Thanks for the replies! Really just looking for the best all rounder set up for a first play through since I'm new to the series and don't know enough about perks etc to plan a proper build my first time around.
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joecanada
Member
Ha, even though I'm a fallout veteran, I for some reason thought when you first levelled you had to add to your SPECIAL, I didn't even think to scroll down to the actual perks (I have no clue why) so I actually ended up with a fairly competent character in all stats, but fell behind in perks (but you make it up later anyway) ... so it really doesn't matter except at the beginning. I actually started with a strength build and wrecked stuff with melee, but morphed into sneak melee/rifle/explosives guy........
Anyone else notice how the Super Sledge becomes one handed in 3rd person if you have power armor? Your attack speed is a lot faster as well, yet when you go first person he does the 2h animated swings so it's a lot slower. You can also cancel attack animations by switching views in the middle of an attack. It is hilarious how quickly you can swing the super sledge by swinging in 3rd person and resetting the animation.
SolidSnakeUS
Member
Where would you say would be the best place to get the largest amount of possibly lock picking doors/safes/etc in one location?
blame space
Banned
I won't have anyone speaking ill of the '76 baseball bat.
Has anyone done an idiot savant character with an INT of 3 or more? How did the the bonus XP feel?I want the perk to be the most effective, but I don't think I can live without Gun Nut.
EDIT oh you guys were JUST talking about this. Sorry, thanks for the info.
Has anyone done an idiot savant character with an INT of 3 or more? How did the the bonus XP feel?I want the perk to be the most effective, but I don't think I can live without Gun Nut.
EDIT oh you guys were JUST talking about this. Sorry, thanks for the info.
tattooed_dwarf
Member
Is achievement tracking not working for others too? I love checking those bars to fill, but this game just doesn't do it.
Polymer Lab, I forget the full name, has an expert safe you can relock via terminal. If that helps at all.
I think you mean "awesome" instead of crappy. Seriously - when the special feature of that weapon procs it's hilarious.
v0mitg0d
Member
HD up!
TheSharingan
Banned
Thanks guys. I know what should I do now.
Just one more thing. Is there any other missable bubblehead rather than the one in Asylum?
What???
There was a reward???
I have 11 perks to claim and I am hesitant to spend them in case I needed them later.
Anyone have any recommendations?
I have already invested one or two levels in lock picking, hacking and gun and Armour mods. Others in more ammo in chests and scavenger perk.
I suppose I should invest in the 10% resistance perk and the non automatic and pistol damage perks
Anyone have any recommendations?
I have already invested one or two levels in lock picking, hacking and gun and Armour mods. Others in more ammo in chests and scavenger perk.
I suppose I should invest in the 10% resistance perk and the non automatic and pistol damage perks
Tal Shiar Agent
Member
Go for the weapon damage boosts for whichever class you use mainly. If you wear power armor or use energy weapons boost up Science. Also if you use Power Armor get your INT to 9 and get the Nuclear Physicist perk and get your Armorer perk up too.
Its hard to recommend specific perks without knowing how you play.
In the case to the right of the room if I am remembering correctly, but in one them for sure is the spoiler reward also some miscellaneous junk all around. I knew the reward would suck, but was hoping for a
bobble-head
Edit: to be clear you don't get a traditional reward for a quest npc or anything.
I'm pretty sure the Diamond City guards say something about purposely not helping you against them.
terrdactycalsrock
Member
what does Nick Valentine like? I would really like to do his quest. Also, he saw me kill a certain person and the prompt said that "Nick hated that." is that something I can overcome?
Side with the humans, like that noble looking human in your avatar.
Kssio_Aug
Member
Just finished the story! Just to be sure I'm not missing anything, there's no end credits, right?
I finished with 38 hours (and played 10 on PC before start playing it on XB1).
Joined the Brotherhood of Steel and
.
I really liked it and its among the best games of this generation until now, imho. However, the side-quests can turn out really repetitive... I was focusing on doing them without rushing the story mode and got quite tired of it, so I decided today to rush the story missions till the end. I think I'm done until they unlock mods for consoles since I don't feel right now there's enough content to keep me interested anymore.
I've played the XB1 version and, except for one or two times in the whole game, I have not encountered those freezing issues Digital Foundry shown in their analysis. I'm using a standard XB1 with 500gb HD, and played the game using the internal hard drive. Also, except for the very end of the game, I've not encountered other sections with what I'd consider a trully bad frame-rate. It was quite stable for the most part actually. I'd say it was running much better than I expected from a Bethesda game.
In terms of performance what bothered me the most was undoublty the loading times. At the start I wasn't bothering too much with it, but 20 hours in I was getting sick of facing 20~60 seconds loading screens all the damn time. Still, it has not affected the general experience to me, wich was really great! =)
I finished with 38 hours (and played 10 on PC before start playing it on XB1).
Joined the Brotherhood of Steel and
destroyed the Institue
I really liked it and its among the best games of this generation until now, imho. However, the side-quests can turn out really repetitive... I was focusing on doing them without rushing the story mode and got quite tired of it, so I decided today to rush the story missions till the end. I think I'm done until they unlock mods for consoles since I don't feel right now there's enough content to keep me interested anymore.
I've played the XB1 version and, except for one or two times in the whole game, I have not encountered those freezing issues Digital Foundry shown in their analysis. I'm using a standard XB1 with 500gb HD, and played the game using the internal hard drive. Also, except for the very end of the game, I've not encountered other sections with what I'd consider a trully bad frame-rate. It was quite stable for the most part actually. I'd say it was running much better than I expected from a Bethesda game.
In terms of performance what bothered me the most was undoublty the loading times. At the start I wasn't bothering too much with it, but 20 hours in I was getting sick of facing 20~60 seconds loading screens all the damn time. Still, it has not affected the general experience to me, wich was really great! =)
Has anyone else had issues with the Silver Shroud sidequest? The guy on the radio just doesn't tell me what the next objective is supposed to be after the first one. No matter where I'm at in Goodneighbour, I've been listening to too many boring minutes of the Silver Shroud radio play without anything happening to get the quest going on.
I used a wiki to see where the next target is supposed to be and it actually worked. Though he still doesn't give me the next target over the radio. Fucking bugs.
I used a wiki to see where the next target is supposed to be and it actually worked. Though he still doesn't give me the next target over the radio. Fucking bugs.
I need to know this. I stopped and deleted the patch before it could fully downloading. I didn't want to be deprived of my precious adhesive.
You need to leave the Silver Shroud card and without it, sometimes it won't work. Also, for the last mission you need to travel back to Goodneighbor
I have always left the card and have travelled back and forth to GN several times. As I said, the next objective didn't even popup on the screen or in the quests section of the Pipboy, but when I killed a target and put the Silver Shroud card there, the missing objective suddenly popped up as successfully finished (with a check mark next to it), even though it never was there before.
I'll try to keep following the quest via a wiki tomorrow... But I'm just angry when faced with such bugs.
Mad Season
Banned
My fallout game in steam says [BETA] and I wanted to turn that off but the BETA tab is gone from the games properties... How do I know I have the latest patch?
Captain_Wreckus
Member
Think I'm already done with this game after a few hours of gameplay for a few reasons:
a) no guns at all. I'm in lexington to continue the story and i constantly get killed. I only have a pistol and that stupid one shot laser gun or whatever.
b) like I mention above, constantly getting killed.
Glad I only paid 40 bucks for it as I had xbox rewards credits added to my account a few months back.
a) no guns at all. I'm in lexington to continue the story and i constantly get killed. I only have a pistol and that stupid one shot laser gun or whatever.
b) like I mention above, constantly getting killed.
Glad I only paid 40 bucks for it as I had xbox rewards credits added to my account a few months back.
semiconscious
Member
don't listen to her!
& just drop her off somewhere for a bit - helping the robots results in maybe the best mission ending in the whole game 
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...VisceralBowl
Member
Help the
robots
Thanks...thats weird I always check every corner.
Chubzdoomer
Banned
Does anyone else constantly jam the Q key (or L1/LB on consoles) to "check" for enemies with V.A.T.S.?
Sometimes it feels like cheating, but man it's a tough habit to break.
Sometimes it feels like cheating, but man it's a tough habit to break.
Captain_Wreckus
Member
ready to throw my xbox one controller at my TV every time I play this game now. Barely scratched the surface of this game and I hate it already. don't like games that I repeatedly get killed and can't continue the story.
Well the radar doesn't work like it did in Fallout 3, where if there was an enemy in range they were a red dot on your radar whether they are alerted or not.
It sucks. I've shot innocent folks a few times thinking they were raiders.
chrominance
Member
chrominance
Member
I actually kind of like it, not only because it encourages me to walk up to people without attacking them first (you know, like a normal person) but also because it lends a certain tension to stealth encounters. Did you really knock everyone out or is there still one bastard with your head in the crosshairs?
It's just too bad that 99% of the time, the people you see in the distance really are enemies and you were better off shooting them. The two or three times they turned out to be friendly were pretty neat.
Has anyone else experienced this? I was sneaking around with Valentine as my follower and I saw some raiders up ahead. I decided to get the jump on them so of course they start searching for me and one finds me before I see him (They moved and it was foggy so I lost track). I'm trying to find them and all the sudden I hear one apologize to Nick saying if he knew it was him he would have not shot at him. Nick says it is ok and asks how he is doing and then they are peaceful with me. I was even able to go up to one and try to talk to him (He wouldn't talk back but he didn't attack me either). And they weren't named characters, just random raiders (I guess the game gives a chance that a raider recognizes Nick or something?).
I'm pretty impressed with the small touches Bethesda puts in like that. I know it's gotten weaker in some ways as an RPG but Bethesda does seem to have improved in other ways (like more NPCs interacting with your followers and they seem to have more character, not just some person hanging behind me saying one of five canned responses. I mean sure the writing still isn't great but that still is a big improvement over 3).
I'm pretty impressed with the small touches Bethesda puts in like that. I know it's gotten weaker in some ways as an RPG but Bethesda does seem to have improved in other ways (like more NPCs interacting with your followers and they seem to have more character, not just some person hanging behind me saying one of five canned responses. I mean sure the writing still isn't great but that still is a big improvement over 3).
Nah if I think there is anyone left in the area I just shoot randomly into the air to alert them, so they show up on my radar for me to find and kill them.
I didn't like it at first cause I hated how easy it was for an NPC to sneak up on me (and also not knowing if they were friendly). Well until I realized that if you watch the brackets around your sneak status they would give away if something was around to detect you (they stay far away from the word when you are the most stealthy. And if no one is there to watch you they just stay that way.. they start moving when some one is there cause you will vary in how hard you are to detect at any given moment).
So now I love it cause it gives me just enough hint to not feel like I have to constantly move around 360 everywhere I walk (and I don't fast travel so that would get really tedious) but makes it more challenging cause I have to find the watcher myself. And as you said, it makes it so you have to try to decide if they are friendly or not (For example the raiders in my above story I decided were raiders because they were wearing typical raider armor... I was still relieved to see I hadn't guessed wrong when the game labelled it for me when I managed a hit).
LlamaJohnson
Member
So I unplugged the Xbox one for an hour then tried to load the game again.... No dice. Finally, after about the 10th save file I found one that worked. Back in it. Only lost about 2 hours of game play.
I've been playing along time but I kind of want to restart now that I am more familiar with the game. Currently at about level 50. The problem is, I don't think I could go back to not having a jetpack, it is that convenient for me. Really wish they would have snuck a jetpack in the game somewhere that was not
or require over level 40.
end game
bobbyrawlins
Banned
I've got like, 3 minutemen settlement quests in my questlog that are bugged and can't be completed. Clear a location, talk to Preston, and something else. It's really bugging the hell out of me that I can't clear these off my screen
SolidSnakeUS
Member
Do you need the
molecular relay anymore or can all the stuff be scraped and do other things?
BLOODED_hands
Member
Started a new playthrough of this badass guy named after my last name, Lor, who is super nice but will murder anybody that gets in his way. If they aren't friendlies, they're dead lol. Being frozen for so long, having to witness his wifes death, and his son's kidnapping he won't take anymore bullshit and will do anything to not allow good people to die.
I have him maining automatic weapons and plasma weapons. As soon as he gets his power armor, it's going to be game over for these fools!
I skipped talking to Preston entirely. Did not go inside Concord at all so far lol. As soon as I started I ran straight towards Diamond City, Good Neighbor, and Bunker Hill
For those questioning Idiot Savant like I did on my first playthrough, grab it as soon as possible. It's entirely worth it.
Edit: for those wondering, the dogmeat duping still works. I don't know if anybody has been paying attention but dogmeat can dupe stacks.
- Have him dupe your stack of whatever you want. Stacks can glitch out i.e., not have full stacks or seperated stacks. Experiment when the stacks break off. More often than not, I noticed that items don't fully stack if you are using this glitch. I've duped a stack of 4k ammo. Total is now 8k right? Tried to drop the 8k stack and it seperates the stacks. I don't think we can ever dupe our dupes fully without having seperated stacks of any items.
- Drop your stack of items that you wanted to dupe
- Quicksave from the settings menu and quit the game from the settings menu
- Continue from that quicksave and lo and behold you will notice you have two, three, or however many you duped stacks of items
I have him maining automatic weapons and plasma weapons. As soon as he gets his power armor, it's going to be game over for these fools!
I skipped talking to Preston entirely. Did not go inside Concord at all so far lol. As soon as I started I ran straight towards Diamond City, Good Neighbor, and Bunker Hill
For those questioning Idiot Savant like I did on my first playthrough, grab it as soon as possible. It's entirely worth it.
Edit: for those wondering, the dogmeat duping still works. I don't know if anybody has been paying attention but dogmeat can dupe stacks.
- Have him dupe your stack of whatever you want. Stacks can glitch out i.e., not have full stacks or seperated stacks. Experiment when the stacks break off. More often than not, I noticed that items don't fully stack if you are using this glitch. I've duped a stack of 4k ammo. Total is now 8k right? Tried to drop the 8k stack and it seperates the stacks. I don't think we can ever dupe our dupes fully without having seperated stacks of any items.
- Drop your stack of items that you wanted to dupe
- Quicksave from the settings menu and quit the game from the settings menu
- Continue from that quicksave and lo and behold you will notice you have two, three, or however many you duped stacks of items
Trogdor1123
Gold Member
How do you get more people to your settlements? I don't know how to trade, get people to do things, or to run shops or tend to food production.
Chubzdoomer
Banned
Have you already placed a radio beacon thingy, given it power, and turned it on?
BlackSalad
Member
this is depressing, as it seems my game is glitched and won't progress this quest past the initial objective. I've talked to the captain and sat on the deck, but nothing happens, ever.