Of Deathclaws & Radscorpions: A Fallout Thread

Bethesda is running a Black Friday sale with 25% off merch and God Help Me but I want tshirts of the NCR flag and the Red Rocket logo.

(And maybe a set of Vault 111 full-body pajamas to hide out the winter in)

3 and nv are $2.50 on steam

splurged ($6.50) on the nv ultimate edition cause fuck if i'm ever gonna hook my ps3 up again

Got to level 10 and decided to buy this thing. Guess I'm enjoying more than I thought I would.

Saw this for sale-
http://vignette4.wikia.nocookie.net/fallout/images/8/80/Fallout_4_General_Chaos_Revenge.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20151113204447

aww yeah, contrarian protections gonna feel my blade +50%

watched my friends traverse the Glowing Sea yesterday. what a cool area.

http://imgur.com/a/rqS97

Just found out the brother of my first ever girlfriend did the voice of John Hancock. Help.

I found the Lovecrafty area last night. Nice that it made a return to this game

Where is that?

Two of them so far. The Pickman Gallery and a quarry owned by Dunwich Borers

Have you found Cheers yet?

Not yet. There's plenty of the city I haven't been thru yet.

cheers doesn't pop up as a location, you kinda have to know where to look. plus you have to go down the stairs so you can't even see that it's a door from ground level

Nice touch. Yeah, I wondered how much real world Boston they could sync up with a divergent bombed-out city

wdyll

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v87/Inuxx/needed_zpsqwbxxcmt.jpg

that's f4? you can get weird face tattoos and zinc paint?

i think u have to find magazines to unlock new face tattoos

I have multiple face tatt designs but no tattooist yet

there's one in diamond city iirc

Ok, loving this. Finding my feet in the whole scavenging/building side of things too. Couple of questions about modding weapons:

1) If I make a mod for my laser pistol then scrap it, do I get back exactly what I used to make it or do I lose parts? I'm thinking about rare items like fibre optics. I guess this applies to everything I build, not just weapon mods.

2) Can someone explain how to take mods off weapons I pick up and put them on my own weapons? I think it's something to do with building new base mods and replacing the mod with them, is that right? Finding this part a bit confusing.

go in modifications and swap out the mod for a standard mod, that will remove the current mod and put it in your inventory and then you can use it on another weapon.

i think you only get rare parts from scrapping weapons if you put a second pt in the scrapping perk

laser pistols are so good against super mutants...

Yeah, going thru the UI listing and switching whatever is installed on that option to "Standard" or "Short" or "none" will remove it to be used on another weapon

i kind of got bored and switched to other games, but i'll be back once they update it with a better UI for pipboy and settlement building, since so much of the game takes place looking at your inventory and building shit

great, thank you (xposts).

are there any lists out there of the most valuable junk items? like, do i really need to collect every dinnner tray i see?

what's valuable depends on what you want to build, which you'll get a sense of through playing, or also i am sure there are component tables on the fallout wiki. general notes from personal exp: adhesive is used for p much every mod; you get it from duct tape or wonderglue but really you get it from vegetable starch which you make (at a cooking station) from corn+mutfruit+tato+water, which you get from telling settlers to farm. aluminum is used for a lot of high-level mods and basically everything involving power armor. steel and wood and concrete build settlements but there will generally be a lot of both just lying around any settlement zone in the form of trees and rubble so you don't need to pick up e.g. every piece of steel combat armor you see. fiberoptics you will need a lot of if you mod energy weapons. gears and screws are needed in mods and also in generators and other machinery-- best way to get these as far as i can tell is to scrap modded weapons without taking the mods off.

there is a way you can "favorite" certain components, so that items containing them will be highlighted on the pickup lists. i haven't used this at all though, i don't know why. it seems useful.

i think you only get rare parts from scrapping weapons if you put a second pt in the scrapping perk

oh wait, yeah, caveat re my scrapping advice, i did this.

i'm sure you don't need a second point for gears and screws tho. you might need one.

i have nuclear material, acids, ceramic, copper, aluminum, adhesive, cork, crystal, fiber optics, gear, glass, rubber, screws and springs all highlighted but idk if i really need all of those - i just had one crafting session where i was low on a ton of weapon modification related stuff and i tagged them all

u are right that you can get gears and screws from some weapons. maybe only ones w/ certain modifications? i've noticed 10mm pistols unmodded don't break down into either.

also i guess NI knew all that about the components. i have been, yes, picking up every dinner tray i see. (they're aluminum, right? aluminum's rare!) i also buy a lot of junk from shops, though (it and overpriced ammo and, roleplaying, noodles from the japanese robot are all i buy from shops)-- microscopes, things like that. i was low on ceramic a while because i wasn't picking up coffee cups, but the world teems with them.

basically it seems like the only way to get a really powerful gun is to luck into finding one or mod it yourself so i've been putting all my perks in gun nut and science! to get to the most advanced modifications

Highliting a component and then having it show up in your HUD when you encounter it is a neat touch

I love bottle cap mines (who doesn't). But to make one you need a lunch box...so I'm always on the hunt for those

might want to look around schools

for modding you'll get a sense of what you need early on and then you'll get to energy weapons and power armor and slap yourself for ignoring all those abraxo boxes. keep an eye out for

fiber optics fiberglass circuitry ceramic gold silver nuclear material crystal

aluminum is always important

have a companion handy, use the "hey pick that up" exploit if you're desperate for carry weight, have buffout and grilled radstag handy

also scrap everything in sanctuary. everything.

i scrapped everything except sean's crib, for which i built a small enclosed shrine near the river

put jangles the monkey in it

appreciate the advice above, things moving along much better now. another question though, how does the perk system work? i'm at level 13 but each time i level up i don't seem to be able to select a perk to go along with it.

i slowly got 6 on the charisma stat so i could get the local leader perk to transfer stuff across my workshops but it isn't letting me select it. i've only got about 3 perks chosen (sleeping sneak attack, gun mod and a vats thing) and haven't been able to select a new one in a lonnng time. i'm using the carryweight cheat above, is that screwing the perk system up or is it something else?

some of the perks have level reqs in addition to the stat req. is that possibly the problem?

the key at the bottom should show how many perks you can get ("CHOOSE (#)" at the far left)

the first level of all perks should be available if your SPECIAL is high enough for them. if none of them can be selected that's odd

Cute, found yet another Lovecraft quest. I'm digging these.

http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/oa.aspx

I've also been enjoying playing the character as someone rather bemused by the weird shit she finds in the Wasteland, like the crew of the Constitution.

Weed and vidya games compromise most of John Carpenter's life these days, so it's fun to see this:

https://twitter.com/thehorrormaster/status/671881452355608576

John Carpenter
@thehorrormaster

FALLOUT 4 is incredibly addictive. RPG, shooter in a nuclear future. Very cool.

Anyone recommend any obscure perks? I've been too much of a slave to boosting crafting perks that I feel like I'm missing out on cool shit - minus mysterious stranger. Thats my fav..

I read somewhere that Luck is the best place to put all your points...I really can't be bothered with specialization. I end up focusing more on what I don't have than what i have.

I put at list one tick into Bloody Mess, Mysterious Stranger, two into ammo finding, etc.

Nick Valentine's the only companion I've seen who will react to the Stranger showing up, which is great.

Aha, sorted - my problem was that upon levelling I didn't know you could *either* increase the SPECIAL stat by one point or choose a perk from the list.

If i join the bros of steel when they ask, can I still the other factions quests? Is there a way to do all quests for all factions?

I don't want to lock myself out of hours of gameplay...

Yes you can join all the factions afaict

i was told recently that "when you get to a choice that excludes other choices, the game makes it very explicit."