Fallout 4 has gone gold; leaked gameplay vids
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I will get Local Leader as well (even tho the first rank is utterly useless to me, since I plan on only doing a single settlement) and I will only start with 3 CHA for Lone Wanderer. Still, I will have it at level 24 (Level 19 Rank 2 is unlocked), so with bobblehead and enough planning, it's easy to reach within a reasonable time.
Emperor_Uriel
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This is what we were afraid of in regards to difficulty. It's cool for high level/legendary enemies to be hard to kill, and it's fine if regular enemies deal more damage than normal, but normal enemies shouldn't have oodles of health on any difficulty level.
Not sure why Bethesda keeps designing difficulty options this way, it makes the game tedious at higher difficulties, not an interesting challenge.
I thought it was flat damage reduction, in which case it's quite good. It makes stimpaks better and gives every health point more value due to increasing your "effective health". But defense perks (apart from Lone Wanderer) are pretty low on my priority list (first point beyond level 30), but I will see how good defense is in the game and how much my build needs it (everything will die uber quickly, so probably not very much).
Life Giver doesn't seem so hot either, but both effects "add up". Life Giver's "life reg" seems very appealing tho.
Depending how rare stimpaks are, maybe Medic will end up being the best of the 3.
I have 73 stimpacks and 22 Radaways in my inventory. Stimpacks are everywhere.
Judging by Medic, a Stimpak probably heals ~20% of your max HP by default? What's the healing rate? Also how is it affected by Survival difficulty?
Good to know! Cheers.
He's playing on normal, and the level of game play is not great. No way to judge. He was using a pistol to kill a legendary mob. Yea...
Yea, about 20%. The medic perk is huge. Haven't played on Survival but I can check it tomorrow.
travisbickle
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Can you play this game entirely in 3rd person?
Askherserenity
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In my experience thus far the enemies aren't really bullet sponges unless they're wearing a shit ton of armor. Super mutants seem like they have either a lot of health, but I think that's because super mutants... just have a lot of health regardless of difficulty.
Stimpaks on Survival difficulty heal veeeeeeeeerrry slowly.
Just 4. It only fills when using VATS and I've only been using VATS to disarm enemies so not very quickly on my build. I also don't use the crit stuff as much as I should. I try to save it for boss/legendary enemies and always forget to use it on headshots. I need to throw some points so I have more action points as well.
Admiral Woofington
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All right. With the assumption I'm getting every bobblehead, this is my build for my melee focused stealth character with the bobbleheads getting me as far as I want to go for most of these. Luck and Agility I might have to spend a couple of levels in to get some perks later on, like luck's
and agility's
but I'm all set for this being my build.
Now as long as I can find/build a sweet melee weapon I'm set.
one for better crits
increase of melee VATS.
Now as long as I can find/build a sweet melee weapon I'm set.
Good, good. I think I'll be playing melee on Survival for my first playthrough so I expect the start of the game to be rough.
Nardonicus
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It is tough but doable. Get good with the block/parry.
Have the melee mechanics changed? Can you explain a bit if there are any new features in that regard? Kind of interested if there are VATS specials kind of like New Vegas for melee weapon types.
Nardonicus
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I don't remember how it was in the older games exactly, but the parry now will deflect any incoming melee attack, including gun bashes from raiders with guns. It takes some practice getting the timing down and learning the different enemy attack behaviors but can be very fun and effective.
There are also some fun perks if you want to go VATs melee.
Admiral Woofington
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I would assume the melee system is similar to skyrim outside of you having to fight more people with ranged lol
Think I'm gonna start like this:
and work my way towards Strong Back, Sniper, Local Leader, and Ninja through bobbleheads and level ups. Think with this I'll only need 4 levels up instead of the 6 I needed before.
Hope I can find the Strength, Perception, Charisma, Agility Bobbleheads fairly early. lol
Though kind of curious if having my Str, End, and Luck that low near the beginning will hurt me in some way.
and work my way towards Strong Back, Sniper, Local Leader, and Ninja through bobbleheads and level ups. Think with this I'll only need 4 levels up instead of the 6 I needed before.
Hope I can find the Strength, Perception, Charisma, Agility Bobbleheads fairly early. lol
Though kind of curious if having my Str, End, and Luck that low near the beginning will hurt me in some way.
ginger ninja
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I just finished season 3 of the lore series. Kinda funny how a community made mod essentially has a more interesting character than anyone I remember from fallout 3.
Shadow Broker
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Just past midnight central US time and it's not preloading on the PS4. Says expected Auto-Download Date: 11/08/2015.
Don't annoy me with this Sony. Would it start downloadi ng at some random time in the morning?
Don't annoy me with this Sony. Would it start downloadi ng at some random time in the morning?
Slackbladder
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I'm not buying it from PSN but I checked and yeah it's £49.99. I guess a call to customer services is in order. Only ever bought one game from PSN Store and it was priced right.
Yes it had a little nice history going on with limited resources, that ending with the fallout 4 music was so damn good too.
Thanks for the info.
When you use VATS with a melee weapon, do you have any particular options? I'm guessing you still can't make targeted shots with melee, but are there any special attack options (sort of like Fore! with the golf club in NV) or can you only choose to queue up one form of attack on a target?
littleworm
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Hate to self quote but, I kinda want to know.
Haven't gotten far with my melee character but you can't "hold" the block button so you have to time your blocks to the enemies' attacks. It's a nice change.
It's big. I don't know how to measure it. Somebody posted earlier the map overlay compared to Skyrim, FO3 and NV.
Admiral Woofington
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i have no worries with side quests. Since Bethesda is famous for shitty main story and great side content.
Monster Zero
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A melee assassin sniper that wields an fire axe. Make it so FO4
Slackbladder
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Skyrim bottom, then Fallout 4, then Fallout 3.
Around the same size as Skyrim but remember a lot of Skyrim was mountains. I recently played Skyrim again and still found new places. I think Fallout 4 will be big enough.
Fix The Scientist
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Larger than FO3 but slightly smaller than skyrim.
Lots of em. Some small, some are looooong and take you all over the place. There's a good variety too in what you're doing, moreso than in previous installments.
Awesome.
I used pipe stuff for a while because it was all I had ammo for, plus I had one with incendiary damage on it. Modded up they can be decent .
Yeah I've seen they're not too bad, I think he's playing on Hard because he's hardly doing any damage with them to anything.
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