Fallout 4 - Power Armors for EVERYONE!

LordRendar · Nov 11, 2015

So, wonky start to my Fallout experience. Arrived around 10 PM at home,with a fresh retail copy of Fallout 4. I usually buy over Steam but I wanted the Poster. Then I notice that I neglected to install a CD-R drive in my new PC. So I went down into the cellar to remove the drive from my old pc.
I then pull my PC out from under my desk and hear a light snap. The HDMI cable got ripped out of its socket. It is 11PM. No Fallout and no TV since everything is connected to it.
In the morning I walk to the nearest electronics store buy a new cable. Pop in the CD, start the install, see the Steam Logo, sinking feeling in my gut. Jep, there is only 5.2 GB of data on the CD. Guess I can play it in 6 hours.

Hailey Knight · Nov 11, 2015

I need gifs for some of the animations, like when you successfully pull off a charisma attempt.

Dave · Nov 11, 2015

Zero Esc said:
I need gifs for some of the animations, like when you successfully pull off a charisma attempt.

I wouldn't know. My charisma sucks.

So does my character's.

Soupy · Nov 11, 2015

Waiting for good pay day to hit so I can pick this up!

Cog · Nov 11, 2015

Last night I finally finished downloading this game. Everything went right the first ten seconds until I realized that the game was dubbed in european spanish. I had to download 2 gb more for the game to be in english. Anyone knows how to change the default language of steam games without changing the interface?

Ravenpoe · Nov 11, 2015

LordRendar said:
Pop in the CD, start the install, see the Steam Logo, sinking feeling in my gut. Jep, there is only 5.2 GB of data on the CD. Guess I can play it in 6 hours.

Well, I mean, that's about how much data fits on a DVD...

Jay · Nov 11, 2015

Good game, stable... shit controls. Had to change some mouse settings in the ini file. Made it great.

Also, GG Bethesda for making keybinds we can't change anywhere... reserving the entire numpad for weapons... SINCE WHEN IS 1 to 9 not good enough? ffs.

Glovepie helps but ich, these console peasants man,

Hailey Knight · Nov 11, 2015

The controls are kind of weird on the console, too. Some of the menu navigation takes getting used to.

Wish I could tear down all the houses in Sanctuary and start completely fresh.

Jay · Nov 11, 2015

Why are some keys hard coded though? E and R in particular. I'm a left handed gamer.

How are games still fighting this issue in 2015?

Sloppy.

Frank · Nov 12, 2015

Zero Esc said:
The controls are kind of weird on the console, too. Some of the menu navigation takes getting used to.

Wish I could tear down all the houses in Sanctuary and start completely fresh.

I was just bitching about the same thing.

Also, for some more complaining, how God damn hard would it have been to include some new music in the radio stations? New Vegas got some new music, why is it almost the exact same soundtrack as Fallout 3?

Here is the complete Codsworth name list:
http://nerdist.com/fallout-4s-codsworth-can-say-furiosa-katniss-and-almost-1000-other-names/

Franke, but not Frank? FUCK OFF.

Frank · Nov 12, 2015

Not enough adhesive in the world to meet my growing glue needs.

Hailey Knight · Nov 12, 2015

Frank said:
Not enough adhesive in the world to meet my growing glue needs.

Save it for the just had sex thread and try to keep this thread on topic.

I ended up restarting my character after looking at the Endurance tree. Then I decided to go apeshit and plow points into only Endurance, Intelligence, and Luck, leaving everything else at 1. I've always wanted to play one of these as min/max and never went ahead with it. Now's the time.

Dave · Nov 12, 2015

Frank said:
Not enough adhesive in the world to meet my growing glue needs.

You can grow your own adhesive. Cook vegetable starch with corn, tato, muttfruit, and purified water.

If you find a place that wants to buy muttfruit DON'T DO IT! They give you 2 caps. You're better off planting them yourself.

Necronic · Nov 12, 2015

One thing I just recently realized is that when I am looking at my inventory (or at a store) I can hit left or right and it will show me subcategories of my inventory, like armor or weapons. Has made inventory management a lot easier.

Hailey Knight · Nov 13, 2015

So if we trigger NPCs to head to Sanctuary before it's ready, do you need to drop everything and scramble to set it up? Or are they okay to rough it for a while?

Dave · Nov 13, 2015

I haven't had Sanctuary invaded so I don't know. Just make some good defenses and you'll be fine.

I scrapped my first game and started over yesterday. My charisma wasn't high enough to have the perk that lets you set up trade routes, which are almost necessary in this game. I was walking around very slowly because I was always overburdened and this is going to allow me to have my workbenches synced. Have a bunch of stuff in one and want it to be used in Sanctuary? Fine. Without the trade route you're just screwed unless you load everything up and start walking. Slowly.

Ravenpoe · Nov 13, 2015

Dave said:
I haven't had Sanctuary invaded so I don't know. Just make some good defenses and you'll be fine.

I scrapped my first game and started over yesterday. My charisma wasn't high enough to have the perk that lets you set up trade routes, which are almost necessary in this game. I was walking around very slowly because I was always overburdened and this is going to allow me to have my workbenches synced. Have a bunch of stuff in one and want it to be used in Sanctuary? Fine. Without the trade route you're just screwed unless you load everything up and start walking. Slowly.

Man, one of my favorite moments in Fallout New Vegas was during one of the DLC's, it was the one where you went to the casino resort (Dead Money, I think) and you go through all these quests to get into the vault and find the gold. And then there's far too much gold for you to carry, and you have to make an escape before it blows up, and it's supposed to force you to leave behind the treasure so you can live.

I loaded all 5000 pounds of gold in my backpack and slowly, very slowly, crawled out of the vault, using every cheesy method I could to cut corners and make it out with just a fraction of a second to spare. And then crawled back to the mainland, and crawled through the desert, dragging behind me that huge sack of gold. It took forever, but eventually I made it to my safehouse and was able to store it all. I'm rich, bitch!

Of course, then it became a challenge to find someone that could afford to buy even one gold bar from me... but that's another challenge.

Dave · Nov 13, 2015

Day 3: I was sneaking to some settlement to help them out when I came upon a [spoiler place redacted] that had been taken over by bandits. I cleared them out and got some good loot but when I exited back into the Wasteland there was some sort of strange storm that dosed me with radiation. At first I thought I'd take some Rad-X and make a break for it, but every time the lightning flashed I'd be hit with so much radiation it would either give me cancer or cure what cancer I had. Or mutate me with another head or something.

Finally I gave up and went back inside until it blew over. Gotta watch out for these storms. If I was ever caught in the open I don't think I'd survive.

Hailey Knight · Nov 13, 2015

I'm okay with using Fast Travel. I avoided it in Skyrim, but that was because that was Fantasy Wilderness Simulator for me. Won't hurt my Fallout immersion.

AshburnerX · Nov 13, 2015

I kind of dig the Base Building aspect of FO4, but I don't really see the point. Why wouldn't I do this in the GECK instead?

Also, you feel really underpowered starting out.

Dave · Nov 14, 2015

FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THAT'S HOLY DO NOT GO INTO SWAN'S POND!!!

Far · Nov 14, 2015

Cambridge spoilers - though just about a particular building there that so far hasn't affected the main story.

Get all the way through the Kendall Hospital, clearing level after level of raider. Get to another drop to the next floor, see some bodies in a cage and thinking nothing more of it, I drop down. THUMP...THUMP...THUMP..legendary deathclaw comes waltzing around the corner.

Deathclaw are scary in the open wasteland, but a trapped one, without any means of escape, confined there with it until either you or it are dead, that's true fear. No way back up, no way out, proceed to getdecapitated. Re-load, this time I toss a few bottlecap and frag mines down before I jump on top of one of the cages. Deathclaw still manages to reach me and pummel me into oblivion.

Enough time has passed during all the set up this load time and the music changes.

I did the same dropping of the mines while the song slowly builds, because I'm stubborn and stupid and want to try it one last time. I wait for the song to just about crescendo and jump down. He sees me, charges and as soon as he enters the room walks right into a bottlecap mine. It must have crit or something because this time he explodes into a bloody mess but doesn't quite die so he's chasing me round and round the room as I run backwards and unload into him. I just manage to eek out a win on him at the last second as the song closes. Easily my favourite moment.

Hailey Knight · Nov 14, 2015

Be careful in the middle north, just past the lake near the nothern map border. I tried going towards a weird rectangle on my radar, only to have super mutants charging after me. Ended up having to reload because even though I did win, I'd wasted most of my aid and ammo.

I think I'm going to use my next perk to upgrade scrounger.

jwhouk · Nov 14, 2015

So - no one's tried the Fenway Park mod yet?

Dave · Nov 14, 2015

I have 0 mods loaded and probably won't until Steam opens their Workshop. I'll play the game all the way through without them first.

Although I do have a confession. I hate hate HATE building stuff. So when I have to I usually turn it on God mode and build whatever the fuck I want since it takes no materials when you do it that way. I don't cheat any other time but when it comes to building up my settlements I will cheat every time. Because it sucks and is nothing more than busy work.

AshburnerX · Nov 14, 2015

Dave said:
I have 0 mods loaded and probably won't until Steam opens their Workshop. I'll play the game all the way through without them first.

Although I do have a confession. I hate hate HATE building stuff. So when I have to I usually turn it on God mode and build whatever the fuck I want since it takes no materials when you do it that way. I don't cheat any other time but when it comes to building up my settlements I will cheat every time. Because it sucks and is nothing more than busy work.

At least they have some mercy on you with Sanctuary, with all those broken houses to tear up for supplies to get started.

Hailey Knight · Nov 15, 2015

Isn't the whole base-building thing optional? My wife has three bases, I think, but I've only touched Sanctuary and it doesn't seem to have affected things. I stole a Raider outpost that I could turn into a base, but I see no need. Unless someone's going to grow RadAway to cure the fact that my max HP is at 20%, it's not going to help me right now.

I like that radiation actually matters now, but it is killing me.

Dave · Nov 15, 2015

I used chems for the first time to bolster my stats this morning while fight a god damned gigantic mirelurk. I died three times and then said fuck it and juiced myself, opening up a can of whoop-ass with a missile launcher.

This game can actually be kinda hard sometimes.

sixpackshaker · Nov 15, 2015

I just fought her, I just hid in the wall and plinked her with a .45 combat rifle.

I got caught out in the open the first time she popped up.

AshburnerX · Nov 15, 2015

Did that yesterday. I have basically zero ammo right now because of it and the reward (some power armor pieces and 5 cores) was not worth the hassle as I haven't been using the power armor I DO have. What I NEED is ammo and better guns.

Zero Esc said:
Isn't the whole base-building thing optional? My wife has three bases, I think, but I've only touched Sanctuary and it doesn't seem to have affected things. I stole a Raider outpost that I could turn into a base, but I see no need. Unless someone's going to grow RadAway to cure the fact that my max HP is at 20%, it's not going to help me right now.

I like that radiation actually matters now, but it is killing me.

If you get the Local Leader perks, you can make your bases start selling/trading stuff for caps. This is basically the ONLY way to get a decent amount of caps. They can also grow food you can pick for use in soups and to make adhesive.

Hailey Knight · Nov 15, 2015

Dave said:
This game can actually be kinda hard sometimes.

This is the one time I haven't given my wife a hard time for choosing easy difficulty. Other Bethesda games, she ended up going to normal and discovering she could still do it, but this one is a little more of a test, so I can't blame her.

AshburnerX said:
If you get the Local Leader perks, you can make your bases start selling/trading stuff for caps. This is basically the ONLY way to get a decent amount of caps. They can also grow food you can pick for use in soups and to make adhesive.

Is it really necessary though? Other Bethesda games, there gets to a point where you can get so obscenely rich that money means nothing anymore. I don't need to be that rich though.

AshburnerX · Nov 15, 2015

Zero Esc said:
Is it really necessary though? Other Bethesda games, there gets to a point where you can get so obscenely rich that money means nothing anymore. I don't need to be that rich though.

I haven't gotten out of my teens yet, but ALL of the guns I've been finding have been kind of shit and that was where you got most of your money in the other games. I also don't know if loot is leveled or not. But I do know that the caps help me RIGHT NOW in being able to buy ammo and meds.

Hailey Knight · Nov 15, 2015

AshburnerX said:
I haven't gotten out of my teens yet, but ALL of the guns I've been finding have been kind of shit and that was where you got most of your money in the other games. I also don't know if loot is leveled or not. But I do know that the caps help me RIGHT NOW in being able to buy ammo and meds.

Part of the problem is also scrapping stuff versus selling it. Not all gun pieces are useful in making better guns, although certain perks can make better mods.

I'm only level 7; but with how I did my character, I'd have to blow 5 levels' worth of perks to get Local Leader. I'm just going to have to find my own way.

sixpackshaker · Nov 15, 2015

AshburnerX said:
I haven't gotten out of my teens yet, but ALL of the guns I've been finding have been kind of shit and that was where you got most of your money in the other games. I also don't know if loot is leveled or not. But I do know that the caps help me RIGHT NOW in being able to buy ammo and meds.

Find the chem station at Sanctuary. You can make your own Stimpacks. I have not bought one yet, they are really expensive.

COOK the meat you find - no rads. There is even a mutated dog that when you cook the meat it takes away -50 rads.

Join the brotherhood of steel and do their missions. They pay roughly 100 caps per mission. And they dump a lot of xp on you too.

LordRendar · Nov 15, 2015

I loot EVERYTHING. Then dump the Junk and Food at my Workbench. I sell the Weapons and Ammunition ,for the guns I dont need, at one of my many vendors I have at Sanctuary. All of my armor pieces have the "deep pocket" mod when I go on a scavenging run. I have quite a lot of caps and a lot of ammo. Progress is slow though.