Fallout 4 |OT| Atom Bomb Baby

Status
Not open for further replies.
just looked at my questlog, and I only actually have... 2 real quests. This isnt bitching just a realization. If I take out all the seemingly repeatable quests, between the minutemen stuff (that are now starting to pop up again in places ive already been) and the brotherhood of steel stuff from the guy and girl at the police station (which seem to never end no matter how many I do), plus some other random crap that I cant remember, I only have 2 actual quests.

The main story one to go
see the brain facility place at the town near diamond city
and the sidequest continuing from
Road to Freedom
, which aparently is another faction.

Im now almost lvl 31, maybe I should start doing some actual quests again instead of fucking around with these activities

(not to mention all the buildings and shit im discovering and not entering)
 
Admiral Woofington said:
If one is thrown at you just book it. Those fuckers have either the most amazing aim or a funny bad one.

It's the worst when they spam molotov cocktails.
Click to expand...

I am normally in a crouching position. So I literally have 1s to stand up, and try to turn around and run since I am also usually next to a wall. Didn't know you could actually shoot them in flight though.
Enemy AI and laser like precision at 10,000 yards with a pistol or spell (while doing the 50 yard dash while strafing) has always been very suspect in Bethesdas games, but it's silly in this.
 
timetokill said:
McGRIZZLE'S FISTS-ONLY ADVENTURES IN THE WASTELAND -- LOG 2
Click to expand...

I rejoiced and laughed like your avatar.

image.php


I need more of this!
 
So I accidentally tried to rob Trashcan Carla in Sanctuary. Apparently she was a vendor and now she won't even talk to me she just stands around outside with her Brahmin and bitches at me. What do I do? I do not have a save to reload as it was 10 hours ago.
 
timetokill said:
McGRIZZLE'S FISTS-ONLY ADVENTURES IN THE WASTELAND -- LOG 2

Like I said, it was a brand new day. I roll into my old town and who should I find but my old robot butler. He tells me it's been 200 years since they put me on ice, and I'm thinking two things:

1. Codsworth has been burning fuel for 200 goddamn years just to float around and be useless
2. That's two whole centuries of punchin' I gotta catch up on

I tell him I gotta go and head down the road.

Down the road I find a gas station called the Red Rocket, and a dog there that the place must be named after. I take the little critter in since he's friendly, and punchin' a friendly animal ain't sportin'. There's some varmints that appear and I punch 'em, as I do. The dog bites 'em. It ain't punchin, but he's a dog so whatareyagonnado. Maybe I can train him to punch, who knows.

Anyways, we head on down the road, and I'm just itchin' for a real human's face to sink my fist into. Lo and behold, there's a town where some guys are shootin' at some other guys in a museum. The guys outside don't seem to notice me so I punch 'em in the back of the head. God, it feels good. There's more inside so I head in and continue releasing 200 years of pent-up punches.

There's a ragtag crew of losers at the top that think I saved their asses. Saved 'em for last, maybe. A black cowboy asks me to get some power armor, and I tell 'em all to fuck off. Every question I say go to hell, but they still ain't getting the picture. I hate their guts. I'm praying they'll take a swing at me, but no. Cowboy goes outside onto the balcony, and I follow him out there. He's taking shots at something down the road, but I don't care. I punch him and punch him until he's slumped against the bricks, but I can tell the bastard ain't dead. He must be fuckin' essential. God damn it all.

I head back inside. I tell ya, once you been robbed of a kill by the Powers That Be, the only thing on yer mind is fillin' that achin' hole in yer heart for death. This old lady starts talkin' to me about THE SIGHT like it's my destiny or some shit, and that gets my ire right up. I decide she's next. I tell her she's full of shit, and to prove it, I punch her down to the floor. I ask her if she saw that one comin'. I notice she ain't dead neither, and the guys around me are pulling their weapons. Fuck! A whole goddamn crew of essential motherfuckers.

Sometimes yer beat, and ya just gotta run. I run down the hallway, fire at my back, until I find a way up and outside. Here's that Power Armor they were going on about, but it needs a battery. Brings a tear to my eye, remembering my favorite toys as a kid, ya unwrap 'em on Christmas and they don't come with the required batteries. Fuckers.

I head back inside and they stopped shootin' at me, so that's good. I sneak on down and find a battery and bring it back up. I get into the Power Armor and pick up a minigun. Even just holdin' the damn thing feels wrong, so I drop it. It looks like the cowboy on the balcony has killed nearly everything except a big fuckin' insect with claws. He looks like a good matchup, so I jump off the roof and tell the Deathclaw it's time to dance.

The motherfucker is strong! I get in a few good blows, but I may have met my match. I'm just beginning to see my life flash before my eyes when the dog starts biting the Deathclaw. It gives me just enough time to run into a nearby building and eat the fuck outta some snack cakes. Yum. The Deathclaw stalks around outside and I realize he won't come in. Aw, yeah.

I take turns heading out of the store to get some good punches in on the Deathclaw, then return for more snack cakes. The cowboy even shoots at him with his damn pew pew toy, and I'm gettin' annoyed that he's taking all the glory out of it. Finally, with my power armor busted to hell, I come out and put the finishing punch on the bastard. I step out of the power armor and give the corpse a good couple punches for good measure. That was a close one.

The rag tag loser bunch comes in and says they're heading back to my home. Like hell they are. I rush back to Sanctuary and they come rollin' in like it's their home. The worst part is the Powers That Be protected 'em so I can't even pound 'em into the dirt. Damn it all to hell.

One of 'em mentions Diamond City. Sounds like a place full of people to punch. I tell these assholes to enjoy the one lightbulb I put up for 'em, it's the last thing I'm gonna do. And then I head out.
Click to expand...

This is hilarious, congrats sir

Moaaar
 
Admiral Woofington said:
Have a suit, charisma glasses and charisma hat in hand. Whenever you enter a town put them on (I have them in my favorite to put them on quick). Also whenever you reach a conversation with a charisma check, do a quick save. If you fail, reload. I have 6 in charisma plus three items that give me like +4/5 in charisma. So on the rare occassion I fail I just reload the quick save.

If you forget to put it on before a conversation you can usually walk away put it on and return to conversation.
Click to expand...

imho if you want to pass every speech check you should have specced hard into charisma

reloading every time you fail one seems like a pretty clumsy play style

if you try to be smooth and fail, move on - its part of the game, if you didn't want to fail, you should have made your character dapper charismatic as all hell person, and suffered in other categories

but different strokes i suppose

(that being said the suit/hat/glasses tactic is very smart, i might try to implement that some)

not trying to be judgemental gamer douche here, everyone enjoys their fallout differently - just dont get that methodology personally
 
Sanctuary said:
I am normally in a crouching position. So I literally have 1s to stand up, and try to turn around and run since I am also usually next to a wall. Didn't know you could actually shoot them in flight though.
Enemy AI and laser like precision at 10,000 yards with a pistol or spell has always been very suspect in Bethesdas games, but it's silly in this.
Click to expand...

You can go from stealth to sprint instantly. At least in consoles they're too different joysticks.
 
Question: does the game get better in regards to quality of quests and character building? I am currently lvl 11 and I have
done around four Minutemen quests and I have joined the Brotherhood of Steel. I haven't reached Diamond City yet and I am wondering if I should stick with the game.
 
Chuck said:
I don't understand how some people got power armor so quickly. i'm like 15 hours in, not even a whiff of power armor coming my way. :(
Click to expand...
I'm up to 7 and have found an 8th that I'm working on retrieving.

You get the first one near
the beginning of the game.
Concord
.
 
I am giddy right now.

I know very much what kind of game I am in for. Loved Fallout 3 for its world and cannot wait to dive into F4's. Installing right now. Loving the SPECIAL-Videos running.right now. And I have a plan. I want to play as Juliette Nichols, awesome main protagonist of the silo series, three post apocalyptic novels by hugh howey. Great read for all that wonder how life in a vault could be. Greatly recommended. I will try to kind of roleplay her. Am giddy. Good times.
 
Kinda cant get over all of the negative reviews on metacritic and steam.

It would be one thing if it was well articulated criticism, but it's mostly everyone making the same fucking tired jokes like "Bethesda. Bethesda never changes". Yea.. why would you think you were the first one to say that. Why would you say that. Or making some joke about Tom Howard, or insulting people who like the game. And people saying the game isn't even an RPG anymore are absurd. Whatever, glad I'm able to enjoy it.
 
I think my perk and special build is toally messed up (it may be indeed, cause I wasnt paying attention to it).

I'm having a hard time on normal mode... right now I was going in direction of an mission poin, and in the way I found some raiders near a build. I killed them and got at the top ff the build. It was like 3 raiders in the way and I was already needing to use a stimpak to recover my health.

When I reached the top floor I used the stimpak before fighting the last Raider and quick saved. First time I tried I died, but I figured I could kill her but with 4 shotgun headshots (what I consider to be too much for a normal raider). Well... after dying like 3 times, I realized I would need to use one more stimpak before she actually kills me and waste at least 4 shotgun shots... so I just threw a granade on her and she died.

Thing is... She wasn't with a skull (overleveled) and neither was a legendary raider. I was playing on normal difficulty. And yet every shot from her was taking way too much damage of me, while my strongest weapon (a shotgun) recquired at least 4 shots in her head to put her down.

That said... for those of you who are playing alright on Normal, or even making it through Hard or Very Hard, I'm indeed doing something VERY wrong, right?? And that's probably related to my build, right??
 
Sullichin said:
Kinda cant get over all of the negative reviews on metacritic and steam.

It would be one thing if it was well articulated criticism, but it's mostly everyone making the same fucking tired jokes like "Bethesda. Bethesda never changes". Yea.. why would you think you were the first one to say that. Why would you say that. Or making some joke about Tom Howard, or insulting people who like the game. And people saying the game isn't even an RPG anymore are absurd. Whatever, glad I'm able to enjoy it.
Click to expand...

Fallout is a big saga, like zelda the last game released is going to be always the worst.
 
I decided to start the game over. I pretty much have to at this point in order to get rid of the negativity I have with it. I really want to enjoy it and there are moments where I am enjoying it but then the negativity spews in. I'm gonna have to clear my mind and start a new character.
 
Kssio_Aug said:
That said... for those of you who are playing alright on Normal, or even making it through Hard or Very Hard, I'm indeed doing something VERY wrong, right?? And that's probably related to my build, right??
Click to expand...

Are you modding your weapons? Also, are you using VATS? Also... when you aim and shoot where do you shoot at?

All of those make a big difference in the game.
 
Admiral Woofington said:
I chose the red rocket settlement near vault 111 as my main one and i highly regret it, mainly because terrain is uneven and there's little place to build shit because the gas station itself you can't fix/add doors to.

I don't think I'll ever really bother with settlements until I at least have the local leader perk.
Click to expand...

Don't forget that you can build on top of the building! I made a sweet staircase up and now I have a huge complex up there.

I'm actually pretty impressed with the pathfinding for the NPCs, at least compared to Skyrim.
 
Kssio_Aug said:
I think my perk and special build is toally messed up (it may be indeed, cause I wasnt paying attention to it).

I'm having a hard time on normal mode... right now I was going in direction of an mission point, and in the way I found some raiders near a build. I killed them at got at the top f the build. It was like 3 raiders in the way and I was already needing to use a stimpak to recover my health.

When I reached the top floor I used the steampak before fighting the last Raider and quick saved. First time I tried I died, but I figured I could kill her but with 4 shotgun headshots (what I consider to be too much for a normal raider). Well... after dying like 3 times, I realized I would need to use one more stimpak before she actually kills me and waste at least 4 shotgun shots... so I just threw a granade on her and she died.

Thing is... She wasn't with a skull (overleveled) and neither was a legendary raider. I was playing on normal difficulty. And yet every shot from her was taking way too much damage of me, while my strongest weapon (a shotgun) recquired at least 4 shots in her head to put her down.

That said... for those of you who are playing alright on Normal, or even making it through Hard or Very Hard, I'm indeed doing something VERY wrong, right?? And that's probably related to my build, right??
Click to expand...


Weapon and armor mods make a huge difference. I focused on getting those perks quickly.
 
brau said:
Are you modding your weapons? Also, are you using VATS? Also... when you aim and shoot where do you shoot at?

All of those make a big difference in the game.
Click to expand...

I sometimes mod them, but I'm mostly just using modded weapons I get in the way. I take mods out of my weakest weapons and place them in the most powerful weapon I have of the same type.

I do use VATS but only when I'm very near a target or in a more safe position. Other than that I usually do not risk using it. And I'm aiming to the head most of the times... except for ghouls, where I aim for the legs.
 
Quick question, I transfered couple of items into workbench, can they can stolen if I have nobody at this settlement?

Also, holy shit at (location spoiler)
General Atomics Galleria
, is there any way (enemy in this location spoiler)
to kill The Director?
Cant seem to find a way.
 
Kssio_Aug said:
I sometimes mod them, but I'm mostly just using modded weapons I get in the way. I take mods out of my weakest weapons and place them in the most powerful weapon I have of the same type.

I do use VATS but only when I'm very near a target or in a more safe position. Other than that I usually do not risk using it. And I'm aiming to the head most of the times... except for ghouls, where I aim for the legs.
Click to expand...

Weird.. i would not think you are doing something wrong. What about your armor? you have some good armor equipped? do you have a good % of accuracy? what perks do you use?
 
Just realised I've had a bugged side quest from early in the game:
Pull the Plug, the quest that wants you to help drain water from quarry. I completed it and it shows as completed but when you look at it, only 2 out of 4 options are checked as complete. I can't talk to Sully, he just says he's busy and it's been like 5 in-game days since I did the quest and supposedly the water has drained in 1-2 days max. Mine still isn't. Also if you eject Sully's holotape from the terminal nearby you get 800 caps for it. If I knew the quest ID I would reset it to do it again but I don't know how to get it and Google doesn't have the ID yet for it. :/
 
All I can think of when that one song comes on the classical station:

"Franz Lizst? Never hoida him!"
 
Jobbs said:
I have a leg armor piece that gives 1 charisma, glasses give 1, hat gives 1, and I have a set of shorts that can be worn with the legpiece that give 2 charisma. that adds 5. I can then drink a beer and get 1 more.

In other words, I can easily get my 4 base charisma to 9 if I need to pass a charisma check, and if I REALLY need to, I can drink a beer and get it to 10.

The challenge is in micromanaging all of this gear. I generally change my gear to charisma any time I think I'm going to be talking to anyone soon, so if I enter a town or see some npcs. It gets pretty tedious...
Click to expand...

Can't you put armor/gear on your favorites menu like weapons? I saw it was an option when I last played but didn't try.
 
Kssio_Aug said:
I sometimes mod them, but I'm mostly just using modded weapons I get in the way. I take mods out of my weakest weapons and place them in the most powerful weapon I have of the same type.

I do use VATS but only when I'm very near a target or in a more safe position. Other than that I usually do not risk using it. And I'm aiming to the head most of the times... except for ghouls, where I aim for the legs.
Click to expand...

I use different weapons for different enemies. For the ghouls, I use a full auto weapon as it takes groups down quick. Raiders, I use a semi rifle as I can line up headshots easier. Big enemies, soften them up with a grenade or two then use my highest damage weapon.

I'm playing in hard. Level 11.
 
Blue Ninja said:
Goddamn, I installed a bright headlamp on my T-60 power armor helmet and it's like a second sun illuminating the wasteland. SO BRIGHT.
Click to expand...

Is there any sort of flashlight when not in armor? It is insanely dark out there at night.

Edit: googled for it and the Pipboy is a flashlight if you hold down the button. One video shows orange being the best color to have you Pipboy screen to see the most at night.
 
Status
Not open for further replies.

Similar threads

The Outer Worlds >>>>> Fallout 4
2
90
3K
mdkirby replied
Looking for the best Fallout 3, Fallout New Vegas and Fallout 4 mods that are close to baseline
12
534
Strategize replied
~ State of Play | June 4, 2025 ~
|OT|  25 26 27 28 29
1K
1K
xrnzaaas replied
  • Featured
Atomfall |OT|
|OT|  2 3 4 5
243
13K
vaibhavpisal replied
Adam Something: Fallout 4 Is Garbage, And Here's Why
Opinion Analysis Trailer  2
59
3K
nowhat replied
Top Bottom