Fallout 4

Hachima

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Fallout newb here and I feel a bit lost. Should I be picking up every single thing I see ? Broken Lamps? Broken Fan? I've obviously been prioritizing picking up stuff like glue and duct tape... Just dont really get what to do with any of it at this point.

Fun to be dropped into a world with absolutely minimal guidance though, you rarely see games like that anymore.
If you check what the item breaks down into you will find some things that only break down into steal or wood for example. So its not worth picking up a 3 WT item for 2 steel when you can scrap an old car for a bunch of steel.
 

Kiroy

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Huh. Maybe its just sneak bonus damage I'm seeing then. I dunno.

When the strategy guide arrives today I'll look into this more and see if it doesn't explain what's up.

What I'm reading is that higher luck charges the crit meter faster, the crit banker Perk allows you to bank a crit and then keep building the bar so you can unleash two crits back to back, and therefore there are no crits outside of VATS.

That is kinda shitty if true.
based on my gameplay it's true - can only charge crit meter in vats and only fire off the crits in vats - it doesn't totally gimp me but I probably would have swapped int for agi if I would have known and just not gone lasers. it's still workable though.
 

hodj

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Me too. The Fallout franchise "tanks" and in 10 years, inExile buys the rights and makes a proper fucking Fallout game, instead of the bastardized FPS Bethesda turned the franchise into.

Then again, Wasteland is probably just going to end up turning into the "proper" Fallout franchise anyhow. It was Fallout before Fallout, so I guess it only makes sense.
That's never going to happen because Bethesda wouldn't sell the IP, and InExile didn't make that great a game in Wasteland 2, to be perfectly frank.
 

Tuco

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dragon age inquisition was the worst. They put a lot of best in slot items behind random chance spawns such that you are likely to see a minor % of those drops through a playthrough. It'd be like if Carsomyr had a 15% chance to drop in BG2. However it's trivial to save scum it. It's the worst combination of random loot drops and unique spawns.
 

Tuco

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fyi just failed a 'save the settler' quest because I ignored it, I didn't see a timer on it or anything so watch out...
 

hodj

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I did all this stuff, plus patched + updated the graphics drivers last night after nvidia released new ones + turned off in game AA and whatnot and forced them on through nvidia control panel. I was already getting rock solid performance and great FPS, but I got at least a 10 fps increase and more stability out doors as a result.

I didn't uncap my frame rate past 60 because it fucks with lockpicking and stuff. Still playable but shit moves too fast if you do that.

So I suggest doing this, basically. I run at 1440p and the game looks fantastic.
 

Skanda

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Back on the modding subject there is already an 'alpha' build of an archive extractor on the Nexus. We should start seeing texture mods soonish I would guess.
 

Jabberwhacky

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That kinda reminds me, in the quarry just east of Vault 111, where the guy asks you to fix 3 hoses, you can swim in the northern section and there's a room that's still very much underwater, but you can walk, jump, sprint, breath etc. It's really weird, because the visual effects and sound are all still watery. And your dog shows up too.
 

Rafterman

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I completely forgot I had the Pip-Boy Editions for the PS4 and PC pre-ordered and they just showed up at the house. Now I gotta figure out which one to keep and which to send back.
 

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More questions, anyone understand Protectotrons and their different behaviour models. Do you have to choose the right one to get them to do something special? I just keep telling them to off themselves...