Just to give you a tiny push :-D :-()
:laugh: :-X :-D
:-D :-D :-D
In other words:
HINT HINT
:laugh:
I need to buy the game first, hehe
go on, then :-D
:laugh:
I have a bunch on my PC, but have been out of power since last Tuesday - huge wind storm that put over 10,000 houses out of electricity, and that is just within our smaller electric cooperative. It's becoming cold too - 23F at night.
I'm obviously not gaming it just yet :-()
Well, Steam just finished downloading the game, took a bit under an hour here at w@&k, so yay for high speed! Now to copy the back up over to my external drive to bring home. Might get it fired up tonight.
Oh yeah, this is after a weekend of searching game stores looking for anyone who had a copy on disc. Apparently, if you don't pre-order, you can't get a physical copy.
Hope you have a good time, D_B! :-X
Quote from: PZ on November 20, 2015, 01:19:46 PM
...but have been out of power since last Tuesday - huge wind storm that put over 10,000 houses out of electricity, and that is just within our smaller electric cooperative. It's becoming cold too - 23F at night.
I hate hearing that PZ. I hope your power's back on by now. :(
Off topic thoughts on power outage options
Depending on your power consumption and how long you want to be able to thumb your nose at weather caused adversity have you considered adding a Tesla Powerwall or two to Fortress OWG? As a renter I've given that option serious consideration. Even if you cut back on usage to stretch that stored power for furnace fan, refrigerator, hot plate, and a cozy electric blanket it would make future outages a lot easier to get through than being totally shut out like this situation.
There's an additional advantage depending on whether your small cooperative charges more for peak hours consumption over off peak Kw/Hour usage. You can set the system controller to cycle drawing your electrical needs from the Powerwall when electricity is most expensive and recharging at night while power costs are low during off hours.
The initial set up costs are admittedly going to be steep and your first month's bill will take a huge ding bringing up that first full charge of the system. But when you compare that to the expense and maintenance of an electric generator, the trips outside during dark, cold, or storm staying on top of monitoring necessary oil refills and then the cost of whatever fuel you use to generate power I kind of think the no maintenance Powerwall set up (in comparison) would quickly pay for itself.
I'm not mechanically inclined. For myself being maldextrous, ( that is to say equally bad with both hands) the sheer plug and play convenience of the Powerwall at least makes for an intriguing option to combat power outages.
Thanks, mandru, and thanks for the info on the Tesla Powerwall - I'd not heard of one before, and it definitely is worth investigating. My wife likes lots of power, so that might be a limiting factor, even with the 10K model
I much prefer this method though - generators are stinky and noisy
You're welcome. ...So has your power come back on or not? And if not why not? :-\\
Do we need to run you up some blankets and hot cocoa? :laugh:
The Powerwall cells can be hooked up in series of multiple units for larger storage and higher energy draw. The last I heard the controller unit for 10K models can stack up to 9 or 10 Powerwalls. Beyond that I saw a video some time ago discussing terawatt applications for manufacturing plants which I'm pretty sure would exceed Mrs. PZ's comfortable wiggle room for having every light in the house on.
For economic utilization of available space the units can be mounted overhead on the ceiling, near your fuse box, on an exterior wall or even up in your attic to save space (except you can't show them off up there ;) ) as they do not require a specific up/down alignment to function properly.
I hope you got your juice back PZ :) You don't realise how much you depend on electricity until you suddenly don't have any :-\\ Instant dark age.
Thanks guys - got power back for the weekend, and we're all toasty right now. ^-^
I'm definitely interested in the Tesla units - will need to speak with them about my (actually Mrs. PZ's) needs
:-X
I've uploaded a few screenies to my Google photos area - they show the Fallout world - the photos are huge when you click on them
https://goo.gl/photos/Xr8fUy1ddjYfsiVKA
Wow, great screenshots! :-X :)
+1 for the collection :)
The pictures remind me of different games. Bioshock, because of the mixture between old fashioned propaganda, 50's style advertisements and modern designed buildings in the background.
The first picture reminds me of Berlin in Sniper Elite V2. And the pictures of the 'scum' sattlements remind me of borderlands 2.
I don't really like the hud; that old fashioned green is a bit too 2009 imho. The transparant hudwhen you hold that minigun looks better, but is also a bit confusing. I guess when you play you won't realise it as a distracting object, but in a static picture it does a bit.
The graphics overall are great. I like the variety and the quality of the world design. The detail may not be as excellent as GTA V, for example, but what matters most is the immersive effect of the world. There's so much to look at, all around you; they did pay attention to detail.
Great game indeed, I can imagine myself dwell through that landscape for hours and hours :) :-X
Thanks Binn! ^-^
I agree about spending hours and hours in the world. It is quite large and just when I am engrossed in one quest, I speak with someone and I can't resist going on some kind of mission for them. I just did one to get the gray suit I'm wearing, and it gives me massive hit resistance compared to the other clothing I was wearing.
Definitely not as pretty as GTA5, but I like the old retro looks, rust, and dilapidation in general. Although I have not done much with game settings, I think you can change the color theme for the Pip-boy - will need to check that out.
+1 from me too, great screenies :-X Thanks for taking the time, PZ :)
Wow, the detail looks fantastic! Huge game world by the looks of it, one you could really immerse yourself in.
I tried FO2 back in the day and it didn't quite grab me, but I might give this one a go sometime in the near future (and when I'm ready to commit to the DL). Still immersed in XCOM and Gettysburg at the moment, but will def keep an eye on this one.
Thanks fragger! ^-^
:-X +1 from me too.
Nice and gritty. :-D
I was born in the jet age and watched avidly as the space age revealed itself. A favorite toy was one of the original finned Astroray flashlight dart guns. 8)
So I'm enthralled with the stylized evolution of the retro 50's designs scattered throughout the game. Particularly eye catching are the renditions of the cars and trucks scattered around. There's one style truck cab that I've seen portrayed in the videos I've watched that ranges in size from a personal utility pick-up ranging up to a full sized delivery van that has a body centered single operator cab and space for haulage. Not being very materialistic I don't lust after many things but I've got the hots for that solo seated Pick-up.
Damn, even if I had nowhere to go I'd find excuses to drive that sucker all over!
nice pics, I like the sugar bomb poster a lot :laugh: +1 :-X from me, too :)
Thanks guys - I was initially fearful that Bethesda was going to make it too social after reading the initial comments, but the game play is so much like what I loved about FO3 that I am right at home.
I can't wait until the mod tools come out and we see "real" modding come out, like new player houses, weapons, game areas, quests, etc.
As always, the Fallout series has the potential to provide endless gaming fun
Installed my first mod today - the one where your Pip-boy map is modified to see all the roads. Also, you can change the color of the Pip-boy to shed the awful green color - mine is now black and white although you can change it to whatever you like in the vanilla game. I also changed the HUD so the opacity is now different as well as the color. You can see the differences in the Google album
https://goo.gl/photos/Sr8d3bvrYmBpWcM59
Only today just had a chance to actually play the game, had it installed since Monday, heh.
So, here it is, the first screeny from me:
[smg id=8315 type=preview align=center width=400 caption="Red dress"]
Yep, playing as a girl, I'm quite comfortable in my sexuality to play a video game with a girl as a main character, thank you very much. Plus, all the videos I've seen are played as guys with weird facial hair and such, so I wanted to see how the game would be different as a girl. So far, not much, I guess some of the perks are slightly different, but not radically so.
Put her in a nice red cocktail dress I found, though she also looks good in the biker jacket and jeans I found. Of course, once I get into the game she'll be wearing heavy armor and it won't matter what she looks like.
>:D
It would be evil to make a very ugly spouse at game start (knowing what is soon to happen) but the starting genetic mix does show up in the baby's appearance.
So you might want to be cautious with that idea. :laugh:
:-D 8-X
Quote from: Dweller_Benthos on November 26, 2015, 08:11:50 PM
Yep, playing as a girl, I'm quite comfortable in my sexuality to play a video game with a girl as a main character, thank you very much.
:laugh:
Same here - otherwise I could never have been Lara Croft :-() You go, girl!
LOL, thanks. I didn't think of the kid getting the traits of the parents, I wonder if he will have the weird eyes I gave her? I picked the clouded steel gray ones (I think that's what they were called) because they are so freaky looking.
Spent a couple hours just scrapping everything in town, haven't actually left Sanctuary Hills yet, heh.
nice one, D_B :) I like to use girl avatars, too. Mostly, even. Like, if I have to watch that avatar all the bloody time, might as well add some tits. :-D
Nice, D_B :-X
Spoiler
When you exited the vault, was your husband killed, and was he holding the kid?
Ooop, better spoiler that
Spoiler
Yeah, the scenario in the vault plays out the same as I've seen when people play as guys, except the rolls are reversed, the husband has the kid in the other cryo chamber, gets killed, and the kid gets taken.
Thanks, D_B - I thought so but the question occurred to me when you said you were playing as female
Nice pictures again PZ! And Nice Character D_B!
I'm like Art; make sure you look at something worth looking at instead of a sweaty heary fella 8) :-X
:-()
Thanks, Binn ^-^
More adventures in the Commonwealth - I'm traveling with a new companion, Piper, and she seems to have lost her armor. Sure is nice to look at though
https://goo.gl/photos/p2AcstnGWGjrwxm5A
Wow nice indeed! Great mutants, too 8)
nice :-X
???
Umm... That's definitely a side of Piper I'd not seen before.
I've seen her in other outfits but that one's (let's say) pretty unique. :laugh:
Cool pics. :-X
:laugh:
Thanks gents. The world is bleak enough without nice scenery.
Used the console command to load the Sanctuary Hills map from the intro sequence and walked around it a bit. The NPCs all stand there looking worried and don't respond when you say anything to them. Didn't think about shooting them. Oh well. My character looks a little out of place in her vault suit and raider armor. Amazing amount of detail in this part of the map considering you see it for all of 10 seconds, maybe more if you try to wander around before the bomb hits.
[smg id=8319 type=preview align=center width=400 caption="Before the war"]
Found these two guys in Concord, seems they were having a little disagreement when the bombs fell. Extra points for anyone who recognizes where that title is from, hint, it's not Fallout.
[smg id=8320 type=preview align=center width=400 caption="Madman at your throat for eternity"]
A couple more from tonight:
Not sure what's going on here, and don't think I want to know. There was an even more disturbing scene in the bathroom, but I couldn't get a good angle to take a pic. Plus, you have to see it for yourself.
Spoiler
It's in the Concord speakeasy
[smg id=8321 type=preview align=center width=400 caption="Odd bedfellows"]
The mini game you get in one of the comic books.
[smg id=8322 type=preview align=center width=400 caption="Missile Attacks"]
Nice, D_B :-X +1
Never thought to go to Sanctuary before the war using the console. I recall a mod that unlocks the front door to your house so you can go out and explore.
Don't know the title though
Nice pics indeed D_B, +1 from me too :-X :)
Crazy how time reveals the truth of intimacy, in this case :-D
dang, that's when I fell asleep I think.. forgot to add a +1 then but did it now. :-D +1 :-X
Cool pics D_B :-X +1
RE the second-last one: When that guy told people his girlfriend was a real dummy, he wasn't fibbing :-()
OR: Is that what you call "Statue-tory rape"?
Thanks guys. Man, Fragger, that is just too funny.
Still don't know what was going on in the bathroom next to that room. I mean, it had to be something that someone would have set up long after the war, so they must have a weird sense of humor. I've disturbed the scene in my game by taking the machetes.
crazy comments, fragger :-D
Quote from: PZ on November 30, 2015, 08:32:17 AM
Nice, D_B :-X +1
Don't know the title though
It's a quote from a Star Trek original series episode, where the guy and his evil twin are stuck in an alternate reality and are constantly fighting each other. I don't know offhand the name of the episode though, but Kirk is talking to Spock at the end, and says something like "Imagine spending eternity with a madman at your throat".
And now for today's screenshots, from over the weekend. Seems I only get time to play on the weekends. Anyway.....
[smg id=8334 type=preview align=center width=400 caption="Stabbed"]
Lady, I don't think that stimpak is going to help....
[smg id=8335 type=preview align=center width=400 caption="Head-arm-butt disease"]
Ouch. Is that a mutant arm growing out your back, or are you just glad to see me?
[smg id=8336 type=preview align=center width=400 caption="Poster"]
Wish I could get that poster as a decoration for my house.
[smg id=8337 type=preview align=center width=400 caption="Well suited"]
With this outfit, I get +1 luck and +3 charisma, and she looks pretty cool in it. Just need the tommy gun to complete the 20's gangster look.
Ah, I recall that episode - still lovwe that series :-X
Great pics, D_B - I agree about the posters. Some of those would be cool in a den or recreation room
nice pics. :-X :)
Cool pics and funny comments D_B :-D :-X
Nice. :-X
What's up gang? Been playing this since release, and should have dropped by sooner. Got a level 64 character on PC and lvl 18 on Xbone. Have some screenshots uploaded to steam so let's see if the link works> http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561197970718826/screenshots/#scrollTop=0 (http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561197970718826/screenshots/#scrollTop=0)
Just a couple pics of my power armor collection in the garage. I've marked all my shots public anyone cares to go through and comment :-D Oh, and I moved that shack and built the garage on the same spot.
Nice pics, KingRat :-X
I started FO4 a few weeks ago and have put it aside because Just Cause 3 just came out a short while ago. However, FO4 is overall a much better game, and will return soon.
Quote from: PZ on December 11, 2015, 08:40:22 AM
Nice pics, KingRat :-X
I started FO4 a few weeks ago and have put it aside because Just Cause 3 just came out a short while ago. However, FO4 is overall a much better game, and will return soon.
Thanks PZ :)
I do have Just Cause 2 on the 360 and never finished it. iirc there was a driving mission that was timed and since I hate those I quit playing it. As for FO4 I just did rescue Nick at lvl 64. Been busy managing 25+ settlements, and while cleaning up after some attacks found synth parts on some of the settlers body's. I even saw 2 settlers get into it and the dead one was a synth. Runaways or infiltrators? I haven't figured that one out yet.
I think I'm only at level 18 or close to that, and am mostly exploring the Commonwealth taking a mission or two. It is as much fun as FO3 and gives me the same sense of desolation that I like in a game
Cool screenshots KingRat. :-X
The whole situation surrounding synths intrigues me. Nick along with other older model synths and from what I can tell about the Railway members (independent synths that have escaped the Institute's control/influence) appear to want to blend in with human's (or within their own enclaves) and live out what appears to me their own normal lives.
It seems that every faction (including the hardcore Institution 'runaway haters') views synths moving around in the Commonwealth as the ultimate evil. A viewpoint that mostly eludes my read of the free range independent synth community.
Having viewed videos of a number of different story line endings sadly (IMHO) I've yet to see the conditions established to create the environment where that becomes possible for them. :(
I haven't been doing much to get good screenshots lately, as I've been mostly derping around the village building things and upgrading weapons and armor. Pop out now and then to do a sweep around the local area to clean up any raiders and mole rats that have respawned, and to collect loot again. Seems some places respawn stuff and others don't. Anyway, finally got the itch and upgraded weapons and armor enough to go out and do some quests, like the Corvega plant for those Tenpines dopes.
[smg id=8356 type=preview align=center width=400 caption="Corvega"]
Getting ready to assault the Corvega plant in my shiny new hot rod painted & upgraded power armor.
[smg id=8357 type=preview align=center width=400 caption="Stupid cows"]
These (this?) cow(s) just appeared in the workshop building one day. The doorway is now blocked, as they won't move and can't get out, and you can't squeeze past them. Great.
lol, those cows are funny, D_B :-X
Might be gone when you leave and return
I saw a video where one of those brahmans was loose and wandering around on the third floor of a building he was trying to show off. That is ground level, 2nd and 3rd. I know many Europeans consider the first level up from ground level to be the first floor.
In the video the guy scrapped the floor plates out from under the brahman and dropped it down to the lowest level in stages. Then he removed the first stairway going up replacing it with a ladder until he could get the brahman to wander outside so he could set up some sort of fence and gate to keep it out.
I would have been tempted to remove a nearby wall panel and using some sort of explosive to blow it out through the hole. But then again I'm not sure what the penalties for killing a settlements resident brahman are. :-(
Yep, here we use E (Erdgeschoss, sometimes in a lift you see "0" instead of "E") for ground level and then 1, 2, 3..
Quote from: mandru on December 19, 2015, 04:48:01 PMremove a nearby wall panel and using some sort of explosive to blow it out through the hole
:-X >:D
My understanding is that the brahmans are the pack animals for a merchant that is linked to or will come through your settlement. If that merchant is pulled off the duty of tending to the brahman while traveling between settlements and is assigned by the player a settlement task of tending a garden or standing guard at an observation post could that be the source of wandering unattended brahmans?
It's just that I'm thinking that in normal situations in videos I'd not seen a stray brahman in a weird place without the condition of its human handler being absent.
In Australia too we refer to the ground level as the ground floor, then the next one up as the first floor and so on. I guess we inherited that from the English.
I like the (two-headed?) cow picture D_B, that's funny - if understandably exasperating :-()
Yeah, the pack brahmans wander around, this one is Trashcan Carla's and it gets in the way sometimes, as she is usually hanging out in the street near the workshop. But it did go away once I left and came back, so I can get back in that building now.
And for a new one:
[smg id=8358 type=preview align=center width=400 caption="Hooped"]
Hey, Mister, can you toss our ball back down? It's stuck. Mister?
:-D
Funny!
In the "resources" tab you'll see a brahman feeding trough (bathtub) just place one out of the way and the beast will hang around it.
I have one of those, and the normal brahman hangs out there, but the supply caravan brahman that Carla brings with her gets in the way sometimes. I don't think there's anything you can do about those, if you shoot them, people get mad, heh.
Fences. :)
I would hope that this would w@&k within the game:
**Dig my fancy graphics ;) **
Area you want cattle free
Fenceline_______________ ____________________
----------
(fencing blocking the gap)
Field with cows or horses
If you can get the spacing right between the inner and outer sections of fence you have an entry/exit access gap that livestock can't get through (not effective for calves, colts and forget about trying to fence goats) but still allows you easy come and go without having to monkey around with a gate.
It occurs to me that a stacked series of these (a gauntlet of pass-baffles) with automated sentries protecting your settlements could really thin out swarms of attacking feral ghouls and maybe keep the larger mutants out all together. :-\\
Quote from: Dweller_Benthos on December 21, 2015, 01:20:14 PM
I have one of those, and the normal brahman hangs out there, but the supply caravan brahman that Carla brings with her gets in the way sometimes. I don't think there's anything you can do about those, if you shoot them, people get mad, heh.
Yea, Carla's beast has been stuck on my roof for sometime now :D
The problem with building fences is that everything ignores them, they just teleport in. Including invading raiders, as I've found out. I have a complete wall around my settlement, and twice raiders have popped up right next to one of the buildings inside my wall. Posts on other sites seem to confirm, no matter how many walls you build, stuff will still get inside.
Though luckily last night, two super mutants showed up, just outside my wall where they could be dealt with pretty easily. I can only imagine if they had appeared inside and I wasn't around, as it was night and everyone else was sleeping.
Quote from: Dweller_Benthos on December 22, 2015, 07:53:14 AM
I have a complete wall around my settlement, and twice raiders have popped up right next to one of the buildings inside my wall. Posts on other sites seem to confirm, no matter how many walls you build, stuff will still get inside.
I'm thinking the game devs are playing dirty pool allowing enemy pawns inside your settlement perimeter. :-(
Yeah it kind of defeats the purpose of putting up defenses. Though the last attack by super mutants was just outside my wall, and I just took care of them, so that's something.
[smg id=8375 type=preview align=center width=400 caption="Drinks on the balcony"]
"So, Fred, nothing like a cold drink after a hard day's w@&k, right?"
"You said it, Bruce, I.... What was that bright light?"
[smg id=8376 type=preview align=center width=400 caption="Bedroom decor"]
Ah, nothing sets off a fine bedroom set like some severed heads with matching bodies on hooks for the distinguishing home decorator. (Not to mention the skeleton under the bed for the coup de grâce)
[smg id=8377 type=preview align=center width=400 caption="Pool, anyone?"]
The pool table I have set up in my settlement with all the pool balls and cues I've collected so far. I had wanted to rack them up, but the rack won't fit all the balls as they are obviously too big.
??? wow, nice pics :-X and the captions are nice, too :laugh:
welcome to the 80s, D_B
as in, I just pushed you to 80 kudos with a +1 for the good stuff you keep posting ^-^
It's always fun to get to see amusing pics with witty interpretation. +1 from me too. :-X
In that third screen cap it looks like that brahman outside the window wants to come in and graze on that lovely field of green. ;)
Thanks, guys.
Yeah, that brahman is at the feeding trough just outside, between its mooing and the generator on the roof, the place is a bit noisy.
Indeed, D_B :-X
Even though I'm playing the game, it is always nice to see what other OWG gamers experience +1
+1 from me too D_B! I was counting the balls on your pool table and concluded there are too many :)
heh, I did take off all the extras, (balls that is - lol) and I there are still a few missing, need to search more shady billiard halls.
hehe, good one, taking off all the "extras" :-D
Extra balls? Doesn't sound like a problem to me.... hyuk hyuk
:laugh:
+1 from me too, Dweller :-X
[smg id=8428 type=preview align=center width=400 caption="Fishin' buddies"]
"We was just fishing buddies...."
[smg id=8429 type=preview align=center width=400 caption="Safe camping"]
"Ah, what a beautiful spot for a camp, right under this strong oak tree that has been standing here for over 100 years, I'm sure it would take a hurricane wind to knock it down."
".... Or maybe a nuclear detonation."
Nice pics, D_B!
Hehehe :-D :-D
:-D
It's strange how the fishermen's catch lasted a lot better over the last 200 years (since all the fireworks) than the fishermen themselves.
Yeah I wonder about things like that, are the fish there from some more recent activities? It seems that most of the skeletons placed around the game are supposed to be pre-war people who were caught in the blast, but some obviously are not from the positions they are in. Unless some weirdo went around arranging the skeletons into humorous poses sometime in the intervening years.
These pics and the thoguhts around it are really entertaining :) :-X
I think I could get lost in this game. Something to put on my wishlist :)
funny stuff, D_B :-X :-()
Although I'm playing JC3 right now, FO4 is definitely on my games list to continue. Funny story: my son almost likes online gaming exclusively. A few weeks ago I told him all about my experiences in FO4, and he decided to give it a try. He's now completely hooked, and tells me stories nearly each day.
There is so much to see and do - the game is really massive, and my boy says it reminds him of Skyrim
sounds like you're having a blast, PZ :-X :)
Nice, PZ :-X Who says video games pull families apart? Here's proof of the opposite thing happening :)
[smg id=8461 type=preview align=center width=400 caption="Wash hands"]
Brings a whole new meaning to "Employees must wash hands before returning to w@&k"
[smg id=8462 type=preview align=center width=400 caption="High score"]
Vault 75 was an experiment in selective breeding to create super soldiers from children. They have a fake town set up with a target range you can run through to get a timed score. I beat the best one there by almost half on the second try. So much for selective breeding.
:-D :-D
D_B, if that bar of soap in the first picture is capable of causing that kind of damage you may have found one of the most powerful weapons in the game. :o
All you got to do is figure out how to safely get it into a Deathclaw's or one of the larger super mutant's mouths! :-D
From your info about the second picture have the "super soldiers from children" been exposed to the Forced Evolutionary Virus (FEV) that creates super mutants? Or are they just born and raised killer kiddos?
HAHA, yeah, not sure if the soap was the cause of the problem or not.
Vault 75 was an experiment in breeding, I don't think they used the virus there. From what I gathered from the various pieces of information around, the children would be raised in a way that was solely focused on military training and battle readiness. When they turned 18 they were judged for their abilities, and then "harvested" for genetic material, from which a new stronger, faster generation would be produced through IVF. Weaklings were culled, those with high enough intelligence but lower physical attributes were sometimes taken into the staff population, who mostly worked behind one way mirrors, observing the test subjects without being seen. As is usual with these vault experiments, it ended badly.
Thanks for the info on vault 75 D_B. :-X
I was thinking on weaponizing the bar of soap and it occurred to me that the Junk Jet will launch items out of your inventory that are deemed as... Well junk. Though anything fired from that weapon all has the same potential damage whether it's a silver fork or a bowling ball. :-(
And I've not seen a game play option that allow the bar of soap to be delivered as a suppository. :-D
whoa. :-D
haha, I have yet to use the junk jet, it's just sitting in a cabinet. I have so many "special" weapons that are really only useful in a very limited amount of situations that it's really not worth carrying them.
[smg id=8516 type=preview align=center width=400 caption="Love?"]
Find love anywhere?
I'm not entirely sure what's going on here. It seems these two must have been placed long after the bombs dropped, as it doesn't seem these two were in that position during the war, as most of the other skeletons in the game are.
Looks like an obscene serial killer that cut off someone's head and was performing an equally obscene act on it.
nice pic :-D I think someone found the skeleton and the skull and draped them there to make it look funny.
:laugh: I'd like to know what the story was there (or not)
Yeah I suppose it could be a serial killer with the head of his last victim and he just has a weird urinal fetish and got caught by the bomb mid-act .....
But enough weird skeleton pics, here's some stuff from my settlement at Sanctuary. Made a new building to house all the power armor suits I've collected.
[smg id=8533 type=preview align=center width=400 caption="Shop"]
Interior first floor with the armor stations for repairing/upgrading. I only keep a few sets of armor here, the main versions of each type with different upgrades/paint jobs. Kind of like Art's garage in GTAV, lol.
[smg id=8534 type=preview align=center width=400 caption="Shop"]
Exterior looking up at the second floor with the spare armor sets looking menacing out the windows.
[smg id=8535 type=preview align=center width=400 caption="Shop"]
More of the second floor. I only have room for one more armor set before I need to make more windows.
[smg id=8537 type=preview align=center width=400 caption="Shop"]
Night shot.
[smg id=8538 type=preview align=center width=400 caption="Shop"]
Night shot.
[smg id=8536 type=preview align=center width=400 caption="Relaxing"]
I was relaxing in the pool room when Preston came over and sat down, and helped himself to a drink.
Quote from: Dweller_Benthos on January 28, 2016, 08:26:45 AMKind of like Art's garage in GTAV, lol.
HAHAHA! That cracked me up :-D :-D
Nice pics and very nice construction Mr D_B. Really nice +1 :-X for your adaptation of my showcase garage :-()
Nice pics, D_B! :-X
haha, thanks guys. Problem is, I'm running out of buildable area in that settlement, and may have to use a trick to get more build room. This isn't physical space in the area, it's the build limit built into the game that limits how much you can build in one area. I don't need to add much, mostly some display cases for magazines and such, and more windows, but since I'll be removing walls to build new ones, I might be able to sneak past that limit.
Once you tire of the vanilla game, I think there is a mod to increase settlement size - lots of settlement mods that sound good, like higher powered generators and longer wires to make the settlements look cleaner
Great pics D_B :) :-X
I love the "Don't mess with this home owner" decor on the second floor :-D
[smg id=8559 type=preview align=center width=400 caption="Church"]
Came across this happy couple in a small Church in Cambridge. I wonder if they were waiting to get married on the fateful day, just before the soldier shipped out?
[smg id=8560 type=preview align=center width=400 caption="Teddy"]
It isn't all macabre skeletons you find, sometimes it's cute teddy bears.... um doing their business.
There appears to be lots of interesting unique things to find in the game. :-X
:)
D_B, wow that first pic of the couple in the church makes me wonder if it's not an equally but different tragic scenario. It strikes me as the opposite of the picture that comes up when you google "sailor kiss vj day". My read is they may have been perfect strangers who observed from a location directly shaded by surrounding buildings who when seeing the reflected distant flash quietly entered and awaited in the closest shelter for the inevitable yet hoping for possible survival. I do enjoy trying to read deeper meanings and dig out background in my gaming. Even if just imaginary. :-D
Or once again it's the w@&k of post-apunkalyptic humorists. I can see I would have a lot of fun with FO4.
Quote from: mandru on February 03, 2016, 09:40:03 AMwhen seeing the reflected distant flash quietly entered and awaited in the closest shelter for the inevitable yet hoping for possible survival.
I find that quite plausible :)
Quote from: mandru on February 03, 2016, 09:40:03 AM
It strikes me as the opposite of the picture that comes up when you google "sailor kiss vj day". My read is they may have been perfect strangers who observed from a location directly shaded by surrounding buildings who when seeing the reflected distant flash quietly entered and awaited in the closest shelter for the inevitable yet hoping for possible survival. I do enjoy trying to read deeper meanings and dig out background in my gaming. Even if just imaginary. :-D
Almost like reading a good book - everything depends on your imagination. Talk about immersion :-X
I thought of that as well, along with some other scenarios, but since the bombs dropped on a Saturday, normal church services were probably not the reason, unless it was a Catholic church with Saturday mass. But the image of two people standing on the street watching the bombs explode nearby, then, maybe wordlessly, walking together into a church to sit in a pew and wait for death while holding each other is a little too sad, even for Fallout. Then again, one of the skeletons you find is of a teenage girl who was hiding in a cabin in the woods because her parents had kicked her out for an unwed pregnancy, so maybe that's not too far off. In the suitcase nearby is a laundered green dress you can take, so she had probably packed in a hurry and left. The next day was short for her.
But now maybe something not so sad:
[smg id=8564 type=preview align=center width=400 caption="The girls"]
Some of the women in my settlement just randomly stopped by and sat around my living room. Dogmeat doing his best peeping tom from behind the door.
^-^
:laugh:
:laugh:
That bobblehead collector case ^-^
I find your settlement with the armor showcases very cool indeed. It reminds of of these holding caches / stables they have along the rodeo with angry bulls who can't wait to break out and lace up the first cowboy who has the guts to sneak uppon them :-()
I had to add more viewing windows in my armor showcase building, as I acquired two more sets. I now have complete sets of all the power armor types in the game, plus a couple extras for different paint jobs.
Now for some more pics
[smg id=8575 type=preview align=center width=400 caption="dog house"]
The theory about the deranged serial killer positioning bodies in weird locations may be correct. You do a quest in the sewers of Boston and come across the killer's trophy area. He has positioned various victims in gruesome and humorous poses. He also left tapes behind to taunt the police detective who is tracking him. So the picture I posted before may have been his w@&k, even though it's not specifically marked as so in the game.
[smg id=8576 type=preview align=center width=400 caption="Constitution"]
The wreck of the US Constitution, with rockets added because why not? Cool night shot, I thought.
[smg id=8573 type=preview align=center width=400 caption="Bus teddy"]
Teddy Bears also drive buses.
[smg id=8574 type=preview align=center width=400 caption="Play doctor"]
... and play doctor.
Nice pics, D_B :-X
hehe, yes :-D
Indeed a cool night shot there D_B :-X :)
Thanks for the pics D_B. :-X
The dog collared skeleton missing its feet in the doghouse was unsettling enough but adding to the mystery is the piece of chalk on the floor and the "X" scribed over the doghouse door. I'm gonna have to think on that one for a bit. ????
I think the feet are on that skeleton, just at an angle where you can't see them. Each of the bodies in this place was marked with an X and a piece of chalk laying around. Some of them had three or four X marks, so the guy was busy. The one with the baby carriages was grim, though luckily, there are no baby skeletons in the game, that would be a bit too much I think. So, the carriages you see are always empty, but the situations they are in, along with the adult skeletons nearby, can be some heart-wrenching scenes, where you can only imagine the parent's desperation trying to save their child from the blast.
Now for something a little more fun and cheerful, I raided the comic book store and grabbed the Gragnak The Barbarian battle axe and costume. Then climbed the Corvega plant to get an epic pose.
[smg id=8578 type=preview align=center width=400 caption="Grognak"]
Grognak the Barbarian is obviously a take on Conan, and is the in-game comic book. It is one of the magazines you can collect to add special abilities. The battle axe and costume are just some fun extras, not really useful.
Knowing your gaming style, I suspect that you'll have countless hours of exploration in FO4, mandru. You and AB might even have a contest to see who spends the most time in their favorite game. :-()
I'm not sure how to beat my own score of 3,100+ hours on GTAV/online with anything to come. :-D
Nice pic, D_Conan_B :)
D_B has lots of catching up to do :-()
as long as he keeps swinging that massive axe of his, we better stay well ahead of him :-D
:-D
LOL, I have over 6 days real time in Fallout so far, and haven't done any of the main quest line yet. I know that's no where near Art's time in GTA, but let's face it, he's crazy. :laugh:
:laugh:
We are all crazy in our own ways - last night I was in FC2, FC3, FO4, AC Brotherhood, and JC3 all in the space of about 4-5 hours or so. I almost started up GTA5 and JC2 as well
Quote from: Dweller_Benthos on February 11, 2016, 07:53:01 AM
LOL, I have over 6 days real time in Fallout so far, and haven't done any of the main quest line yet.
That's really the exact thing that draws me into an open world game. I suspect that once I get into FO4 I will do the very same. :) :-X
we're all bonkers. ^-^
Dunno Art, I might be able to give you a run for your money with Civ V. I've never thought about trying to calculate hours, but its been over 5 years now I've been playing that one. Not exclusively though, it's always been mixed in with other games, and sometimes I don't touch it for weeks, like when I first get into something new. I always find myself going back to it eventually though.
I might try and w@&k out a rough estimate sometime, I'd be curious to know. Or not - I might get freaked out by the realisation of how much of my life I've spent on it...
I like the latest batch of screenies D_B 8)
In my opinion, life is all about enjoyment. After all, why even exist if all you do is w@&k for your existence. At this stage of my life, I do all I can to enjoy what I can. My only problem is that there is so many things to enjoy that I feel I am running out of time to enjoy them.
apparently you don't enjoy running out of time yet most of your time you keep running out of time.. dang. :-D
Couldn't agree more, PZ :)
[smg id=8584 type=preview align=center width=400 caption="Chillin'"]
What better way to relax than with some milk and a box of your favorite sugary cereal, some cigars, and your favorite teddy bear, all while sitting on a pile of money?
[smg id=8585 type=preview align=center width=400 caption="Cage match"]
How about watching four people fight to the death in a cage match? Of course.
:laugh: :o
??? :-D
Something for Valentine's Day, a little teddy bear love....
[smg id=8586 type=preview align=center width=400 caption="Teddy love"]
Then they take a lunch break...
[smg id=8587 type=preview align=center width=400 caption="Teddy lunch"]
But this guy's lunch was the liquid kind....
[smg id=8588 type=preview align=center width=400 caption="Liquid lunch"]
He didn't fare as well.....
Nice, D_B :-X
One of the things I like about Fallout is the attention to detail despite being open world. Ther are so many nuggets to find in the Fallout world. I'm looking forward to the outcomes when the officil modding tools debut.
nice pics :)
Funny pics :-D :-X Someone likes their bones and teddys!
(There's probably an off-colour joke there but I can't be bothered)
They certainly do have a love for teddies indeed! Great captures D_B :-X :)
The Nuka Cola machine in the cache cap brings up sweet memories of FO3 ^-^
When I was a kid I was usually bored in school so I drew imaginary mountain forts with subterranean storage depots containing guns and tanks. The drawings were elaborate manifestations of my youthful imagination. The Fallout games remind me of that experience - a sandbox in which anything is possible.
In FO3 I had a player house with guest rooms for my companions, a greenhouse where I grew fresh food, a waterfall room with clean fresh water to rid myself of radiation, the weapons room where I could store and modify anything, and a clothing room where all my outfits were displayed.
Fallout games enchant me because they take me back to my childhood.
Did a little fooling around with my stored inventory, and found I had a lit cigarette stored there, no idea where I picked that up, and it's the only one, so of course I had to place it somewhere. The pool room seemed to be a logical place, then of course I needed an ashtray to put it in, so I went out and found one. Do you know how much fiddling I had to do to get that cigarette in just the right spot?
[smg id=8596 type=preview align=center width=400 caption="Smoky pool hall"]
I have the pool balls lined up to see what I'm missing, just the eleven ball to find now.
:-X :)
That eternally lit smoke makes me wonder if it was equippable. :-D
I'm not going to make you go back and check it after all the trouble you had getting it placed. ;)
I just might do that anyway, inevitably, some NPC will wander through the room and disturb everything, it's happened before.
well, shoot them.
Quote from: Dweller_Benthos on February 22, 2016, 08:04:15 AM
I just might do that anyway, inevitably, some NPC will wander through the room and disturb everything, it's happened before.
Uhh... Maybe add guard rails that you can hop over but they can't for stuff you don't want them to disturb?
For character roll playing I think I'd like a stylized western gunslinger that's always has a duke hanging out of the corner of his mouth with that perpetual curl of rising smoke. ;)
In FC3 we never actually got to smoke any of the Cohibas that were scattered around throughout the game. :)
Quote from: Art Blade on February 22, 2016, 09:15:58 AM
well, shoot them.
yeah but they do w@&k for me like growing food and scavenging parts.
Quote from: mandru on February 22, 2016, 09:29:28 AM
Uhh... Maybe add guard rails that you can hop over but they can't for stuff you don't want them to disturb?
For character roll playing I think I'd like a stylized western gunslinger that's always has a duke hanging out of the corner of his mouth with that perpetual curl of rising smoke. ;)
In FC3 we never actually got to smoke any of the Cohibas that were scattered around throughout the game. :)
I tried walling one of them in, and as long as I stayed in the area, they were trapped, but once I left, the area does a sort of reset and they go loose. I suppose I could block off the door to keep anyone from going in, but then I'd need to remove it each time I wanted to go in. Ah well, not that big a deal.
I will try to equip the cigarette though, see if it dangles from the character's mouth, that would be kinda funny, but I doubt it will let me do that.
OK, hmm... This morning I'm finding the Shout Box has vanished on the home page and I'm not able to make quotes when posting.
On D_B's last post but he said:
"I tried walling one of them in, and as long as I stayed in the area, they were trapped, but once I left, the area does a sort of reset and they go loose. I suppose I could block off the door to keep anyone from going in, but then I'd need to remove it each time I wanted to go in. Ah well, not that big a deal."
It sounds like when you're not in a settlement and it's not being graphically rendered the NPC objects stop existing but when you return they are dropped back into the map randomly limited to their placements for the beds and tasks that you have assigned them.
I do recall there was one gamer I came across while watching play through vids on YouTube. He had commented on the problem and his solution for settlers disturbing him while he was working or knocking over placed items as well as the ongoing annoyance of brahmans getting themselves stuck on the top floors of his carefully constructed buildings.
He constructed the utilities/facilities for what was necessary to keep the inhabitants of his settlements happy and cared for but reserved that first Red Rocked fueling station for his use alone building it into an operational hub for his own personal needs and to have a place he could be free from settler interruption. I thought it was a smart idea and intend to give it a try in my own builds.
Edit additional: Ah! The shout box is back. ^-^
Yeah, pretty much the only way to keep settlers from messing up your stuff is to build where there aren't any settlers. lol
But yeah, everything pretty much resets, to what default I don't know, if you're away from an area for more than 2 or 3 games days, I think.
[smg id=8623 type=preview align=center width=400 caption="Paddled"]
Yes, one skeleton wearing a dress, seated on a makeshift toilet, with another skeleton bent over with a paddle board on his bum. Nice way to meet oblivion....
[smg id=8624 type=preview align=center width=400 caption="Driving"]
.... but not as bad a way as this fellow, who had a little too much to drink and expired while expelling.
[smg id=8625 type=preview align=center width=400 caption="Skulls"]
Added a few more decorations to the pool room, some mounted trophies and a row of skulls on the shelf. You can pick up skulls all over the place, and I have a ton, it's just really fiddly to get them on the shelf and sitting right.
The toilet pervs look funny :-()
toilet pervs :laugh:
nice home there, D_B :) kinda funky :-D
:-D :-X
I recognize "Paddled" above from Spectacle Island. I chuckled over the imaginative usage of a cutting board. Actually it reminded me of mom.
Spectacle Island is a nice little vacation spot after you've paid your respects to the King(s) and Queen. With a little pest control you'll be right at home. ^-^
I've also heard it's a good place to base a settlement as it's protected by water on all sides. Lots of shoreline also means you have a lot of locations to set up a purified water farm which some videos are touting as an excellent perpetual bottle cap .
I'm not having much luck with the water farm I've set up at Sanctuary. I've got 4 of the big generators and 8 industrial purifiers (balancing power output to consumption exactly) so in the build mode stat bar it shows I'm getting at least 210 units of water daily so that far exceeds the needs of Preston and the original four settlers that came in with him. So they are happy as clams with a comfort rating of 80+ but after a solid week the machines are failing to send any of the excess to my workshop inventory so I can't load up and cart extra water around to sell to the various merchants I come across for gear and caps.
If I catch one of my settlers wasting all that extra water I'm gonna skin them and they'll end up in a super mutant's meat bag. :angry-new:
:laugh:
Yep, Spectacle Island, though I've heard it's difficult to get provisioners there, as they either drown from the swim or die from the radiation. One option was to only use ghouls as provisioners to that location. I had a bit of a mess with the Queen, though. I had intended to use the artillery to take her out, but she had the audacity to walk out of the barrage zone before it arrived. Had to wait until another was ready, then missed with that one too. Had to finish up with my .308. But I wonder, if you hightail it to the siren after turning the power on, will that just make her go away?
I also almost never get purified water, but then I haven't set up a lot of them either.
Provisioners drowning? Yikes! I hadn't heard mention of that. Not a good situation. :-[
I think because my level was so low when I tackled Spectacle Island I've only cleared it to 50% even though I finished the queen off by retreating deep into the shelter that has the activation switch each time I could draw the queen close enough to shoot at her from near point blank range. Turning the switch on and off kept her fairly aggravated. :-D
I searched for any info on glitches and fixes for water purifiers failing to feed into my settlement stores and I've found that each day you have to remove the entire inventory of purified water (possibly even farmed veggies too) because if there's even 1 unit in stores then the daily refill from your purifiers won't happen.
good find mandru :)
And I liked the "fairly aggravated" bit :-D
I had only heard of the provisioner problem at Spectacle Island in passing, so I'm not 100% sure on that. I've never tried to send one there. Just having them wander around the normal roads is bad enough, and I've lost one, it seems, as her supply line no longer shows on the map, and the mod I installed to tell me where they are no longer pinpoints her on the map, so I guess she got waylaid on the way somewhere or glitched out and disappeared.
Finally got the 11 ball I needed to complete my billiard room, and added a brahmin trophy, plus some giddyup buttercups I found, one of which seems to like standing on the pool table, along with the head of another one, lol.
[smg id=8634 type=preview align=center width=400 caption="Pony"]
The giddyup buttercup is a toy robot horse for kids, and the adverts show a price of $13,000 which just goes to show how much inflation they had just before the war, as even the magazines you pick up have a cover price of $35-$40 and the comic books are priced at $9. So if $9 is pocket change for a kid to buy comic books with, $13,000 for a toy lines up with that.
Wow, +1 for completing that task on the pool table D_B! Quite persevering there :) :-X
Now see if there's still someone out there to play a little ;)
:)
[smg id=8637 type=preview align=center width=400 caption="Checkers"]
What else do teddy bears do after the apocalypse? Drink beer, smoke cigars, and play checkers, of course. Makes the time pass more quickly on those cold nuclear winter nights.
:laugh: :-X
I'm assuming you placed those there?
:-X ^-^
Nope, all of these are exactly how you find them in game. It's really tough to try to place things that exactly, and the way they are holding items is impossible to do in game.
[smg id=8648 type=preview align=center width=400 caption="Shore beer"]
Like this guy, he liked his beer so much, he never let it go, even after the bombs fell. I usually pick up these beers, but I left this one, as the guy must REALLY like beer.
[smg id=8649 type=preview align=center width=400 caption="Tubing"]
This guy was having so much fun riding the waves in a tire, he didn't even notice armageddon when it arrived.
[smg id=8650 type=preview align=center width=400 caption="Grognak Piper"]
I put Piper in the Grognak outfit, just to see how it looked on her. Not bad.
The unique detail is amazing :-X
nice pics :) I like the Shore Beer pic because it looks so.. real(istic) as in the graphics quality seems to be really good.
Indeed nice pics! I'd say surreal. I was also looking at that first pic, and it made me think of Salfador Dalí's paintings
[smg id=8659 type=preview align=center width=400 caption="Baby"]
So far, I've only encountered baby carriages that were empty. Not this one. I wish it was though. yeesh....
[smg id=8660 type=preview align=center width=400 caption="Plunger"]
Talk about the ultimate toilet swirly.....
gross. :-D
#1 That is one ugly baby :-D
#2 lol "ultimate swirly" :laugh:
Quote from: fragger on March 18, 2016, 04:45:51 PM
#1 That is one ugly baby :-D
:laugh: Although I must say that is an adult skull, not a baby or even a small child. Maybe some pervert cut off someone's head and placed it in the carriage 8-X
Could be, or they just couldn't get the skull to scale properly when they placed the model in game. I don't recall if I could pick it up or not, I didn't really linger there, it creeped me out a bit, lol.
There are tiny skulls in the game. The super mutants have an equippable waist cloth with two or three small skulls for decorations. I scavenged one of them from somewhere to equip Strong for a while at least until I located some more substantial leg armor for him.
By the way Strong was the toughest companion to gain max affinity that I've encountered so far. Cait, piper and Nick were pushovers compared to Strong who "doesn't like it" when you crack safes or hack terminals and prefers it when you smash or slash your enemies when fighting along with him over the usage of ranged weapons. Oddly enough though under Strong's search for "finding the milk of human kindness" he does like to see you help people or solve problems for them.
Rethinking my run with Strong it would have probably been best to save him for free roaming the wasteland until after I'd established my bottle cap wealth base and added a couple levels of the scrounger perk under Luck that would have let me find more caps.
That's right, forgot about the super mutant armor. So, who knows then? I have met Strong, but I think I'll leave him alone for a while, at least until I get my melee attack up to snuff, so I can bash things to satisfy him.
In the meantime, I've been exploring the Glowing Sea. Nice place, wouldn't mind a vacation home there. For those who don't know, the Glowing Sea is where the biggest bombs dropped and turned the place, well, glowing. Pits of radioactive slime, dirt and rocks fused into glass, all the good things. Wearing power armor is almost a must, to fend off the radiation. Or a ton of radaway drugs to cure yourself every five minutes. Some of the places are so "hot" that you'd die pretty fast without some kind of shielding. Oh, and did I mention the friendly inhabitants? After fighting radscorpions and deathclaws all the time, seeing some molerats or blood bugs is a relief.
[smg id=8665 type=preview align=center width=400 caption="Buried"]
Poor guy got caught in the worst of it, and as the ground melted around him, almost made it back out. Almost.
[smg id=8666 type=preview align=center width=400 caption="Buried"]
Different angle to get another perspective.
Things in the Glowing Sea are pretty rough. The few places you find are so destroyed they are tough to even recognize as to what they once were. Most of the videos I've seen don't spend any more time there than absolutely necessary, but I found it's a nice place to gain XP levels pretty fast, as the enemies are all pretty tough and you get a lot more XP from them than normal. Of course, without good armor and high level weapons, you'll just have a bad time.
:-X ???
:)
Strange place indeed. I'd only get sick of seeing that colour everywhere, let alone the rest of the environment and side effects :o
Your description somehow makes me think of Ravenholm. The creepiest place in a game I've ever been through ???
Yes, very much creepy like Ravenholm, though with constant radiation-induced lightning, blowing winds and strange creatures lurking about. Pretty much every video I've seen where someone goes there, they comment on how cool the place looks, but it's also a bit depressing it's so ominous, that you want to leave as soon as possible. There are the rare times when the lightning storms stop and it almost clears off, and it becomes less ominous, but still very atmospheric.
Impressing how these developers can create a virtual environment where you feel uncomfartable and want to leave. That was indeed the same in Revenholm, although also intrigueing
I had that feeling when playing STALKER
Me too, especially at night. Those nights were flipping DARK, like actual nights, not like Far Cry "nights". I just wanted to hide and wait till morning :-\\
Ravenholm was one of the very few times when I have actually been made to feel quite nervy in a video game. First time through I was like, "Do I have to go into this place? I really don't want to..." :-()
Right, I mean they specifically tell you not to go to Ravenholm, then of course, you have no choice... Same goes for the Glowing Sea, you really don't want to go there, but you have to.
The latest DLC is the Automotron quest line to find and stop the Mechanist from unleashing killer robots all over the place. It's a fun quest, and the ending was tough, since the game keeps track of how many bullets you have, and I used one gun almost exclusively, I know how many shots I took. I had well over 1100 bullets for that weapon at the start and ended up with just over 700. That's a lot of lead, some of those robots are tough to take down.
First a couple obligatory teddy bear shots.
[smg id=8675 type=preview align=center width=400 caption="Bedtime"]
A young bear gets a story before going to sleep.
[smg id=8676 type=preview align=center width=400 caption="friends"]
This guy knew where to find comfort in his last minutes, a pack of smokes and his favorite teddy.
[smg id=8677 type=preview align=center width=400 caption="Brains"]
The DLC adds the robobrains from the previous Fallout games to Fallout 4. Here's the first one you get to interact with, and that's only the tip of the iceberg once you find where these things are made....
[smg id=8678 type=preview align=center width=400 caption="Extraction"]
This is in the factory where the brains are extracted from the host. Doesn't appear to be a pleasant place, and note the shackles on the gurney. There are several dozen or more brains in jars in this place, waiting to be inserted into robot bodies. Criminals were used as donors, whether they wanted to or not, it appears.
??? :-D
??? Nice pics, you have a great time with this game DB :-() Maybe I should buy this game some day on a $team $ale and install lots of mods etc :-D
It is pretty fun, I never played a Fallout game before. The first two are those sorta 3D top down at an angle sort of games, that never interested me. I never looked into Fallout 3 for that reason, I thought it was more of the same at the time. I've since seen videos and such and a friend gave me a copy of FO3 and New Vegas, which I just installed before FO4 came out, so I didn't try them too much. I may get back to those two after I'm finished with FO4, but that will be a while I think.
Haven't played a FO4 game or any Bethesda game, but I like shooters in general so I should give this a try 8)
You can just ignore most of the RPG elements and play it as a shooter, that's for sure. That's mostly the way I play it. I also don't use the VATS system much at all. A friend who's played the whole series told me they added that to FO3 so that RPG fans could play the game without being very good at the FPS portion. It essentially stops the game so you can pick what enemies to shoot, and at what body part. In FO4 at least, you have to put a lot of experience points into the attributes that make VATS w@&k better, otherwise, it's no where near as accurate as I can be just with iron sights, with a sniper weapon, it can't even come close to what I can do. But then, I haven't put a lot of points into those attributes to make it better, since I had little interest in it.
It's definitely a fun game, and very extensive, maybe not to the level of GTA5, but the map feels as large, but maybe because you have to walk everywhere, lol. There is fast travel, of course, between points that you have discovered, but in a lot of cases, unless you're traveling to a secure settlement, you might end up right in the middle of a pack of raiders and instantly have to shoot your way out. Then again, that might be the kind of fun you want.
Sounds like fun indeed >:D :-D
Irish Pride Industries Shipyard (home of the wannabe mirelurk trainer) has an open top bin where there's a teddy bear playing chess with a skeleton. :-D
I've been through Irish Pride, but don't recall that one, must have missed it. Or didn't think at the time to grab a screeny.
I looked at the two of them a while before I realized what I was seeing.
Starboard aft (the right side as in "you hold your bottle of port in the left hand so you can reach for the stars with the right") not on the ship but on the mooring deck alongside. :)
nice mnemonic mandru :-X :)
I have to ask, Art - what is the story behind your new avatar?
Art has recently been betraying his lady love, GTA5, for a simple country girl called "Space Engineers".
I seriously was mystified when I saw the Steam notice pop up "Art Blade is now playing Space Engineers" - I had to read it twice to be sure what I was seeing.
Oh yeah, for the port / starboard thing, there's also the color of navigation lights to go along with that, being red/green. Short words go together, so, left=port=red and right=starboard=green.
nice mnemonic D_B :-X :)
:-()
And yes, D_B is right. I got hooked. I saw TerrZor playing it and he allowed me to watch him through a steam live stream. Basically as if he had two monitors connected. One for him, one for me. Voice chat over steam enabled, I was able to ask him stuff and he'd show me or explain. Most of the time I was just watching him constructing stuff while I was having a snack and a drink. :-D I decided to get it myself and we even hooked up once to play cooperatively. Fun :) Yesterday I rammed a planet.. err, I crash-landed a space ship the size of Tasmania because I didn't notice the planet in front of me in time. :laugh:
[smg id=8679 type=preview align=center caption="oops"]
Nice, errr.... "landing" lol. I haven't played it much since they added planets, I'm waiting a bit for the game to finalize I guess. Same goes for Stranded Deep and Subnautica, both are changing so much that getting used to the current version only to get the rug pulled out from under you when the next update comes out and changes everything is a bummer. Not to mention it sometimes means "sorry you have to start a whole new game, the old save files are no longer compatible".
And now back to our regularly scheduled Fallout 4 screenshots:
[smg id=8680 type=preview align=center width=400 caption="Pumped"]
Even toy aliens need a workout, but really shouldn't use performance-enhancing drugs (the pill bottle next to him is Buffout, essentially steroids)
[smg id=8681 type=preview align=center width=400 caption="Stranded"]
Not sure how this person got out there, as it was wildly difficult for me to get there as a fully ambulatory person. In a wheelchair on a floating wooden platform wedged in a rock face on a tiny island in the ocean? With a bottle of buffout, of course.
[smg id=8682 type=preview align=center width=400 caption="Insomnia"]
Note the message in the HUD that you can sleep here. I think I'll pass. These people are in a bunker that was closed off when the generator running the air system failed and the door was essentially vacuum sealed shut and they couldn't get out. The graves of the two children are at the other end of the bunker.
[smg id=8683 type=preview align=center width=400 caption="Cigar"]
If you think it was a pain to get the cigarette on there the first time, adding a cigar was even more frustrating. Then right after this the game crashed without saving and I had to do it again.
Nice finds again :) Funny alien with weights and 'roids. :-()
And man what a bummer that your game crashed just after fiddling in those smokes :-(
I really like the wheelchair pic. Someone must have administered a nice little push and watched that person drift away going, "seeeee yaaa!" >:D
Great pics, D_B - makes me want to go into the game just to stumble across those gems, which appear to be quite numerous and unique :-X
+1 for all the cool finds
agree.. time for just another atomic slap on the back from me, too :-() +1 :-X
You guys are too kind, thanks.
Now for some robots!
[smg id=8684 type=preview align=center width=400 caption="Jezebel"]
Part of the new DLC, you get to build robots. This is the brain in a jar from the previous picture. She agrees to help you if you build a new body for her. Gave her some weapons and made her a guard.
[smg id=8685 type=preview align=center width=400 caption="Don't mess with me"]
Made this guy as a provisioner. Since he has to travel the wasteland to supply one of my far-flung settlements, I made him scary and well armed and armored. The tank treads make him super fast, you have to run after him to keep up. Normal human provisioners just mosey along at a snail's pace.
Wow, D_B, your pictures keep surprising me. This really is a game where I could spend too much time :-D
I watched closely at the body building alien. First I thought it was a piggy bank, although the colours got me puzzled a bit. That was before reading the subscript. Thought that thing in the middle was the rubber tap that usually is hidden in the belly :-D
+1 from my end too, for keeping this topic live. I could've never guessed the amount of funny, entertaining screenies ^-^ :-X
I'm seriously thinking about buying the game. The only thing that keeps me from it is the fact that it is not good for my health if I start another supergame just now that GTA Online starts to wear off :-D :-D :-D
:-D
Yes, there is a lot to do in this game, and it can be a time suck (as in, "How is it 2 in the morning already?" time suck) but with proper discipline, you can save time for other things in life. Not that I know what those other things are, but hey, whatever floats yer boat. The toy alien is just a small rubber toy, they are scattered around, this is the first time I've seen one set in a tableau that would usually have a teddy bear.
Anyway, I built robots last night. To add to the the red tank track one above, who is the provisioner to this settlement, I needed a guard and someone to man (robot?) the artillery.
[smg id=8686 type=preview align=center width=400 caption="Guard"]
Here's the guard, you can tell he's big compared to the tractor next to him. I had to remove that, though, as he kept getting stuck on it.
[smg id=8687 type=preview align=center width=400 caption="Artillery"]
The artillery bot and the mortar gun she handles. Yes, be scared.
Quote from: Dweller_Benthos on April 07, 2016, 07:52:04 AM
...whatever floats yer boat.
Ever heard of "seemingly unimportant decisions"?
I keep navigating my boat alongside my PC where a big GTA-Online sign is picted on the desktop :-D :-D :-D
Gives full meaning to the term "sandbox game"
Had to wait in a church for someone to show up and advance a quest, when Piper apparently found God.
[smg id=8691 type=preview align=center width=400 caption="Piper"]
Never pegged her for the religious type.
Looks more like losing faith to me.... in the appointment showing up that is :-D :-() :-()
haha, yeah, maybe she was just bored of waiting. You have to meet the other person there after dark, so we wandered around the neighborhood causing trouble, then I sat in a pew and used the wait command.
That's for a Railroad quest, and mostly I just wanted the ballistic fiber upgrade, so now I can add 110 protection to my clothes, and wear my normal armor on top of that for over 250 protection, which is getting in range of power armor. The types of clothes you can add ballistic weave to is limited for no reason I can see, so I grabbed a mod that allows it to be added to practically anything.
ballistic fibre upgrade to your handkerchief might prevent you from sneezing holes in it.
the ballistic fiber MkV does give for some of the clothing like dirty/clean army uniforms 110 standard and 110 energy protection plus layering your personal armament over that plus being able to carry all that over into your power armor suits but there's a couple ways to boost even that impressive protection.
Newsboy hats and a couple others can also be treated with the ballistic fiber which will stack 110/110 to your total and if you can find them the "military uniform" has the added benefit of being improved to 110/115. :-X
I installed a mod that lets you put ballistic fiber on pretty much anything. So I put it on my vault suit for 135 energy resistance, 120 or so damage resistance, and 35 radiation. On top of that I wear some pretty heavily upgraded nano combat armor, all deep pocketed for carry weight, so I think it adds up to 255 damage, 275 energy, and the base 35 radiation, because making normal armor lead-lined for increased radiation makes it too heavy and removes the deep pocketed bonus, so you decrease your carry weight by a large amount. I have the ghoulish perk which makes radiation heal me, so I don't care about it. Just for grins, I put ballistic weave on my hazmat suit, so that added the base 110 energy and damage resistance to it's 1000 radiation resistance.
My 20 or so sets of power armor are just mostly for decoration, lol.
:-X :-D
nice :)
Now, that's my kind of game play ^-^ :-X
Not a lot of exciting things have happened to me in the game recently, and I think I've been to most of the weird places and seen the funny things that were set up in the map design by the developers, so that leaves stuff I build (which isn't much, but might be more in a bit) and random things that happen. This is one of those.
[smg id=8696 type=preview align=center width=400 caption="Janitor MacReady"]
I was in Vault 81 doing the school lecture mission, and was traveling with MacReady at the time, and he must have been so bored he decided to pick up a broom and start sweeping. Going from a stone cold mercenary to a janitor is quite a leap. Unless he was just trying to show that lady janitor in the background his softer side.
:laugh:
:)
:laugh:
Well, I went back to Vault 81 to finish up some things, this time with Cait in tow, and I guess it's just something about that place that makes people want to sweep up:
[smg id=8697 type=preview align=center width=400 caption="Janitor Cait"]
She's wearing the Grognak costume because it's sexy, and the chef hat because it's silly. Compare to the shot a couple pages back of Piper in the Grognak costume.
[smg id=8698 type=preview align=center width=400 caption="Vertibird Flight"]
This one from a while ago, forgot to post it. The first trip on a Brotherhood of Steel vertibird with Piper and Danse. Yes, they trust a complete new comer with the mounted minigun. I shot at things along the way, lol.
:-X cool ^-^
:)
Heh heh Cait. She's a cudgels not cuddles kind of gal. :)
I gave her a power fist, but haven't seen her use it yet.
Yes, I know that sounds dirty. It's a weapon, you pervs. http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Power_fist_(Fallout_4) (http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Power_fist_(Fallout_4)) and yes, there are flaming and penetrating versions. I don't make this stuff up, blame Bethesda.
:laugh: :-X
Nice outfit :-D I think I'm going to add Fallout 4 to my wishlist, grab the game for garbage bin price and install mods >:D
The modding kit should be out in a few weeks, I guess, once it hits, there will be so many mods you won't know what to do with them. There's already tens of thousands and that's just what people can come up with using hacking tools.
:-D Sounds awesome! 8) >:D
I'm looking forward to seeing what the modders can come up with using the official tools. I recall FO3 player houses that were dynamite!
[smg id=8699 type=preview align=center width=400 caption="Curie"]
To continue the theme of girls in the Grognak costume, here's Curie in her synth form wearing it. The hat is the colonial lieutenant's hat from the USS Constitution quest.
Now for some shots of the fighting arena I'm building.
[smg id=8700 type=preview align=center width=400 caption="Arena 1"]
The basic layout, concrete walls to hold them in.
[smg id=8701 type=preview align=center width=400 caption="Arena 2"]
The wiring and switches to control the cages, this was the initial setup to see how it worked, need to clean this up.
[smg id=8702 type=preview align=center width=400 caption="Arena 3"]
Close up of the killing floor.
[smg id=8703 type=preview align=center width=400 caption="Arena 4"]
Overview from the other side, with the generator that powers everything and the turrets that protect it.
The idea here is to use the traps to generate the materials needed to capture the next level of animal, up to the really dangerous deathclaw. To be either killed by me for the experience points, or by some hapless merc who I lure in there. The double set of traps capture radstags which are mutated deer, using carrots from my farm as bait. Their meat is used to lure yao guai, which are mutated bears, whose meat is used to lure the deathclaws. From the control panel siwtches I can open the cages as needed to release the captured animals and then repeat the process. Once I get enough bait saved up, I'll start making cages for the humans who will either kill or be killed, up to them.
The location is the drive-in movie theater, so the old screen is seen at one end and the projection booth/snack bar at the other. Those structures can't be removed without mods.
Sick genius :) :-X
really cool, D_B :-X
Be sure to take a few pics of the hapless individuals you lure in :-X
nice one D_B :-X >:D
I spent probably two hours last night re-doing pretty much the entire thing. I had the concrete walls that have wire mesh openings, so you could see in easily, but that also let my defense turrets shoot into the arena and ruin all the fun. So I replaced them all with solid concrete walls. I have a device set up called a beta wave emitter that tames the wild animals so they will help you defend the settlement. Problem is, if it loses power or gets damaged, then they become hostile again, so of course it got damaged and I had to kill the one yao guai I had roaming around as he started attacking. So I spent more time getting the power generator and emitter safely inside concrete bunkers so they can't be attacked, well not very easily anyway.
Then I have the issue of some random Minutemen wandering by, and somehow they get inside the arena, along with the robot I have set to provision the place. I have to remove a wall to let them all back out. Apparently the place to spawn new NPC's is right in the middle of the area that is now taken up completely by the arena.
Once I get some epic battles going there, I'll post some more pics.
Sounds like great fun - looking forward to the outcomes :-X +1
I'm curious, too :)
Indeed, VERY currious >:D >:D :-()
And a +1 for the excellent idea :-X :)
There's a specific doormat that's available in the Workshops that allows you to change the fast travel point of arrival.
I hated traveling to Covenant and then being forced to open the big doors to get inside every time so I placed the 'point of arrival mat' just inside the doors to save me that extra click.
Maybe that mat will also affect the spawn in point of randomly appearing NPCs. :-\\
I'm a bit late catching up with this thread. Very creative endeavour D_B, hats off and a +1 8)
Yeah, the NPC spawn points are separate from the fast travel point you can place. I've set the one here to be on the "wing" of the projection booth/snack bar. I've found it's best to move the travel point to a high location that's secure, as you never know what you're going to find once you get there. Hence the danger of traveling to points "in the wild" like the Super Duper Mart in Lexington. Once your player XP level is high enough, there's a Behemoth that spawns there and will bash your face with his fire hydrant club as soon as you appear.
Fire hydrant club? That'd leave a bruise on you ???
yep I reckon it would -- still better than getting slapped around with a large trout I suppose :-D
Yeah, I remember the first time I encountered a behemoth with his fire hydrant club attached to the end of about 6 feet of water main for a handle. I was in my X0-1 power armor upgraded to allow extra carry power and was pretty upset that the game wouldn't allow me to at least take it home for a souvenir even if I couldn't equip and wield it. ::)
As always, there's a mod for that:
http://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/5700/? (http://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/5700/?)
Looks ridiculous if you ask me:
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:laugh: >:D Can you use it to put out fires? 8-X
Quote from: Dweller_Benthos on May 09, 2016, 07:49:39 AMSomeone with more forum voodoo than me please make that small?
Done. :)
Quote from: OWGKID7891 on May 09, 2016, 09:35:33 AM
:laugh: >:D Can you use it to put out fires? 8-X
I suppose you could beat them until the go out, lol.
ps, thanks, Art!
DB, to decrease/increase image size, use the following argument when using the "Insert image" function [img height=xxx width=xxx][/img]
image size, it's already enough if you define the width. If it doesn't blow the forum's layout sideways, it definitely won't regarding height.
I really like your new avatar, Art :-X Who might that be?
cheers mate :)
It is Lo Wang, the main character (you, the player) of Shadow Warrior (2013) whose main weapon is a katana. The pic is taken from the virtual concept art book. Wielding that blade, it is actually the avatar that goes best with my name :-()
That must be a remake. There was a game of the same name that came out in 1997 which used the "Build" engine (which was originally created for Duke Nukem 3D). I remember the name "Lo Wang". In the old game he was essentially an Asian Duke Nukem and would say things like "Nobody mess with Lo Wang!" (with exaggerated Chinese accent). When you began a new level or respawned after death in a MP game he would open with the perennial Chinese stereotype: "Ah, so!"
Quite a funny game as I recall, with the same kind of tongue-in-cheek, politically-incorrect humour as Duke Nukem.
you're absolutely spot on, and it's great. :) It was supposedly mostly a graphics overhaul. The fun is very much the same as in Duke Nukem. And by golly, the slicing and dicing is bloody bloody. :-D
Here three pics in spoilers so it's not too much of a hijacking here ;)
Spoiler
[smg id=8726 type=preview align=center caption="sw 01"]
[smg id=8727 type=preview align=center caption="sw 02"]
[smg id=8728 type=preview align=center caption="sw 03"]
I bought the game on the special rebate at Steam but haven't gotten into it yet. GTA is still occupying my mind too much :-D
Quote from: fragger on May 10, 2016, 06:12:01 PM
I really like your new avatar, Art :-X Who might that be?
:-X
cheers PZ :)
Yeah, I saw Art playing that in Steam and that brought me back, I played the original Shadow Warrior quite a bit. Well, all the way through anyway. All those old games on the Build engine, or Quake engine or the Unreal engine. Matter of fact, I spent so much time in the Unreal games I skipped the first Half Life game entirely.
same here. :)
[smg id=8729 type=preview align=center width=400 caption="Typist Strong"]
For a change of pace, I took Strong the super mutant along for the ride while Curie was busy getting her synth body ready. Just to see what happened, I went to the Prydwen to drop off some quests and wanted to see if anyone had anything to say about me bringing a mutant aboard, as the brotherhood considers them filthy dirty animals only fit to be exterminated. No one said anything, even when he helped himself to a terminal, supposedly to check his e-mail, I guess.
It was a bit different when I brought Nick Valentine along with me. Since he's a synth, the brotherhood really doesn't like his kind. He even mentioned when we arrived that it might not be a good idea to bring him aboard. Then, while I was doing stuff, one of the brotherhood guards mumbles under his breath as Nick walks by "Abomination" which Nick replies, "Well, nice to meet you too". Interesting. I didn't bring Curie in her synth body up there, but since she looks human, they might not notice.
[smg id=8730 type=preview align=center width=400 caption="Arena overview"]
I did some more w@&k on the arena. Added two more capture cages, these for the human enemies, one for raiders, one for gunners. I plan to let them out and have them fight a bit, then let out the deathclaw to see how things go. Did some improvements to the walkways around the top edge as well. This aerial shot lets you see inside the bunkers that protect the power generator and the beta wave emitter, which is now turned off, to allow things to follow their natural course instead of making everything tame.
[smg id=8731 type=preview align=center width=400 caption="Arena aftermath"]
A shot after I let out the animals, before I built the new traps. The two radstags and the deathclaw are all that's left, the yao guai was turned to glowing ash when Paladin Danse, seen here running through the carnage, shot it with his laser rifle.
Nice :) You think you'd be able to post a video as soon as you got the arena fully operational?
nice experiments and ideas, D_B :) +1 :-X from me, too, if a tad late ^-^
Thanks. Yeah, I guess I could post a video, though it's not that exciting, maybe once I add more capture cages, it will be more exciting. Right now, I usually open the cages one at a time, and shoot the released occupants for the loot drops and experience points. It's essentially a fish in the barrel scenario, and not much going on.
Typist Strong! ^-^ +1
Anticipating the invention of Touch Screens, supermutants in the course of accessing terminals probably account for a fair amount of the broken computer workstations scattered throughout the game. :laugh:
D_B I'll stick with the vanilla version of FO4 but I can see that some of the construction materials you've gained through modding are impressive.
Oh, and a heads up on Curie. She's a scavenging pack rat!
Her initial preference is melee. So right off the bat (once she got her synth body) I loaned her my Pickman's Blade. She wields that knife with an almost scary deftness. A joy to watch I've seen her deliver fatal damage to a Legendary Human or Synth enemy with a combo move where she makes a left handed grab and body slam followed by a quick triple stab while they're stunned on the ground.
But I noticed that in mid combat situations other ranged weapons started popping up in her attacks. It crossed my mind when she whipped out a Gatling laser that I needed to check her inventory to trim her surplus carry weight and that thought reoccurred when I encountered a close in-fighting situation where I couldn't see the enemy I was trying to fight because she'd cut loose unexpectedly with a heavy flamer hosing us both down. :o
It wasn't until she started acting more feminine through her affinity level-up I thought it would be nice to allow her to strut her stuff in style. I tried to switch her out of the previously equipped MkV ballistic weave military uniform to one of the casual outfits (shirt and shorts that can also up graded to equal protection values) that still leaves the arm and leg armor slots equippable. But on my trade request I received the message that her carry weight was maxed out.
The girl was freaking carrying an arsenal in her bag of tricks. Her inventory was packed tighter than Mrs. mandru's purse. :o
:-D
do you guys know that ONE bullet for a weapon is enough if you equip your buddies? They never run out of ammo with just one bullet, I heard :)
The one bullet thing only applies to settlers, not companions. I gave piper a gauss rifle and couple hundred rounds for it, and she drained that in the first couple fire fights and went back to her 10mm, which is the weapon she comes with, and does have infinite ammo. But yeah, Curie is a melee monster, I gave her the 2076 world series baseball bat and it was great fun to hear the crack of the bat and crowd roar as she'd get a home run with it, sending her target flying into next week.
Someone posted this on reddit, to get an idea of her melee skills:
https://fat.gfycat.com/ThunderousHarshAsianconstablebutterfly.webm
Click that link, the forum doesn't like webm, I guess.
And the stuff I'm building at the arena is all stock items, no mods, it's the Wasteland Workshop DLC that gives you the concrete walls and capture traps.
OK.
So you are using FO4 vanilla with pay for play downloadable sprinkles. ;)
just checked that vid, D_B, and I'd call that a pretty impressive AI combat skill. :-X
Wow! Some serious upgrades for Curie. I too just looked at that video link and was shocked at how devastating as she has become there. I'm thankful that's not my sweet little Pot de crème Curie. Good grief someone gave that kitten claws! ???
At full affinity neither Cait nor Piper are anywhere near as doe eyed gushy in love with my character as Curie.
I've been trying to fight chronic unhappiness in my settlements. I hate it when I'm checking the settlement workshop data list and see a settlement has 89% happiness but is flagged with a critical " < ! > " warning that there is a problem. I've needed to strip out all TVs and Jukeboxes as there's a known bug when those are present. I no longer fast travel out of settlements as it can cause all w@&k and sleep assignments to be lost so walking off a ways before hopping to the next location is a must.
And last but not least settlers are happier if you spend a full day in town with them. So once I've run around a settlement making a few tweaks the settlers might like I find an unassigned bed and sleep for 24 hours.
About half of the time on waking up I find that Curie has climbed into bed with me and offers up with bedroom eyes a sweet little complaint like "Oh, do we have to get up already?" which is something that I've not experienced from either Piper or especially Cait. Her sultry comment "...What I really look forward to, is the nights" implies there's something going on while I'm skinned out of my power suit and asleep.
I suspect Curie (character scripted) is so all-in head over heels because she has no previous experiences in love/hate and has thrown herself into the tsunami of feelings and states as much with a comment that "You are so deliciously distracting." I seriously don't think that even my Titanium Painted XO-1 torso with a pocket full of stimpacks and fusion cores would save me from a Curie at full affinity in the Tigress modifications (as shown in that video) should she ever hit a "You have what I want and I'm taking it NOW!" mood. 8-X
goodness gracious, what kind of a game are you playing ??? Next, she'll be on the lookout for some rare books by Charles Bukowski and going to have you read them to her. Or else. :-D
:laugh:
Hmm... :-\\
She does know where the Old Corner Bookstore is as we've had a couple missions there. :'(
be the first to go there and burn all of the undesired books. :-()
Yeah, Curie is kind of a lost puppy when it comes to dealing with emotions. It was almost too much to send her off so I could get the next companion in the list at full affinity. I'm trying to get them all, but I can't get Paladin Danse up to that level until a certain point in the story line, so I'm working on Deacon now, who can only be friends, not romanced. He's proving to be a tough nut to crack though, as after the same amount of time with Cait or Curie, I was at full romance with them. I even toughed it out with Preston Garvey but shot him down at the romance option. I just wanted the perk you get for full affinity. I've also heard there's a bug when you have two companions with the romance option in the same area when you try to sleep. It can get stuck and bug out and you never get the Lover's Embrace perk again after that. Since Piper lives at Sanctuary as does Preston, I didn't want to risk the bug. I could always send Preston to Murkwater I think. Nice place for him.
With the Mechanist DLC you can upgrade any robot to pretty much any configuration you want. The one in the video was an assaultron body with twin shishkabob blades and an assaultron head laser. Not something you want to run up against in a dark alley. Or a brightly lit alley, or an open football pitch, though that might be the best, as you'd have plenty of room to run away in terror before being hunted down.
Anyway, here's a shot of a Rust Devil who lost a fight with one of my robot provisioners. The robot was equipped with a railway gun which shoots, you guessed it, railroad spikes. Ouch.
[smg id=8732 type=preview align=center width=400 caption="One to the chest."]
I just noticed on review, besides the one sticking out of his chest, there's the nub of one at almost full penetration in his lower stomach. Yikes.
I like both the pic and its caption :-D
After reaching full affinity with Piper I sent her back home to the newspaper office in Diamond City to take care of her little sister. Several times now recently with Curie in tow I've used my residence at Home Plate just across the town square for sleeping to gain the Lover's Embrace XP perk before setting out on a new Railroad mission with no adverse effect. On the other hand I've never allowed the two to meet as Curie has expressed symptoms of jealousy and not knowing how to deal with it when I'm around other women. 8-X
The railway gun is fun as it can rip off a head or limb and pin it to a wall or other upright feature behind your target. >:D
Does the Mechanist DLC also introduce new enemies as I don't recall having ever encountered a Rust Devil?
Since home plate isn't really in the same "space" as the rest of Diamond City, you're probably safe there. Since Piper stuck with me into Sanctuary, that's where she stays now. I could use a mod to send her back to Diamond City I suppose. The bug might also only be a rumor, but I don't want to chance it.
The Rust Devils are a specialized raider gang who use robots to attack enemies and use robot parts as armor. They were added with the Mechanist DLC along with the robot workbench which allows you to build and customize as many robots as you have the materials to build them with. I always build provisioners as robobrain robots as they are fast, and equip them with some pretty heavy duty weapons. Even then, I lose one occasionally and have to build another, but that's a lot easier than recruiting a new human settler and equipping them with armor and weapons and send them out into the wasteland.
When you have a companion that you are dismissing there will be a menu list of where you want them to go. If you hit the Escape key instead of one of the menu selections (which are all settlements) it will allow them to return to the location where you first met them.
So if you choose, the next time you are between companions you ask Piper to follow you and then dismiss her using the Escape option it should send her back to Diamond City. There will be a confirmation message in the upper left corner of the screen specifying to where the dismissed companion is traveling so that you can find them again.
The option to send them back to their origin goes away if you've ever sent them to another settlement at any time. So, any time I dismiss Piper and don't choose a place for her to go, she goes to Sanctuary. There's a mod that lets you reset this so they can go "home". Besides, Piper volunteered to tend the carrots and mutfruit gardens, so I just let her be lol.
I was checking the online map at http://fallout4map.com/ (http://fallout4map.com/) when I noticed I had never been to the Holy Mission Congregation church, so I went there.
[smg id=8745 type=preview align=center width=400 caption="Hands, mister!"]
Two skeletons in the back room, and I think that guy is rounding third base, lucky guy. Well, except for all the bombs and radiation and dying thing, but up until then, I'm sure he was very happy.
It was late when they decided to start seeing each other. In the end, they were seeing each other's brains out, if for no more than a flash.
I could swear I see a grin on his face :angel:
Quote from: Dweller_Benthos on May 23, 2016, 08:14:50 AM
Two skeletons in the back room, ...
I wouldn't go as far as suggesting that he was trying to go out with a bang. ;)
I think he didn't have time for a premature.. ALRIGHT, ALRIGHT, not going there..
:laugh: 8-X
:laugh: You guys!
And right there in the corner of the church, eh? They couldn't use the Confessional like everybody else?
it was already occupied by a priest and a nun with what I believe is called missionary sty-- ALRIGHT, ALRIGHT!!
Looks like that almost went a bit too far... 8-X
I'd almost believe you. :-D
Finally made it into the Institute
[smg id=8746 type=preview align=center width=400 caption="On the loo"]
Come on, tell me that's not the first thing you'd do after months in the wasteland, dealing with filthy, broken toilets or rough outhouses and a bucket?
If the game were real life, I'd definitely side with the Institute and live in comparative luxury with running water, reliable power, clean sheets on the bed, working bathroom facilities..... but in the game, I think I'm going to have to destroy them.
nice. :-D And agree. ;)
What puzzles me is... the only option the game gives you is to wait... :knockout
???? With her panties still on? Eww...
:laugh:
Yeah, the characters only strip down to their undies, can't go nude without mods.
Now, more teddy bear action, this one taking a ride on his giddyup buttercup, both wearing fashionable hats, of course.
[smg id=8756 type=preview align=center width=400 caption="Out for a ride"]
of course. Very stylish, no pants but a hat instead :-()
:laugh:
Great capture D_B! ^-^
D_B, I was checking out that interactive map link you gave us http://fallout4map.com/ (http://fallout4map.com/) which is pretty useful but even it not all inclusive. There's still a lot of points of interest that aren't shown.
There's a couple omissions I've noted in early personal game play. Sorry, I can't figure out the Steam (spits) screencap procedure so I'll have to describe the locations.
One is the shack with the Junkies Laser Rifle (updated location info here: http://www.openworldgames.org/owg/forums/index.php?topic=3790.msg80574#msg80574 (http://www.openworldgames.org/owg/forums/index.php?topic=3790.msg80574#msg80574) ).
Then another for sheer weirdness there is "The Church of The Cat."
Start at The Castle (Minuteman base) atop the S.W rampart and move North to stand near the edge of that first break in the Western wall. With a Long scope look West across that enclosed pond and you will see a row of buildings. That row of buildings is split by a central gap. Through that gap (the unit with the red facade is on the left of the gap) you can see an second row of buildings beyond but there is a narrow alley visible that is blocked by a low wrought iron fence topped with spikes.
That wrought iron fence is the perimeter of a small unmarked church with graveyard. The Eastern side of the church where the cemetery is has a metal cellar door that allows entrance to a scene that may briefly make you rethink your opinion of feral ghouls. I'll just say the "revered cat" is not going out and collecting its own mongrel dog meat. :-D
Definitely unique! :-X
Yes, I've seen that church and it's cellar cat altar. Another weird thing about that church is there's a break in the collision mesh for the exterior model. In other words, there's a spot in the wall you can walk through and be inside the church without going inside if you know what I mean. If you walk the exterior perimeter wall, and keep testing the edge, you will ghost through the wall and see the structure from the inside. If you face the boarded up main door, go to the right around the vestibule, and in the corner where the vestibule meets the main building, you can get inside. You'll be able to see out through the walls and any enemies on the outside can't get in.
On to more screenshots, here's one contrasting the Institute one I posted earlier, as this is the typical bathroom facilities on the island of Far Harbor. Institute still wins.
[smg id=8773 type=preview align=center width=400 caption="The merry widow"]
hehe, that a new fashion collecting bog shots? :-D
Bathroom shots, from rustic to those with modern conveniences. Strange ugly women though :-()
Better be careful with that though. I suspect that's how you catch a bad dose of F.E.V.. :-\\
Yeah, don't want to turn into a super mutant. But yeah, I only just realized you can sit on toilets now, or it's a new feature that was added. I'm pretty sure most of the ones that are busted can't be used as a place to sit down. I'll have to check. You can also command your companions to sit down, so I would think they will sit on them as well.
What was that about ugly women, PZ?
F.E.V? What's that?
Seems like many of the women in Fallout are ugly :laugh:
Quote from: OWGKID7891 on June 01, 2016, 08:49:28 AM
F.E.V? What's that?
F.E.V. is Forced Evolutionary Virus which was Institute created and without consent inflicted on test subjects to create the game's super mutants. The Institute is FO4's secretive puppet masters (manipulative string pullers) who terrify the above world survivors with a blatant willingness to tamper with or selectively destroy human life to insure their own better living through science.
Alright, so that's why the Institue is destroyed in the ending?
no, it was just an excuse to create a game around. :-D
Quote from: PZ on June 01, 2016, 10:22:16 AM
Seems like many of the women in Fallout are ugly :laugh:
Well, it is a post-apocalyptic, irradiated wasteland. Funny though, most of the main characters (Curie, Piper, Cait) are pretty, but most of the "bad guys" like raiders or gunners are ugly, or just dirty, I mean, where can you get a shower in that place? One that's not using radioactive water?
Anyway, I've been slowly working my way around the island in the Far Harbor DLC, looking at things, and shooting most of them with the explosive minigun I found early on. For those who don't know, it's a minigun (like the kind you usually see mounted on vehicles because they are super heavy, need a source of power or compressed air to w@&k, etc) or like the one that guy in the original Predator movie had, was it Jesse Ventura's character? Anyway, this one shoots explosive bullets, so not only are you putting a couple hundred rounds per minute into your target, they are exploding on impact. So far it's made short w@&k of anything I've used it on.
Here's a cool shot of a crashed plane that is being used as a house by a trader who also trains guard dogs that you can buy.
[smg id=8786 type=preview align=center width=400 caption="Falling Water"]
Once inside, Nick decided to take a seat next to the trader (who's name I forget, Erikson, maybe) who is a super mutant, luckily he's more interested in training guard dogs than killing and eating humans.
[smg id=8787 type=preview align=center width=400 caption="Buddies"]
that looks crazy. :-D
Yeah, it was pretty cool. So far the island looks a lot like the real Mt Desert Island, at least what I remember of it. I only spent one night there waiting for the ferry to Nova Scotia. But I can confirm the place is very foggy, at least in the morning. When we left, we were driving to the dock to get on the ferry, and it's a large ship, but we didn't see any of it driving up, until we were really close to it, and the open cargo hold doors were looming above our vehicle like a giant mouth. Then, once we were off shore a bit, the fog lifted and we could see the ocean and look back at the island. Then the casino opened and we had a little fun feeding the one-armed bandits.
I must admit I like the FO4 story and huge world. I can't wait for the official modding tools to come out which will allow the modders to create (hopefully) clever mods into the game. I modded FO3 so heavily it was a completely different game in both function and appearance.
I hope your game ran stable 8-X
Yes, it did - one of the "mods" was one which allowed you to discover any clashes in the programming. I could go down to line level control of all of the mods, so it was as stable as the original game. ^-^
Quote from: PZ on June 05, 2016, 08:54:05 AM
Yes, it did - one of the "mods" was one which allowed you to discover any clashes in the programming. I could go down to line level control of all of the mods, so it was as stable as the original game. ^-^
So, in other words, not very stable at all? :D
OK, I spent a good amount of time over the weekend exploring the island in the Far Harbor DLC. Get ready for a screenshot dump:
[smg id=8802 type=preview align=center width=400 caption="Who's eating whom?"]
I think the teddy bear won that one.
In Far Harbor, it seems garden gnomes have turned evil, or were always evil and just don't try to hide it anymore:
[smg id=8803 type=preview align=center width=400 caption="Knifed"]
[smg id=8804 type=preview align=center width=400 caption="Sawn"]
But they also have to stop for bathroom breaks (hey, it's not my character in her undies on the toilet this time!)
[smg id=8805 type=preview align=center width=400 caption="Toothbrush?"]
Not to be outdone, the teddy bears kick it up a notch:
[smg id=8806 type=preview align=center width=400 caption="One up, one down"]
This one just made it off the ship before it sank.
[smg id=8807 type=preview align=center width=400 caption="Floating"]
I couldn't get a good shot of it, but nearby this shipwreak on fire, were a bunch of gnomes with Molotov cocktails in their hands, can't say for sure they caused the fire, but...
The gnomes might not have been responsible for this, as it was in a super mutant lair, but I wouldn't put it past them....
[smg id=8809 type=preview align=center width=400 caption="Hung"]
Also in the same super mutant lair, you find they aren't so gentle when it comes to humans
[smg id=8810 type=preview align=center width=400 caption="Hammered"]
The skeletons, of course, aren't going to let the bears and gnomes have all the fun, this person obviously decided that the only way to face the nuclear apocalypse was inebriated:
[smg id=8811 type=preview align=center width=400 caption="Also Hammered"]
This guy had a really bad time of it, someone must have really disliked him
[smg id=8812 type=preview align=center width=400 caption="Nailed"]
good show :-X :-D
Quote from: Dweller_Benthos on June 06, 2016, 08:45:30 AM
So, in other words, not very stable at all? :D
:laugh: :-X I guess you can look at it that way! Funny thing is that I rarely had a problem, and nothing that could not be circumvented.
Great slide show!
PS: to feed into D_B's toilet fetish, I saw this redneck grill not too long ago
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What on earth would one cook on a toilet grill? Spare shits, pulled fart and cheese turder?
:o Okay, now I know this exists 8-X
:laugh:
Rednecks like to be clever
:-D
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.
I know what you mean D_B, but a beach is a nce distraction isn't it? 8) ^-^
you can still build sand cast.. erm, sand arenas in memory of FO4 :-()
lol D_B :-D
Those infernal vacations can be a real drag, huh?
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.
Glad to see you back and able to relax with FO4, D_B; vacations can make one quite tired.
welcome back, D_B :)
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.
Nice!
Peddling Piper persistently pumping potentially painful power. :laugh:
:laugh: mandru
Looks like an interesting DLC, D_B - looking forward to your experiments :-X
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.
Quote from: Dweller_Benthos on July 28, 2016, 08:12:15 AM
The rigged slot machine seems to be the most popular with my victims, you can't keep them off the things.
:laugh: 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.
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?"
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.
[smg id=8891 align=center width=600]
not my cup of tea, either.
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.
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.
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.
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!"]
nice. +1 :-X :)
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
Yeah, same with Fallout 4, each DLC adds a couple, so when Nuka World comes out, I'll have more to do.
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.
that new building of yours looks fit for starting your own religion :-()
The Church of Dwellerology :angel:
Impressive piece of architecture there, D_B :-X I guess you could call that the "Don't go away mad, just go away" style :-()
Nice w@&k, Reverend! +1
heh, it does look church-like, now that you mention it. I built another structure to replace the other scrap building I had, but soon ran into a problem. Each settlement has a build limit, as Mandru mentioned in the tips thread. Thing is, you can cheat the build limit by dropping high-level weapons (or anything really, but high-level ones seems to w@&k better) on the ground, then using the build interface to store them in the workshop, where you can then retrieve them unharmed and do the trick again. This lowers the build limit so you can build more stuff. Turns out you can do this too often, as I found out. Lag when in the area is one problem, but outright game crashes are another. When loading the game that was saved in that settlement, it crashes half the time. I've also had at least one blue screen crash as well. So tricking the system to build more stuff may be OK to do a couple times, but several times, as I have in that area, are just too much for the game to handle. I went around and scrapped a bunch of stuff that I didn't really need anymore to lower the complexity so that it won't lag as much and hopefully won't crash as much anymore.
Probably no more pics from Fallout from me until Nuka World DLC comes out, if then, as of course, No Man's Sky is now out.
:)
Yep, giving NMS a break and playing the Nuka World DLC for Fallout 4.
Seems mannequins are the creepy go to thing in Nuka World, as they are now animatronic and articulated, so they can pose in all sorts of positions. Some are also powered and can move, making them even more creepy. As usual, it didn't take long to find a bathroom scene, not sure what is going on here.
[smg id=9154 type=preview align=center]
Funny stuff D_B. :-D
While this is not quite a screenshot and not from my personal game play I did laugh my butt off when I stumbled across this.
http://imgur.com/gallery/kue6PvC (http://imgur.com/gallery/kue6PvC)
"Oh no, I lost my earring!"
"Well, it didn't fall in the can..."
haha, funny! (both Fragger and Mandru)
Mannequins are at it again, not sure what went on here, or if it references something, but I think that guy had a bad time.
[smg id=9197 type=preview align=center]
he died. I think "had a bad time" is an understatement. :-()
Meanwhile back in Fallout.....
Nuka World has three dominant raider gangs, this is in the Disciples territory, they are ruthless killers who like torture and blood. So, of course, a mannequin kissing a severed head, I mean, why not?
[smg id=9213 type=preview align=center]
Piper, of course, isn't fazed at all.
nice. ??? :-D
They sound like a bunch of real party dudes ???
I reckon they're the type who take "gate crashing" literally. :-D
:laugh:
Yep, did it again, the Nuka World DLC added 10 new achievements, so I got all those too, making it complete again.
[smg id=9346 type=preview align=center]
So, unless they add more DLC, which may or may not happen next year, I'm pretty much done with Fallout 4. There are a few minor things I can do, but for the most part, my quest list is empty.
Congratz, D_B :-X
Looks like you've had a long run with the game filled with lots of adventures and experimentation - an excellent open world experience.
Way to go with meeting the requirements for the achievements D_B. :-X
I'm still having a gas spending at least 3 hrs a day rampaging and thrashing the bad guys of the Commonwealth in the vanilla version of FO4.
It was only a week ago that I finally achieved a full 100% and Benevolent Leader having 22 settlers using an enclosed three level 8X7 footprint enclave on Spectacle Island. The 6X6 square mutfruit plantation at ground level is protected on all sides with cement foundations. The first floor up is populated with 18 shops and an inner balcony that looks down on the garden and the top level is the sleeping dormitory which again has the overlook balconies inwards to the garden as well as added pleasant outwards facing balconies. The shop and living levels are both fully carpeted and decorated.
The settlement on Spectacle Island has only been attacked once by a comparatively ill prepared band of five supermutants who were killed by the level 1300 defensive infrastructure of laser canons that I'd installed and the fact that I'd stripped away all of the trees from the hill side they'd attempted to approach from.
I happened to be onsite (in build mode so I had no warning it was coming) at the time and it was all over before the first settler had a chance to say "What just happened?"
Since then I've had two other settlements unexpectedly hit the 100% mark. Ironically those other sites managed it with a lot less attention to detail and w@&k than I poured into getting Spectacle Island just right. ::)
As I see it I've still got a lot of fun to squeeze out of FO4.
Now if I can only get the ghouls at The Slog up into a high enough happiness level so that the workshop menu isn't continuously listing them as being in distress. :-D
I still have the game on my shelf as one to w@&k on one of these days, and I'll use the settlement techniques you chaps have posted to double my fun. Of course, modding will be heavily on my mind. >:D
Nice, Mandru, I wasn't aware you were playing, I guess I don't have you on my Steam friends list. I also can't imagine doing that much settlement building without mods, the two most important being Scrap Everything and Place Anywhere. Names are pretty self-explanatory.
I only got one settlement up to 100%, that's Longfellow's Cabin in Far Harbor, turns out he's not a picky fellow, give him some crops to tend, send over a couple dogs, trap a couple cats to hang around, add some power for lights and a couple machine gun turrets for defense and he'll be 100% happy in no time. The rest of my settlements are pretty poor affairs, Sanctuary being the only one I do anything of significance in, and then I've hit the limit a few times and got to the point if I added anything it would crash so I don't do much there anymore. Most of my settlements are barren and empty. When I did the raiding quests from Nuka World, the raiders would arrive and complain "There's no one here to kill? What gives?" Then I wasn't satisfied with how that all pans out, as there are glitches where you might not be able to get the settlements back again and Preston is permanently mad at you after that, so I used a mod to skip the raiding part and continue the Nuka World quest line separate from anything in the Commonwealth. You don't get nearly as much out of it that way, but it doesn't mess up your main game either. Someone on Reddit said that Nuka World was like the last thing you did as a kid when building with Lego, once you have everything built nice, you smash it apart and put it away. So raiding from Nuka World is like smashing everything you did in the Commonwealth and then you finish playing the game.
Several months ago I went on Steam and used the add friends link to look up Art trying to friend Art and received the notice that my account wasn't allowed to do that. Maybe it's because of my long history of bad mouthing Steam but anyway I closed that session out and I've not gone back into Steam again since.
Because of my rambling around exploring and avoiding most of the major missions early on in my game play I'd encountered almost all of the settlements and completed their affinity missions before Preston had a chance to nag me that they were in trouble. Once I could access their workshops it only seemed natural to create better housing, fortify and automate defense systems for them to assist in their survival.
I wouldn't call the housing I've created barracks as that implies a certain level of order and uniformity of structure. My design efforts are mostly quick and dirty with attention to getting the job done quickly and with as little wasted material as possible.
Then again my designs would get me banned from most architectural schools. :laugh:
From the center of a settlement you can place a long straight ladder on the ground and keep stacking them, reaching for the stars (so to speak) to find the ceiling of that location. But back on the ground you can remove that bottom ladder and the rest of the stack stays in the air instead of crashing down. This discovery has led me to the lazy man's approach of lots of floating platforms bearing loads of generators out of normal reach and extended galleries bristling with laser canons aimed strategically at the most common directions attacker approach from.
I know it's inelegant and probably would be considered cheating by perfectionists but I'm pragmatic and will lean on the altered laws of physics in the post-apocalyptic remains of the Commonwealth. >:D
If I arrive at a settlement that has damaged stores, water pumps or anything else needing repair I diagnose the history of the attack by seeking out the raider's (dropped on death even if their bodies have had time to clear away) weapons to see where I need to add lasers to deal with them.
I neglected to mention that the inner 6X6 square garden I'd mentioned in my Spectacle Island build has an open air atria. The upper floors trace the outlines of the outer walls (with only a slight inwards overhang) leaving the garden free to receive rain and sunlight for at least part of the day.
steam is a bit strict these days when creating a new account. Some things can only be done after a waiting period of two weeks, some require one month. I think too many people abused the easy way it used to be for scams of all kinds so Valve/steam is now taking precautions.
I do pretty much the same, Mandru, I use the shack bridge platform and put turrets up out of reach, though they somehow still get damaged. I think the game just tosses a coin and decides if an attack was this size and lasted that long, then this amount of resources would be damaged, and picks a couple at random to damage. I've had crops that were no where near where the attack was get damaged, there was even a video someone posted after an attack was over, his crops started to spontaneously die around him as he watched, with no one alive nearby. So defense by inaccessibility doesn't w@&k. If the coin toss decides something will be damaged, it will, no matter where it is or how well defended.
So, I did a few minor things, visited a couple settlements that had the "zero resources" bug, where all of a sudden a well equipped settlement no longer has beds or food, then went to Nuka World for one last look, took the elevator to the top of the tower in the Galactic Zone and while Piper had a smoke, looked out over the park. So, until a new DLC comes out, or some other reason crops up to run the game, I'm pretty much finished.
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Steam says I played 639 hours, which is pretty close to accurate, I don't leave the game running without playing usually, my last save says something like 22 days and a few hours, but that doesn't include the times I've gone back to previous saves to try something different. 26 days and 15 hours. Almost a month. The game released sometime late in November, so let's say 11 months ago. Out of those 11 months, 1 of those months was spent in this game, give or take. The only other game I've spent more time in that I recall was Minecraft, no way to know total time, but that's been out 5 years now. Even Unreal back in the late 90s I don't think I spent that much time. Maybe Battlefield 1942, but I doubt it, though if you count all the time I spent modding and map making for that game, it might come close.
I did pretty much everything you could do, saw everything there was to see (almost) so I definitely got my money out of it. The only thing I could do now is start a new game in survival mode where the enemies are much more tough, you can't carry nearly as much, and have to worry about getting enough to eat, drink and sleep. Plus diseases to catch and find cures for. I may try it, but the problem with that is, there is no way to save except by sleeping in a bed, and how the game crashes, that might be a hindrance. I don't know, I may try it just to see.....
Edit: Well, maybe I'll go back, forgot about mods that add new things to do:
http://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/19171/? (http://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/19171/?)
Man, I hate that zero resource bug! You hop to the settlement with that going on and being present fixes it but still you get angry settlers scolding you because there's no beds or water. I've heard that not using fast travel from within the boundaries of a settlement will reduce the occurrence of that bug as well as another bug where every settler forgets their task and bed assignments but I've yet to see a total fix of those problems. :D
On resources like generators and defense units I've noticed that I can target them in VATS and get a reading on their level of damage. That way after a particularly brutal raid I can give the settlement a walk through to scavenge and replace any units that are on their last leg so that all equipment is at full health in a situation where an attack occurs while I'm engaged elsewhere in build mode. As far as I've been able to determine being in build mode blocks the settlement so you only find out about them after the fact.
For me the settlement aspect of the game is secondary. I'm all about the carnage. >:D
My chief interest in settlement management is to get them to a point where they are self sufficient and can take care of themselves so that I can go about my rampage of clearing the scum out of the Commonwealth. :laugh:
Sounds like a friend of mine, has all the settlements with 15-20 people in them, lots of defensive stuff, etc. Most of mine are dead empty, you don't get attacked on a settlement that has nothing in it.