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[Solid Samus]

Sorry if this has been answered already but does anyone know if when you break down junk for parts do you still get the leftover parts? For example if an item has radioactive materials screws and adhesive and it is automatically broken down for radioactive materials do the screws and adhesive get discarded or added to your items?

When you break down objects, the materials are automatically transferred to your local crafting benches, which all share an item pool self contained inside their own settlement. If you have junk in your inventory it is a lot easier to walk up to any workshop in the town you're working in and drop it off there. You dont even need to break it down as long as its in your workshops.

 

[Wallach]

Oh good, for a while there I didn't think I was actually playing a Bethesda game hahaha! Reload seems to have fixed it but Thicket Excavations was glitching out HARD.

Yeah, there are a few cases I've seen like that quarry where the distant LOD doesn't actually go away when the nearer ones take over. Underneath there is the actual normal geometry and stuff, but the version you're only supposed to see from way out is still sticking around above it for some reason. Saw one other spot like that so far up on the broken bits of highway.

 

[Aspiring]

Got my pip boy from amazon today and am so sad. The clear plastic around the ps4 symbol has cracked : (

Cant wait to play though

 

[weshes195]

You need to place pylons. Attach a wire to the generator to the pylon and that will power a little area around it. Hope that helped.

It does nothing. I just want to be able to see inside my house without using the pip boy light.

 

[Corpekata]

I can't find an answer anywhere else, and I'm clearly missing something really basic because no one else seems to have this issue, but ("The First Step" spoilers):

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You know that platform Jared's standing on? How on earth do I get onto it? I've killed everything in that room, and there's a catwalk that goes to it but I can't jump the gap at the end of the catwalk, and I see no other way to get to the platform. I've spent half an hour in this one goddamned room.

I was able to make the jump. It's just awkward and fiddly, as far as I can tell. No other way up that I saw.

 

[Vamphuntr]

that's misinformation, don't worry about it. It takes a little while for the extra components to show up or something. But it's been tested, you get everything.

In Build mode, select them (A on xbox) and then go to what you want to assign them to and select that.

What does A do on Xbox? Confirm/inspect? That should be E on my keyboard I think.

 

[Papercuts]

Can someone please share the modifications that the .44 pistol can have.

Sure.

Receiver: Standard, Hardened, Powerful, Advanced

Barrel: Snubnose, Standard, Bull

Grip: Standard, Comfort

Sights: Standard, Short, Reflex, Recon

Requires a lot in Gun Nut to actually do some of these.

 

[Steel]

Oh good, for a while there I didn't think I was actually playing a Bethesda game hahaha! Reload seems to have fixed it but Thicket Excavations was glitching out HARD.

A reload fixed it? I had the same problem and I've seen other people have that problem. Until I got under the glitched out textures, I thought that was honestly how they meant to present it and laughed my ass off.

 

[SonicXtreme]

To those of you who are playing it, is the story great in this game? And is it a big focus and well told?

Because I'm thinking of impulse buying it on PC.

No game is good but the story is zzzz not interesting

 

[Compsiox]

When I have to do work I uninstall Fallout 4 and reinstall it as I work.

 

[kris.]

A reload fixed it? I had the same problem and I've seen other people have that problem. Until I got under the glitched out textures, I thought that was honestly how they meant to present it and laughed my ass off.

Yeah, I started walking towards it from the top of the quarry and started laughing maniacally at the ugly-ass textures. Then I started falling through them and knew something was wrong.

 

[BFIB]

Stupid question, how do you make beds? I'm at the workbench, have the materials, but it doesn't give me the option. It's greyed out.

 

[Soulflarz]

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=552789135

what a cool attachment

 

[Kal_El]

Ok i'm sure that this has been asked and maybe even answered. I've tried looking online and I've found people with similar problem.

I'VE LOST DOGMEAT

I found a new companion

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Piper

and sent him to the place where you find him....he's no where around. I've tried building dog houses and ringing the companion bell. If someone knows what to do please let me know. I found an awesome power armor upgrade that I gave to him and now he's gone.

 

[Darkstorne]

My NPCs all got stuck on the building where you find the power armor frame and all that stuff, so you might want to check on there. No idea how they manage to get there though.

Glad it wasn't just me who had that problem! It forced me to learn the settlement building system and construct some stairs on to the roof. Now all I do is play Settlements and build towns, networking all my crazy awesome constructions together with Brahmin traders, and occasionally cursing when I run out of junk that gives me gears because it means I have to go back to playing the main game to find some. It's dangerous out there...

I love it though. Feels like I'm just trying to survive in the wasteland and slowly rebuild civilization, rather than being this lone bad-ass wanderer who murders everything.

 

[Prompto]

Ok i'm sure that this has been asked and maybe even answered. I've tried looking online and I've found people with similar problem.

I'VE LOST DOGMEAT

I found a new companion

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Piper

and sent him to the place where you find him....he's no where around. I've tried building dog houses and ringing the companion bell. If someone knows what to do please let me know. I found an awesome power armor upgrade that I gave to him and now he's gone.

I have the same problem with

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Detective Valentine.

He's nowhere to be found in the place I sent him.

 

[Ivory Samoan]

In my opinion NV>4>3. It is better than those games in every way but the dialogue system really holds it back a shame really.

I'm in the opposite camp; I find the dialogue to be natural feeling and great.
Love the dice rolls for Charisma, not doing save scumming though... cheapens the experience (unless it's like, really important lol).

 

[unrealist]

Anyone else feel that the dialogue gives an illusion of choice? No matter what you answer, the outcome is the same. You don't really have much of an impact on shaping the world compared to New Vegas or FO3 (first town comes to mind).

Other than that, I feel that the combat (especially the ghouls, feels like the Walking Dead simulator) has improved.

 

[JeffZero]

I'd be more okay with the dialogue system if I didn't literally misinterpret what quite a few of those three-word summaries on the various choices even mean. Maybe it's just me -- but I'm really bad at gauging it sometimes. I really wish they weren't so short, goodness.

 

[Rflagg]

Hope so. 10 points to Bethesda if I can

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turn the dish on for some purpose much later in the game

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Make sure you've taken the fusion cores out of all of them! Prevent Grand Theft Armor in the Commonwealth!

Wait a minute can this actually happen?

Is there some sort of farm close to sanctuary? I am having a hard time finding food to build it up.

 

[unrealist]

I'd be more okay with the dialogue system if I didn't literally misinterpret what quite a few of those three-word summaries on the various choices even mean. Maybe it's just me -- but I'm really bad at gauging it sometimes. I really wish they weren't so short, goodness.

I am thinking it's catered for consoles .. nowadays games are designed in such a way .. even the UI is meant for consoles..

 

[Soulflarz]

I just got called a brave woman
what
im a guy

 

[JeffZero]

I am thinking it's catered for consoles .. nowadays games are designed in such a way .. even the UI is meant for consoles..

As a console gamer I'm fine with that, to a point. I feel like our patience is sorely underestimated on the whole. We really don't need only four options because we happen to have only four face buttons. And we really don't need three-word options because we aren't, well, stupid.

 

[Beefy]

Probably is, I had lost mine too before I found her on there. My NPCs all got stuck on the building where you find the power armor frame and all that stuff, so you might want to check on there. No idea how they manage to get there though.

Might want to build a bell first though, you can call NPCs towards you with it. If she isn't stuck she'll walk to you that way.

I just checked and she was inside the roof. I shot her until she became unconscious then grabbed her chair and put it where it should be. Thanx for that!

*Edit: I have just given Jon Long a Fat Boy. A few raiders ran towards sanctuary and he fired it 3 times totally blowing them to bits.

 

[Neofx]

I can't find an answer anywhere else, and I'm clearly missing something really basic because no one else seems to have this issue, but ("The First Step" spoilers):

Spoiler

You know that platform Jared's standing on? How on earth do I get onto it? I've killed everything in that room, and there's a catwalk that goes to it but I can't jump the gap at the end of the catwalk, and I see no other way to get to the platform. I've spent half an hour in this one goddamned room.

Never mind. THERE'S A BUTTON NEXT TO THE GAP. Ugh. I am so stupid.

I spent quite some time looking for a way up before I found that button aswell, it's so sneaky.

 

[Darryl M R]

Sure.

Receiver: Standard, Hardened, Powerful, Advanced

Barrel: Snubnose, Standard, Bull

Grip: Standard, Comfort

Sights: Standard, Short, Reflex, Recon

Requires a lot in Gun Nut to actually do some of these.

Thanks, dang I was hoping it could have a supressor on it. (I'm assuming it has no muzzle options?)

 

[Pancakes]

I spent quite some time looking for a way up before I found that button aswell, it's so sneaky.

Oh wow there was a button? I just sprint jumped that gap lol.

 

[MetroidPrimeRib]

Every conversation I have in Goodneighbor is glitching me out. Whenever the conversation is over I cant leave and it just focuses on my character.

gg

Edit: ok i just mashed and got out of it i guess. I dunno.

 

[Hawkian]

Just hadn't really seen this posted and seen a lot of general questions, so I posted this in the crafting thread also

(Hold) Back - Enter Build Mode
Dpad Left/Right - Select crafting category
Dpad Up/Down - Change tier of current crafting category
A - Place/Select item / Select Villager (with villager highlighted) / Assign Villager (with task highlighted)
(Hold) A + Analog stick = Pan item around without rotating
LT - Rotate selected item 90 degrees left
RT - Rotate selected item 90 degrees right
X - Scrap currently equipped item
B - Cancel (If you have an item selected, it will offer to store it in your "bank" and you can place it later)

 

[Tatsumi Oga]

As soon as you leave the vault, move forward, go down and go left, keep going left and eventually you'll find plenty of things, like a Power Armor. Good lord that thing is awesome and even though i play on hard....i can take quite a few punches while i am in this thing. I really dig the light on his head as well, looks much better than the Pip Boy light. Makes me wish i could have this light all the time.

 

[robotrock]

Were the

Spoiler

Triggermen

in other Fallout Games?

 

[spyder_ur]

Headed to South Boston - wonder if the people there as as scumbag as regular Southies.

I love the idea of Piper with the missile launcher but she's repeatedly killing me.

 

[Hawkian]

Wait a minute can this actually happen?

Yes. Raiders or even untrustworthy Settlers can steal your Power Armor if left unattended and powered up.

Is there some sort of farm close to sanctuary? I am having a hard time finding food to build it up.

There are some

Spoiler

Tato's at tenpines bluff at least. In terms of a farm, yeah there's one, and you can score a bunch of extra stuff at it that is super helpful. Check in the crafting thread for the big post about making adhesive.

 

[littlemagician]

Covenant is such a strange place.

 

[Darryl M R]

Hmm if the .44 cannot have a supressor I might have to rethink my build :\

 

[v0mitg0d]

Yeah, my biggest gripe with the game.

It explains absolutely fuck all.

does this help?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEYty7x6BME

 

[texhnolyze]

Just hadn't really seen this posted and seen a lot of general questions, so I posted this in the crafting thread also

(Hold) Back - Enter Build Mode
Dpad Left/Right - Select crafting category
Dpad Up/Down - Change tier of current crafting category
A - Place/Select item / Select Villager (with villager highlighted) / Assign Villager (with task highlighted)
(Hold) A + Analog stick = Pan item around without rotating
LT - Rotate selected item 90 degrees left
RT - Rotate selected item 90 degrees right
X - Scrap currently equipped item
B - Cancel (If you have an item selected, it will offer to store it in your "bank" and you can place it later)

The game just doesn't explain this, at all. Sigh.
Thanks.

 

[wild wild rice]

To those of you who are playing it, is the story great in this game? And is it a big focus and well told?

Because I'm thinking of impulse buying it on PC.

There's the 5-10 minute opening that was shown in preview trailers and then you're off to the wasteland. It's not a big focus and so far is definitely not well told. But I'm only 8ish hours in.

I'm having a tough time connecting with this game. It just feels like playing Fallout 3 again, except without that added charm of trying something new for the first time. This is actually the most bored I've been with a new game in a long time.

 

[Bucca]

Just hadn't really seen this posted and seen a lot of general questions, so I posted this in the crafting thread also

(Hold) Back - Enter Build Mode
Dpad Left/Right - Select crafting category
Dpad Up/Down - Change tier of current crafting category
A - Place/Select item / Select Villager (with villager highlighted) / Assign Villager (with task highlighted)
(Hold) A + Analog stick = Pan item around without rotating
LT - Rotate selected item 90 degrees left
RT - Rotate selected item 90 degrees right
X - Scrap currently equipped item
B - Cancel (If you have an item selected, it will offer to store it in your "bank" and you can place it later)

Thank you so damn much for this.

 

[Rflagg]

Yes. Raiders or even untrustworthy Settlers can steal your Power Armor if left unattended and powered up.

There are some

Spoiler

Tato's at tenpines bluff at least. In terms of a farm, yeah there's one, and you can score a bunch of extra stuff at it that is super helpful. Check in the crafting thread for the big post about making adhesive.

Damn, I need to take out the core thanks. I also likely need to stop storing basically everything in the workbench. lol

I look around that location I went to it already, but just a very short (night) visit for a quest thanks an will check the crafting thread to be sure.

 

[Woo-Fu]

I at first I thought the same, but I like it now. Makes combat faster since you need to react quickly. As a result I think it's a little more challenging and therefore more rewarding.

Freezing time was the only reason I used VATs in the previous games. In this one the only reason to use it is to build up a guarantee'd crit for when you need it.

Oh and if you're using any gun you can aim yourself do so, you'll have much better accuracy than with VATs. VATs misses every sniper shot I give it whereas I can just do it manually and headshot every time.

Well, I do use it by spamming q when wandering just to find mobs/traps.

 

[WX3]

I have not gone to Diamond City.

Too many side missions lol.

I have about 12 hours into the game, still haven't gone that far south! For some reason, I am saving that reveal for as late as I can, sort of like my first trip to New Vegas.

 

[Soulflarz]

Hmm if the .44 cannot have a supressor I might have to rethink my build :\

Doesn't matter when it packs 60 a hit!

 

[jtar86]

I have the same problem with

Spoiler

Detective Valentine.

He's nowhere to be found in the place I sent him.

Had this problem last night. If you're on a certain mission that involves him he will be at that place. As for Dogmeat he's probably at the gas station where you first got him.

 

[DAREALGUMMY]

Just hadn't really seen this posted and seen a lot of general questions, so I posted this in the crafting thread also

(Hold) Back - Enter Build Mode
Dpad Left/Right - Select crafting category
Dpad Up/Down - Change tier of current crafting category
A - Place/Select item / Select Villager (with villager highlighted) / Assign Villager (with task highlighted)
(Hold) A + Analog stick = Pan item around without rotating
LT - Rotate selected item 90 degrees left
RT - Rotate selected item 90 degrees right
X - Scrap currently equipped item
B - Cancel (If you have an item selected, it will offer to store it in your "bank" and you can place it later)

Only one I didn't know about what the panning around one. MUCH thanks. Also, I wish there was a way to not have items snap with other things at times.

Speaking of, I REALLY didn't expect to play that much in settlements...been doing that mostly all day and still not done. Shame that you can't go super high.

 

[Darryl M R]

Doesn't matter when it packs 60 a hit!

Haha true but I want to be stealthy so I can take out multiple people in a room without alerting everyone in a building.

-Still hoping for clarification/confirmation that there are no muzzle options for the .44

 

[FlyinJ]

I love how wearing a grey suit, army helmet and ridiculous white rimmed Kurt Cobain sunglasses makes everyone trust everything I say.

I look like Mystery the PUA in conversation cutscenes.

 

[Laughing Banana]

Fucking house-building will be the end of me. It's the way the walls or what have you do not fit properly to the square-shaped vacant lot that you get when you scrap a ruined house... GAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH. Maybe I should just let Sanctuary fend for itself and just build a comfy one person shack or something near the Red Rocket Gas Station... :/

Question: what does it mean when you "store" objects--like say, when you realize that this thing that you just put is a mistake? Does it mean you can use it for free in the future without the need of materials to build it again? How does it work?

Bloody hell they just don't really give a good how-to-do for such a seemingly important feature...

Anyways, is it advisable to go to Diamond City as soon as possible to unlock stuff?

 

[kai3345]

Ive tried to kill 6 different "friendly" npcs and they just pop a squat and chill once their health is at zero. Fuck this game

 

[timetokill]

McGRIZZLE'S FISTS-ONLY ADVENTURES IN THE WASTELAND -- LOG 3

Spoiler

Made it to Diamond City.
Everyone keeps asking me what I'm doing. I tell them it's none of their damn business.

As soon as the reporter lied our way in, I went past the shop guy and up some elevator. Found myself apparently in the mayor's office. Nobody around, so I stole everything of value.

Some cutscene with the reporter talking to a little girl made the camera spaz out for a while. Like I care about a goddamn reporter.

When the camera came back, I went into the back rooms. Found the receptionist sleeping. Tried to punch her to death, as I do. Guess she's essential... urgh. Went and hid in the other room until she went back to sleep. She talks to me now like nothing happened. Must've thought it was a nightmare.

Went back down the elevator and told the little girl to mind her own damn business. Goddamn people askin' me shit.

Found a bar, the "Colonial Taphouse." Husband and wife arguing about going home, bartender and the husband start playing a game of Punchy-Punch. These people are all right! I decided to join in on the game and punched the wife to death at the bar.

Apparently they play Punchy-Punch different in Diamond City, because the other two guys stop punching each other and start punching me. One of 'em even pulls a gun. Where I come from we gots two rules for Punchy-Punch:
1) No weapons, especially guns
2) Ya don't stop punchin' still the thing you're punchin' is dead

Now these guys just broke both goddamn rules. Must be some American League bullshit. Anyway, I had to put 'em both down, McGrizzle style.

Dogmeat started biting some old lady in the back. Figured since my punchin' arm was so loose, might as well get some more whacks in. She runs away! I let her go and focus on the room. Another guy in the corner... and a blind guy. Figure there's not much honor in punchin' a blind guy, and he's sittin' there drinkin' his coffee like a gentleman, so I leave him be and punch the other guy into oblivion. Blind guy just keeps drinkin' his coffee. What a gentleman.

Now, that old lady comes back with some guy. Two on one, I like those odds. I punch her guy friend to death in the doorway. She goes back to her table and tries to take up like nothing happened before. Nuh uh. That's not how the rules work. I punch the shit out of her for wastin' my time.

Now some robot with a chef's hat comes in and starts shootin'. My knuckles got no problem bustin' metal, so I get to work. Sonuvabitch is tough, and I gotta take his health bar down 3 times before he's down for the count. Tried to take his chef hat but the damn thing's stuck to him. Shame.

After that I took everything off everyone so I'd know where I'd been. After a while it gets hard to remember who ya punched and who died of non-punchin' causes. So this makes it easy on me.

Decided that I'd painted such a pretty picture that I might as well take a couple mementos.

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Til next time... keep on punchin'.

- McGrizzle