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It's said war - war never changes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxF10IYOMCo
People do, through the roads they walk.
In 2077, the storm of world war had come again. In two brief hours, most of the planet was reduced to cinders.
Take it back!
What Is Fallout?
Fallout is a post-apocalyptic RPG franchise, with the first titles developed by Black Isle back in the early 90s before it was popular to make every game ever about the post-apocalypse. Fallout and Fallout 2 are turn-based isometric games with thematic roots in Mad Max & spaghetti Westerns, while Fallout 3 and Fallout: New Vegas are first person shooter/RPG hybrids developed by Bethesda & full of more modern pop-culture references (with New Vegas's script being contributed by the old Black Isle team, mostly to critical acclaim). Survival is a strong narrative note throughout the franchise, although these are not really survival games; you do not need to consume food/water or refine blocks of wood into planks.
What's the deal with these Vaults people are always talking about?
Bastions of pre-war technology and society. A "lucky" few were able to survive the conflict in relative safety by being assigned to live in large underground shelters known as 'Vaults', developed by the Vault Tec corporation in anticipation for the coming devastation. While theoretically self-sufficient and isolated from the hazards of the atomic wasteland, many of these Vaults fell into anarchy and ruin as unforeseen* challenges broke down social order.
You are among those who survived in a sheltered underground environment: A Vault Dweller. Your home did not suffer terminal catastrophe, but keeping it safe may mean venturing beyond it's reinforced walls to walk the scorched Earth.
What will I be doing in these games?
Like most Black Isle and Bethesda titles, Fallout games have a primary quest line that you may follow to see the game's primary story through to it's conclusion, and a whole ton of side objectives you can chase down for fun & profit. These are open world RPGs; you can do more or less whatever you want, and build whatever kind of character you like. You can just go around the wasteland talking to people and solving problems with your wit alone*, or you can go out there guns blazing with a min/maxxed combat twink. Do what's fun for you.
*Caveat: Fallout 3 is not quite as flexible as Fallout, Fallout 2 or New Vegas when it comes to character design. You can solve quite a few quests with diplomacy alone, but you'll still be doing a lot of shooting in the ruins of D.C.
What is the best game? What is the worst game?
The primary titles of the Fallout franchise have their own quirks (the older Black Isle games suffer from some outdated RPG & quest design, the Bethesda titles suffer from a lot of bugs & some holdover BethSoft mechanics that feel clunky), but one of the franchise's strengths overall is it's consistency in quality: each game has it's own worthwhile experience to offer, and it's really just down to taste as to which is the greatest or weakest.
Spin-off titles like Fallout: Tactics are not often well-regarded (though that game honestly isn't bad for what it is, and has been included in Bethesda's own Fallout Anthology).
Fallout 4 has a release date of November 10th for PC, Xbox One and the Playstation 4. Credit to Ender for help with the OP. Stolen directly from @manwiththemachinegun.
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Got Bugs?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxF10IYOMCoPeople do, through the roads they walk.
In 2077, the storm of world war had come again. In two brief hours, most of the planet was reduced to cinders.
Take it back!
What Is Fallout?
Fallout is a post-apocalyptic RPG franchise, with the first titles developed by Black Isle back in the early 90s before it was popular to make every game ever about the post-apocalypse. Fallout and Fallout 2 are turn-based isometric games with thematic roots in Mad Max & spaghetti Westerns, while Fallout 3 and Fallout: New Vegas are first person shooter/RPG hybrids developed by Bethesda & full of more modern pop-culture references (with New Vegas's script being contributed by the old Black Isle team, mostly to critical acclaim). Survival is a strong narrative note throughout the franchise, although these are not really survival games; you do not need to consume food/water or refine blocks of wood into planks.
What's the deal with these Vaults people are always talking about?
Bastions of pre-war technology and society. A "lucky" few were able to survive the conflict in relative safety by being assigned to live in large underground shelters known as 'Vaults', developed by the Vault Tec corporation in anticipation for the coming devastation. While theoretically self-sufficient and isolated from the hazards of the atomic wasteland, many of these Vaults fell into anarchy and ruin as unforeseen* challenges broke down social order.
...Well, not entirely unforeseen. The Vault project was not so much an effort to preserve lives as it was a social experiment. Complications for each Vault's inhabitants were engineered by Vault Tec, whom intended to monitor and analyze how people responded to each challenge. The end game for Vault Tec's grand experiment is not currently known, and may never be known, as the corporation did not survive the war... we think
You are among those who survived in a sheltered underground environment: A Vault Dweller. Your home did not suffer terminal catastrophe, but keeping it safe may mean venturing beyond it's reinforced walls to walk the scorched Earth.
What will I be doing in these games?
Like most Black Isle and Bethesda titles, Fallout games have a primary quest line that you may follow to see the game's primary story through to it's conclusion, and a whole ton of side objectives you can chase down for fun & profit. These are open world RPGs; you can do more or less whatever you want, and build whatever kind of character you like. You can just go around the wasteland talking to people and solving problems with your wit alone*, or you can go out there guns blazing with a min/maxxed combat twink. Do what's fun for you.
*Caveat: Fallout 3 is not quite as flexible as Fallout, Fallout 2 or New Vegas when it comes to character design. You can solve quite a few quests with diplomacy alone, but you'll still be doing a lot of shooting in the ruins of D.C.
What is the best game? What is the worst game?
The primary titles of the Fallout franchise have their own quirks (the older Black Isle games suffer from some outdated RPG & quest design, the Bethesda titles suffer from a lot of bugs & some holdover BethSoft mechanics that feel clunky), but one of the franchise's strengths overall is it's consistency in quality: each game has it's own worthwhile experience to offer, and it's really just down to taste as to which is the greatest or weakest.
Spin-off titles like Fallout: Tactics are not often well-regarded (though that game honestly isn't bad for what it is, and has been included in Bethesda's own Fallout Anthology).
Fallout 4 has a release date of November 10th for PC, Xbox One and the Playstation 4. Credit to Ender for help with the OP. Stolen directly from @manwiththemachinegun.
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Moridin889 wrote: »Don't know if anyone mentioned it but switching weapons auto reloads the previous gun. Useful for big guns.
fVERY early free SPECIAL point (not a story spoiler)Go find the SPECIAL book in your son's bedroom after you leave the vault. Free skill point! Spend it wisely.
Dogmeat can equip a few items! Give him a bandana or some welding goggles and you can manually tell him to 'equip' them from the trade window.
Spoilered for size from here out, no actual spoilers.
Settlements
- Local Leader Perk (Charisma 6)
- -Rank 1 allows supply lines, which means you can share the workshop inventory between two settlements (ie, all of that steel in site A can be used to build in site B. Connecting site C to site B makes it one shared pool of stuff). Once you have the perk, you establish a supply line by selecting one of your residents from one of the settlements while in the Workbench mode and one of your options will be 'Supply Line.' Once you've got that going, you can view your supply lines on the map by hitting a button (C or Q on PC, I forget)
- -Rank 2 allows you to build shops and workbenches. Shops will generate passive income based on the population of the settlement. Haven't had the chance to play with these much yet, but others may know more.
- Don't worry about placing walls/floors to match the foundation of that house you just scrapped. If you lay your floor or prefabs down first, you can snap the walls to those and it should fit pretty easily.
- However, you can place walls wherever you want. So you can absolutely fence in your entire settlement if you want to. The walls can be annoying when they snap to each other, and especially when trying to do this on hills. Where I can't make a direct connection, I at least use smaller objects to block entry.
- The game advises you to keep the defense rating of a settlement at least as high as the combined food+water production. Failing that, you'll be an easier target and see more attacks on the settlement.
- There are magazine racks (under shelving) and a Bobblehead stand you can place to hold your shit.
- The scavenging bench needs someone assigned to it, and then it will generate components for crafting
- Tip for keeping track of which settlers you've assigned to a job: Give them either a hat (which they'll probably equip) or a single piece of ammo as a marker. Anyone without the hat still needs a job!
Power Armor
- The individual parts on your armor take damage and eventually break. When they break, you're not longer getting their benefits, but you don't lose them. Repair your power armor at your settlement (need a power armor station). It's pretty damned cheap to repair (mostly steel, maybe circuitry on the torso/helm).
- Power Armor can be stolen! Someone reported that a raider actually jumped into his suit and he was unable to recover the frame with the raider dead inside (ie, he could loot the individual parts, but couldn't use the actual power armor). Consider removing the fusion core when you're not using a suit.
- That also works the other way: your enemies can't operate their power armor without a fusion core. Pickpocket the core and voila, easier target.
- Watch your hp. You might be taking some damage even if the suit's still trucking along. The HP shows on the dial on your bottom left, but I found the companion app on my phone was actually kind of handy for this too (and keeping track of how full my inventory was).
- Apparently fusion cores will sell for their full price value, even if they're 99% depleted. An empty fusion core is simply ejected from the suit, so swap yours out when it's almost done and you can sell it.
- The fusion cores last a little longer than you might think, and if you're like me and scrounging in every nook and cranny, they're more common than you might expect. Don't be afraid to use the damn thing
Modding/Crafting
- Adhesive is used in fucking everything with crafting. Thankfully, you can cook 'Vegetable Starch' which gives five adhesive per item. You'll need mutfruit, corn, tatos and purified water. The vegetables you can plant at your settlements, and dirty water can be condensed at cooking stations to make purified. If there's another way to get water I haven't seen it yet, so I advise you don't use water to restore hp unless it's your last resort.
- There is a 'tag for search' option while you're crafting things that will mark stuff out in the world. So if you have aluminum tagged, that TV dinner tray will have a magnifying glass next to its name. Try it out.
- Tag for search is a little wonky from the crafting bench, but if you view your junk in your pipboy there is an option of 'component view' and that's a little easier to work with.
- Remove any nice mods from weapons before scrapping the weapon (edit: IF YOU WILL USE IT, don't just do this willy-nilly and waste adhesive). You can swap mods in and out instead of having to craft the mod every time.
Legendary enemies and loot
- Legendary enemies drop cool shit. Kill them.
- Oh, more? OK. If you see one at the end of a 'dungeon' or whatever, you can come back later and they should be there. However, if you bump into one out in the wild, that's probably a random spawn and you either kill it now or it's gone. (reported. Haven't seen confirmation from others)
- Those Legendary weapons will have random properties, kinda of like legendary items in Diablo 2/3. Example: A rifle that does more damage as the night goes on and less in the day, or a pistol that uses 25% less AP in VATS, or a melee weapon that does more damage when your health gets low.
- You can modify them! Just take the mods off of your old 10mm pistol and slap them onto this legendary one and voila!
ini tweaks for PC users to potentially improve performance:For those having performance issues on PC, this worked wonders for me. Blurry textures much less often and little to no more random stuttering.From Reddit - https://www.reddit.com/r/fo4/comments/3sdyu7/the_old_ini_tweaks_still_work/
I played around with my fallout.ini a bit, and it seems like all of the following still work (they go under [General]):
uInterior Cell Buffer=12
uExterior Cell Buffer=144
bUseThreadedBlood=1
bUseThreadedMorpher=1
bUseThreadedTempEffects=1
bUseThreadedParticleSystem=1
bUseThreadedAI=1
bUseMultiThreadedFaceGen=1
bUseMultiThreadedTrees=1
iNumHWThreads=8
iPreloadSizeLimit=524288000
MundaneSoul wrote: »Hi everybody, hi!
I wanted a way to make sure that I didn't leave a location without grabbing any magazines or bobbleheads in the area, so I made this thing.
I hope it helps some of the rest of you as well. Let me know if I need to change/update anything for accuracy.
UncleSporky wrote: »I made this checklist. Location info is from a random site I found just searching for the locations.
The intent is that when you collect something, you put a 1 in the first column, which adds to the totals at the top of each section. Also with sheets like this, I like to highlight the row and change the color to bright green or whatever to show that you collected it.
Yes I still don't even have the game yet. I don't mind spoiling this sort of thing for myself, I hate getting to the end and trying to go around to collect whatever's remaining, but even with a guide at that point I have no memory of what I have or haven't collected. I like checklists.
For adhesives, I recommend y'all get some overalls and a straw hat and start farming corn, mutfruit and tatos. Also, horde purified water.
Then go check your cooking station.
surrealitycheck wrote: »timed food buffs are real world time, not in game time
ive had radstag carry bonus on for multiple in game days, which makes it much less worthless
A list for materials and where to find them. Right here. You can craft oil in the chemistry lab under utility.
Settlements share junk, but nothing else. Each settlement that generates a resource, like food or caps, will place it resource in the misc tab of the workshop.
Crafting gives you XP! So don't forget to cook and chemistry your way to higher levels. (Especially after a certain quest loads you up with a ton of drugs.)
(Some?) companions can wear power armor. Just issue them a Go command like you normally would, but point at the Power Armor. Apparently, they do not deplete the fusion core either. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGnIyVn41Cs)
Got Bugs?
So the crashing to desktop with no error problem I am having is becoming more widely reported by other people, and on console versions too. It's corrupted cells triggered by... something, and prevents a few important quests from being finished. It's tied to save file and occurs after a certain point in the game so there's no way to know you'll get it until it starts happening.
For PC users some workarounds have been found, however these involve using the console to teleport or just mark the quest finished so you are going to miss out on the actual content of the quests in some cases.
The best thread I found on it is here http://forums.bethsoft.com/topic/1546438-fallout-4-crash-in-specific-area/
I'm on a podcast with other PA folk. Which? That DnD Podcast.
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Now to see if we don't fill 100 more pages before the game even releases.
The Fallout manuals were great. The second's included a diary giving a narrative version of the first game's events.
The first was especially excellent though. It excerpted Department of Energy documentation on what happens when a nuclear bomb goes off. It explained why Duck and Cover actually was useful (remember, it's a nuclear BOMB. There's an explosion in addition to the nuclear reaction that throws out a lot of debris you want to take cover from if you were fortunate enough to be outside the instant death zone so you don't get killed by a flying tree limb) and described the differences between hollow point, full metal jacket, and armor piercing ammunition among other things. That said, I got more mileage out of the PDF version of the manual as I used that to print out some of the Vault Boy illustrations to use as decorations.
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What will said person specialize in?
I'd really like a name that Codsworth (and possibly other NPCs?) is going to say, but I don't think a complete list has been released. I kinda wish Bethesda would do that, because restarting over and over to test what ol' Cods will say isn't the pinnacle of what I imagine to be fun discovery.
Pepper needs new shorts!
Your options are many.
Might have to use that.
Here's the latest list that I could find, on Reddit. There are a few threads, though, so this may have different entries from the one I posted a few days ago.
Here is a list of names that /u/PM_ME_FREE_STUFF_PLS has confirmed so far, in alphabetic-order. Also OP has stated that, "Gender is irrelevant. Codsworth just refers to you as Mister [Female Name]":
Aaron
Alex
Alexis
Alice
Andrew
Anna
Archer
Assface Confirmed!
Atticus
Bill
Blake
Brown
Caleb
Catherine
Carter
Charlotte
Chloe
Chris
Christian
Connor
Corey
Damien ("Damian" doesn't work)
Daniel
David
Dawson
Deckard
Dick Confirmed!
DJ
Dylan
Elizabeth
Emily
Eric
Ethan
Evan
Evelyn
Gary
Gavin
Grace
Griffin
GROGNAK Proof!
Hawk
Hines
Jacob
Jake
James
Jason
Jay
Joel
John
Jordan
Joshua
Juan
Julia
Justin
Kayla
Kevin
Laura
Lee
Leon
Liam
Logan
Louis
Lucas
Luke
Malcolm
Mark
Marty
Mason
Matt
Max
McFly
Micah
Nathan
Nora
Pete
Phil
Quinn
Richard
Rick
Riley
Robert
Rock
Rocky
Rose
Roy
Ryan
Sam
Sara
Scott
Sebastian
Steve
Stuart
Thomas
Todd
Tyler
Victoria
Wayne
Will
Wilson
Wyatt
List of names that are confirmed NOT working:
Adolf
Ahmed
Albert
Anakin
Aurora
Balothy
Barbara
Beth
Bort
Brandon
Caesar
Cameron
Chuck
CJ
Clem
Codsworth
Dale
Dalton
Damon
Dayton
Dickface
Duke
Edwin
Fletch
Geoff
Gerrett
Gideon
Giovanni
Gus
Harley
Harrison
Heisenberg
Homer
Jade
Jerry
Jesse
Jesus
Kira
Korra
Kyle
Leif
Lennox
Lilith
Lisa
Lord
Louis ( some conflict: didnt work, did work ) (clarified: did NOT work)
Lyla
Mario
Marlon
Morty
Motherfucker
Neil
Nick
O'Connor
President
Rachel
Robin
Rodgers
Rory
Scorpio
Shaun
Shepard
Spooky
Triss
Velma
Veronica
Victor
Von Karman
Wade
Walter
Wolf
Woody
Zach
If you're gonna go for broke then might as well put your faith in Blast Hardcheese.
Pragmatic good guy
Maybe energy weapons and melee
I'm kind of in the same boat, I already got LotV and I don't think my computer would run F4 as well as I would like. I also don't have a PS4 yet so Fallout seems like it will have to be something I come back to rather than play at launch. If it doesn't get the greatest reviews(not likely), then I just wont play it.
Steam: https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198004484595
Bonus, he's actually a real-life person.
PSN: Beltaine-77 | Steam: beltane77 | Battle.net BadHaggis#1433
I plan on doing so again in FO4, female Knight Errant this time, and from the look at the perks Bethesda is fully on board with my playstyle.
*possible FO4 spoilers via Fallout Shelter?*
I mean if true it's meh. I LITERALLY had to stop and think does knowing this ruin my excitement? Nah. I have beaten exactly ONE Bethesda game Main Story.
Fuck it. Just purchased on STEAM. If it doesn't run I guess I can request a refund?
I imagine any twists will be something we either predicted/will see coming a mile away or will not be anything to write home about if the writing from 3 and Skyrim holds up into 4.
That, btw, was one of my favorite mods for Skyrim - it overhauled the vanilla armors and split them up into pieces so you could mix and match.
I doubt if it were true anyone would be like "Pre-order Cancelled!" Like at all.
And hooboy. This STEAM download reminds me of why I hate PSN. This thing will download while I watch an episode of Bob's Burgers. This is versus watching Silence of the Lambs and The Dark Knight back to back when I was waiting for The Witcher 3.
Yes, mix and matching armor sets is one of the big new additions to the combat engine. It seems you can also destroy armor pieces as well!
People on Reddit say yea
I think that's a perk, though. You can also break down weapons and retrieve parts.
I like the new armour system, as it means you can keep your social clothes, and add armour on top.
28 hours.
I have never wanted Sunday to be over so much before, so I can go to work. After work - shopping, maybe a nap, then 3 days of Fallout.
I still can't believe how close we are to launch. I'm preloaded and ready for the wasteland. Now I'm just sketching my character to get some ideas. I'm gonna burn through a box of ebony pencils tonight. Great way to pass the time since I don't have to be behind a bar slinging booze for a couple days. Plus there's MAJOR SPORTING EVENTS on television. Time, you need to pass. PASS, I SAY.
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I was considering going this route but the sketch levels are higher than I think I'm comfy with. Besides, I know some people don't necessarily worry about the EULA but I have a feeling I'd be THE GUY who gets his account turned into confetti and swept into a waste bin for something as benign as using a VPN.
i have used flyvpn in the past but it seems like steam has got a lot more locked down - even after a quick trip to new zealand my store remains £denominated. idk if it affected unlock times or not