[Aptorian]

Christmas decorations have popped up in Diamond City!

[Gnaw]

Any takers for a used copy of Fallout 4 for xbox one?

[Aptorian]

I just travelled to the Institute. This place is freaking me out. I just walked into the robotics division and saw how they make human synths. Holy shit. This place makes Skynet look like an amateur.

[Maark Abbott]

Apt, on 28 November 2015 - 07:29 PM, said:

I just travelled to the Institute. This place is freaking me out. I just walked into the robotics division and saw how they make human synths. Holy shit. This place makes Skynet look like an amateur.

I've been there but never saw that. Time to have a looksie.

[Aptorian]

It's actually a bit silly because at the speed at which they show them being made here, the institute could easily repopulate the world in less than a year.

[Aptorian]

This freakish asshole has been standing inside one of my power armor frames for days now. He refuses to come out.

[Primateus]

Apt, on 29 November 2015 - 04:55 PM, said:

This freakish asshole has been standing inside one of my power armor frames for days now. He refuses to come out.

Yeeeeaaaahhh....

I'm afraid you're going to have to just pile some firewood and straw around him with perhaps some accelerant just for good measure and then light him up and kill it with fire!

[Morgoth]

I stumbled onto an X-01, finally. It was just standing around next to a crashed military plane. Now my collection is complete (I think). I've built a warehouse to house each and every one, hoisted onto individual frames. It feels like progress.

[Aptorian]

I've considered gathering all my power armor frames in one place and making some kind of Iron Man type vault.

I wish there were more variation or uses for powerarmor, like Iron mans suits. perhaps an underwater suit that allows you to swim/propel yourself, see through the murk, maybe shoot water. A flying suit that gives you long lasting jet engines and rocket weapons. A radiation suit that lets you use radiation as a power source and had mounted plasma or gamma canons, etc.

A power armor DLC with tons of mods is something I would be very interested in.

I also wisg there were more giant creatures in the environment. I wish they'd leaned a bit more into the 1950s tropes of 50 foot Spiders or Iguanas, etc. Radiation could be used to handwave a lot of strange crap that could give the wasteland more flavor. Like man eating plants or spectres, etc.

[Traveller]

Finally got this, yay.

Spent the last bit of yesterday eve creating a female warrior-type for a change; and played for an hour or so after getting out into the wasteland.

I loved Fallout 3. And I'm already sucked straight back in.

Haven't played anything for a few months now but I think I'll find some time for this. Any tips for early perks?

[Traveller]

I'm liking the inventory. Does the stuff you transfer into a workbench mean it's accessible from any workbench? Also can you convert any building you find with workbenches into a base just by adding structures and security and all that kind of stuff? Do you have one base, or keep several dotted around as you travel?

[Tattersail_]

I'm playing this aswel. Not much time put into it yet but any perks that I should be aiming for?

[Traveller]

I've started out with sneak and lockpicking - I don't like finding doors and safes that I can't unlock, and I rarely remember to go back for them.

I found the first power armor but I don't know how to repair it. And I've managed to lose the dog after about half an hour.

[Tattersail_]

I hace invested heavily in luck so far and bits of everything else. I've got loads of bottlecaps but don't know what they're for yet.

Traveller, in the red rocket, there is a yellow frame. Looks like a pneumatic trolley. If you click craft on that (I think) you can repair the armour with the y button on x box. I even upgraded the armour here.

My main problem is getting power for the suit. I've done most missions so far suit less.

If you have a different companion to the dog they can do tasks for you. Ie I am using Cait. I found her on a mission. She can unlock advanced safes. I know somewhere there's a guy who's a hacker. You just command them and point at the object.

[Traveller]

I already stumbled over a power unit for the suit in a sewer under concord before I found the suit itself. The controls and hud are all still a bit unfamiliar - I'm just a bit rusty I guess although I remembered how to remove duds and add tries on my first hack attempt.

That suit has a great weight to it; loved that first jump off the building.

[Traveller]

Managed a really good session yesterday. And another again in the evening. I cleared out a factory, which was rather more tricky than I anticipated as I couldn't really stealth kill, so I just used noisy guns. I do hate finding a safe key but not knowing where the damn safe is without going back to search every room though.

Damn but this game is good.

This post has been edited by Traveller: 28 December 2015 - 08:57 AM

[Aptorian]

I finished FO4 yesterday and feel like I should tell you about how buggy and broken the ending was for me, it was quite impressive and also completely ruined any good will I had towards the story.

I'll put this in a big spoiler box just in case people don't want to know what happens in the end game.

Spoiler

I decided to side with the Railroad since they're the only descent people in the game.

It started on the Prydwen, the Brotherhood of Steels carrier. I was sent in to blow up the ship. I decided to ignore stealth and just brute force my way to the weak points. I was killing everything. The halls were littered with corpses, it was pretty great. How ever at some point something weird happened. My companion, Hancock, turned on me.

I am not sure why. Maybe it was because I was just straight up looting hundreds of items that were marked as stealing. Maybe it was because I tried numerous times to murder the child Brotherhood of Steel kid. Hancock was weird, some times he just didn't like me blowing Raiders heads off, even though I played a good character. Anyway, it was towards the end of the game and I couldn't be bothered to reload and just mowed him down instead. I looted his body for the power armor pieces I'd put on him but had to leave the frame because you can't loot it.

I began the attack on the Institute. But I run into a bug that is similar to a problem I had with the Institute Super Mutant scientist in the Glowing Sea. If I teleported in to the Institute with my power armor on, the institute bugged out. The whole place was empty and dark, all my quests failed and nobody could be found except Father lying in a bed. I assume the game glitches and thinks you've already done a number of earlier steps. Unfortunately that meant that you can't access the elevator to the teleporter and you can't quick travel because you are in bad standing with the Institute. I tried a couple of things but in the end I had to reload a earlier save and enter the Institute with out my power armor.

This is bullshit, I love my power armor. It's my second skin by now.

Later in the mission I reach the teleporter room and the Railroad start porting in. Among them is the corpse of Hancock, which is pretty fucked. He's just lying there stiff as a board. Every where I go in the institute the corpse shows up. He can't move but he does that suddenly he's there thing all the NPCs do. I then discovered I could actually talk with the corpse and tried something stupid. I asked the dead body to step out of the power armor frame that was still on the corpse.

What do you think happened? Hancock stands up, gets out of the armor and now he's alive and good friends with me again. WTF?

So I take his frame and put on the armor I looted off him earlier in the Prydwen and now I have his power armor suit to rock around in. This is both amazing and idiotic but what ever.

Anyway, we kill a lot of people, plant the charges and get ready to leave. Then right before I port Shaun, the synth child copy of Father appears in the control room asking me to save him. I thought this was a pretty poetic ending. I would get to save my son despite all the character went through. So I tell him that I will save him and tell him to go with me. Great I think. But he's just standing there. I tried to interact with him afterwards but I can't talk to him he just says something like "Lets go". Oh well, I think. He'll just pop up later like all these buggy NPCs do.

I get in the teleporter, we emerge on a sky scraper, no kid. I detonate the nuke and we win and no kid. So basically, I blew up my son. Just for the hell of it I tried porting to Railroad HQ, Diamond City, Sanctuary, The Vault... No kid.

This game is fucking stupid.

This post has been edited by Apt: 02 January 2016 - 08:39 AM

[Traveller]

I'm not going to peek at that as I'm still getting on well with this. I usually prefer the first part of the game anyway, where you actually feel underpowered and vulnerable, compared to walking over everything later on.

I don't really like using fast travel in these games but it feels like I'm being forced to in some circumstances with this one.

Right now I've trekked all the way to a new settlement, but I can't use the workstation until I complete a building clearance, and my inventory is now full. I guess I can just leave all my junk on the ground at the settlement - but will it be there when I get back?

I managed to kill a behemoth on my way there (i cheated and hid inside a cabin, shooting him through the holes in the walls while he stalked outside) and picked up a lovely sniper rifle, which I can't wait to upgrade.

This post has been edited by Traveller: 08 January 2016 - 08:25 AM

[Tattersail_]

Traveller, on 08 January 2016 - 08:23 AM, said:

I'm not going to peek at that as I'm still getting on well with this. I usually prefer the first part of the game anyway, where you actually feel underpowered and vulnerable, compared to walking over everything later on.

I don't really like using fast travel in these games but it feels like I'm being forced to in some circumstances with this one.

Right now I've trekked all the way to a new settlement, but I can't use the workstation until I complete a building clearance, and my inventory is now full. I guess I can just leave all my junk on the ground at the settlement - but will it be there when I get back?

I managed to kill a behemoth on my way there (i cheated and hid inside a cabin, shooting him through the holes in the walls while he stalked outside) and picked up a lovely sniper rifle, which I can't wait to upgrade.

I usually dump all my junk in the Sanctuary work station or weapon upgrading station. I've built at least four houses with defenses outside them like Turrets and guard posts. The Sanctuary has lots of water pumps, water purifier, generators galore, artillery, a radio beacon to attract new people etc.

Its where I send any companion when I give them a rest. Where I upgrade me armour, grow food, and upgrade my weapons.

I have just discovered a sniper rifle with attack power well over eighty with night vision and high accuracy which I love. A shotgun that can fire multiple rounds instead of just the two. A plasma gun. A flamethrower. Yet my best weapon is a hunting rifle I picked up somewhere. It's got a lot of mods on but in V.A.T.S it's a one shot kill. It's awesome. Heads blown off.

I don't like George Clooney's character. I am sticking with the Minutemen in this one I reckon. I like rescuing people AND they call me General

[Maark Abbott]

Another settlement needs our help, General.