Fallout 4

[BlueNalgene]

I played a few hours yesterday.  The highlight was accidentally killing a legendary radroach with fire and taking its loot: a bolt action **** pistol with the "assassin" modifier that has been able to 1-hit humans.  Good times.

But most of the time was spent building a house.  Damn walls just don't behave.

And now I know it is finally time to upgrade my 5 year old GPU.  God particles are wrecking my fps.

[Waateva]

I am going to wait to purchase this for a couple reasons:

1.  **** nVidia, my 290X would probably fair as well as a 960 will due to the tessellation so I'm waiting on a proper AMD driver that hopefully will fix it
2.  I have too many other games to play!  I have maybe 20-25 games installed through Steam out of a total of 150+ and I have been meaning to catch up
3.  My keyboard and keyboard paraphernalia budget has started to cut into my gaming budget

[noisyturtle]

So I'm thinking of building my settlement vertically for defensive reasons. One stair case with a bunch of turrets at the bottom )

[hwood34]

I think I might wait til this is on sale, or at least til modders fix a decent amount of these bugs (cause lord knows Bethesda takes their sweet time)

[slickmamba]

I think I might wait til this is on sale, or at least til modders fix a decent amount of these bugs (cause lord knows Bethesda takes their sweet time)

greenmangaming has it for 48 without tax.  you need a code though, you can find it online

[noisyturtle]

I think I might wait til this is on sale, or at least til modders fix a decent amount of these bugs (cause lord knows Bethesda takes their sweet time)

greenmangaming has it for 48 without tax.  you need a code though, you can find it online

http://www.greenmangaming.com/?gmgr=nogewixi
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[swimmingbird]

I'm kind of new to Fallout - what's the deal with power armor? Do most people wear it all the time or smth?

[Steezus]

I'm kind of new to Fallout - what's the deal with power armor? Do most people wear it all the time or smth?

I only use my power armor when I'm having difficult beating somebody or some boss, I don't like how in this Fallout it requires a power source but it does make sense. I've been using the resources to expand my settlement and weapons for the most part.

[swimmingbird]

I'm kind of new to Fallout - what's the deal with power armor? Do most people wear it all the time or smth?

I only use my power armor when I'm having difficult beating somebody or some boss, I don't like how in this Fallout it requires a power source but it does make sense. I've been using the resources to expand my settlement and weapons for the most part.

Yah I just thought that fusion cores seem pretty far and few between

[Steezus]

I'm kind of new to Fallout - what's the deal with power armor? Do most people wear it all the time or smth?

I only use my power armor when I'm having difficult beating somebody or some boss, I don't like how in this Fallout it requires a power source but it does make sense. I've been using the resources to expand my settlement and weapons for the most part.

Yah I just thought that fusion cores seem pretty far and few between

I've only ever found one fusion core but then again I haven't really been trying. I did find it at the drive-in theater behind the big screen, it has me thinking if all hospitable places that have a workbench and such have a fusion core laying around somewhere.

[Waateva]

I'm kind of new to Fallout - what's the deal with power armor? Do most people wear it all the time or smth?

I only use my power armor when I'm having difficult beating somebody or some boss, I don't like how in this Fallout it requires a power source but it does make sense. I've been using the resources to expand my settlement and weapons for the most part.

I've seen a lot of people saying that power armor actually "feels" like power armor in this game.  The power source needed for it, how the damage is taken and repaired, not having to equip it in place of other gear, and the whole modding aspect all seems like they did a good job with it.

[Steezus]

I'm kind of new to Fallout - what's the deal with power armor? Do most people wear it all the time or smth?

I only use my power armor when I'm having difficult beating somebody or some boss, I don't like how in this Fallout it requires a power source but it does make sense. I've been using the resources to expand my settlement and weapons for the most part.

I've seen a lot of people saying that power armor actually "feels" like power armor in this game.  The power source needed for it, how the damage is taken and repaired, not having to equip it in place of other gear, and the whole modding aspect all seems like they did a good job with it.

It's a really fun game, I thoroughly enjoy it. The power armor does give a more power "suit" feel to it, the only thing I wish is that they had a better engine for the game. It's seems like they copy pasted a few things from Skyrim.

[katushkin]

Yeahhh, I'm going to have to wait until I get a new GPU before playing this, especially if Shadow of Mordor crashes my AMD drivers.

[pr0ximity]

Finally had time to sit down and play for a few hours last night, just starting the first settlement. Game's really fun so far, but the base building stuff takes way too long because of some frustrating snapping features to put pieces together. Going to wait until later to make a solid base I think.

Combat has been fun, and I can't stop modding my guns. Not a fan of power armor though, going to try to avoid using it as much as possible.

[Halverson]

I've found three power armor, just leave them in Sanctuary. I like to play without it. Favorite perk so far, idiot savant, yeeee.

[Poostar]

Joining this thread a little late. 8 hours in and i think its awesome. The games does run bad when on ultra even on a beast of a pc. (16gb ram, I7 4790k, GTX 980 superclocked) When i turn it down to high settings though its smooth like butter.

Side note about the VPN. You can connect to AUS server and get the game 11 hours early depending on where you live. It does break the Terms of service on steam but from my understanding they more care about people using vpns to buy games in other currencies because it might be cheaper, although i am sure its frowned upon.

[Steezus]

I only have a Calc exam today, after that I feel a nice Fallout binge.

I've played about 11 hours now, game is really fun but I only have the first power armor, my sent me a picture with him already having 4 sets of power armor. I think the overall idea for power armor in this game is to have a set at each of your "bases" not really meant for much travel.

[Poostar]

You can look up the locations of the armor. I believe many of them are just sitting around and don't require quests to obtain them. ( could be wrong on that)

I know wiki has a page with fusion core locations already

[Steezus]

You can look up the locations of the armor. I believe many of them are just sitting around and don't require quests to obtain them. ( could be wrong on that)

I know wiki has a page with fusion core locations already

I like to first play the game before looking anything up, kind of feels like cheating a little bit. It's makes the game a lot more fun when you randomly come across something cool, once I beat all the quests then I'll go on collecting mode.

[Halverson]

Spent about an hour swimming around....for nothing. Just a big empty ocean of boring stuff.

[Oobly]

I am going to wait to purchase this for a couple reasons:

1.  **** nVidia, my 290X would probably fair as well as a 960 will due to the tessellation so I'm waiting on a proper AMD driver that hopefully will fix it
2.  I have too many other games to play!  I have maybe 20-25 games installed through Steam out of a total of 150+ and I have been meaning to catch up
3.  My keyboard and keyboard paraphernalia budget has started to cut into my gaming budget

I can give you a few more if you like:
1. 80 degree FOV
2. mouse acceleration
3. mouse smoothing
4. 30fps framerate cap on certain cards

I hate when companies "consolify" their PC versions.. Fortunately there are others who feel the same and have some tweaking skills:

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2015/11/10/fallout-4-fixes/

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=551069501&tscn=1447077828

[PunksDead]

wow hearing about all the graphic cards issues is upsetting. Im currently running it on high settings on a 680m mobile card and hitting 50-60fps. i was actually surprised at how well an older laptop card was handling the game. i would think any of the desktop cards released in the last 2 years would be able to run it easily.

Spent about an hour swimming around....for nothing. Just a big empty ocean of boring stuff.

RadX hoarder humble brag

[Steezus]

There will be a lot of patches and driver updates to come, give it a little time and it will get better. It makes it harder to find all the bugs when you can't put a beta out for the public to test.

[Waateva]

I am going to wait to purchase this for a couple reasons:

1.  **** nVidia, my 290X would probably fair as well as a 960 will due to the tessellation so I'm waiting on a proper AMD driver that hopefully will fix it
2.  I have too many other games to play!  I have maybe 20-25 games installed through Steam out of a total of 150+ and I have been meaning to catch up
3.  My keyboard and keyboard paraphernalia budget has started to cut into my gaming budget

I can give you a few more if you like:
1. 80 degree FOV
2. mouse acceleration
3. mouse smoothing
4. 30fps framerate cap on certain cards

I hate when companies "consolify" their PC versions.. Fortunately there are others who feel the same and have some tweaking skills:

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2015/11/10/fallout-4-fixes/

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=551069501&tscn=1447077828

Yeah, it looks like there are plenty of other things going on with it too.  Ironically, I saw a gaming review site gave the console versions 3/5 while the PC got 4/5, due to serious framerate issues on consoles which sometimes brought the FPS down to single digits or it just freezing randomly.  I also dislike this trend of consolifying (which is quite a fun word!) games that should be much better but are being brought down to the lowest common denominator, but as long as people keep pre-ordering and/or buying these games in their poor states, I don't see any changes happening, especially with Bethesda since their games at launch are always buggy as all ****

[ghostjuggernaut]

I think I may finally have some time tonight, to start playing.  Can't wait.

[noisyturtle]

Player permanently stuck in an object? Have you lost Dogmeat? This console command has been my go-to solution for these two reoccurring issues.
Just enter "player.moveto 1D162" into the console command and it will teleport you next to Dogmeat, which I have used numerous occasions when I have gotten stuck on a wall/object or Dogmeat flat out disappears on me.
It's been a life saver (or save saver I should say.)

[swimmingbird]

I think I may finally have some time tonight, to start playing.  Can't wait.

Aannnnnnnd it's 5:30am  )

[noisyturtle]

Has anybody tried changing the color of The Green Monster in Diamond City? I have green, but also blue and yellow. Anyone give the guy the wrong color and came back to a blue wall?

[Psykick]

I am playing this game entirely too much. I should probably get back to studying...

And addressing the supposed driver/graphics issues, I don't seem to have a problem at all. Running it on my gtx 970 at 1440p maxed out at ultra except AA turned down to FSAA and getting around 55-65fps with the occasional drop to 45fps. It's definitely exceeded my expectation as far as optimization goes.

[MagicSauce]

Finally Friday!! Time to play all weekend

[ghostjuggernaut]

I think I may finally have some time tonight, to start playing.  Can't wait.

Aannnnnnnd it's 5:30am  )

... Yeah I went to bed after class last night. Maybe I'll get some time to play today.

[Steezus]

I think I may finally have some time tonight, to start playing.  Can't wait.

Aannnnnnnd it's 5:30am  )

... Yeah I went to bed after class last night. Maybe I'll get some time to play today.

I binged played yesterday to relax after my two exams, ended up forgetting to do my chem homework and study, oops.

[Waateva]

I am playing this game entirely too much. I should probably get back to studying...

And addressing the supposed driver/graphics issues, I don't seem to have a problem at all. Running it on my gtx 970 at 1440p maxed out at ultra except AA turned down to FSAA and getting around 55-65fps with the occasional drop to 45fps. It's definitely exceeded my expectation as far as optimization goes.

It's "optimized" for running on Nvidia because of heavy tessellation, so a 970 shouldn't have issues.  Also, Nvidia is much faster at releasing patches for specific games than AMD is, so it seems that most of the issues are with AMD GPUs currently.

[Halverson]

wow hearing about all the graphic cards issues is upsetting. Im currently running it on high settings on a 680m mobile card and hitting 50-60fps. i was actually surprised at how well an older laptop card was handling the game. i would think any of the desktop cards released in the last 2 years would be able to run it easily.

Spent about an hour swimming around....for nothing. Just a big empty ocean of boring stuff.

RadX hoarder humble brag

hahaaha nah, just happened to choose underwater breathing/no rads from water as my first perk.

[ApocalypseMaow]

I've found three power armor, just leave them in Sanctuary. I like to play without it. Favorite perk so far, idiot savant, yeeee.

yeah the hell with power armor... I have found like 7 or 8 power cores though... Pretty much every raider base has one!!!

[noisyturtle]

Not true, there are a few sunken wrecks, floating islands, and something else really cool in the ocean that I won't spoil because I think it spawns randomly.
But your time is better spent wandering around with RadX in the south west corner of the map (where the bomb fell.) In a span of less than 10 minutes I picked up 3 unique items @ 7 Luck and gained 2 levels. Go there early because at higher levels the enemies will be a lot tougher, and it's probably the most difficult area (that I know of so far)

[Asininity]

Overall, I'm thoroughly enjoying my wasteland experience. There's of course plenty to grumble about (not only bugs, weird performance issues, but mechanics) but the scales shift far more in favor of good, than bad.

Most of my quibbles are based on a personal bias. For example, I'm not completely on board with combat becoming more fast paced and FPS-esque. I'm used to spending almost as much time on my Pip Boy as I am actually laying waste to my enemies. Not anymore. The new system, with hordes of assaulting enemies, VATS not completely stalling time, and actual functioning non-assisted shooting is just a new direction. A lot changed from Fallout 2 to Fallout 3 so I understand, stuff changes. I think my biggest gripe in this area is the loss of VATS. VATS just doesn't play as big of a role, and with time not stopping and only slowing I've found VATS to be a little buggy and difficult to ease efficiently. Sometimes I just opt to aim down the sights and unload, and that's a shame.

Perhaps my biggest gripe is the overhaul of how you communicate with others. I am a fan of a the Mass Effect series but I don't like its four speech options and your character actually talking being in the Fallout universe. I feel like I have both less conversational options and less of a role-playing experience when your character actually talks. I guess I can't be Bostonian with a Irish accent and a drinking problem can I ma? I'm sure there will be a mod to rectify this (and probably VATS too) so that's good.

Now, one of the greatest part of the game is how good the mods are going to be. It's a game that has so much potential for brilliant and absolutely amazing mods. It's everywhere you look.

I really love the big cities, the voice-acting, the characters, the building your own places, the in-depth gun modification, and all of that. I've always been a hoarder in games and the fact that everything is useful now I can feel like my hoarding mentality is finally worth a damn. I'm about eight hours in and I think I've finished maybe... seven or eight quests? I've mostly just been looting, hoarding, and building. I like what's going on, I like the story, and overall I like the mechanics.

[absyrd]

I'm waiting a year til it is like $9.99. For now I will live vicariously through all of you. I don't mind spoilers, so keep the thread goin'.

[Asininity]

It will be years until Fallout 4 is $10.

Better get in now. It's worth it.

[Steezus]

It will be years until Fallout 4 is $10.

Better get in now. It's worth it.

Yeah, it doesn't really get that low usually until all the expansion packs have been released as well.

[noisyturtle]

Even Skyrim is still $20, so you might be waiting until literal bombs drop for the price to go down )

On another note, discovered so many cool things. One of which is you CAN paint that wall in Diamond City with a bucket of blood!

Also killed a spooky alien in a cave, but regret not being high enough level to try and pacify or intimidate him instead. I have a feeling he's the only one in the game. His gun's OK, although I think I like the Gamma Gun a little better because of it's huge 'bullets'

edit from Reddit: "Just gotta deactivate these traps..."

[MaNiFeX]

You can look up the locations of the armor. I believe many of them are just sitting around and don't require quests to obtain them. ( could be wrong on that)

I know wiki has a page with fusion core locations already

Good to know.  I've just been using mine around the settlement for moving big objects.  Just got it Saturday night, played probably 8 hours over the weekend.  So great.  Gotta say, it's come a long way since Fallout v1!

[Floody]

Got to the Forged leader but was out of healing to even stand a chance. Kept hitting the arrows during the dialog and that let me leave the area so now I'm going to go pick-up some power armor and stimpaks.

[Steezus]

I've only had about three days in total to play the game but I did kind of cut to the chase and beat the main quest line. I ended up not doing a single quest for the BoS and ended up destroying them. I'm hoping to come back to the game after I finish this character a year or two down the road and be able to start fresh again. I am already at level 32 and have a bunch of really nice upgrades on my weapons, I was complaining before how I couldn't find anymore power armor and then I came across four sets in one day without even looking them up.

[Steezus]

Well I validated the game cache and it said that it was already 100%. I then tried to  start up the game and it worked lol.

Edit: oops double post

[PunksDead]

i broke into the science center and the Dr. started shooting me with no health. Game decides to autosave... i have no restore points and 21 hours in... everytime i load i die instantly GG

[Halverson]

Not true, there are a few sunken wrecks, floating islands, and something else really cool in the ocean that I won't spoil because I think it spawns randomly.
But your time is better spent wandering around with RadX in the south west corner of the map (where the bomb fell.) In a span of less than 10 minutes I picked up 3 unique items @ 7 Luck and gained 2 levels. Go there early because at higher levels the enemies will be a lot tougher, and it's probably the most difficult area (that I know of so far)

I've explored lots of wrecks and some things but the majority especially around the outskirts was barren. I won't ever go back into the ocean to check, wanna pm that really cool thing? I kinda got bored of the game, but I think I'll go exploring the radiated zone like you said, although last time I was there I had a fun time fighting a glowing deathclaw

[noisyturtle]

Not true, there are a few sunken wrecks, floating islands, and something else really cool in the ocean that I won't spoil because I think it spawns randomly.
But your time is better spent wandering around with RadX in the south west corner of the map (where the bomb fell.) In a span of less than 10 minutes I picked up 3 unique items @ 7 Luck and gained 2 levels. Go there early because at higher levels the enemies will be a lot tougher, and it's probably the most difficult area (that I know of so far)

I've explored lots of wrecks and some things but the majority especially around the outskirts was barren. I won't ever go back into the ocean to check, wanna pm that really cool thing? I kinda got bored of the game, but I think I'll go exploring the radiated zone like you said, although last time I was there I had a fun time fighting a glowing deathclaw

Well, are 2 sets of power armor - one in the big lake near Sanctuary along with a Mirelurk King. There is a secret hole that leads somewhere deep underground near Salem but I drowned before I could reach the end (probably need the perk.) And there was a ghost ship that appeared where everything inside was floating around and when the sun came up it vanished.

That's all I've found so far aside from a few containers with items at the bottom. There was a weapons small cashe with a Fat man somewhere too but I can't recall where I was on the map.

[Halverson]

Not true, there are a few sunken wrecks, floating islands, and something else really cool in the ocean that I won't spoil because I think it spawns randomly.
But your time is better spent wandering around with RadX in the south west corner of the map (where the bomb fell.) In a span of less than 10 minutes I picked up 3 unique items @ 7 Luck and gained 2 levels. Go there early because at higher levels the enemies will be a lot tougher, and it's probably the most difficult area (that I know of so far)

I've explored lots of wrecks and some things but the majority especially around the outskirts was barren. I won't ever go back into the ocean to check, wanna pm that really cool thing? I kinda got bored of the game, but I think I'll go exploring the radiated zone like you said, although last time I was there I had a fun time fighting a glowing deathclaw

Well, are 2 sets of power armor - one in the big lake near Sanctuary along with a Mirelurk King. There is a secret hole that leads somewhere deep underground near Salem but I drowned before I could reach the end (probably need the perk.) And there was a ghost ship that appeared where everything inside was floating around and when the sun came up it vanished.

That's all I've found so far aside from a few containers with items at the bottom.

Ahh I've found that first one, haven't come across that second. Will need one more in the perk I guess! And that last bit, oh my!

[MagicSauce]

i broke into the science center and the Dr. started shooting me with no health. Game decides to autosave... i have no restore points and 21 hours in... everytime i load i die instantly GG

Playing on PC?  Can you use console commands to turn on god mode?