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I had to crank down the brightness on my TV considerably. The nighttime phase is frankly way too bright otherwise. It looks like pre-dawn, and it gets light-ish at like 4:45am.

I love the spookiness of a real night. :D
 
I went to a bar in Goodneighbor and got my character drunk. She slurred her words when I was greeting the randomers in there. Nice to see that they added small details like this.
 
Here's a tip for you guys if you are at the point in the main quest where you need to
go to the Glowing Sea. You can easily find a Hazmat Suit that has +1000 Rad protection in a location in the northeast area of the map known as the Dunwich Borers. Look it up on the Fallout wiki if you want to see the exact location. Go there and search around for a couple minutes and you'll stumble upon a small room with a free Hazmat Suit, as well as a nifty holotape recorded by the suit's previous owner.

Last night I was exploring and wanted to get all of the loot out of this group of abandoned houses I stumbled upon, but I noticed a Yao Guai in the distance so I set up a trap for him to walk into and fired at him from a distance with my sniper rifle. Once he was dead, I proceeded to walk into the first house I saw, turn to my left, and there's another Yao Guai just sitting there staring at me,

I still don't know what loot might be in that area, I was so freaked out.
 
Found a legendary revolver that fires explosive rounds. Modded it to get the base damage up to 58 and then the explosions cause 15 damage. This thing is a monster, holy shit. And what a mess it leaves, so many severed limbs.
 
How do you get the floors and walls to line up flush like that? I always get a small gap between the bottom wall and the upper floor?

I find it way easier to start by laying out the floor and snapping the walls to the floor. That way you rarely (if ever) have the wall gaps, presuming you don't switch wall sizes or something like that.
 
I have no idea what this means but I will check it out tonight. Will help with master hax

I was talking about step 6

Use bracket tricks before moving on to the third word. One of the keys to successfully hacking is using "bracket tricks". If the terminal contains a bracket pair, removing it will get rid of incorrect choices or add tries back to your counter. This is why it's recommended that you save the brackets until you've made a few guesses so that you don't waste potential retries. Bracket pairs appear at random, though more tend to show up with a higher Science skill.
 
Anyone bought the Fallout 4 Vault Dweller's Survival guide? Is it worth it?

Loving it, not opening it too much as EVERYTHING is in there (spoilers of course).

Been so helpful though.

Also came with SPECIAL posters for each letter and a free download for the digital version of the guide. Also a HUGE Commonwealth map.
 
Wow. Why are people TURNIN up in the library like this??!!! Holy shit. Robots vs super mutants??!!?

Man these faction wars in the city have me freaking out. I hear gunfire around every corner.
 
How the hell do I get the next step to happen in the
Silver Shroud
questline? Killed
Wayne Delancy and left a card on him like an hour ago, and it's still telling me to just listen in to the radio, for the next step??

Saw a youtube video and the next step happened almost immediately after...
 
I've been wanting to do something like this, but the building interfaced is too shitty for me to build something that massive. It took me like 15 minutes just to make a 4x5 wooden floor because the placement is so finicky. I also made a spiral staircase which took way too long, getting the rotation of each piece right was a nightmare.

Bethesda should have just cloned The Sims building interface, it would have been glorious.
For real. Who's idea was it to make you build things in first-person? I would be done building a wall around my settlement in less than a minute rather than 2 hours if they had a modern builder interface.
 
fewer RPG elements

I've made my peace with the fact that I'm not going to be able to... well, make my peace with that. The game feels very shallow and I'm not even someone who plays more than a few games per year, nor do I even own a PC. I miss the skill system and old conversation system tremendously.

But you're right -- it's a fun game. I play for 1-2 hours an evening and have a good time of it. I think I've gotten my money's worth. And occasionally I hit a quest that's terrifically written, too, and that always makes me smile.
 
Oh it's night time?

*WAIT*

*ahhh sunrise*

Need a "always daytime" mod.

I love hunting and scavenging at night. Darkness is a weapon! I felt the same way in Dying Light. :)

NO. Too spooky!

Anyone bought the Fallout 4 Vault Dweller's Survival guide? Is it worth it?

I had a coupon from Best Buy (Gamer's Club Unlocked) for 50% off guides, so i grabbed it. I never buy guides, but this is my first fallout. I don't actually USE it while I'm playing, but it's really well produced and has a TON of info in it.
 
I've been sneaking more and more lately. Getting to nail a 4x damage on an enemy from afar is awesome. I might develop this some more. All of my points have been going to charm and intelligence for the most part.

How can you invest more on agility? I've invested in Int and Chr as well but my agility is at 2
 
No idea why this game has a 7/10 overall rating on Steam, honestly. It has it's flaws, sure, but Skyrim got a 9/10 overall and from my experience it's pretty similar. I would give the game an 8, even though it's let down by a poor dialogue system. I also wish there were more RPG elements and less predefined character backstory, because roleplaying, but then again Skyrim had fewer RPG elements and Steam denizens had no issue with that, so...

Certainly doesn't warrant a score as bad as 7, even considering the aforementioned problems.
 
50 hours in, getting 3 new locations or quests for every 1 I clear

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this Cabot house questline is gonna be gud I feel

edit: just found another radio signal (silver news) that opens up another quest just as I typed this post. Send help, I need my life back
 
I've made my peace with the fact that I'm not going to be able to... well, make my peace with that. The game feels very shallow and I'm not even someone who plays more than a few games per year, nor do I even own a PC. I miss the skill system and old conversation system tremendously.

But you're right -- it's a fun game. I play for 1-2 hours an evening and have a good time of it. I think I've gotten my money's worth. And occasionally I hit a quest that's terrifically written, too, and that always makes me smile.

It feels a bit more like Borderlands than Fallout, but as you said, game is fun...soooo
 
Welp I just downloaded it. As someone who only played a bit of Fallout 3 lol. Any tips for the beginning of the game anything I can miss or a must get when I start up?
 
Fallout and Elder scrolls games are scary because there is always the "what's around the next hill" mentality .

It's not even just night in this game. I was walking through the woods in broad daylight and a pack of ghouls materialized out of the brush in front of me without warning and I freaked out.
 
Its pretty nice havent read too much to avoid spoilers but it comes with a huge map, and giant flash cards of the SPECIAL if your in it for that kinda thing.

Loving it, not opening it too much as EVERYTHING is in there (spoilers of course).

Been so helpful though.

Also came with SPECIAL posters for each letter and a free download for the digital version of the guide. Also a HUGE Commonwealth map.

Not sure if I should get the Collector's edition or the paperback one which is quite a bit cheaper. I dont really have need for these posters. But that hardback version is looking sooo good.
 
No idea why this game has a 7/10 overall rating on Steam, honestly. It has it's flaws, sure, but Skyrim got a 9/10 overall and from my experience it's pretty similar. I would give the game an 8, even though it's let down by a poor dialogue system. I also wish there were more RPG elements and less predefined character backstory, because roleplaying, but then again Skyrim had fewer RPG elements and Steam denizens had no issue with that, so...

Certainly doesn't warrant a score as bad as 7, even considering the aforementioned problems.

7 isn't bad.

It deserves a 7.
 
Does having more than a single recruitment tower at a settlement affect the frequency of new settlers appearing?

Also, is Idiot Savant really worth it? I guess it would be pretty useful if you were doing a high Luck build anyway, but is it really worth losing out on Gun Nut and Science!?
 
Holy hell, getting Mama Murphy to sit down in the new chair I made for her, that she keeps talking about wanting to sit down in but just walking up to it and turning back around again, has been hilariously sad.

The crafting system here really is a genius way to make collecting junk meaningful, though. The rest of the game could stay as humdrum as it is so far, and that would still be a good reason to buy the game.

my issue is I wasn't crafting MM's chair, I was just crafted "A" chair. You need to craft the one that is called MM's Chair.
 
So is there any point having more settlers? Since I'll never be able to craft anything worth a damn I don't see any reason to bother with setting up settlements.
 
Funny thing is, I played 12 hours so far and never got a settlement. I realized after I saved the minutemen I went on another quest and never went to Sanctuary...
 
How happy your settlement is and how much food etc you have effects it.

I have tons of food (adhesive farms, screw hunger!), but how do you increase overall happiness? Sanctuary is currently at 80. Do you just go around building a bunch of non bed furniture?
 
So is there any point having more settlers? Since I'll never be able to craft anything worth a damn I don't see any reason to bother with setting up settlements.

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You get a flare gun later in the game... and if you use it, any settlement nearby that supports the minutemen will come to your aid.

Also, i thought you get resources from them being there. But someone else can clarify that.
 
Money. If you unlock the leader perk you can build stores.

Oh now that's helpful...maybe. Hrm.

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You get a flare gun later in the game... and if you use it, any settlement nearby that supports the minutemen will come to your aid.

Also, i thought you get resources from them being there. But someone else can clarify that.

Already got it, never going to use it. I don't even like having a single companion, fuck an army of them.
 
This has probably been asked before so apologies if it's been covered.

How viable is a handgun only run. I'm wanting to make myself a cowboy sherif type charchter, want to limit myself to handgun, revolvers and maybe some lever action rifle. Can you get these guns early and are they powerful enough to see me through. I plan on playing on hard.
 
So is there any point having more settlers? Since I'll never be able to craft anything worth a damn I don't see any reason to bother with setting up settlements.

Thats one thing I dont get. How does keeping a settlement benefit you?

They don't really produce anything unless you make vendor shops which I think you need certian perks for.

And I guess you can take food from the garden and eat it/cook with it.

I suppose they can protect your armor and other stuff you store in your house
 
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