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  • Dr. ChaosDr. Chaos Post nuclear nuisance Registered User regular
    edited November 2015
    SniperGuy wrote: »
    When does this officially unlock in the US so I can start streaming? Having a blast so far. The giant bomb quick look is good too, but be warned they spoil the identity of a companion.
    I'd like to check out the quick look.

    Is the spoiled companion
    Piper, Codsworth, Dogmeat or Preston?

    I'm cool with that, anything else I'm hoping to discover myself

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  • McHogerMcHoger Registered User regular
    Dr. Chaos wrote: »
    SniperGuy wrote: »
    When does this officially unlock in the US so I can start streaming? Having a blast so far. The giant bomb quick look is good too, but be warned they spoil the identity of a companion.
    I'd like to check out the quick look.

    Is the spoiled companion
    Piper, Codsworth, Dogmeat or Preston?

    I'm cool with that, anything else I'm hoping to discover myself

    No. The one they showed was pretty cool, so if you want to go in surprised I'd skip it.

  • BranniganSeppBranniganSepp Swiss Burrito Enthusiast PSN: ExMaloBonumRegistered User regular
    Been having a blast so far. Built a bit of settlement. Explored a bit. Engaged in some Minuteman work.

    The explosive spam I'm getting from some raiders though? Not cool.

  • ShogunShogun Hair long; money long; me and broke wizards we don't get along Registered User regular
    Enemies definitely seem to be appropriately armed.

    If a certain car factory is any indicator we've got our work cut out for us.

  • Dr. ChaosDr. Chaos Post nuclear nuisance Registered User regular
    Shogun wrote: »
    Enemies definitely seem to be appropriately armed.

    If a certain car factory is any indicator we've got our work cut out for us.
    Glad I passed by there.

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  • TaranisTaranis Registered User regular
    Dr. Chaos wrote: »
    Shogun wrote: »
    Enemies definitely seem to be appropriately armed.

    If a certain car factory is any indicator we've got our work cut out for us.
    Glad I passed by there.
    Could someone spoil the location of this factory for me?

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  • The EnderThe Ender Registered User regular
    It's a small thing, but that is the best chargen gender swap thing.


    (It'll probably get old after I want to go CHAR OPTIMAL and start experimenting, but w/e)

    With Love and Courage
  • FreiFrei A French Prometheus Unbound DeadwoodRegistered User regular
    Haha my god, assigning some people to guard posts.

    I built one and then went to assign a random person to one. Stopped the first woman that walked by. She shrugs, walks up to the top of the guard post and, devoid of any other weapon, just puts her fists up at the ready and stands there.

    We're safe now, boys. Don't worry.

    Are you the magic man?
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  • SniperGuySniperGuy SniperGuyGaming Registered User regular
    McHoger wrote: »
    Dr. Chaos wrote: »
    SniperGuy wrote: »
    When does this officially unlock in the US so I can start streaming? Having a blast so far. The giant bomb quick look is good too, but be warned they spoil the identity of a companion.
    I'd like to check out the quick look.

    Is the spoiled companion
    Piper, Codsworth, Dogmeat or Preston?

    I'm cool with that, anything else I'm hoping to discover myself

    No. The one they showed was pretty cool, so if you want to go in surprised I'd skip it.

    But also fairly early! Assuming you book it to
    Diamond City

    As soon as this officially unlocks in my area I'm going to throw up a stream if anyone isn't playing it by then heh.

    Twitch Streaming basically all week
    SniperGuyGaming on PSN / SniperGuy710 on Xbone Live
  • Dr. ChaosDr. Chaos Post nuclear nuisance Registered User regular
    Anybody know where the Diamond City DJ is?

    I'm currently looking for him now that I'm there so I can punch him in the throat.

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    Shogun
  • Handsome CostanzaHandsome Costanza Ask me about 8bitdo RIP Iwata-sanRegistered User regular
    http://www.polygon.com/2015/11/9/9700480/13-fallout-4-tips-for-everybody

    Apparently you can build display cases for your bobbleheads and magazines.

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  • UncleSporkyUncleSporky Registered User regular
    Do we know what the INT bonus to XP per point is yet?

    I read that from some preliminary testing it's a 3% bonus per point, including the first point.

    I also read that one of the XP-related perks seems to be super broken:
    Idiot Savant. Someone said they turned in a main quest, it triggered, and they instantly gained 5 levels from it.

    Supposedly there is a base 10% chance for it to trigger any time you gain XP, minus 1% for every point of intelligence.

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  • DreadBertDreadBert Registered User regular
    Hmm,

    After 40 odd hours of new vegas in the last week I'm about ready for the new one. NV really shows its age but dang I forgot how good it was, now if only they did armor with the the toaster ai and a psycho dispenser...

  • cooljammer00cooljammer00 Hey Small Christmas-Man!Registered User regular
    This is my first ever preload game on Steam.

    So it's downloaded. What do we do now? We just wait?

    It's the fucking vegetable crisper all over again.

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  • VeagleVeagle Registered User regular
    http://www.polygon.com/2015/11/9/9700480/13-fallout-4-tips-for-everybody

    Apparently you can build display cases for your bobbleheads and magazines.

    Most of those are pretty common knowledge for anybody that has played these games before, but this one caught my eye.
    12. PRE-WAR MONEY IS VALUABLE! AND IT'S ALSO JUNK.
    The cap-to-cash exchange rate is extremely high, but watch out — hitting the "dump all junk" button in the workbench will remove your pre-war cash too, as it breaks down into cloth.

    Prewar cash has always been really good for making money, but now I kinda like the idea of making my clothes out of dollar bills.

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  • VeagleVeagle Registered User regular
    This is my first ever preload game on Steam.

    So it's downloaded. What do we do now? We just wait?

    It's the fucking vegetable crisper all over again.

    Yeah. Wait, then furiously reload the minute it should unlock until it actually does. Then wait an hour while it decrypts the file.

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  • metaghostmetaghost An intriguing odor A delicate touchRegistered User regular
    32 more minutes until unlock.

    Then I guess I'll have enough time to... maybe create a character?

    But tomorrow!

    davidsdurions
  • Steel AngelSteel Angel Registered User regular
    Random notes that may be of help to people unlocking soon:

    So I did some testing and it appears that pistols get a bonus to fire rate in VATs over rifles even if all other stats are the same. Basically tested the pistol and rifle versions of pipe pistols and one energy weapon to confirm this. So anyone going for a crit heavy build is going to want to stick to pistols.

    You can figure out if armor pieces can be worn over a piece of clothing by seeing if any limbs flash when you look at the clothing in the inventory screen. If it covers a slot, that slot will blink.

    The first few sidequests breadcrumb you in the direction you'd go anyway following the main quest so it's worth doing them.

    The Science perks mostly affect energy weapon mods but also some higher end ballistic weapon mods. So you'll need it for maximum crafting even if you use bullet throwers.

    Don't forget that cars explode. Sometimes there are mines besides cars and you can survive the mine and then get taken out by the car. I was reminded of that the hard way.

    Big Dookie wrote: »
    I found that tilting it doesn't work very well, and once I started jerking it, I got much better results.

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  • Handsome CostanzaHandsome Costanza Ask me about 8bitdo RIP Iwata-sanRegistered User regular
    edited November 2015
    Veagle wrote: »
    http://www.polygon.com/2015/11/9/9700480/13-fallout-4-tips-for-everybody

    Apparently you can build display cases for your bobbleheads and magazines.

    Most of those are pretty common knowledge for anybody that has played these games before, but this one caught my eye.
    12. PRE-WAR MONEY IS VALUABLE! AND IT'S ALSO JUNK.
    The cap-to-cash exchange rate is extremely high, but watch out — hitting the "dump all junk" button in the workbench will remove your pre-war cash too, as it breaks down into cloth.

    Prewar cash has always been really good for making money, but now I kinda like the idea of making my clothes out of dollar bills.

    Pre-war money was always my go to junk item for selling to vendors. It was everywhere in 3/NV.

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  • CorpekataCorpekata Registered User regular
    Getting frustrated with the jank.

    Quicksave in a town because I saw a bunch of food I could loot that weren't marked as stealing. Load up.

    See a house, it's unlocked. Open the door and my character exclaims "that's a serious lock, I need to find a key" which is silly in a variety of ways given I waltzed right in.

    I get in there, make sure nobody's inside, close the doors, and steal some quest items and the entire town aggros on me because I stole, despite that nobody should be able to tell I did.

    I then reloaded. All that food is gone for some reason. And that house IS locked with a serious lock.....except it has a unlocked side door. And guess what, he says the same thing upon opening that door.

    And they again aggro through the building.

    Zilla360
  • GoodKingJayIIIGoodKingJayIII They wanna get my gold on the ceilingRegistered User regular
    http://www.polygon.com/2015/11/9/9700480/13-fallout-4-tips-for-everybody

    Apparently you can build display cases for your bobbleheads and magazines.

    Can you build The Wall? Or do we have to wait for a mod for that?

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  • TaranisTaranis Registered User regular
    Gears contain steel, but don't count as a gear. :rotate:

    Some of these components are frustrating difficult to find, like adhesive. Everything needs it and there's never enough.

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  • walnutmonwalnutmon Registered User regular
    the game hasn't even unlocked yet, and I'm already riddled with anxiety about the name and build of my character... ugh, bethesda

    xbox: jmbizzo | ps3: walnutmon | steam: walnutmon | SC2: walnutmon.591
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  • UnbreakableVowUnbreakableVow Registered User regular
    Is that list of confirmed names a complete list? Or just all that's been discovered so far?

  • CenoCeno pizza time Registered User regular
    I was planning on swinging by GameStop tonight to pick up my preorder but when I drove by there were like 50 people in a line that wrapped around the building.

    Nuts to that. I don't care that much. I'm old and tired. I'll just pick up my copy tomorrow.

    OptimusZed
  • DerrickDerrick Registered User regular
    Wow. What the Hell is the point of pre-loading the game if it takes an hour or two after it drops to play? It didn't take that long to download the fucking thing.

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  • GnomeTankGnomeTank What the what? Portland, OregonRegistered User regular
    Just restarted Steam and it's unlocking. The hype is real now.

    Sagroth wrote: »
    Oh c'mon FyreWulff, no one's gonna pay to visit Uranus.
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  • DanHibikiDanHibiki Registered User regular
    edited November 2015
    Zilla360 wrote: »
    Has anyone posted the confirmed list of spoken names yet? There are some great ones in there like 'Fuckface' and 'Furiosa'.

    Glad to see my name is in there. :D

    I'm a fan of Cobra my self.
    scratch that. I'm Zed.
    I'm an exterminator.

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  • ButtcleftButtcleft Registered User regular
    WHY THE FUCK IS IT STEAM TELLING ME ITS GOING TO TAKE 2 HOURS BEFORE I CAN LAUNCH FALLOUT 4 FUCK YOU IT TOOK LESS THAN AN HOUR TO DOWNLOAD THE FUCKING THING GIVE ME THE GODDAMN GAME.

  • SniperGuySniperGuy SniperGuyGaming Registered User regular
    Going to start streaming! (in my sig if anyone wants to watch)

    Twitch Streaming basically all week
    SniperGuyGaming on PSN / SniperGuy710 on Xbone Live
  • Dr. ChaosDr. Chaos Post nuclear nuisance Registered User regular
    Enjoy, guys.

    Its beautiful.

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  • KendrikKendrik Lewisville, TXRegistered User regular
    FYI: You CAN still wait. You just have to sit down in a chair, first.

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  • GnomeTankGnomeTank What the what? Portland, OregonRegistered User regular
    Holy shit, really...guys...in 2015 we haven't learned that anything estimating times to do anything with a disk are wrong? It takes like 10 minutes, despite what it may say at the start.

    Sagroth wrote: »
    Oh c'mon FyreWulff, no one's gonna pay to visit Uranus.
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  • ButtcleftButtcleft Registered User regular
    10 minutes in and I'm still about 2 hours from playing.

    Murder urges becoming uncontrollable.

  • davidsdurionsdavidsdurions Your Trusty Meatshield Panhandle NebraskaRegistered User regular
    Watching the intro video! Yay! And seeing steam friends start playing one by one. Excite!!

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  • DerrickDerrick Registered User regular
    Well, I guess pre-loading is pointless? Will you still have to go through this decryption bullshit if you download the game after it's released?

    It seriously takes shorter to just download than deal with this.

    Steam and CFN: Enexemander
  • FencingsaxFencingsax It is difficult to get a man to understand, when his salary depends upon his not understanding GNU Terry PratchettRegistered User regular
    30 SECONDS

  • ButtcleftButtcleft Registered User regular
    Derrick wrote: »
    Well, I guess pre-loading is pointless? Will you still have to go through this decryption bullshit if you download the game after it's released?

    It seriously takes shorter to just download than deal with this.

    Apparently.

    Fuck us for preordering, preloading and abiding by the launchtime, right?

    Seriously the progress I'm getting, I could (and in fact fucking did) download it faster.

  • President RexPresident Rex Registered User regular
    Buttcleft wrote: »
    Derrick wrote: »
    Well, I guess pre-loading is pointless? Will you still have to go through this decryption bullshit if you download the game after it's released?

    It seriously takes shorter to just download than deal with this.

    Apparently.

    Fuck us for preordering, preloading and abiding by the launchtime, right?

    Seriously the progress I'm getting, I could (and in fact fucking did) download it faster.

    But then your download speeds would probably be tanked by all of the other people downloading.


    You could opt to delete your preload and just download it again (I had to do it for MGS because I apparently did not have the 120-ish GB free since you need HDD space equal to the unpacked game and pre-load combined to unpack.

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