Have you built up your freshwater empire yet? Can make shitloads of caps that way.
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Have you built up your freshwater empire yet? Can make shitloads of caps that way.
Kind of. I have 2 or 3 water purifiers in Sanctuary and 3 or 4 in that little pond (that never drains :D ) in Starlight diner. Usually gets me between 5-40 Purified waters whenever I check. To be fair they are quite handy to carry around just for healing as well.
I never seem to have enough "Gears" for building shit though. I don't have a lot of STR so it's always a hassle gathering junk.
I have Local Leader 2 now so have also started setting up stores in all my settlements. So far I have maybe 8 settlements and Sanctuary is largest with 15 people in, the others are between 2-10 or so.
Yesterday I was doing this questline with Jack Cabot, some immortal scientist. I ended up killing him and his whole family to side with the batshit father who now is giving me some super-serum as much as I want. Seems very handy.
Fulltime fucking job keeping these settlements safe and sound.
It's like having a wasteland tamagochi.
I can't remember the calculation but you need to have a higher Defence than your Water/Food/Power combined to reduce the frequency of the attacks.
Ah alright. Been building more defences basically. But I always run out of Oil and Gear.
My STR is only at 4 so I cant carry much.
Now at level 28 or 29 with a high INT and AGI character and a lot of scavenger perks. Mostly running around guns blazing pickingnoff a target i VaTS then taking cover to recharge it (got the Action Boy perks as well).
Just went to Diamond City and got Piper to tag along. Kind of miss the dog though but shes more sociable.
Have found and offed Kellogg now, and the BOS showed up in style.
I have sided with them in previous games and was already doing a bunch of missions for that Danse before so was immediately promoted to Knight. I do kind of like siding with them, but they are a little bit insufferable as well. Why can't they just be a little bit cooler?
Anyway it means I now have 3 power armours, but I don't really like using them so I mostly run around in different forms of combat armour (am eyeballing the Commando armour you can buy).
I'm back to sort of exploring and doing find-and-fetch tasks for the brotherhood basically right now. Next step in the main story is going to see this Amari but I'm holding off on that. Also trying to keep all my settlements together but man is it costly building enough shit. I basically am never able to build up a bank becasue I keep building stores and shit, and they don't seem to generate any money at all! there's at mostt like 50-100 caps in my workshops, but I have like maybe 30 stores built at least throughout the wasteland! Even the purified waters seem to sort of restock quite slowly.
Should one just sleep for like 4 days straight, or?
Still playing Maz?
I've still got the monster save on the go, but after watching a couple of episodes of Many a True Nerd's You Only Live Once I'm tempted to try a dead is dead run on Survival.
Yeah I'm playing!
Up to level 50 now. I can't really decide what I want my character to be so I keep putting perks all over the place, specially on the SPECIALs which are now all at least 6 I think.
I have highest END and AGI and my strategy in battle is basically to run up close to people and try to shoot them in the face with a plasma gun in VATS, then try to go around a corner and charge up AP again.
My guns are all starting to feel a little weak though. Can't seem to find anything better. The best one I have is probably Kelloggs pistol, or anotther .44 pistol I found with a similarly good perk.
I have gotten most of the Settlements now I think, mostly as Minutemen but I accidentally converted one of them to the Brotherhood. I'm affiliated with both. The best quest I've done so far was dealing with Jack Cabot.
I've explored most parts of the map except the bottom left bit.
In the main story, I'm supposed to go to The Glowing Sea now. How far along in the Main Quest am I, roughly? Once the main story ends in a game, I tend to really lose interest so I don't want to conclude it too soon.
Excellent stuff.
Think you're about halfway through the main story, give or take.
OK so I read about where to find some better guns and went to Vault 81 (which I'd already cleared) and bought the "Overseers Guardian" and fuck me how much better that was :drool:
Yeah, it's brutal.
The explosive machine gun Cricket sells is a beast too.
Right, Permadeath run on Survival starting now.
https://www.twitch.tv/chemicallocust
This may well be a disaster.
Made it to level 7 and the Deathclaw in Concord killed me in a really sloppy way.
Quite enjoyable though and messed up with a couple of SPECIAL point allocations too, so learnings for next time.
I feel like I'm running out of things to do. I've explored the whole map (patches here and there that I've missed but I've basically been along all the edges.
There's a fair few buildings in central boston I haven't bothered with, because they are all so clustered.
No enemies really challenge me now. I'm at level 60 and the toughest ones I kill in 2-3 shots (out of which one usually is a critical) with the Overseers Guardian.
I have gotten I think all the settlements for the Minutemen, the Brotherhood just wants me to get on with the main mission and now I'm doing errands for the Railroad, which ended up being a surprisingly sympathetic organisation at the end of the day. Think I'll pick them over the BOS whenever I am eventually given the choice (which if I know Bethesda, I will have to make).
Next step in the main quest is going to CIT and killing a Courser, which I've put off for days now. It'll take me to the Institute so I suppose I should do that to at least hear what they have to say.
One of the absolute best quests I have done so far was sending a ship of robots flying from one building to another. I'm missing some more of those types of quests, as most others seem more like "go and fetch or go and kill".
Have you found the submarine yet?
The DLC is well worth getting (Automatron and Far Harbour especially) if you don't have it yet.
Would agree with the DLC recommendations. The first time I did Far Harbor was from level 1 and it was like a game in its own right. Fantastic setting, enemies and quests.
Had another go at a permadeath run and am somehow still alive after 7 days and have hit level 11. One more level and I get the perk that means I can't trigger mines. :drool:
It's brilliant playing the game this way everything you do means something and it opens up elements of the game I would have never bothered with otherwise. Taking more endurance than I normally would led to taking the first rank of the Aquaboy perk, which is normally useless, but being able to leg it into water and/or plot an assault from there without taking radiation is a godsend.
Closest I've got to death in this run so far was trying to murder a group of radstags, not realising one was a legendary. While the others took my bullets like champs, he got a bit pissed and charged me. Managed to get a critical and a full VATS round off to take him down as he was inches away from me. We live to fight another day. For now.
Can I install this on top of my current save and continue it? And should I finish off the main story before doing so?Quote:
Originally Posted by Yevrah
I can literally feel the tension here. When you manage to hit VATS 2 seconds before some fucker mauls you and trying to frantically pick out the right body part to aim at while their attack is reaching you in slow motion :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Yevrah
I have not! Googled where it is just now. Do I just hop into the water and swim down?Quote:
Originally Posted by Raoul Duke
You can indeed and no need to finish the main quest first, you can drop in and out of it as you like. Apparently it's better if you take Nick Valentine with you, but I've not done that.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mazuuurk
Yeah just crack on with the DLC. Definitely take Nick to Faaa Habaaaa (there are some unique story lines there).
No need to finish the main story - they're entirely separate.
Have reached the institute now. Pretty good plot twist, made all decisions a lot harder.
At the end of the day, I'm ending up supporting the Railroad, which I dunno why exactly but they have a synth who is quite nice down there and while they all do seem a little cooky, I can't quite stand the zealousness of the BoS and the Institute feels a little like a cult inviting trying to lure you in so, the Railroad it was.
(going with the Minutemen I gathered comes with whatever other choice you make anyway).
Have to say I'm starting to feel quite done with this game now. Not sure if I can be bothered with the DLCs, since I didn't get the GoTY edition or whatever and have to pay extra to get them now :face:
Closing in on level 20 of the Permadeath run and I'm still standing after 20 days in the wasteland.
Now off to Diamond City.
https://www.twitch.tv/chemicallocust
Impressive! Fuck me.
On my end, I think I'm about on the last mission or so. I think I'm making a bit of a U-turn here, siding with the Institute in the end. They are a bunch of cultish fuckheads, but so are all the others, and the Institute seem to have the best options for creating a decent future for the Commonwealth, at the end of the day.
(regards /mr cultist)
Not quite Fallout but I picked up Outer Worlds on sale, what did everyone think?
I found it good fun. Takes a while to get used to the turn based action. Need to get back to it.
Yeah I was getting battered at first before I got into the swing. I seem to be at a massive story choice very early doors which is odd.
In the interests of laziness I'll quote my posts from t'other thread:Quote:
Originally Posted by Lofty
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Originally Posted by Ian
It does hit you with a few big choices early doors though, I'm sure you can technically 'finish' the story, or a version of it, really early.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ian
Back on the uber save and I'm now up to level 72. Have made friends with the Railroad and completed the painstaking slog of 'moving' to Greygarden. Now to power it all up and build a house on top of the overpass.
Level 72/286
XP 200,525/3,092,751
% Complete = 6.5%
Taken back the castle and progressed the BoS quests enough to get the Vertibird, which is awesome.
Level 77/286
XP 228,950/3,092,751
% Complete = 7.4%
The uber save continues.
Level 97/286
XP 361,200/3,092,751
% Complete = 11.7%
Unlocked all of the settlements in the commonwealth now, killed Kellogg, but yet to start any DLC in earnest.
Murkwater Contruction site was so grim I've built a killing factory there.
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Already populated an entire floor with gunner cages and when I've grown enough carrots on site I'll have a floor of Radstags and Yao Guai's and a floor of Deathclaws.
:D
That's flipping cool.
Cheers gents. Haven't really used lightboxes much before, but turns out they do 'just work'.
The thought of the next gen Bethesda games with crafting systems like this in Skyrim/FO5 makes me tingle in my special place
:D
Didn't realise you got XP for killing your own settlers.
Had a play with a never leave Sanctuary playthrough last night, but hit a stumbling block in that for the life of me I could not get something with Crystal in to spawn in one of the crates. Tried dozens of times, in both the one in the bunker and the ones around the exit to the vault and nothing.
Want to do to a playthrough like that as it makes sense from a role playing perspective that you wouldn't leave the safety of the Sanctuary island until you were all tooled up, so might have to sneak to the Speakeasy to nick the camera from there.
So like a mentalist I carried on the above and did it. I've now been in Sanctuary for over 200 in game days, reached level 26 and am over halfway through building a magnificent wall around Sanctuary, which is now complete with Factory, Doctor's Surgery and Trading Emporium.
This save will be the one.
What’s the end goal?
Ultimately finish everything in the game, but more importantly build out all of the settlements. Which I need to do as I unlock them, as I ended up with 30 available in the last save and it was so overwhelming.
Here's half of the front of Sanctuary now.
https://i.postimg.cc/k5VjYkBQ/Sanctuary.jpg
My favourite one to wall off is The Slog. The concrete walls fit really well around the outline of the pool area really well and it looks mega
Got a screenie?
Hmm, not that I can get easily - but basically the concrete wall sections can follow the outline of the pool outer wall and you can fence the whole thing in quite nicely, then you can build up the front gate area
That does sound mustard.
Have you ever had a save where you've redeveloped all settlements?
My main vanilla/launch save I ended up doing pretty much all of them to some degree, even the ones in the DLC. Although I never finished the Vault 88 stuff as it was just too much of a ballache. They were mostly simplistic but I quite enjoyed putting them together.
You guys' dedication to this game is something else :nodd:
The rebuild of Sanctuary (before leaving) is continuing a pace. Now have the whole thing walled off in some fashion or other, complete with Mayor's House (that's mine), Factory, Armory, Gunner Cages (they keep kicking my arse whenever I let them out), Hospital and Plastic surgeon, water plant, trading emporium, rooftop bar, diner and drug den. Now just need to complete the decorating (powering things properly with full lighting will have to wait until I get Science 4 and fusion generators) and I can move onto Red Rocket.
Reached level 31 in the process and am sat on over 70,000 caps. Think 9 months of in game time have now passed too, maybe closer to a year.
The wife has a problem on her save. She has missed two "affinity talks" with Gage and wants to know how she can get it again. I don't know what she means as I've never played the game. Any ideas?
Nuka World (she'll know what I mean) can be a bit weird like that, you have to do certain things in a certain way or lose content forever, so it might not be possible.
I don't know the answer myself, but I've never stumbled into a problem in F4 that couldn't be solved/confirmed via a bit of a Google.
https://www.reddit.com/r/fo4/comment...re_a_solution/ :sorry:Quote:
Originally Posted by 7om
Thanks lads. I’ll pass it on.
After 265 days holed up in Sanctuary, I'm off to venture out.
https://www.twitch.tv/chemicallocust
Scrap that. Must stay strong and finish Sanctuary.
I'm gonna give Fallout 76 a go. Apparently it isn't dreadful these days.
@Yevrah
https://fallout.bethesda.net/en/arti...s-events-perksQuote:
FALLOUT 4 IS GOING NEXT-GEN
Prepare for the future: A next-gen update is coming to Fallout 4! Coming in 2023, this free update will be available for Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 5 and Windows PC systems, including performance mode features for high frame rates, quality features for 4K resolution gameplay and even bonus Creation Club content!
Hold me. :drool:
Might mean you can actually go into downtown Boston without your console melting
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8qRasXF2pY
Looks a little too clean but the tone might be right.
If they get it right and by that I mean don't make it all twee and irreverent it could be genuinely brilliant.
Cor blimey:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PuzpblWpVM
It does look pretty sexual.
New trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-mugKDQDlg
Fallout London now delayed indefinitely due to that :moop:
I have installed Fallout 1 and have taken 1 step outside the vault. Having to read an actual manual for the first time in over a decade is ESSENTIAL.
I've not started the show yet but chat about it has me wondering if I should do some Fallout once I'm done with Horizon 2. Thinking either one of the original RPGs (1 or 2), 4 (I've bounced off Fallout 3 twice and what I've read/heard of 4 does suggest I might not warm to it but I've not played it and it's on Game Pass) or New Vegas (being Obsidian this has a good chance of being more my jam than the Bethesda ones in terms of the actual game.)
New Vegas has a lot to it. At times, I felt it dragged but it definitely had more going on than 3. 3's relatively short, though. I've got all of them (except 4 and 76) for free on Epic. Might be worth setting up an account and playing the waiting game.
They're all on Game Pass anyway, and I might already have Fallouts 1/2 on Steam and Epic.
Planning on restarting this tomorrow after the update.
Any PC Mods I need?
Likewise.
And no, they all have something shit in them.
I should add, if the free creation club nonsense that comes with this update is automatically installed and can't be deleted I'm going to go postal.
Update out on Xbox at least. 22.6GB and downloading now.
Actually, that's just for the base game, the DLC seems to have individual updates too for each.
Modders are going to be so annoyed.
Mother fuckers. :mad:Quote:
Originally Posted by Yevrah
As a PS Plus pleb, I can't get the update for free. I'm still reinstalling it but that's mainly because I've never finished it.
Having played before and after the update all I can say is we had London, a brand new game essentially, delayed for this? Fucking Bethesda.
Indeed. Beyond London I'm not fussed about mods so this didn't particularly bother me, but it did make me laugh that once I'd installed it my list of favourited mods had gone from 90-odd to four and those that I had installed but deactivated had completely vanished.
I'm guessing some people will be going spare.
Just starting it up now. Vanilla with all the DLC
Started last night. Going for a rebuild the Commonwealth playthrough, but making me deliberately weak to start with, so SPECIALS were:
Strength - 4
Perception - 10
Endurance - 1
Charisma - 6
Intelligence - 1
Agility - 1
Luck - 5
Loving it again already and it looks so shiny.
My guy is:
Strength - 6
Perception - 4
Endurance - 5
Charisma - 1
Intelligence - 5
Agility - 6
Luck - 1
Gives me early access to the carry weight/health and lock picking stuff which is what I usually put points into first
Anyone want a free GOG code for Fallout 2? Got it with Amazon Prime but I already own it.
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Fallout 2 was very good back then. Not sure how it holds up.
As we're in the sharing mood, here's my Special for my new character Brenda. She's built like a lumberjack.
Strength:7
Perception: 7
Endurance: 6
Charisma: 2
Intelligence: 2
Agility: 4
Luck: 1
Turns out I need to find my 360 disc.
Isn't it on gamepass?
Only the base game
Does that version get this new update? I can’t figure it out.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mike
You have to own the game outright (rather than on Gamepass or PS Plus) to get the update.
Just started. Playing as a woman in the hope I can then be a dick. If I play as a man I always call him Mike and do the nice options.
I struggle.to be a bad guy in RPGs because the non-goody options tend to be terribly written unless you just want to be comedically evil.
Pretty sure I only have it cos of Gamepass and I’ve just loaded it to check and there’s a pop up box saying Three cheers for the Wanderers! In honor of Fallout 4’s latest update, we’ve added new weapons, apparel, and workshops to the Commonwealth. and a message in the top right corner saying FALLOUT 4 UPDATES The Fallout 4 next-gen update brings with it a new Quality and Performance mode, widescreen support and 3 Creation Club content packs; Enclave Remnants, Makeshift Weapon Pack, and the Halloween Workshop Pack.Quote:
Originally Posted by Shindig
So, er yeah, I presume us Gamepass scruffs get the update too. :)
I also got that message but, if that's the next-gen coat of paint, they needn't have bothered.
They appear to have borked VATS somewhat, which manifests itself in two ways. The % chance to hit moves all over the shop, akin to Fallout 76 when you're trying to hit those commie propaganda robots and when multiple enemies are on screen, crashes.
Yeah, the crashes are ridiculous. I don't understand how you give the game a lick of paint and that fucks VATS up. Absolute amateur hour.
Touch wood but I haven't had any major issues thus far (Xbox Series X).
Just got to Diamond City and picked up Piper. Made a beeline for unlocking Overseer's Guardian so am set for a decent ranged gun for the rest of the play through (although it starts specced as a more assault rifle set-up). Sanctuary Water Farm Industries is taking shape as well
I'm on Series X too, odd. Persevered with the nonsense in any case and am now up to level 10 and have just got my first decent legendary weapon. A rapid 10mm pistol. :drool:
Up to Level 17 now. Pretty sharp increase in quests and stuff once you get to about 12. Ada, Deacon, BoS all on the go and that's with intentionally avoiding Preston.
Actually got some decent gear now too with Deliverer, Overseer's Guardian and Spray & Pray so just working through perks to make them more effective/customised.
Level 19 and still in zone 1. Pretty much cleared it all out now. Just need to do one more sweep of Corvega and then it's time to release Preston and start building those settlements up.
Loving it again, it has to be said and it probably is my favourite game ever.
Have you come across any of the Creation Club wank yet RD? I've been avoiding all of the quests but I see there's some modfied baseball I can make at the chemistry bench. Which is so well implemented I don't even know what it does.Quote:
Originally Posted by Raoul Duke
Yeah, I'd agree here. It's not perfect, of course, but the world/lore/mechanics just tick a lot of my boxes and it feels like "home" in a way that other games which I've put considerable time into (e.g. Elden Ring) don't.Quote:
Originally Posted by Yevrah
Not seen anything yet, outside of the quests being in my list. But it looks kinda borked so I've not even made a start on them.Quote:
Originally Posted by Yevrah
One thing, the patch hasn't really done anything to downtown Boston. It's still a horrific lag-fest for me. Do you have a Series X? Is it ok for you?
I’m on the Series X and it was fine before the patch. Haven’t been there yet in this save but hoping that’s still the case.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hTWf-TWsZY
The fucking state of this shit.
Patch coming on Monday: https://twitter.com/BethesdaStudios/...47199734305235
It won't bring Tango Gameworks back.
Hmm, I gave up when I heard the news about the next gen bugs but might give it a go now. Never played any of the Fallout games before.Quote:
Originally Posted by Raoul Duke
Update out. 650MB ish.
VATS through walls is the only thing left that’s still pissing me off (the crashing seems to have stopped) so hope they’ve sorted that.
I've just started playing it. Christ it looks dated.
Fucking hell, like third mission and I got stuck in a stupid loop because I did a part of a side quest too soon. Takes me back to the Skyrim stupidity. Back to Diablo.
:lol:
It is janky.
What mission?Quote:
Originally Posted by Magic
The museum one. I got the power suit and core before I was supposed to and now the missions fucked.Quote:
Originally Posted by Yevrah
How is that even possible? I didn't think the door to it opened until you've spoken to Preston Garvey.
I've no idea but I like to fuck about and explore and somehow managed it. :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Yevrah
:D
What's the loop you're stuck in as a result?
I think I jumped across the floor and missed the room on the right. Then I got the suit and couldn't get through the door on the other side, it kept saying I need a key.Quote:
Originally Posted by Yevrah
Now they just keep telling me to get the power thing but I've already used it lolling about. So I tried to kill them all but they just come back to life again.
Have you been into the Molerat Den under red rocket (right hand side when you pass the bridge from sanctuary)? There's a fusion core in there that'll sort you out.
As for not being able to kill the Minutemen, it was a silly decision by Bethesda to have them as the failsafe (i.e. the faction that you can always complete the main quest with as you can't kill the essentially marked members of it) as it gives the impression that you can't kill who you want, when bar them the game is very flexible on that score.
Lol this fixed it thanks. However, I got fucked off with the jankiness and have canned it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Yevrah
Any more things you might want to know just shout, there's a solution to most of the jank.
Fallout London released :drool:
Let me know how good it is.
So how is it?
In other Fallout news I'm 20 minutes into this video and I had no idea about any of it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJJ1vILtc-E
Fascinating stuff, hope there's a pay off.
Ok, not much further in and it’s clearly fan fiction. Quite well done mind.
The little touches are nice and London feels well done but it crashes like a bastard. Save often. Hopefully they try and patch it to improve stability.
Have you installed the Buffout mod. It apparently fixes a lot of crashing
https://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/47359
Yes it fixed the train crashing but didnt resolve such crashes as walking along minding my own business, a big explosion during a story set piece or walking into a building :D
There’s a community/homebrew port of Fallout 2 for the Switch.
The London discord had an announcement from the dev team, they are working on a hot fix to reduce crashing then the next patch will address more issues and also include stuff like buffout 4 baked in to any fresh installs.