Fallout 4

[Yevrah]

How have you got so much cash Yev?

By being absolutely obsessive about what I do and don’t keep.

First thing I did was pull together a list of all the crafting items (across all benches) that I thought I’d need – anything on this list gets kept, everything else gets put in a specific container waiting to be sold.

I’ll scavenge absolutely everything I come across, even if that means multiple trips to haul it all back.

I keep high charisma clothing on me to get better bartering prices and when my ‘junk’ container gets particularly large I’ll pop some grape mentats to maximise the take from that haul.

[Cord]

I think my most terrifying experience on this is definitely every time I go back to Sanctuary and am forced to run enormous circles around Preston Garvey, slowly shambling directly towards me like a zombie, just so he can't talk to me and give me any more sodding settlements to go and babysit.

The fear when you can see him creeping up in the back of shot as you desperately try and finish the conversation you are having with someone else is truly visceral.

[phonics]

Complete the Silver Shroud quest before The Big Dig.

If not you'll be unable to finish the Silver Shroud quest and that fucking armor will be stuck in your inventory for the rest of time.

[Yevrah]

Glad I did the shroud stuff last night then. Good missions, but the armor's shit.

[phonics]

I unlocked some sort of Fortress for the Minute Men. I thought 'I should move all my stuff over here' went to Sanctuary and stored one thing before thinking to myself,"Why am I doing this? Whats the point?" and went to bed.

[Baz]

I can't be bothered with the settlements. Spent ages faffing about with power pylons and wires to set up some defence (albeit only inside town, defending my two suits of power armour) and then decided that was it forever. Or at least until im done with the main story.

[Yevrah]

Up to level 22 now and having invested the 8 perk points I had sitting around I'm basically a Terminator. Add to that the 16,000 caps (and counting) that I have plus the monumental amount of chems and ammo already stashed in my lock up and I fear any hope of this continuing to be a challenge, even on Survival difficulty, is gone.

It's disappointing really, as it seems much less of a challenge than F3, FNV and Skyrim were on their hardest difficulty levels.

I'm tempted to start again (on Survival), leaving the vault in my pants and empty handed, with this as the build:

S - 1
P - 4
E - 1
C - 10
I - 10
A - 1
L - 1

Which, by my reckoning, should probably at least double the time it takes to be God.

[Ian]

Obviously I'm not in a position yet to judge if I'd want any of these but some of them look nifty.
http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2015...allout-4-mods/

[Raoul Duke]

If/when I mod this, I'll get one that lets me have infinite power armour time

I'm currently clearing out the 'Thicket Excavations' area which is leaving me with a gigantic amount of loot.

[Baz]

Just done the Courser mission.

Got so pissed off in that building, couldn't figure out where to go. In the end Cait just wandered off and brought everyone to me.

[Raoul Duke]

Swan

Fuck that. Ended up hiding in a bus shooting him with a rocket launcher. Also got felt up by a Legendary Mirelurk whilst happening upon some oddball cult.

[Yevrah]

Decided to keep on with the save and glad I did. Things have got a little bit tougher with the later missions I've been doing.

[Ian]

You on PC, Yev? If so the survival rebalance thing in the RPS article above could be a mod for you after your initial run, provided it's robust enough.

[Yevrah]

I'm on XB1 Ian, which I think means mods next year. My build above will be fine for the next playthrough though, I reckon that will be genuinely difficult and involve a serious amount of grinding.

[Yevrah]

Oh and scrap what I said earlier (for the time being at least anyway), just moved away from the lower level (Garvey) missions and I'm getting my arse handed to me.

[Yevrah]

Came up against an absolute beast of a legendary enemy just now. It one shot killed me the first time and then when I ran past it the second time I noticed the Brotherhood of Steel were taking it on when I looked back.

It took down three of the Brotherhood, before I stepped up in VATS to finish it off.

The legendary item was gash sadly, but on the plus side Garvey was so impressed with me I now have the benefit of his perk.

Oh and I've no been over a fair bit of the map, with 146 locations discovered, and it's absolutely huge. Of the 146 locations I've been to, I don't think I've got close to going through 30 of them properly.

[DickButkis]

This game is outstanding. I couldn't really get into 3 but I'm like a fiend on this, I can't get enough.

[Mike]

This weeks episode of The Point is about Fallout 4
http://www.gamespot.com/shows/the-point/

[phonics]

One day the CBS video player will work for me and all will be right with the world.

[Baz]

Just done the silver shroud quests. Man it seemed near-impossible to save Kent.

Managed after about 15 reloads though, then turned it off in frustration.

[phonics]

I've got up to the point where it looks like I'm going to have to screw over a faction :/

Hate that shit as I feel like I'm missing out on content.

[Raoul Duke]

I find myself doing about 1 mission a night on this, getting into a ruck with some raiders and then dicking about with settlements.

Also, was looking through the wiki earlier and saw this interesting info:
- Reaching level 282 will allow you to have all perks and max S.P.E.C.I.A.L
- Keep in mind that many NPCs scale to the player level when a cell is entered for the first time, and remain at that level even after respawning

[Yevrah]

There'll be a cap on that scaling, surely?

[The Bruce]

Killed the first guy in the Silver Shroud mission down the alley and he died and fell through a wall. He's now located 67 distance away from where he landed on top of a building I can't reach the roof of. 30 minutes of trying to access his body to put a calling card on later and I gave up, still carrying all of the quest shit as you can't ditch it. Cunts.

[Baz]

Couldn't you have reloaded an earlier save? Or grenaded him down?

[The Bruce]

Couldn't you have reloaded an earlier save? Or grenaded him down?

He's on top of here and I spent ages trying to find where his body was and ended up doing heaps of other stuff I don't want to lose by reloading.

[phonics]

Are you on console or PC? On PC, you could noclip through the world and join him in the walls.

Just type tcl into the console and you should be able to fly away.

[Disco]

noclip to him.

[The Bruce]

XBOX One I'm afraid

[phonics]

Then welcome to the World of Bethesda, friend. Happy purgatory.

[Dark Soldier]

GOTY.

[Yevrah]

That's a desperately shit bug, but it still is GOTY.

[phonics]

That's a desperately shit bug, but it still is GOTY.

No chance. MGS V shits all over it.

[Baz]

It's for the best, really. It means you can't progress that quests and don't have to reload over and over to save Kent.

Decided Cait deserves some better armour than "Cage Armour" so I've been picking up good parts off baddies ready to sew 'em all nice for her. :zink:

[Yevrah]

No chance. MGS V shits all over it.

Not for me, but hey ho.

[Dark Soldier]

Bloodborne shits all over everything tbf.

[phonics]

Blimey, this is the entirety of the first patch

New Features

• Number pad keys can now be used for remapping
• Remapping Activate now works on Quick Container

Fixes

• General memory and stability improvements
• Fixed issue where equipped weapons become locked after completing Reunions
• Fixed issue with When Freedom Calls where the quest would not complete
• During Confidence Man, fixed issue where player's health would continuously regenerate
• Fixed crash related to jumping into water and reloading saved games
• Fixed issue where Launcher would not save God Rays Quality setting properly

[Shindig]

Game of the Year is still MGS for me, although Life is Strange and Ori are on sale at the minute so there's a potential last-minute surge.

[The Bruce]

I've jacked this in to play Battlefront instead. I'll find out how the story unfolds on YouTube some day as that's the only thing I was semi interested in. Marching around killing the same enemies in the same way to pick up something for someone can be done quicker watching someone else do it on a video.

Jack of all trades, not even apprentice of one. Massive disappointment.

[Yevrah]

Do you not love the levelling up/perk aspect of it? Gets me every time that.

Although, I have to say there are a couple of false steps in this in that regard.

[Ian]

I think you just love levelling up, Yev, The work/reward thing.

And that's not a dig, if it seems like one. I played WoW for however many years, I get it.

[The Bruce]

Do you not love the levelling up/perk aspect of it? Gets me every time that.

Although, I have to say there are a couple of false steps in this in that regard.

Not when there are no perks worth having above the 7th tier. One shotting Raiders to level up for the sake of it bores me to tears, as does the banality of the enemies.

A friend of mine has a weapon he can do 2459 damage with in a single shot if he's in sneak. He's one shotting deathclaws ffs.

[Yevrah]

I think you just love levelling up, Yev, The work/reward thing.

And that's not a dig, if it seems like one. I played WoW for however many years, I get it.

It can't just be me though, because let's be honest, without it the game's just not that good.

Take Fallout 3, I could play that forever while I was earning XP, but as soon as I'd hit the cap the game's flaws were pretty exposed. Which was part of the reason I never finished all of the DLC.

[Yevrah]

Not when there are no perks worth having above the 7th tier. One shotting Raiders to level up for the sake of it bores me to tears, as does the banality of the enemies.

A friend of mine has a weapon he can do 2459 damage with in a single shot if he's in sneak. He's one shotting deathclaws ffs.

There are some/many perks worth it above the 7th tier, but I'd agree there aren't enough interesting ones (which is one of the problems I'd alluded in the previous post).

As for the difficulty, people complaining it really should be playing it on Survival difficulty and if that's too easy, starting with a non-combat focused build.

[The Bruce]

There are some/many perks worth it above the 7th tier, but I'd agree there aren't enough interesting ones (which is one of the problems I'd alluded in the previous post).

As for the difficulty, people complaining it really should be playing it on Survival difficulty and if that's too easy, starting with a non-combat focused build.

I randomly chose all of my SPECIAL at the start and have chosen the perk that I've thought would be most useful at the time. In terms of efficiency it'll be nowhere near the best. I had to wait around to level up twice to get my charisma up to play out a quest the way I wanted to as I kept failing the speech checks. Which was hilarious as all four of the options were orange despite my insistence on not wanting to kill the guy.

It's a horribly put together game that does nothing particularly well and certainly doesn't have a stand out feature that makes me want to keep going other than to say I've finished it.

[Ian]

It can't just be me though-

Of course not, I said I've been there enough times and the MMO part of the industry is basically built on it.

[Yevrah]

Reached the Institute. Interesting.

[Baz]

Today is the first day since getting it, that I haven't played Fallout.

Thought about it a lot though!

[Yevrah]

This Institute stuff is a genuinely well written. Colour me surprised.

[The Bruce]

Finished the main story tonight as a mate informed me I was about two missions from the end. Disappointing, unresolved woolly mess of a game that promised so much from the start but fell miles short of what I was hoping/expecting.