever action 45-70 Old Reliable.  Now I just have to figure out what to use all this new stuff on.  Luckily I still have parts of the island to explore.  And there are plenty of little places tucked away in the wilderness to find.

[Brolan]

Three new DLC have been announced including something called Nuka-World where you can be the bad (raider) character you always wanted to be.  Of course I wonder if this will alter game play in any way because I expect attacking a settlement is much like attacking the Raider locations in the current game.  You would just be looting settler bodies instead of raiders.

[Merusk]

I found a nice 4th option for Far Harbor.

If you're BoS-aligned you can report the Synth enclave to the Airport and wipe it out with your brothers in arms.

Tee Hee.

I haven't gone back to town to see how this affects the quest there quite yet. Ran out of time this weekend and haven't played FO4 since Sunday night.

[Khaldun]

I should go BoS all the way on my current run-through since I've never done it but I don't know if I can. All the factions are assholes but Maxson just makes me stabby.

[Merusk]

I justified it that I'm Ex-military and I've lost everything. My child, my wife, the entire world I knew. The BoS is the closest thing to normal for me in the Wasteland while also a tangible link to that lost world. (The power armor being something I would have used as a soldier.) It's something known and comforting to cling to when I can't take the madness and insanity of the world of how I arrived there.

I might have a little too much RP backstory there for the game. 

[apocrypha]

Thought I'd fire this up again for a looksee at Far Harbour, but of course since I last played the whole bethesda.net shit has come along and now my game crashes immediately when I try to load any saves. So I can either spend ages trying to work out which mod is causing it (and with no crash logs that's a slow process of trial and error) or uninstall and reinstall mods from scratch and start a new playthrough, which I really don't fancy right now. Back to Kerbal Space Program or Minecraft it is then!

Oh and I am slightly flabbergasted at the extent to which Bethesda fucked up the console modding thing. They took no advice or lessons from the Nexus, who've been doing this for 14 years, and put in place no mechanisms to prevent or deal with mod theft. None. They've caused a massive shitstorm, alienated the entire modding community and managed to inflame tensions between PC & console gamers.

Long, angry and detailed write-up of the whole fiasco here.

[Sky]

I was able to get a crappier version of the no-weight junk mod, but the old one I used came with awesome sorting. I didn't realize how amazing that mod was. Dealing with inventory was just something I didn't want to get back into. I put up with it the first playthrough but it just gets progressively worse to the point I just want to cheat everything in and turn off loot.

[Torinak]

Thought I'd fire this up again for a looksee at Far Harbour, but of course since I last played the whole bethesda.net shit has come along and now my game crashes immediately when I try to load any saves. So I can either spend ages trying to work out which mod is causing it (and with no crash logs that's a slow process of trial and error) or uninstall and reinstall mods from scratch and start a new playthrough, which I really don't fancy right now. Back to Kerbal Space Program or Minecraft it is then!

Oh and I am slightly flabbergasted at the extent to which Bethesda fucked up the console modding thing. They took no advice or lessons from the Nexus, who've been doing this for 14 years, and put in place no mechanisms to prevent or deal with mod theft. None. They've caused a massive shitstorm, alienated the entire modding community and managed to inflame tensions between PC & console gamers.

Long, angry and detailed write-up of the whole fiasco here.

I'm sure the mod theft issue will resolve itself magically once Bethesda resumes selling mods.