Oh christ, I didn't realise ghouls could crawl in through the fucking walls
Cleared out the Super Dart Mart. Also found a secret elevator behind a bookcase in a nearby place, but couldn't get it to work...
Oh christ, I didn't realise ghouls could crawl in through the fucking walls
Cleared out the Super Dart Mart. Also found a secret elevator behind a bookcase in a nearby place, but couldn't get it to work...
Ghouls are a right bastard in this.
All the beasties, even Bloatflies and mole rats, seem to be capable of giving me some trouble in this. I don't remember that being the case from the previous games.
I've done some exploring further south, which has quite a significant amount more interesting stuff than the starting corner of the map, which continues to make Bethesda's decisions regarding the start look a little odd. Sadly I've collected a load of stuff and the dog, who I was relying on to carry it all, has fucked off somewhere, so I'm now slowly trudging my way back up the map.
At least it's given me time to appreciate the Diamond City radio DJ, who is ace.
What else makes you think it's odd?Originally Posted by Cord
I really like that you start in a corner, with the whole map stretching out before you.
Question Time done and booting up again when I should really be going to bed.
This game is going to fucking ruin me.
I've forced myself off it for tonight.
I keep clearing out places which I'm sure will be used in quests later on down the line so I hope I'm not voiding them by pre-clearing.
The brotherhood blimp
First play through I always play as 'Me', making decisions that I would make, a character that resembles myself appearance wise.
Second play through I am always a complete dick to everyone, and I'm making my character Walter White http://kotaku.com/the-best-character...t-4-1742087916
That Putin recreation.
Sounds like PC's the way to go, then. Months from now. £33 at CD keys. Hmmmmm.
Who's done the first Brotherhood of Steel quest? Retrieving the deep transmitter.
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Beyond that started on my artifact hunting for the Brotherhood, will have to post a picture when I get in from work, even on low details this game just looks spectacular.
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I'm too useless with those face slider things to actually make a specific person and so just muck about until I settle on one I can tolerate.
How much does the player character speak? I've just seen the female voice actor is the woman who did, amongst other things, Jack in the Mass Effect games and she was pretty good in that. If I've got to listen to somebody a lot the actor can make a difference in what I decide to play if there's a good one. Going femShep in Mass Effect and getting Jennifer Hale definitely made a different when I restarted the first game the third time and didn't play as a man and get subjected to Generohero Smith.
PC players, is there an FOV option in by default and on a more general note how buggy is this at release?
Issues with windowed mode that have been fixed but other then that it runs really smooth without any FPS drops at all.
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Thank you, do you know if it will run in a borderless window?
That's how I play, there is a fix released to get the best out of it.
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I did it as soon as I installed it, so I'm not aware of the difference, but this is worth a look for PC users, and addresses the FOV concern.
The camera glitching in dialogue that demerit mentioned, and Paladin Danse spinning around in a circle every so often when he's meant to be leading me somewhere are the only bugs I've encountered.
Just scrapped almost everything in sanctuary, was strangely enjoyable once I figured out that you can confirm with 'e' instead of enter. The workshop menu had me pretty baffled initially but I quite like it now. They're not going to moan that I've got rid of all the sofas and rugs, are they?
Also, is there a more efficient way of scrapping all of my junk than tossing it all on the floor?
I just stick it all in the workbench, and then I think it just uses stuff up as you build things.
I've just been littering the landscape with my junk and taking up anything that seems important. I've got bugger all weapons though.
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Yeah, like Cord says, just periodically travel back to Sanctuary and dump it all in the work bench. That's what I've been doing anyway.
I've also only just realised, 17 hours in, there's an armour workbench right next to the power armour station in Sanctuary. :mood:
So I've finally done a bit of armour crafting. I might invest in a few of the perks related to that, I feel like it might be handy. I've gone back to wearing my vault suit too because, even though I think it looks rubbish, I've yet to find anything I can wear under my armour that looks cool and has half-decent stats.
You people are mental. Don't bin your junk - put it in the workshops and use it to build shit.
Also - my pro tip for today: there's a light available on your Pip-Boy. Hold Circle on PS4 (it even projects something cool onto walls!).
I've got so much junk that I really need to put together some sort of table as to what's useful and what isn't.
Adhesive/copper/circuitry/nuclear stuff is all good
Yep. What I need to be doing is selling of the stuff I've got a surplus of to generate caps to buy (more of) the things I need.
So after wandering the wastes for a long enough length of time to feel like a bit of a big man I decided to take Preston Garvey up on his proposal of taking back the Minutemen's castle from whatever took it off them in the first place. I couldn't see it being a problem. Just steam in and clean out whatever's in there. The plan was going OK, until I came across the Mirelurk Queen.
Fuck that. Keep the fucking castle.
What version did the reviewers actually play? I ask because (playing on Survival) I had numerous goes at that first Deathclaw encounter before I did it and didn't once experience the jank with that part that his clip highlights.
In fact, in 30 hours play I've seen once sprite disappear through a floor.
The way some of these reviews are banging on you'd think it was a regular occurrence. Am I/are we benefiting from the day 1 patch, while the reviewers didn't?
Just think, they'll be a legendary one of those somewhere...So after wandering the wastes for a long enough length of time to feel like a bit of a big man I decided to take Preston Garvey up on his proposal of taking back the Minutemen's castle from whatever took it off them in the first place. I couldn't see it being a problem. Just steam in and clean out whatever's in there. The plan was going OK, until I came across the Mirelurk Queen.
Fuck that. Keep the fucking castle.
He's playing PC, Yev. Also worth noting it's a pre-release build. They dropped a day one patch on consoles and (maybe) PC. I'll say this video looks like an extreme case but then I'd imagine playing for review is one hell of a stress test.
Given you like to play for challenge isn't this going to get your more quickly to the point where you're overpowered and have enough money to actually crown yourself High Overlord of the Apocalypse?
I can't remember from your Skyrim posts whether you intentionally make life harder on yourself to counter the inevitable weakness of open world video game economies or not.
For people who are into such things there are no less than two new multi-part AARs which have posted their first entry on Rock Paper Shotgun within the last five hours.
Why is he reviewing a pre-release build? That's ludicrous.
I've never heard of that reviewer, which probably plays a part in why he's doing that. Trying to get the jump on the other reviewers, I imagine.
They normally review pre-release code. There's a bit of a delay between the game being finished, the disks being made and the patches being released.
I got distracted while on my way somewhere and ended up meeting up with Paladin "Charles" Danse. Top lad. Ended up fairly well kitted out after our little jaunt and am now pretty capable. Came across my first Super Mutants as well. Those suicide ones
Also - another tip: in your Pip-Boy, there's a thing where you can check on what an individual settlement needs under the Data/Workshops tab. Found out I was woefully understaffed in the security department so spent some time beefing up the amount of turrets and stuff I had set-up.
Paladin Danse sounds so much like George Clooney that, even though logic told me it was massively unlikely, I had to check online that he wasn't being voiced by him. Anybody else get that, or just me?
I've just done that quest, and had exactly the same reaction.
I assume this is now the point that happens in all the Bethesda games I've played, where I join all the various factions despite them otherwise kicking the shit out of each other. I/us all are even in charge of one of them, somehow.
Already reconsidering my plans to play this as a smooth-talker if this is true. Are we talking Dragon Age 2 levels of misleading?
I've not found it too bad, but overall the 'persuade' options haven't come over too well. Seems pretty random.
Lock picking is my new fave skill. Easily one of the most useful.
Never played Dragon Age, but I'm not a particularly massive fan of the way they've done it here. Generally speaking you'll have an obvious 'yes' 'no' and 'unsure' option, and then a random something else. Often just labelled 'sarcastic'.
For example I just encountered a robot with slightly weird speech patterns. I got the reply options of yes, no, unsure and 'game show host'. It does seem a little unlikely that you'd be sure what that's going to lead to.
The 'sarcastic' options in DA2 were the worst thing to ever happen to RPG dialogue. Rather than being a jokey dick you often came across as a cackling lunatic.
'What would be a good, smartarse response to the player's sister's dialogue at this point?'
'Oh, how about "I HOPE YOUR TITS CATCH FIRE YOU HAG LOLOLOL"?'
'Perfect!'
The settlement stuff is slightly getting on my tits at this point.
I wandered into one of the settlements the game had insisted I set up just to check everything was alright, only to be greeted by some new fella whinging at me there wasn't enough food and I should do something about it. This despite there being many wild food plants in the same patch of land I'd used to plant a couple of farmable plants. Apparently I need to harvest the wild plants and then replant them in exactly the same place or the retards will starve.
I think it was the point at which I was sneaking into one of my 'rooms' in the dead of night to remove the mouldering corpse that was in there when I liberated the place, carefully dragging the body inches past one of my sleeping settlers, that I realised the game has succeeded in turning me into a post apocalyptic Basil Fawlty. With a robot Manuel.
Nah, he's a relatively prominent youtube personality and PR companies are leaning more towards those guys because they're easier to deal with and can reach an audience that conventional media might not touch.
Do you get more trophies for playing on a harder setting (like COD, with its Veteran achievements) or am I free to play it on whatever the middle setting is called and not regret it at the end?
I'm a twit
Taffington Boathouse is my new stronghold. What a place
I also met the Brotherhood chap last night, I always feel like I should like them but the characters have been dicks in all three of the games I've played. Lone Ranger FTW.
I repeatedly set the room on fire with Paladin Danse. Not realising that I was the one setting the room on fire. Took a few goes to figure out.
I'm not trying to sound like That Guy (although I probably am him) but why don't you forget the trophies and play on whatever level feels most fun?
Not sure I've had a quest that isn't 'Walk into room, kill everyone, walk out' yet.
I didn't really listen to instructions so used all my minigun bullets before discovering deathclaw. After many deaths and contemplating starting again cos all 3 saves were after wasting the bullets, he got stuck in a hole so I pistolled it to death for a minute. So satisfying.
I've settled for hard. Although whazzed it to survival temporarily to see if I got a 'kill deathclaw on survival' trophy. I did not.
I'm a twit
Not sure about PS4 Baz, but there are no additional achievements for playing on Survival on XB1 though.
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