Once you do some quests for the
Railroad
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Once you do some quests for the
BOS Suits?
They are the only way to properly clear some areas.
Blue Ninja
Member
Nope, I'm on the Xbone so no mods yet.
I made some more shots, but because my goddamn console can't sync my saves again I'm currently 'offline' again. Really don't understand how that even works, I'm connected to XBL.
You have to progress with the main quest.
When you see
the BoS big airship arriving at the commonwealth you will get more quests from them.
BizzyBum
Member
Thanks for not saying that was a spoiler.
I finished the main quest line after putting it off for awhile choosing
as my faction.
The Railroad
I wasn't a big fan of any of the factions which I personally think is a good thing, none of them seem like the "best" faction morally. The BoS were huge assholes and I got tired of their shit quick. The Institute didn't seem all that bad, but I didn't understand some things that I may have missed, like why are they replacing actual people with synths? Like the father and son at Warwick Homestead. I mostly didn't like how elitist they were but they would be my second choice probably. Minutemen are borng, I didn't even pay attention them. Some time after the ending they were having a funeral for Patriot and Desdemona gave me his suicide letter, it kinda made me realize what a shitty thing we did blowing that place up full of innocent people who probably grew up in there not knowing any better than the life they had, all to rescue synths that were apparently reprogrammed to have free will rather than designed that way. So yeah, that's why the Railroad is shitty, too. Also, why can't I send robot Shaun the my home in Diamond City? Bullshit.
backflip10019
Member
Thank you for actually saying that. I was about to click but then didn't.
It's not really much of a spoiler.
Basketball
Member
did that too lol
Slammin_Hammon
Member
Unique side quests are found more by talking to people and wandering around. Factions just give main quests and randomized radiant quests.
LyleLanley
Banned
So far I don't think many of the sidequests have been much fun.
Nothing wrong with how you play. It's hard.
I feel the same way.
I've looked over a list of quests briefly on a guide and there seem to be quite a few but there are so many locations and so many "clear so and so place" missions that it seems like unique and interesting missions are few and far between.
I got a minigun that has a 20% chance to cripple a targets leg(s). Per shot. First time I used it on a legendary Deathclaw and crippled him within 2 seconds. It works on pretty much anything but guys in power armor. Somewhat broken I think but it is fun being able to cripple everything on command.
There really aren't that many quests, honestly. You just explore for the sake of exploring. You might find interesting stories on terminals, or get ambushed as you're leaving a building you thought was empty. But actual quests can be pretty rare.
Dwight Schrute
Member
What's with these "getting your companion perks" talks ? What ? How ?
I was getting tired of being one's puppet and since this game doesn't really have a Yes Man option I had to go that route. My character only cares for herself and her new family (all of my companions except for
Danse, Deacon, and the Courser
We are The Family.
Couldn't think of a better name.
SymbiantXenos
Member
I enjoy finding distress signals and following them to their location. I always switch of the ham radios after leaving as well. A form of closure I guess lol.
I feel like this was always kind of the case? It was always more about putting a story together based on a location you found?
This is exactly how I play the game and the way I always did with any Bethesda game except This is the first time I'm having a problem with finding sidequest.
This is really disappointing. I can't remember whether Fallout 3 had the same problem but I'm sure I didn't have this problem with Skyrim or Fallout:NV at all. I'll probably just use a guide for sidequests and finish main quest and be done with the game.
The game overall is pretty clearly rushed and unfinished.
See: https://www.reddit.com/r/fo4/comments/3vayxv/spoiler_deleted_paladin_danse_voice_lines_show_he/
Danse/Brotherhood spoilers
See: https://www.reddit.com/r/fo4/comments/3vayxv/spoiler_deleted_paladin_danse_voice_lines_show_he/
Danse/Brotherhood spoilers
Blue Ninja
Member
That's gonna be DLC, I can smell it.
Kinda would've liked that. I like the Brotherhood, but they were a bit too extreme in Fallout 4. Heck, you can even quip to Maxson
you're only one step away from Elder now
This was one of my earliest Random Encounters, tho I arrived in time to talk with them. It begins withthe real Art pointing a weapon at S-Art and both telling you the other one is a synth. You can convince the real one to not shoot with a charisma check which leads to S-Art attacking you both as a thanks you.
Thanks for the background. I have a feeling I either miss a lot of these or walk in late to see them kick off. These are some of the things that makes not using fast travel worthwhile; I've run into crazy stuff going down, or small side quests popping up, on almost every trek between sites. Though, there does not appear to be a much variety as Skyrim had in that department, at least not yet.
I found an area a few days ago with a bunch of people in some kind of religious group, outside of a trailer or something. They wanted me to join up or something. I made a mental note to visit them later for a potential quest. Last night I went back and they were all dead, corpses everywhere. I'm not sure if that's a bug or an event, but they sure got very dead.
You have to improve your relationship by doing things they like. As you get more "Companion liked/loved that" messages, your relationship improves. After you reach a certain relationship level you'll have a conversation that basically says "I like you". Then for some companions you do a loyalty quest a la Mass Effect (I don't think they all have one), then level relationship some more and when they idolise you there's another conversation. You get their perk after that.
I have three companions who idolise me right now. Once they reach that level, they can fuck off back to Sanctuary and it's on to the next one.
shawnoftheshred
Member
Question about the various fetch quests (railroad caches/Minutemen settler help/Brotherhood quartermastery, etc.) - are they the way you can actually "CLEAR" an area that's otherwise not marked as so? Just wondering if I should actively go after 'em.
Yeah, there are even sound bytes of Danse confirming this scenario. Cut scenario or potential DLC? Who knows?
Pump and dump. The Sole Survivor's way.
Areas respawn with enemies eventually or by other radiant quests populating them, so there's no point in trying to clear locations. But yes supposedly some areas are only cleared (temporarily) through those quests.
Blue Ninja
Member
Mine started having trouble again today. Last time it happened because of an NXOE bug, I hope this one is as easily fixed.
If not, I'm moving to the PC version.
loaf of bread
Member
Could someone please explain to me how the hell resources and scrapping and storing shit works because I'm lost. I can't carry my resources with me because they're too heavy, I have to scrap everything manually by dumping junk in the street, and none of my resources carry over between bases when stored in the workshop. What am I missing? Is this just shit?
Pakoe
Member
Yessssss, me too!
Dick Justice
Banned
I recall on my brief first playthrough before starting over that I came across a Triggerman near Drumlin Diner telling me that someone wanted to talk to me. Does anyone know about this?
chrominance
Member
In your inventory, you have several classes of objects. The one marked "Junk" is where the bulk of your resources come from. You add this to a settlement by transferring all junk to any workshop in a settlement. When you're looking at a workshop inventory in one of your settlements, you'll see the option to Transfer (or Store?) All Junk. That should relieve you of having to drop junk items and scrapping them on the ground.
Other objects, such as weapons and armor (non-legendary only!), do not work this way; they must be scrapped manually. However, you don't need to drop them on the ground to do this; you can scrap weapons at any Weapons Workshop and armor at any Armor Workshop. Doing this will add the resources to your own inventory, which you can then dump back into the workshop. (I think they do it this way because many weapon/armor workshops aren't in settlements, and so they default to dumping it into your inventory instead of the workshop's?)
Resources normally don't automatically transfer between workshops, but there is a Charisma perk called Local Leader that allows you to set up supply lines using settlers. Connecting any two settlements shares the resources of both settlements. Connecting all your settlements, then, will pool all the resources you have in all your workshops. This is usually the easiest way to gain access to resources you've stored at other settlements (to the point where as soon as I get a settler in a new settlement, I have them set up a supply line).
Note that there are caveats. You won't actually see the items from other settlements inside a workshop; instead, you'll gain access to the additional materials while in build mode. You also don't gain access to any weapons, armor, or pretty much anything besides junk, crops and weapon/armor mods; those you'll have to transport manually. Finally, if you build something in a settlement, and then store it in your workshop (ex. a wooden floor, a television, a container), you'll only be able to rebuild that item in that settlement; those items don't get pooled together either.
Hopefully that all made sense! It's definitely confusing at first and Bethesda doesn't do a great job of explaining any of it. You can try referring to the Help menu when you pause the game for more tips, or if you forget some of the stuff I mentioned here.
Dick Justice
Banned
I'm fine with that being left out.
Making the player the Brotherhood Elder would've been the epitome of stupid power fantasy bullshit.
Yeah it was to do with the NXOE bug.
Games that I hadn't played since before then still weren't syncing, so I tried the fix I found on Reddit again.
Ended up losing all my Fallout saves somehow.
Anyway syncing failed again at 18%
It did manage to retrieve 2 saves though, one from 2 levels ago.
I can live with that I think
Blue Ninja
Member
Odds are they screwed something up on their end again, once it's fixed you should be able to download your saves without issue.
At least, I hope.
Freezasaurus
Member
Any word on when Bethesda is dropping the next console patch? I'm waiting on that to be able to continue the main quest. 
Dre_G_Writer
Member
Yeah, the ending really bummed me out. I wanted to confront Father
about the abductions, I wanted to negotiate with the BoS, I wanted the Minutemen to be like an arbitration between things,
Well that looks like it's going to be my first mod for this one. Looks brilliant.
Dick Justice
Banned
I thought you can play after the ending?
You can, I just don't like what it takes to get to the ending and what it does to the factions, so I'm ignoring it
This looks awesome, but unless the AI is affected by the weather conditions and such, I'm not sure if I want to run it. With that radiation storm and the heavy fog, I'd expect the AI to not see me until I was maybe 20 feet from them.
RageWaffles
Member
Other than my sniper, that's been my main weapon for at least 25 levels now. Love it!
That makes it like MGSV. I'm both intrigued and turned off by that notion.
