Fallout 4 Screenshots

[PZ]

 

Rednecks like to be clever

[OWGKID]

 :-D

[Dweller_Benthos]

Toilet grill is perfect for cooking roadkill, I'm sure, and with built-in beer cooler, too!

I'm on vacation at the beach for the week, so i haven't played anything for several days. Getting withdrawal symptoms.

[Binnatics]

I know what you mean D_B, but a beach is a nce distraction isn't it? 8) ^-^

[Art Blade]

you can still build sand cast.. erm, sand arenas in memory of FO4 :-()

[fragger]

lol D_B :-D

Those infernal vacations can be a real drag, huh?

[Dweller_Benthos]

Back from vacation. It was very hot there (just south of Myrtle Beach, South Carolina), so hot that we didn't bother going to the beach until late in the day, around 6 PM. By then, the sun is going down, most of the crowds had left and it was bearable to be there. Ate a lot of seafood. Got back home yesterday and played a little FO4 and relaxed.

[PZ]

Glad to see you back and able to relax with FO4, D_B; vacations can make one quite tired.

[Art Blade]

welcome back, D_B :)

[Dweller_Benthos]

Well, a new DLC and a new screenshot. The new DLC is about building a vault and running experiments in it. If you're at all familiar with the Vaults in Fallout games, you'll know that they can have some pretty twisted experiments going on in them. And if you're not familiar with vaults in the Fallout games, then I just told you.

Anyway, the new DLC has you helping the Overseer of a vault that was never finished, so you have to clean the place up and run the experiments that were originally intended to be conducted there before the war. The first one is to build a stationary bicycle that has a generator in it so your victims... er, vault dwellers can get exercise and help power the vault. So I set this up, ran the experiment on a willing vict.... er volunteer and completed that part of the quest. Then, Piper decides she wants to give it a go, I wonder if she felt the electric shocks that were administered to the vict... er volunteer to keep him "motivated" and keep supplying power?

[smg id=8890 type=preview align=center width=400 caption="Biking"]

Since this DLC isn't too extensive, it's mostly about building, that will probably be the only shot from it that I'll post. The next DLC, Nuka World, is said to be larger, so we'll see what I can find when that releases next month.

[mandru]

Nice!

Peddling Piper persistently pumping potentially painful power. 

[PZ]

  mandru

Looks like an interesting DLC, D_B - looking forward to your experiments  :-X

[Dweller_Benthos]

The rigged slot machine seems to be the most popular with my victims, you can't keep them off the things. I may have to shut them down just so I can get some w@&k out of the poor saps.

[PZ]

The rigged slot machine seems to be the most popular with my victims, you can't keep them off the things.

You can't fix stupid.  I went to a casino is Yakima Washington, and it was owned by the tribe there. It was full of people that looked like zombies, all throwing away money on the slot machines. We beat a path out of there as quickly as we could.

[Dweller_Benthos]

I don't know what it is about slots that are so enticing to zombies, I tried one once and thought "OK, that was it?"

[fragger]

Slot machines are a major problem in this country. Just about every pub or club you walk into will have at least a few of them, and the big clubs in the cities often have hundreds. And the effect they can have on certain people can be catastrophic. There are reported cases of players who become so addicted to them that they won't even get up to relieve themselves when they're playing - they'll unload right there on the stool rather than vacate their precious machine, lest they miss out on the big payout they sadly believe is just a few button-pushes away. People have been charged with child neglect for leaving toddlers in the car, outside in the car park on a blistering summer day, while they spend hours in the club feverishly stuffing the household budget into a bleeping machine.

Common sense should tell them that the pubs and clubs wouldn't install them if they regularly spewed forth scads of money like some kind of pecuniary Old Faithfuls.

Here we call them poker machines, or "pokies" for short, and my understanding is that they are different to the ones found in the U.S. The ones here usually have not one but three rows of symbols, and usually five "wheels" (these days they're not mechanical, they're all digital) and you play them by pushing buttons, not by pulling on a lever. You can bet various amounts, and can win in a huge variety of ways (if you're lucky enough to win and wise enough to know when to cash out, and of course most hardcore players are neither). You can win with three matching symbols, four matching symbols, or five matching symbols. You can win different bonuses if the symbols match horizontally or diagonally. There are "special" symbols that may multiply a win, and all kinds of esoteric betting strategies which are enabled via a suite of buttons that resemble a control panel from a Lunar Module. They look fiendishly complicated to me, and being the type that would rather stick my money into, oh, say, a bank, rather than a machine and thusly swell the coffers of some booze outlet, I don't get into them, so I don't really understand how they w@&k.

These pokie pics are typical of how they look - all that's missing is the accompanying electronic "music" that sounds like it was composed by R2D2. The top image is a real one, the bottom one is a simulation. The array of buttons along the bottom in the sim view are the ones you would interact with on the real thing in order to say goodbye to the rent and grocery money. Don't ask me how they are played, I couldn't tell you. Whenever I've found myself passing through one of these pokie-lined temples of monetary woe, the drooling and glassy-eyed faces of the matrix-people who are plugged into them suggests to me that I might be wise to keep my eyes down and just keep walking.

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[Art Blade]

not my cup of tea, either.

[Dweller_Benthos]

Yeah, those are pretty much like what I've seen as well. Though in my part of the country, they are only legal in certain casinos, as in, the ones run on Native American reservations (Indian Casinos) and I've never been to those. But in neighboring states, certain types are legal, as long as they are marked for "Entertainment Only" and use and dispense tokens to be used at the establishment they are located in, and not any kind of money. But, you have to buy the tokens first, usually 4 or 5 for a dollar, so you are using real money initially. I don't recall if you can then turn in the tokens for real money or not or just can use them to play the other games in the same establishment. Mostly these are various arcade style games, skee-ball, air hockey, etc.

But I did try a few, just for the sake of doing it and to see what the deal was. The ones I tried had a real handle and everything. Somewhere about the third or fourth try, my hand slipped while pulling the handle and the tumblers (real tumblers, not a video screen) turned very slowly, so I waited for the big payout line to come up and hit the stop buttons and got a good return on my investment. I'm sure that doesn't happen very often, and surely not at all with the video type.

[PZ]

I miss the old days in Nevada when the slot machines were mechanical.  I remember visiting Virginia City and putting a nickel in a slot, and won the super jackpot - $20

I liked seeing the mechanical wheels spinning, and have not played one of the video slots at all.

As an interesting aside, in my area slots were used illegally in a nearby mining town, and when the cops discovered them, they threw the machines into the lake where, as far as I know, they still are.

[Dweller_Benthos]

Some more vault experiments, well, really just stuff you can do.

You can build a weight bench and people will randomly use it when they take a break from the slot machines. Here's Piper doing her best. Seems like a lot of weight.

[smg id=8892 type=preview align=center width=400 caption="Pumping Iron"]


Here's one of my settlers showing off on the Pommel Horse.

[smg id=8893 type=preview align=center width=400 caption="Slick Moves"]


The player can also use the equipment and get temporary boosts in things like strength and agility.

[Dweller_Benthos]

First game I ever got all the achievements for. Mostly because they were pretty easy, and you get about 85% of them just by playing the game. The rest were mostly "build X number of this", "trap X number of that animal" type of thing.

[smg id=8894 type=preview align=center width=400 caption="Got them all - take that Pokemon!"]

[Art Blade]

nice. +1 :-X :)

[Binnatics]

Wow, impressive indeed! +1 :-X :)

I remember doing them all in Fallout 3, including all achievements related to the DLC's. It was a lot of w@&k to get them all I do remember that :-D

[Dweller_Benthos]

Yeah, same with Fallout 4, each DLC adds a couple, so when Nuka World comes out, I'll have more to do.

[Dweller_Benthos]

If you check way back in this thread, you'll see the building I built to house all my power armor. It was a scrap lumber shack, essentially, because that's all you had to build with back then. Now that the Vault Tec DLC is out, there's a bunch more cool looking stuff to build with that doesn't look like it's been through a nuclear war. So I tore down the old building and put up a new one. Not finished yet, and most of my power armor suits are still standing out in the street.

[smg id=8896 type=preview align=center width=400 caption="Not intimidating at all"]

There's also the new armor display stands with their own lights, so all those nifty sets of power armor can be shown in all their glory. This is just the first set, only about 35 more to make for all of them.

[smg id=8897 type=preview align=center width=400 caption="Never have enough"]

The number of armor suits you can get is pretty much unlimited, as you can buy the frames from vendors and the armor itself is available from people you kill. The highest tier armor, the X01 type, is pretty rare though, and no one you come across is wearing that stuff, so those aren't as common. But the T60 type the Brotherhood of Steel uses is all over the place.