I made stuff intentionally harder on Skyrim because I didn't start playing on Legendary mode until I'd finished the game on Normal, at which point I knew where most good things were and how everything worked.Originally Posted by Ian
No such luxury here.
Just came up against a Legendary Ferral Ghoul Stalker.
It's going to be a long time before I can kill shit like that.
Anyone bothered with a scavenging station? If so, are you getting much from it?
I've finally found a quest that isn't involving murdering everyone.
Travis is a loser. Do we think the Borborov Brothers are the same voice actor as your cousin in GTA?
John DiMagio? Bender from Futurama and Marus Phoenix.
I've finally found a properly good gun.
Say hello to my little Hunting Rifle. When I get back to Sanctuary Hills I'm going to mod the shit out of it.
55 Damage. Short Powerful Hunting Rifle.
30 hours in and I'll finally be able to kill things. At least until I run out of .308 calibre bullets.
I've set up a couple to test them out. Not noticed anything particularly yet.
Thinking about it, if they find junk for you then I've no chance of noticing that among all the other crap in my workbench.
Just noticed the game has all the SPECIAL videos on a loop when you load it up to the main menu.
Just got to Diamond City and my quest list has exploded. I want a decent companion so I'm going to prioritise Valentine's missions.
I've also just got to Diamond City.
First stop: Dugout InnHas Yev got shares in this game?
I'm a twit
The water purifier is the only worthwhile thing I've built so far. Handful of purified waters in the workshop whenever I head back, quite nice.
Me and Todd Howard, we're like that.I've also just got to Diamond City.
First stop: Dugout Inn
Gonna load this up soon, think I'm going to have a wander around the East side of the map tonight. I've got the whole week off next week
Bit of a selling spree (having worked out what I'd like to keep) and we're up to 7,158 caps now.
I seem to perpetually have about 1k.
I upgraded to Gun Nut 2 and now have a sniper rifle that does 55 damage, with a bunch of upgrades I still want to add to it
I've got that, the laser rifle you get of Danse, a shotgun and a pistol which is pretty beastly as well.
I honestly reckon I'm the worst in the world at this game.
Dizzy heights of level 7 woo.
I'm a twit
Anyone been to the very bottom of Dunwich Borer's mine pit?
Fallout at it's absolutely fucking finest
My favourite thing about this so far is the legendary monsters with a unique item as a reward for killing them. Absolute masterstroke.
My 'Junkies Tire Iron' that has a damage modifier based on how many chems you're addicted too is a great example of that. Kept it as my last resort weapon when I've ran out of ammo
Found my first Deathclaw outside of the first one you meet.
It'll be a long time before I'll be able to kill that.
I'm wondering if I should start over and just make a Charisma 10 character. I'm failing so many persuasion checks.
I thought about starting over yesterday for similar reasons, but after 30+ hours just couldn't face it. It will be interesting to play this again with a different SPECIAL build though.
In the meantime Phonics, just get yourself a suit (+2 charisma) and a nice hat (+1 charisma) to change into when you're not fighting or exploring the wasteland.
Psh, this IS how I fight/explore the wasteland. With classical radio on at all times obviously.
edit: Bloody hell, that screenshot came out quite well didn't it. That framing.
Yep, what a screenshot.
Who are people using as a companion at the moment?
Dogmeat got the hook because he was pretty buggy (kept going AWOL) and annoying even when he was there. Codsworth has been a marked improvement in terms of remaining present, and I enjoy him interjecting into some of the conversations (though again buggy, the game kept playing his bits over the NPC lines when I went to Diamond City). He now likes me so much I got a free perk, which probably means it's time to get rid and try someone new.
Diamond City has been a very welcome change of pace. I do hope there are some other places like it out there.
I've used Dogmeat for 30 hours, but just flipped to Codsworth.
So what exactly do the companions do?
Help in combat, chirp in during conversations and say stuff when you come across landmarks and the like?
Bullet Sponges
Carrying Mules
Prevent you getting through doorways easily
Occasionally kill people
To name a few.
I imagine as well as the doorway thing they're quite keen on getting clipped into scenery in general.
Perhaps in some of Shindig's propaganda videos, but not so far in my experience.
I just got a Super Mutant Companion
He's an absolute melee beast. Any time it gets too much I run behind him as he smashes them. The only issue being his size, at least I could jump over the dog when he decided to ram me into a corner.
Highly reccomend the Travis/Bobrov Brothers questline you get in Dugout Inn once you go in there a couple times. Good stuff. Although I did have to push one NPC out of a wall so he would talk to me.
I'm still struggling to find some cool armour to wear (this is deeply important to me). I'm starting to put together a vast cool hat collection, but there seems to be a rule on this that if something is useful as armour, it has to look shit.
I might have to kill that Preston fella to get his gunslinger outfit.
You can't kill him Cord.
Fuck sake. I wonder if he'll trade for one of my collection of postman outfits.
Related to his immortality, it does seem to be near on impossible to play this game as a bad character as you could in the previous ones. You can do sarcastic arsewipe, but I don't think I've had any evil options presented to me so far.
I always play these things as the most heroic guy in the world, but it would be nice to have the option.
I think in one of the two RPS AARs they tried to kill him for basically that reason. They certainly tried to kill somebody who's unkillable.
I think if you just speak to him and select the "trade" option you can make him just give it to you.
I can't speak to Preston at Sanctuary Hills. Is that a bug?
Nick Valentine is my companion at the moment, just for the novelty of him being able to hack any terminal.
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Anyone fought The Swan near the combat zone? Tough bastard but Piper and I lay him to rest in the end.
Was gonna trade her for Cait but can't be arsed with the faff of getting all the armour, ammo and weapons off one to give the other. So Piper remains.
Also I think the brotherhood of steel quest line has broke because college square is empty, including the subway station, yeah that dickhead keeps telling me to go away. Plus I've no idea where to get this "artifact" cos the marker to help the recon team is just at the police station. Shame cos that Danse guy seems badass.
I'm a twit
I have an explosive bullet submachine gun now.
Did a bit of exploring of the southeast of the map today, which receives a score of noooope/10 on the prestigious 'fuck that for a game of soldiers' scale.
Took ages to fight/flee like a big girl through all of the most horrible beasties in the Fallout universe to make my way to the farm the minuteman fella wants me to help. Turns out it's just one bloke with a couple of small kids. Sadly the dialogue wheel didn't have a 'no way you big spastic, you're a mentalist!' option when he asked me to help him out.
It'll no doubt shit itself at some point, but the story in this is so fucking good at the moment.
So I've been wandering about today. Decided to help Curie out with her companion quest line, do not click the spoiler if you don't want to know about her.
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I've got one issue at the moment, I get power armour withdrawal symptoms.
I also get too used to carrying loads of shite around with me when I'm in the power armour and I'm now hoarding loads of guns. I think I have a selection of 10 that I keep thinking "oh I'll definitely need that in five minutes, so I'll just keep it on me"
They have to add sorting by ammo type onto the next patch.
The memory den in Goodneighbour is very cool. Going to plug through a few main story missions tonight. Then I have all of next week off
I'm thinking Strong might be straight up OP now. He just absolutely batters everyone for fun.
Probably makes up for Nick Valentine and Piper being absolute dirt then. The dog I like, but those two? Fucking useless.
I definitely found that I only managed some of the earlier fights because I had the dog/Strong tanking stuff while I shot from a distance. Playing on a harder setting and with Valentine now and I'm fairly happy with the difficulty level. Level 15 and I've only just bothered to go find some power armor though. :whoops:
I stole Prestons hat in solidarity with Cord.
The Glowing Sea.
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