Fallout 4

I am obsessively exploring and picking up absolutely everything and I'm so far behind on the main story, lmao. But I'm still surprisingly having fun.

Toggle third/first person fixes it for me.

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If I "misused" viable, explain how you can go through the game and progress with a singular focus on talking or charming/hacking/or animal handling your way to end game without branching into either melee or guns.

Last I checked I can't play a smooth talker to avoid the majority of fights, I can't raise a merc/animal/robo squad of doom.

Closest thing is avoid 3-5 fights, buff my companion + charm an enemy while I still have to do most of the killing.

Someone earlier said entering VATS would clear transparent menu as well.

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So settlements have very limited world interaction then?

I saw one of the early settlements, have a cow(brahian or w/e) in a pen and the builder lets you put troughs down. How do you go about "raising" those? In a sense i'm looking for a easier way to get leather, then having to loot all the armor that can be scrapped into leather. I thought maybe you could just raise those cow things to slaughter,since iirc the hide is 5 leather.

As for settlements, I can't help but be drawn into building them. Hard to skip it when its pretty fun and also provides lot of extra content. Though I do agree I wish the building portion was a lot more robust and less confined. Plus not sure if ignoring them removes chances at more quest from the settlers you drawn in(or maybe even companions).

I assume they intend to make $$ off of people making furniture for them. I'd like a mod that does elections, parties, etc. Seems like the commonwealth would be a good backdrop for political revival.

Agraza_sl said:

So settlements have very limited world interaction then?

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what kind of interactions?

settlements can be a source of food, water, caps.
they are a home base for managing gear, and upgrades.
can be raided by spies and overt raids.
gaining settlements involves questlines. you have to a quest for the owners to gain control of one.

Is there a reason to not equip every settler with gear? I noticed when I gave more settlers armor + weapons/ammo and put down a new defense wall, one automatically went to it without me having to assign it which was kind of nice.

Having one base is cool and useful for a variety of reasons.

Recruiting all the other settlements, well it's xp and a boost to the "like" meter on some companions, and hell, you know you were going to kill those raiders or whatever anyway. Actually building them up though? What's the point?

Not that it's that difficult anyway, even without LL1. Just roll in with enough mats to cover (10+Base CH) settlers for food--use carrots especially for the shitty ones with no room to plant--water, and beds. If there's a convenient central area, slap down a few turrets on a high point to help with invasions; the heavy ones are the best bang for the buck, so to speak. Build that scavenging bookshelf thing that increases the random junk they produce and assign someone to that as well, so at least they might sort of pay you back for the effort. 1 settler on that, 3 max on food, and you're all set. Not really sure what the rest do. I guess you can build guard posts and increase defense to deter invasions that way if you really want to.

The biggest thing I'll miss when I play a character that doesn't have 6 CH is having it be so easy to do all my dialogue at 10 CH. I'm pretty sure it's impossible to fail a persuasion check as well as being a decent boost for bartering.

xzi_sl said:

Is there a reason to not equip every settler with gear? I noticed when I gave more settlers armor + weapons/ammo and put down a new defense wall, one automatically went to it without me having to assign it which was kind of nice.

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No, if you don't mind the hassle of collecting equipment and gearing them all up, go for it. For extra fun, give them each 1 nuka grenade. Any NPC with even a single explosive in their inventory has an infinite supply in combat. Get revenge for all those times some raider threw molotovs at you over and over. They have infinite ammo too, as long as you give them one bullet of the correct type, so you can have fun with all the miniguns and shit you've been hoarding for a rainy day. Random settler with a fat man--what could possibly go wrong?

pre-war might be a bit much. but some walls/roofs without holes in them would be nice.

also, there are multiple stone quarrys in game, why is there no stone/brick construction work?

I want to get a settlement right in the middle of constant bad guys(as I don't know the range of the artillery peices), then build a bunch of artillery pieces just to rain destruction down on them over and over