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Been playing 15 hours or so and i´m totally in love with this game so far, definitely a goty contender for me. Also loved the previous FO3/FNV and yes, I´m also missing the depth of the old dialogsystem. But I find the game to be so much fun, the exploration and gunplay especially.

Still don´t get the shitposting on every forum around, the hate is real for this game and it also feels like its coming from a lot of people who haven´t even tried it.

I'm 55 hours in and I just crave more all the time. I think it's still a solid upgrade both visually and gameplay wise compared to the older ones, and as much as fun.

One thing I'm very pleased with, I think it's the first time in a Bethesda game I feel the companions are people, not just empty shells that follow you around. They have a lot to say in different situations.
 
Yeah I'm kinda feeling that way too. I'm playing on a midrange PC (760) right now and my roommate picked up the game on XB1. I hopped on after he was done to start a new character and make better use of my SPECIAL points but NOPE. Feels like a slideshow coming from my PC version. I really wish this game had a damn respec option or at least a one time use item or something!

That's why I don't feel bad for using the unlimited SPECIAL glitch. In the the beginning I knew nothing about the game and specced poorly. After 10 hours the game began to feel boring. But now after putting 10 in AGL and VATS'ing endlessly I'm really having fun.
 
For the fans of Fallout 1/2 and New Vegas:
Is this game fun for you, or is it too shallow?

I'm kinda interested jumping in, but I'm contemplating waiting for some mods to fix the shallow dialogue.
 
Anyone else getting gems like this on their xbox one copy ?

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My console runs fine with everything else :P
 
For the fans of Fallout 1/2 and New Vegas:
Is this game fun for you, or is it too shallow?

I'm kinda interested jumping in, but I'm contemplating waiting for some mods to fix the shallow dialogue.

It's a very fun world-exploration game. It's a very crappy role-playing game. I am one of the hardcorest RPG fans on this entire site. As long as I remember that I'm not playing an actual RPG, I'm having a good time. When it tries to think its people, I get really annoyed and shut it off for a while.

If you're the RPG fan that can still find value in things despite their pedigree and supposed genre, you may enjoy this as much as most people. If the fact that it continues to strip away elements of its history in favor of simplified mechanics and Sims-lite fluff content bothers you, maybe wait a while.
 
It's a very fun world-exploration game. It's a very crappy role-playing game. I am one of the hardcorest RPG fans on this entire site. As long as I remember that I'm not playing an actual RPG, I'm having a good time. When it tries to think its people, I get really annoyed and shut it off for a while.

If you're the RPG fan that can still find value in things despite their pedigree and supposed genre, you may enjoy this as much as most people. If the fact that it continues to strip away elements of its history in favor of simplified mechanics and Sims-lite fluff content bothers you, maybe wait a while.

Thank you. Guess I'll wait then.
 
Been playing 15 hours or so and i´m totally in love with this game so far, definitely a goty contender for me. Also loved the previous FO3/FNV and yes, I´m also missing the depth of the old dialogsystem. But I find the game to be so much fun, the exploration and gunplay especially.

Still don´t get the shitposting on every forum around, the hate is real for this game and it also feels like its coming from a lot of people who haven´t even tried it.

Here is the thing. The gameplay is fantastic, best of the year. However, the stripping down of player agency with a completely predefined character, worse-than Mass Effect dialog system, removal of skills, removal of weapon condition, allowing points to be put into SPECIAL with every level, not tying shooting too heavily to skills/perks, etc has pissed off a lot of people, myself included. Fallout 4 pales in comparison to New Vegas and isn't really an RPG anymore. I can't help but imagine what this game would be like if Obisidian made it, even if they were forced to go with the same setting and having a voiced protagonist.
 
I am so tempted to buy this game.
I never played F3 or FNV. I just bought Halo 5, and I'm buying Battlefront tomorrow. I don know if I should buy Fallout, since I just bought 2 games at full price.

Isnt 3 games in less than a month a little overkill ?
 
Need help understanding this:

I just finished the Lost Patrol quest where you
follow the trail of the ambushed BoS patrol. I made it all the way to the old dude Paladin at the end in his bunker. As I was talking to him, I tried using a persuade option. It failed, and he got pissed and started shooting at me.

Piper and I killed him - have I just lost out on other BoS quests? I hope I didn't just end any chance I had of doing a BoS quest line.
 
For the fans of Fallout 1/2 and New Vegas:
Is this game fun for you, or is it too shallow?

I'm kinda interested jumping in, but I'm contemplating waiting for some mods to fix the shallow dialogue.

I really, really miss the dialogue from FNV. It's so much better. I also prefer skill points to how they have it now.

The world exploring, quests, combat are all great though.
 
How do you do this?

At no point have i been told how to get in cover.

Walk up to a wall or other object until your weapon lowers, then you can press the aim down sights button to peak out, release button to return back to cover.

It's a very useful mechanic, and it's bizarre that it's never explained in game.
 
How can you make electricity come into a building ? I have to take off a wall to be able to connect the cable (generator is outside)

It works on a proximity basis, items will run off a power pylon or power socket / switch for about 2/3 building squares.

So as long as you get the wire to a pylon within 2/3 squares of the items you are trying to power, they will get power, you don't need to wire each item to the generator, or run wires through walls (even if you do run wires through walls, they can and will clip through, no need to take the wall down), I just stick a couple of pylons on the roof.
 
How can you make electricity come into a building ? I have to take off a wall to be able to connect the cable (generator is outside)

Make a 'window': doorway wall with a fence in the doorway. There's one that slots into doorways.

But it would be awesome if someone has a better idea.
 
It works on a proximity basis, items will run off a power pylon or power socket / switch for about 2/3 building squares.

So as long as you get the wire to a pylon within 2/3 squares of the items you are trying to power, they will get power, you don't need to wire each item to the generator, or run wires through walls, I just stick a couple of pylons on the roof.

Ok thanks!

Make a 'window': doorway wall with a fence in the doorway. There's one that slots into doorways.

But it would be awesome if someone has a better idea.

Yea I've tried that, but then my building looks weird x)
 
Just finished the game and I'm glad it's over. If someone had told me that the story was written by M Knight Shyamalan.. I would have believe them.
 
How can you make electricity come into a building ? I have to take off a wall to be able to connect the cable (generator is outside)

Just run the wiring around the building exterior walls, unless the building is huge the power should reach all interior lighting, tv, etc.
 
Explored a very strange building today. You enter into it from a street, then it's kinda like a maze with traps set in it. You follow a bunch of street signs that point you in certain directions. Some lead to dead ends. Then you find about 20 scales( the kind you weigh yourself on) on the ground, and right behind them are a bunch of grenades hanging from strings on the ceiling. Followed by a room full of those little robot monkeys. Then you eventually find a
Christmas Tree decorated with lights
that is being guarded by a turret gun. Right after that I got killed by
a legendary ghoul of some sort
 
By the way firefights got at least 3 times better once I learned about the lean from cover system. That's so goddamn useful.

What is that ?

I'm hesitating about starting the BoS quest at the police station,
does it lock me with the brotherhood or does the faction choice come later ?
 
For the fans of Fallout 1/2 and New Vegas:
Is this game fun for you, or is it too shallow?

I'm kinda interested jumping in, but I'm contemplating waiting for some mods to fix the shallow dialogue.

New Vegas fan myself, and it doesn't feel to shallow, it's very fun to play.

*The perk system works pretty well, and makes it fun to plan your character. I was hesitant about the removed skill system, but I think this works well.
*Companions are much improved. Design, dialogue and relations.
*Dialogue system has it's up and down. Worse then New Vegas, but not truly terrible. At worst, it's still much better then Fallout 3 at least. But I do miss more skill/perk checks.
*Much improved crafting system.
*Very content heavy, more then New Vegas. Will reserve judgement on the writing until I have beaten it .
 
For the fans of Fallout 1/2 and New Vegas:
Is this game fun for you, or is it too shallow?

I'm kinda interested jumping in, but I'm contemplating waiting for some mods to fix the shallow dialogue.

While shooting things and exploring was fun for a couple of dozen hours, it honestly really just made me want to re-install FO2 or NV

Personally, I'd suggest you wait at least a couple of months unless you really, really want to play it right now
 
Nope just vanilla xbox one version. It also does it on some shadows, super annoying. I'm not running from external usb.

Hmm, yeah, actually saw the same thing on XB1, when I tossed a frag grenade into a group of Raiders. The ensuing smoke from it appeared as white squares on screen.:/
 
Am I the only one who played FO3 and NV to death, and gotten a number of hours into FO4 and didn't realise that there was a "dud removal" mechanic in hacking in all the games? or that the square brackets around "hidden" actually move to determine how hidden you are?
 
Am I the only one who played FO3 and NV to death, and gotten a number of hours into FO4 and didn't realise that there was a "dud removal" mechanic in hacking in all the games? or that the square brackets around "hidden" actually move to determine how hidden you are?

Nope. Found out a few days ago and have only found 1 dud. This comes after 250+ hours of fallout
 
Am I the only one who played FO3 and NV to death, and gotten a number of hours into FO4 and didn't realise that there was a "dud removal" mechanic in hacking in all the games? or that the square brackets around "hidden" actually move to determine how hidden you are?

Wait, what on the bracket thing? Do you move further out or something?
 
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