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Seriously, where can I equip stuff for my companions ?
 
SO, I'll ask again, anyone doing a melee build that can give some impressions as to how the game is going for them?

Having a hard time? Having a blast?
 
GAF: help a brother out!

I need a suitable name for my Clint-a-like (who probably looks more like Max Payne, but still). Here he is:


I'm not out of the first Vault yet so there is still time! It's out of:

Joe (Fistful of Dollars)
Cooper (Hang 'em High)
Preacher (Pale Rider)
Harry (Dirty Harry)
Schaefer (Where Eagles Dare)
East Wood (First name/Surname. He will forever be referred to as Mr Wood)
Roland Deschain (he looks like Clint, doesn't he?)
Django (just for the meta-gunslinger vibes)

OR

The Man with No Name/Stranger etc. (so no one uses my name)

Other suggestions are welcome. Help GAF! You're my only hope!
 
I now realize I have not put as much effort into the building aspect of this game as I should have. Tonight when I play, less exploring more construction of awesome shit.
Beware it can totally absorb your session. I was starting to get really into it after I and wanted to set my base as well as Sanctuary up with some basic power and lighting, but hit a wall because I didn't have any copper. That's when I realized that I had been doing nothing but crafting and building for 3.5 hours. Broke the 10 hour mark without having seen Diamond City now...
I'd like to see more (detailing the internal arcbitecture) if possible?
I only have one more pic at the moment but I can take some closer showing that later on and as I add to it. I ran out of steel partway through.
 
Main annoyance I have after 15 hours or so (aside from still not being completely sold on the dialogue/charisma check percentages) is the lack of 'character/enemy indicators' with perception increases when outside of combat.

It makes a stealthy 'preemptive clearing' much, much more difficult.

Hope there's some way mods can fix that.
 
SO, I'll ask again, anyone doing a melee build that can give some impressions as to how the game is going for them?

Having a hard time? Having a blast?

I really had a blast with the melee so far, I originally started as a stealth build but now I'm slowly moving to a melee build cause it's fun although hard at times. It's hard in the beginning but once you start modding your melee weapons and adding more to your strength it gets better.
 
A funny thing happened earlier. We decided to fast travel to one of the schools in the game to get close to an objective, and it fast travelled right onto a mine. It made us go "WHAT?"
 
well got dogmeat and nick back via the console. now need someone to figure out how to complete quests via the console too so I can "hand in" this quest :/
 
HOW?

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Seriously, where can I equip stuff for my companions ?
yeah my boy looks so dapper with his bandana :)
Yeah minor spoilers for the animation there:

https://i.imgur.com/9udhO8Y.mp4
awww! I need to find him a bear. what a good boy!
I love your total disregard for the laws of physics, Hawkian. :lol
obeying the laws of physics will get you killed in the commonwealth.
 
Beware it can totally absorb your session. I was starting to get really into it after I and wanted to set my base as well as Sanctuary up with some basic power and lighting, but hit a wall because I didn't have any copper. That's when I realized that I had been doing nothing but crafting and building for 3.5 hours. Broke the 10 hour mark without having seen Diamond City now...

I only have one more pic at the moment but I can take some closer showing that later on and as I add to it. I ran out of steel partway through.

Was it a case of building using walls, and then removing said walls once you'd built the floors above?
 
I had a questions about something, I was walking around and I got to this point where two guys are fighting about one of them being a synth. The guy was his friend or something from what I remember. Near the confrontation a bunch of enemies "Gunners" will attack, but I'm not sure who they are working with, sometimes the friends will attack each other, on another load I got attacked by everyone, it seems that the Gunners will even disrupt the conversation.

Eventually I had to sneak around the Gunners to complete the dialogue with the guys. After that, I noticed one of the Gunners had some shades so I killed all of them for some goodies and when I came to look for the characters with names, they were all gone?

Was there something bigger going on here that I missed? It was slightly confusing.

I met the guy and woman arguing with a synth just outside of Concord
No Gunners were involved though.
 
Can anyone tell me how the perks actually unlock? For example, I'm still level one, but how to I unlock a perk (and where), and do I get a new perk AND a Special when I level up, or just one or the other?
 
I'm sure this has been asked like a billion times but to scrap your items you just "Transfer" them into the work bench?

Yes.
Weapons and armor have to be scrapped manually in the according work bench though

Can anyone tell me how the perks actually unlock? For example, I'm still level one, but how to I unlock a perk (and where), and do I get a new perk AND a Special when I level up, or just one or the other?

You get one skill point every time you level up. You can put that point either into a perk or a SPECIAL. Perks need requirements to be unlocked. e.g. Strength 5 and your level needs to be 12. If you have STR 5 and are level 12 you can use your skill point you get when you level up to unlock that perk.
 
No no, I am talking about the stuff that he has on him, like the glasses and bandana.

You trade with the companion by talking to them, then you give them stuff and then go to their trade window half and hover over what you want them to equip, the things you want them to equip it'll come up with a "equip" button at the bottom of the screen and you equip.
 
You guys were saying I can use Lone Companion + dog? So far I have only used dog for 10 hours and may aswell pick up the perk if that is the case.
 
I'm loving the atmosphere, and I'm having so much fun just exploring, doing side quests, and last, but not least, building settlements!

Here's my house in Sanctuary:

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There isn't any indicator for some odd reason. You just place the item in their inventory and use the Y or Triangle buttons to equip it and it will show the equipped dot next to it. Don't know what KB is, probably spacebar.

I think someone said a few pages back if you transfer stuff to him and then press triangle you can equipt it, not sure have to try later

Okay, thanks. I only use N
ick Valantine
though, a great companion.
 
Anyone having an issue getting the game to start? This is really annoying. The game worked fined before, was already past the Vault and everything, but now when I click Play on the launcher, the game goes to a black screen and then just closes.

Anyone else having this issue?
 
Can anyone tell me how the perks actually unlock? For example, I'm still level one, but how to I unlock a perk (and where), and do I get a new perk AND a Special when I level up, or just one or the other?

When you level you get 1 point. You go into the screen with the big chart and here you can sleeve that point. You can either spend it by raising a special trait by one of use it to unlock a perk. Perks available to unlock are determined by how many points you have in your special. So say you have 5 in agility. You can pick any of the Perks in agility up to row 5 to put a point into. If you wanted the perk in row 6 or higher you would need to first put the necessary number of points into the agility special to unlock it before you can put a point into it. Some Perks also have ranks and level requirements, so multiple points can be spent on them over time.
 
I see this game as a huge step up from Fallout 3. I don't mind where they streamlined things, love the new perk system, and love where they added depth and complexity. The shooting feels way way better than previous iterations.
 
I have sneak perk 1, muffled both leg armor, found a few sneaking magazines and all enemies still know I'm around 2 floors under me when I sneak lol. It works well enough in the open. Maybe survival also increases their alertness?
 
Was it a case of building using walls, and then removing said walls once you'd built the floors above?
Nope! That method could be used, I imagine, to do even more intricate stuff. But the basic principle here was just to connect a wood floor piece to an existing roof (basically making an overhang) anywhere I needed the building to "float." In particular there is a wooden staircase/stairwell piece with a built in ceiling/floor that made it much easier than it would have been otherwise, seen here:
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There are no metal staircases sadly, at least in the starter parts (you get more building choices over time by finding magazines). To make it classy though you could put metal walls all around that piece so the staircases are "inside," which I plan to do at some point.
 
I'm loving the atmosphere, and I'm having so much fun just exploring, doing side quests, and last, but not least, building settlements!

Here's my house in Sanctuary:

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Goddamn, and I was proud of my little shack. :lol

Only thing I don't like about Sanctuary is that some of the guys think they can just waltz into my home and start tinkering with my Power Armor or sleeping in my bed. NO.
 
I've been watching a no fast travel, max difficulty stream the last couple days and I think I'm going to do something similar. Looked like a ton of fun.
 
I walled up the entire Sanctuary area. The only entrance is the bridge and I have three turrets and two two-manned guard posts watching it. No one is fucking with my starter settlement!
 
I know it's been said before, but fuck is this game hard.

So I was rolling around working on the quest where
you have to enter the National Guard Armory and search for the BoS squad. It took me an hour to clear this place through strategic saves and grenade throws. I'm level 12 going up against 8 ghoul roamers, a legendary, and a glowing one with a sawed off shotgun.

And then I get to the next part of the quest...
the satellite arrays and the army of super mutants..
Before the part with the harder ghouls. There's an assault rifle sitting there wanting you to pick it up. It will save your life.
 
I'm loving the atmosphere, and I'm having so much fun just exploring, doing side quests, and last, but not least, building settlements!

Here's my house in Sanctuary:

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That is an awesome fort!

Man is there any way to build a ladder? That seems like an oversight if not... would be sweet to make like an actual house on stilts somewhere along the seaboard!
 
I'm loving the atmosphere, and I'm having so much fun just exploring, doing side quests, and last, but not least, building settlements!

Here's my house in Sanctuary:

yORVQMe.jpg

I...need to spend more time with the building mechanics....

Can't wait for the weekend when I can really dive in. I feel bad during my limited play sessions during the work week when I spend an hour just building shit
 
Can anyone confirm if cities like Concord or Lexington get a (COMPLETED) tag at some point? Or is it only the "dungeons" that get that? I thoroughly searched through both cities and haven't gotten a tag so I just want to know if I'm missing anything.

Haven't read the thread to avoid spoilers and such, sorry if it's already been asked.
 
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