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[scoobs]

Do people expect
1. Ammo to fall from the sky
2. To get the best weapons 8 hours into the game?

Man, if I had a cap for every "I've been playing for 4 hours and this game SUCKS"...

It was more of a question of should I expect things to get better or is the entire game scavenging for minor upgrades and sparse ammo. I haven't once felt I've upgraded any piece of gear or weapon significantly in 8 hours. I'd say that's a problem, but I might just be playing the game wrong. How would I know? There are zero tutorials

 

[BreezyLimbo]

So is there a way to actually store the power armor on the power rack? Or do you just leave it in front?

'Craft' and the armor will be 'attached' to the power rack. You can then transfer to and from there, and you should see your power armor pieces. That is considered to be 'stored', for show.

Land mines are a double edged sword. They can easily swing a confrontation in your favor. But if you don't get out of the way quickly they will blow your own dumb ass up just as quickly.

I read this as 'Land mines attached to a double edged sword' and got excited for a second.

 

[johnsmith]

Tried to do Cait's personal quest. Quickly got roasted. Looks like I need to level up some.

 

[Laughing Banana]

No. Assigning a settler assigns them to all objects of the same type

Example: Assigning a settler to a type of food (i.e., razor grain) means all food (melons, gourds, etc.) will be tended by that settler.

Example: Assigning one settler to a guard post will cover all/future guard posts

I am actually quite surprised by the amount of people that do not know that you can only assign a settler to a maximum of 6 crops. I mean, the game specifically stated this during a tutorial pick-up when you're doing Sturges' sidequests.

 

[thunker 9000]

Don't worry, where we're going you won't need any pants.

 

[Nowise10]

Earlyish Campaign spoiler sort of?

Spoiler

http://i.imgur.com/lAEqc2A.png

I dragged him for 50 minutes back home.

 

[TBiddy]

It was more of a question of should I expect things to get better or is the entire game scavenging for minor upgrades and sparse ammo. I haven't once felt I've upgraded any piece of gear or weapon significantly in 8 hours. I'd say that's a problem, but I might just be playing the game wrong. How would I know? There are zero tutorials

You're not alone man. I'm about 8-9 hours in as well, and I also feel lost. I'm not sure where to go next, what to do, if my gear is OK or if my build is already ridiculously bad.

Yet, I'm still having fun, even though I haven't touched the main quest yet.

 

[Akiyama_AE]

assault trons are the most cheap garbage enemy in the game

 

[BlindJesus]

Land mines are a double edged sword. They can easily swing a confrontation in your favor. But if you don't get out of the way quickly they will blow your own dumb ass up just as quickly.

I just had an incident where they saved my life. I was roaming around, found a certain industrial building, and fought my way to the end. Evidently, its part of some sidequest where thid leader bandit group wants me to talk this kid into killing some rapist or something. After many tries, I realize there is no way out of this scenario wo fighting, but they keep whipping my ass. Seeing as I'm a hoarder, I decided to use 40 of my mines all at once against a high leveled 'boss' and his minions.

I scattered all the mines around(to no hostility BC I didn't trigger the negative dialogue) , shot one guy, had all the mines recognize a hostile force, and murdered everyone in the room with one shot. It was great.

 

[everyday math]

assault trons are the most cheap garbage enemy in the game

For real. EYE BEAM OF DEATH MOTHERFUCKER!!

 

[Admiral Woofington]

assault trons are the most cheap garbage enemy in the game

that one hit laser is fucking ridiculous haha. There's one vault that has like 4-5 of them.

 

[ezekial45]

assault trons are the most cheap garbage enemy in the game

I fought a Legendary Elite version of the Assaultron, and I died three times during the encounter. It had a mini-nuke self-destruct after it was destroyed, and it kept taking me out.

I still love the enemy, though. Easily one of my favorite new additions to the series' monster gallery.

 

[Lanrutcon]

For real. EYE BEAM OF DEATH MOTHERFUCKER!!

If you shoot their heads when they're full charged and deal enough damage it explodes, dealing tons of damage to them. It also disables that weapon permanently.

There's a fight with an Assaultron and Sentry Bot on a small rooftop with no cover. Not spoiling where, but holy shit it was the only time I ever came close to dying in MKV Enclave power armor.

 

[Lord of Castamere]

Lol found 2 sets of the exact same power armor within minutes of each other. Sorry Cait you get the rusted one. Too bad I can't sell frames. I have 3 empty frames sitting around now.

 

[Jusoni]

Is there a button to change pages in terminals? A lot of the texts seem to end abruptly in middle of sentence. Bugging me out.
Edit. Oh, just hit enter. Stupid me, how many terminals have I gone through without noticing this.

 

[mxz]

A few questions about Minutemen rewards and settlement organising in general - I just built an artillery at the Castle. Has anyone tested its range? Do you need to build several in allied settlements across the map to have better coverage and can then just fire in the hole? Also, what are the preconditions for the flare gun reinforcements? Most of the time I fire one up in the sky and it says there are no Minutemen in the area. Do you also need to do this close to settlement with at least 3+ people for it to work?

I kept wondering what the payoff was for doing the settlement missions and sure enough it came after taking the Castle mission. It got me planning to hit some tougher spots right away, some missions and places I've put aside for later just because they seemed too difficult - like that water treatment plant that is part of a settlement mission. I first approached it earlier in the game and it was

Spoiler

full of super mutants with RPGs, suicide bombers and such. They got me every time I tried to get in there. Now with artillery I though - HA, I'm going to try this again! Maybe sneak in with stealth boy, drop smoke and run like hell outta there and watch it get bombed from the tree line up the hill.

But to my surprise, when I got there, I saw two or three BoS hoverplane thingies circling, engaging the mutants and the mutants firing back, one of them landed and a couple of BoS guys in big power armour basically just cleared the plant for me as I stood and took sissy sniper potshots at some of the preoccupied mutants there.

The stuff that seems to "randomly" happen in this game is just wow.

 

[Akiyama_AE]

For real. EYE BEAM OF DEATH MOTHERFUCKER!!

Its like you are not winning to die IMMA FIRIN MAH LAZUR!

 

[Lakitu]

Stealth Boys are so rare in this...

 

[bryt]

Whoa, I'm playing as a female character and two NPCs at Bunker Hill just called me "he" and "him". That was jarring.

 

[Laughing Banana]

Whoa, I'm playing as a female character and two NPCs at Bunker Hill just called me "he" and "him". That was jarring.

From the cinematic intro, to how the Husband is a Military Veteran and how the Wife is just a Law Graduate, the game seemed hell-bent of making the Male the "real" choice right from the very beginning anyways, heh.

 

[danowat]

I wonder if this has been covered, I've not seen anything, so I thought I'd ask.

I was under the impression that legendary drops were RNG, and that legendary characters who drop the drops were determined on what skill level you are, and I am not convinced this is the case.

I've done a bit of save scumming on legendary drops, and at least in my game, they don't appear to be RNG, but fixed.

I have also noticed that, despite difficulty levels, legendary characters spawn in the same places for different people running different difficulties.

Can anyone confirm or prove this wrong?

 

[Akiyama_AE]

Stealth Boys are so rare in this...

I have a shit ton haven't used them yet.

 

[BreezyLimbo]

I wonder if this has been covered, I've not seen anything, so I thought I'd ask.

I was under the impression that legendary drops were RNG, and that legendary characters who drop the drops were determined on what skill level you are, and I am not convinced this is the case.

I've done a bit of save scumming on legendary drops, and at least in my game, they don't appear to be RNG, but fixed.

I have also noticed that, despite difficulty levels, legendary characters spawn in the same places for different people running different difficulties.

Can anyone confirm or prove this wrong?

Some legendaries definitely spawn in the same areas(i've seen different playthroughs yield the same legendary), and I think that drops are indeed tied to those enemies and not random.

 

[MetroidPrimeRib]

Some legendaries definitely spawn in the same areas(i've seen different playthroughs yield the same legendary), and I think that drops are indeed tied to those enemies and not random.

Yeah can confirm, set legendaries like Swan always drop the same stuff me and my friends found out

 

[danowat]

Some legendaries definitely spawn in the same areas(i've seen different playthroughs yield the same legendary), and I think that drops are indeed tied to those enemies and not random.

So are there random legendaries with RNG drops anywhere in the game?

 

[Lanrutcon]

Yeah can confirm, set legendaries like Swan always drop the same stuff me and my friends found out

Swan isn't a legendary.

Legendaries are normal varient enemies with 'Legendary' in front of their name. They spawn randomly, and drop random gear (which seems loosely related to level). Frequency improves with difficulty level.

Swan is a named, static encounter.

 

[danowat]

Swan isn't a legendary.

Legendaries are normal varient enemies with 'Legendary' in front of their name. They spawn randomly, and drop random gear (which seems loosely related to level). Frequency improves with difficulty level.

Swan is a named, static encounter.

I'd be interested to hear about these encounters, (fairly early game) spoilers ahead obviously.

Spoiler

When you go to find Nick Valentine, you go down to Vault 114 and encounter a number of mobsters, in two of these encounters are a pair of legendary mobsters.

I'd be interested to know how many legendary mobsters people encountered (and what difficulty level), and what they dropped.

 

[Laughing Banana]

By the way, I am interested in how a melee-focused character can reliably deal with the Super Mutant Suiciders without getting killed. Anyone using Melee can give me some insights on this?

 

[Starfield]

I'd be interested to hear about these encounters, (fairly early game) spoilers ahead obviously.

Spoiler

When you go to find Nick Valentine, you go down to Vault 114 and encounter a number of mobsters, in two of these encounters are a pair of legendary mobsters.

I'd be interested to know how many legendary mobsters people encountered (and what difficulty level), and what they dropped.

I didn't encounter a legendäre Mobster down There Nut pleite of in other places already

 

[danowat]

I didn't encounter a legendäre Mobster down There Nut pleite of in other places already

Which difficulty level were you?

 

[Apt101]

Damn, I had to cheat and use god mode to get by

Spoiler

Kellog

. He was one shotting me no matter what I did. And he seemed to only take about 10% damage from grenades and mines. Maybe a bug. But it really turned me off to the entire game and experience and I'll probably just charge through in god mode for the story.

I fucking knew I shouldn't have purchased a Bethesda game for more than $5. Fuck.

 

[Kas]

Found Swan earlier..

The Boston God's must've taken pity on me, since he didn't proc, despite seeing me.

I'm really liking the game so far. I felt a bit meh earlier, but it's grown on me. It's not as fun and awesome ae NV was, but it's a step up from 3, and it improves on some thing NV tried.

I just wish guns and armor degraded. I know it's a cheap mechanic, but 200 years after global nuclear war, a normal 10mm pistol shouldn't be in perfect condition forever.

 

[skyhaven]

Damn, I had to cheat and use god mode to get by

Spoiler

Kellog

. He was one shotting me no matter what I did. And he seemed to only take about 10% damage from grenades and mines. Maybe a bug. But it really turned me off to the entire game and experience and I'll probably just charge through in god mode for the story.

I fucking knew I shouldn't have purchased a Bethesda game for more than $5. Fuck.

Well you can actually recruit a NPC that can hack into any terminal to unlock a gate with aFatman in the same base. One shot killed him.

 

[danowat]

I'm really liking the game so far. I felt a bit meh earlier, but it's grown on me. It's not as fun and awesome ae NV was, but it's a step up from 3, and it improves on some thing NV tried.

I just wish guns and armor degraded. I know it's a cheap mechanic, but 200 years after global nuclear war, a normal 10mm pistol shouldn't be in perfect condition forever.

My love for the game seems to go in waves, sometimes it feels very familar and as such, not much of a drive to carry on, other times it feels very compulsive.

As for condition of weapons and armour, that's ripe for modding.

 

[FeD.nL]

Well it's finished. Brotherhood of Steel Regional HQ - Santuary:

Top level is the Power Armor hanger bay with roof access to the 'launch platform'. I just love the way it sounds when you drop down, my character lives to make a dramatic entrance.

 

[Laughing Banana]

Well it's finished. Brotherhood of Steel Regional HQ - Santuary:



Top level is the Power Armor hanger bay with roof access to the 'launch platform'. I just love the way it sounds when you drop down, my character lives to make a dramatic entrance.

Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuckkkk people why you gotta be make me so self-conscious at how shitty my home is

That Jump from Above in Power Armor is a fantastic idea. Why didn't I think of that???

 

[Phoenix944]

What the fuck... There is a limit on how many item you can build in a settlement...
I've build a fucking huge castle, and started to fill it with stuff. Now I can't put even a lamp x(
Well... time to destroy at least 3 floors.

 

[The Dear Leader]

Okay, this is pretty cool.

 

[Ken]

10+ hours in and got my first useful legendary, a hunting rifle that does bonus damage to limbs, that isn't a melee weapon that gives 50% bonus damage on bugs while standing still on a Tuesday.

 

[Hasney]

Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuckkkk people why you gotta be make me so self-conscious at how shitty my home is

That Jump from Above in Power Armor is a fantastic idea. Why didn't I think of that???

Don't worry. I just put beds in the road to stop people whining.

 

[Akibared]

10+ hours in and got my first useful legendary, a hunting rifle that does bonus damage to limbs, that isn't a melee weapon that gives 50% bonus damage on bugs while standing still on a Tuesday.

Why Bethesda?

 

[DrKelpo]

Fucking shit... Accidentally read a end game spoiler... Fucking people.

 

[Kssio_Aug]

The build I'm doing in the XB1 now is giving me SOO MUCH better results than the one I was doing when playing on PC! I was having trouble even on very easy on places that now I'm having no issues in normal mode! People should not ignore toughness and life giver!

 

[Blue Ninja]

I have a shit ton haven't used them yet.

During the encounter with the Courser,

Spoiler

when he actives his own I thought "well, too can play at that game and went invisible as well. Proceeded to shoot at eachother while invisible. All in good fun.

 

[Akibared]

Fucking shit... Accidentally read a end game spoiler... Fucking people.

I'm staying here until I'm done with the game.

 

[FreeQuebec86]

If you want to see "Swan" Decapitated!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxLG0RXdJ8s

And if you don't want/can't see youtube video, here a GIF of the Decapitation!

http://imgur.com/AcDzMf4?

 

[Echoplx]

Do you get locked out of any faction quests or anything for continuing with the main story?

 

[nubbe]

I would totally build my char differently the second time...
Hacking and Lockpicking are completely worthless

 

[El Topo]

Why Bethesda?

Eh, some of the insects out there are pretty nasty.

 

[Lanrutcon]

Eh, some of the insects out there are pretty nasty.

Have you been to the Glowing Sea?

Let me tell you about the Glowing Sea. It is a fucking wasteland. It makes the rest of the map look like a goddamn paradise. It is permanently, heavily irradiated to the point where you take steady amounts of radiation through power armor while on Rad X. There is almost nothing left standing, leaving a vast open plain of monster infested green foggy nothing. It's an experience.