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[hobblygobbly]

Jeez. Survival is no fun. Can't get anywhere near the Corvega plant without getting melted.

I'll probably switch down and put it back on later when I'm OP and the game becomes trivial

I have been playing on survival since the beginning, I'm 17 hours in the game and only coming up to the plant now. I really like survival, you gotta make use of everything you have at your disposal such as drugs and really use your environment. Also, remember there is a cover system in the game in first person mode. Stand by the edge of a wall by a doorway and aim your sights down, you will peek around the corner. It'll help immensely in buildings. Example video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhW-RLCT_mI

 

[televator]

LMAO when you steal a power core from someone's power armor.

http://gfycat.com/DaringConstantArmedcrab

Oh WOOOOOOOOOOOOOW... I gotta try that! I'm so glad I went in on sneak stats.

 

[Hispanic! At the Disco]

You fought one too? In that basement?

It survived 2 fat mans. What in the hell is that thing.

mine was at a settlement I was cleaning up! it was a minuteman quest to

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retake their "castle". i had to clean up the mirelurk eggs inside the walls to build in the castle and it came out of the water while i was inside

but in a basement??? i see truly nowhere is safe!

 

[Big-ass Ramp]

this game feels so old in certain spots. I'm still having to jump up mountains and break the geometry like I had to in Oblivion. That's crazy

 

[GlamFM]

5 hours in, the game finally clicked with me.

Interesting how little is tutorialized in this game, as someone who never played 3 or NV (but Skyrim) there´s is a lot to figure out before you can really get going.

 

[UberLevi]

Hey guys, quick question. Do trade routes between settlements provide me with income?

 

[Laughing Banana]

What's a good Melee build I wonder. Strength and Endurance it's paramount, I guess, but the question is raising them to what level... but I feel like Intelligence is kind of a "required" stat for EXP and Charisma is important too for settlements... makes my head spin.

I wonder whether it would be feasible to use melee weapons exclusively in this game... Seems kind of impossible to pull off, huh? Especially at higher difficulties.

 

[timetokill]

What's a good Melee build I wonder. Strength and Endurance it's paramount, I guess, but the question is raising them to what level... but I feel like Intelligence is kind of a "required" stat for EXP and Charisma is important too for settlements... makes my head spin.

I wonder whether it would be feasible to use melee weapons exclusively in this game... Seems kind of impossible to pull off, huh?

McGrizzle is rolling with 9 in STR, 3 in END, 6 in AGI, 7 in LUCK. 1 everything else. Been working pretty well so far.
If anything I kind of regret the points I put into END. But it's not as useless as CHR or INT.

 

[Rizzi]

Where can I get more power armour parts? I seem to have misplaced one arm and both legs for the first set. D:

 

[darkwing-buck]

The scorpions are deadly as hell then they were in previous fallout games. They freaking teleport/dig through the ground now

 

[vocab]

What's a good Melee build I wonder. Strength and Endurance it's paramount, I guess, but the question is raising them to what level... but I feel like Intelligence is kind of a "required" stat for EXP and Charisma is important too for settlements... makes my head spin.

I wonder whether it would be feasible to use melee weapons exclusively in this game... Seems kind of impossible to pull off, huh? Especially at higher difficulties.

On survival its not even remotely viable in the early levels. Unless you know where a good weapon is, the starter melee/unarmed weapons do almost no damage. Survival is kinda shit. Still wonder why I'm still playing on it.

 

[Kyoufu]

What's a good Melee build I wonder. Strength and Endurance it's paramount, I guess, but the question is raising them to what level... but I feel like Intelligence is kind of a "required" stat for EXP and Charisma is important too for settlements... makes my head spin.

I wonder whether it would be feasible to use melee weapons exclusively in this game... Seems kind of impossible to pull off, huh? Especially at higher difficulties.

You don't need any Intelligence for a melee build, but you do need at least 5 Luck and 9 Agility. Luck for Bloody Mess and Idiot Savant, Agility for the range increase in VATS among other things.

It's actually best to keep Intelligence at 1 for Idiot Savant to proc more often.

 

[Laughing Banana]

McGrizzle is rolling with 9 in STR, 3 in END, 6 in AGI, 7 in LUCK. 1 everything else. Been working pretty well so far.

3 in Endurance? I assume you're investing in Stealth? (though a stealthy build doesn't seem to fit a guy named McGrizzle, hahaha)

Can you share your perk investments/planning? What difficulty are you playing at?

I don't assume you're planning to toe-to-toe with, say, a Deathclaw, with that build, yea? 3 in Endurance seems risky for a Melee character.

 

[Bsigg12]

Valut 81 spoilers

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How do I cure myself of the mole rat disease?

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Did you save the boy?

 

[hobblygobbly]

Man, I'm having so much trouble acquiring Adhesive. It's a serious bottleneck. Anyone have ideas on that?

I have quite a bit but not sure from what. If you want to build stuff with adhesive, find something in the workshop that uses it (or whatever particularly you want to make but don't have the materials for), then you can tag it, and go out scavenging for it. Anything in the world that can be scrapped to create what you tagged such as adhesive will have a magnify icon on it so you can easily scavenge for something specific out in the world.

 

[The_Hitcher89]

Was struggling badly for Sniper ammo, invested in the Luck perk that lets you find ammo more often, and it's let me build the way I want to build. The Sniper progression seems a bit seperated from the rest, still only seen 1 sniper rifle which I've got equipped, and its from the Pipe category. Would like one that doesn't look like a pile of shite at least

Approaching the point now where my stat-boosting armour won't cut it for much longer, so I'll have to start slumming it with Raider gear. I seem to have lost my Minuteman apparel though, hope I can buy it at some point.

Anyone know how long you have to spend with the companions to get their quests?
Does keeping a settlement's defense in the green mean it won't be attacked?


Got 5 suits of Power Armour at

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Sanctuary

now, 4 of them are incomplete


Game is fantastic btw

 

[antitrop]

Ran into a bugged quest. I went to go turn in a completed quest, but the quest giver automatically started a new line and became a companion without even giving me the chance to turn it in.

Dude is just sitting there in Sanctuary with the quest marker over his head, but all it gives me for dialogue options is standard companion stuff.

Bleh, I love this game, but it feels like its actively falling apart as I play.

 

[Wuthering_Heights]

Anyone else willing to bet that one of the DLC packages in the season pass is just stuff for base building?

 

[Grassy]

How is the difficulty for you guys? Seems Hard is the right balance.

It's those Feral Ghouls en masse and that first BoS related quest, help them out (

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where they drop a ton of Synths at you, thank god he's there.

) is what likely kills you in the game.

This is the first Bethesda game I've played on Hard and it seems to be the sweet spot for me. Normally I just like to be OP and breeze through these games on Very Easy, but I'm really enjoying the difficulty level here and getting a lot more out of the game as a result. It makes venturing into the unknown a lot more tense that's for sure. I've died a fair few times but mostly it's because of my own stupidity. I think I've killed myself 3 times with poorly-aimed molotovs in confined spaces that have burnt me to death...

Did anyone else enter Corvega Power Plant from the top first and try to work their way down only to find themselves getting wrecked in like the first room? I was thinking to myself that it was way too difficult but then I realised there's a front door to that place which starts from the bottom where the enemies are easier to handle.

I did get a bobblehead from the very top though so it was worth the pain.

I approached from the back of the building but got spotted and ran into a shed where I thought I would be safe, but I got cornered. I think 7 raiders came in a few at a time, and I barely survived but managed to get out and worked my way up to the top clearing out the remaining raiders. I then came back down to the front and entered the small door on the first floor, above the main door. You can get in through a sewer as well.

 

[N° 2048]

OMFG!!! I FOUND THE ALIEN BLASTER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Was playing and then I hear a loud sound like a plane was close by, looked up in the direction I was hearing it from and saw something shoot across the sky, so I was like, wtf was that??? loaded my save and went to that same spot and hit that record button, and I saw this........................
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so I sprinted in a straight line towards its flying direction and I find this after about a good 30-40 minutes of searching.

OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH LOOOORRD ALMIGHTY.

Where was this and how far into the game are you?

 

[Forerunner]

11 hours in and level 17, still have yet to go to Diamond City. Loving this game.

 

[Wind's Howling]

Building houses is one of the most frustrating piece of building in a game I have ever witnessed. Pieces fit together, fine. But building them on the concrete base makes the walls not align in the end.

I have used corners and little pieces of walls but I always ended up with the same spaces between walls. It is frustrating. Not to mention that there is no clear tutorial on defense or power and what the function is, just 1 pop-up and that is it.

I am seriously debating on just skipping this function until the end game.

 

[Agent_4Seven]

Damn, guys, WTF? Bethesda really fucked it up this bad? I mean, there's a lot of negative reviews and opinions out there telling me that this game is not Fallout anymore and just a sandbox with shitty dialogue, a ton of useless crap, removed skills and so on.

I have bought the game before launch and played around 1.5 hours (just got out of the vault and stopped playing till weekend) and I like what I've seen so far....

 

[Soulflarz]

-combat shotty
-combat rifle
-assault rifle
-6 mini nukes
-missile launcher

all from one building

jeez

 

[timetokill]

3 in Endurance? I assume you're investing in Stealth? (though a stealthy build doesn't seem to fit a guy named McGrizzle, hahaha)

Can you share your perk investments/planning? What difficulty are you playing at?

I don't assume you're planning to toe-to-toe with, say, a Deathclaw, with that build, yea? 3 in Endurance seems risky for a Melee character.

Playing on Normal. I punched a Deathclaw to death early by using Power Armor.
Without it though, yeah, I'm running a bit. I have to generally isolate enemies so I can punch 'em down.

I chose AGI over END for the AP combat benefits and to go for Action Boy and eventually Blitz.

Right now I'm mostly boosting Luck perks. I'm planning to get to Grim Reaper's Sprint at the least, and Ricochet eventually. I'll also 5-star Iron Fist, obviously.

 

[Papercuts]

Can someone help me with something dumb in vault 81?

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Where the hell is my room? I believe the overseer said it was by an elevator, but I don't see it.

 

[PsihoPerihelion]

I'm not going back through 164 pages, but has anyone else noticed when they put the Pipboy app into Local Map view, the game graphics will stutter about once every second when you're moving?

I'm on PS4, and it doesn't matter if I run the Pipboy app from my Galaxy S5 or my iPad 2 - if I have the map in World view, there's no issue. When I switch it to local view, turning or moving will make the graphics pause about once every second. This makes local map view impossible to use.

I'd love to know if this happens on every platform, or only on the PS4?

Yup, my game stutters like crazy once I see the map on the pip-boy app (PS4 here)

 

[Hispanic! At the Disco]

-combat shotty
-combat rifle
-assault rifle
-6 mini nukes
-missile launcher

all from one building

jeez

where? i have only 1 mini nuke for my fatman and 20 missles with no launcher

 

[Alebrije]

So the Roach wearing a trash can as armor is common at star of the game ? Found it hilarious

 

[Dalek]

What do I break down to get fabric for my beds?

 

[Soulflarz]

where? i have only 1 mini nuke for my fatman and 20 missles with no launcher

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Massachusets State Building? :V

 

[UberLevi]

Anyone else loaded on Fusion Cores for Power Armor? I don't know how quickly they drain, but I have 13. I only use power armor when I clearly need a boost. Like raiding super mutant outposts and fighting boss creatures.

 

[The_Hitcher89]

Damn, guys, WTF? Bethesda really fucked it up this bad? I mean, there's a lot of negative reviews and opinions out there telling me that this game is not Fallout anymore and just a sandbox with shitty dialogue, a ton of useless crap, removed skills and so on.

I have bought the game before launch and played around 1.5 hours (just got out of the vault and stopped playing till weekend) and I like what I've seen so far....

It is most definitely still Fallout for better or for worse

For better, imo.

 

[Big-ass Ramp]

I defininetly feel like the ability to walk away from a conversation was a bad addition. I keep getting pushed out of conversations by dumb AI who walk into me.

 

[Dance Inferno]

Started playing this on PC and I'm actually impressed with the graphics. I was expecting it to look like FO3 but it actually looks like something that was released post-2010. It's no Witcher 3, but it's definitely a looker.

Aside from that I haven't played for more than a few hours (just made it to Concord), but the gunplay seems more fun than previous games and I have a sneaking sensation that I'm going to completely ignore the building stuff. I came across it in Sanctuary and just couldn't be bothered to mess around with any of it. Seems like it requires a massive time investment, and I don't know if I'm willing to do that just yet.

 

[Laughing Banana]

Playing on Normal. I punched a Deathclaw to death early by using Power Armor.
Without it though, yeah, I'm running a bit. I have to generally isolate enemies so I can punch 'em down.

I chose AGI over END for the AP combat benefits and to go for Action Boy and eventually Blitz.

Right now I'm mostly boosting Luck perks. I'm planning to get to Grim Reaper's Sprint at the least, and possibly Ricochet eventually. I'll also 5-star Iron Fist, obviously.

Is VATS important for a Melee character I wonder. I am thinking of creating a Melee character too (never seems able to make up my mind hahaha); there's something strangely alluring about a good-natured, pretty female character bashing people's heads off with a spiked bat like a barbarian, hahaha.

Also, I assume you'll be skipping the Lockpick and Hacking perks?

 

[Pancakes]

Spoilers for those who want the exact location of the alien spaceship. I'm still looking for the blaster itself.

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Man, I'm having so much trouble acquiring Adhesive. It's a serious bottleneck. Anyone have ideas on that?

Start planting lots of corn, tatos, and the other ingredient for vegetable starch or whatever it's called in the cooking recipes. I have 200 adhesive now and it's not even a concern. Aluminum is a bigger problem now.

 

[Hispanic! At the Disco]

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Massachusets State Building? :V

i'll have to look out for it when im on tomorrow. i assume its near

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bunker hill i think it was. washington monument looking building

thanks!

 

[Lord of Castamere]

Couldn't handle survivor got to lev12 and backed down to hard. Maybe I'll try again later with a different build.

 

[Steiner84]

ok, i got some questions. never played fallout beforec (only seen someone play 3):

1. is it neccessary to build the settlement? These people demand beds and shit and i dont want to deal with it. Can i just leave them be? What are the negatives if doing so?

2. where is my dog? I cam back to sanctuary, talked to the robot, thought i could take him with me in addition to the dog, but no, without further warning i had to leave my dog behind. I had the choice to send him to sanctuary or to red rocket, i choose sabnctuary but hes nowhere to be found. I gave him lots of stuff to carry, that i need...

3. it seems the durability/quality/repair feature of weapons and armor in the pipboy from fallout 3 is gone? or am I doing something wrong?

 

[The Lone Courier]

Hehe one of the songs is a callback to the fake fallout ARG few years back. Nice touch.

 

[Kyoufu]

If you're running a low INT build then you really need to put at least one point into Idiot Savant. One level up can turn into 3. It's amazing.

 

[texhnolyze]

11 hours in and level 17, still have yet to go to Diamond City. Loving this game.

How?
I'm 15 hours in and still level 9. Such a huge gap lol.

 

[Soulflarz]

If you're running a low INT build then you really need to put at least one point into Idiot Savant. One level up can turn into 3. It's amazing.

It...works on level ups ?_?

i'll have to look out for it when im on tomorrow. i assume its near

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bunker hill i think it was. washington monument looking building

thanks!

Eh, by the bar, near the combat zone, that area

 

[Laughing Banana]

ok, i got some questions. never played fallout beforec (only seen someone play 3):

1. is it neccessary to build the settlement? These people demand beds and shit and i dont want to deal with it. Can i just leave them be? What are the negatives if doing so?

2. where is my dog? I cam back to sanctuary, talked to the robot, thought i could take him with me in addition to the dog, but no, without further warning i had to leave my dog behind. I had the choice to send him to sanctuary or to red rocket, i choose sabnctuary but hes nowhere to be found. I gave him lots of stuff to carry, that i need...

3. it seems the durability/quality/repair feature of weapons and armor in the pipboy from fallout 3 is gone? or am I doing something wrong?

1. Apparently it's the best way to earn money once you open up shops and such. LOTS of money.
2. Check out backyards of houses, some of them have doghouses.
3. Yes, your weapons/armor--sans your Power Armor--don't have durability so you don't have to worry about repairs.

 

[N° 2048]

How?
I'm 15 hours in and still level 9. Such a huge gap lol.

Same, 12 hours in and only just got to Level 7.

So. Much. Fun.

 

[Zocano]

It...works on level ups ?_?

Nah, but when you finish a quest, that can get multiplied and you end up getting like 1500 xp

 

[aravuus]

Enemy variety in this game is just top notch. All the different creatures have different tactics and weaknesses.

The same tactics and the same guns seem to work just fine against everyone, though.

Of course that's on hard, maybe on survival you really gotta change things up.

 

[kobu]

In fucking 2015 we have escort missions where characters just wont go where they're supposed to preventing me from completing the quest.
I think I might have to call it quits with this game. With the terrible combat made worse with constant frame rate drops on top of shit like this I just don't know.

 

[peanutbutterlatte]

They should have used "Crawl Out Through the Fallout" for the marketing! So perfect. And not created for the game weirdly.

I guess a lot of people's reaction to Cold War tensions was to sing songs about atom bombs...